LAS VEGAS, October 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE), — Electronics For Imaging, Inc., a digital print technology provider, will be showcasing their extensive portfolio of display graphics solutions at the PRINTING United Expo 2022, which takes place in Las Vegas Convention Center. The range of EFI™ production LED inkjet, dye-sublimation inkjet, and Fiery® The show’s digital front-end (DFE), and workflow options, highlights innovative, award-winning technology that gives signage and display graphic businesses an edge.
New EFI VUTEk® FabriVU® VUTEk FabriVU340i+ soft-signage printers will be on display at PRINTING UNION, booth #C8107. It is part of the Plus series and offers the highest level of dye-sublimation efficiency. Soft signage is the fastest-growing application for many EFI customers, including high-volume trade supplier Orbus Exhibit & Display Group® – an industry leader that recently purchased the VUTEk FabriVU 340+ model for its Las Vegas facility.
Soft signage displays are setting new standards
Orbus recently installed a 133 inch (3.4-meter wide) high-end manufacturing solution. It provides significant redundancy for the company and increased production volumes in a rapidly-growing market. This is one of many VUTEk FabriVU installation Orbus completed in order to address increasing demand for tradeshow graphics as well as the growing preference for soft signage outside the event space. Aaron Kozar, Orbus Vice President Print Operations said that the company has four FabriVU printing machines. So we can be content with this technology.
Designed for high-end direct-to-fabric or transfer paper production with resolutions up to 2,400 dots per inch (dpi) and three-level grayscale printing with 7pL, 12pL and 18pL drop sizes, the FabriVU Plus series achieves remarkable quality in dye-sub printing – with better saturation and more density for soft signage and flag printing – thanks to new electronics as well as eight high-performance printheads in a new CMYK x 2 configuration.
PRINTING United’s VUTEk FabriVU 340i+ model has an in-line fixation function that eliminates the need to use a heat press for direct-to fabric production.
It is one of many high-end EFI graphics inkjet solutions that will be on display at this year’s show.
- EFI’s booth features a 126 inch (3.2 meter) wide hybrid LED roll/flatbed printer, the perfect solution for companies looking to grow their production signs and display graphics business. The printer can cover up to 277 sq. ft. (220 square meters) per an hour. It features 4 colors and dual channels, as well as prints at resolutions of up to 1,200 DPI.
- The 138-inch (3.5-meter) wide EFI VUTEk Q3r LED inkjet printer on display – the fastest superwide-format roll-to-roll solution in its class – is part of a VUTEk Q series that also includes a 208-inch (5.2-meter) wide Q5r model. A new inline UltraClear Coat option for the VUTEk Q3r, Q5r and other EFI roll-to-roll LED inkjet printers offers superior protection for outdoor graphics and high-quality gloss or matte spot enhancement in premium POP work – capabilities that earned UltraClear Coat the 2022 PRINTING United Alliance Pinnacle Award for UV digital inks.
- VUTEk’s h5 is a high-productivity, 126 inch (3.2-meter wide) hybrid roll/flatbed LED printer. It delivers outstanding image quality and speeds of up to 109 boards an hour. With its automated media handling options, including a ¾ automated media loading and stacker system and super duty winders, the VUTEk h5 is ready to drive efficiency in high-quality print. EFI launched an updated corrugated media management software for its VUTEk H5 printer. It features enhanced vacuum and material edge guides, as well as a dynamic subsystem that allows for greater board throughput.
EFI partners LexJet Booth #C6407), and Nazdar SourceOne® EFI Wide Format inkjet printers are also on show at PRINTING United. LexJet displays the EFI Pro 16h hybrid LED printer measuring 65 inches (1.6 meters). This system has a low cost-of-ownership and produces high quality output at speeds of up to 476 sq. feet (44 sq. m) an hour. Nazdar SourceOne’s booth features the EFI Pro 30f flatbed printer. It has a wide bed that can print a maximum of 120×80 inches (3.05x 2.04m). The versatile flatbed system, which can print up to 4,010 cm (10 inches) of media per hour at up to 2130 feet (198 sq. m/h), is the first EFI printer that allows you to use media up to 4′′ (10 cm) thick.
Innovation and automation in the display graphics workflow
EFI’s enhanced IQ™ cloud solution featured at PRINTING United gives customers more power to monitor production operations and printer utilization – including exact job-level consumable tracking data – to reduce downtime and costs. EFI IQ won the 2022 PRINTING United Alliance Pinnacle Product Award in software and workflow/MIS/CRM for its outstanding display graphics management capabilities and business intelligence abilities. IQ, the only business management software to directly connect to EFI printer information, helps business leaders make more informed, data-driven production decision for every wide-format printer, and maximize capacity allocation throughout the production floor.
Another award-winning EFI display graphics workflow solution at the show, EFI Fiery Prep-it™, is a powerful and cost-saving print-for-cut preparation software offering that can be used with any wide- or superwide-format DFE. This software was awarded the PRINTING United Alliance Pinnacle Product Award in prepress/premedia for its industry-leading innovation in true-shape nesting. Fiery Prepit allows display graphic businesses to reduce time required to nest large objects for wide-format printing up to 90%. Prep’it’s detailed nesting capability and power saves at least 10% on media costs when compared to other market solutions.
There are new digital opportunities available in the growing segments of market
EFI has one of the broadest and strongest inkjet technology portfolios for driving the analog to digital transformation in the display graphics, corrugated packaging, textile, and building materials/décor markets. Given the extended growth in applications EFI supports, PRINTING United also features exhibits from two of the company’s newest acquisitions – innovators that deliver some of the best and most respected workflow technologies in direct-to-textile, direct-to-film (DTF) and direct-to-garment (DTG) printing. Inèdit Software, part of the EFI Reggiani textile business, is showcasing its advanced offerings – including its industry-leading, worldwide benchmark RIP solutions for digital textile printing – in booth #C10337. Stand #C4918 will feature the latest digital factory DTF and DTG production software, as well as personalization solutions, thanks to EFI Fiery’s recent acquisition, CADlink.® Software.
EFI Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Ken Hanulec said that EFI’s PRINTING United portfolio is an excellent example of their unwavering determination to provide customers with the greatest innovation advantage in inkjet printing. With the right products, we continue to promote our customers growth in these areas by helping them to earn more margins in more applications. We also help to keep ahead in terms of sustainability, flexibility, and capability.
EFI offers advanced display graphics solutions. Visit www.efi.com to learn more.
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