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® Digital front end (DFE), workflow and other offerings will be highlighted at the event. These technologies give sign and display graphics companies a competitive advantage.
New EFI VUTEk® FabriVU® The Plus Series of Soft Signage Printers includes the VUTEk FabriVU340i+ printer with Inline Fixation EFI. This printer will be exhibiting at PRINTING Unified in Booth #C8107. It offers high-end dye sublimation efficiency as well as the best opportunity. 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.
Display of soft signage is setting new standards
Orbus’s newly installed, 133-inch (3.4-meter) wide high-end production solution provides the company with important redundancy and production volume capacity in a rapid-growth 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. “We have four FabriVU printers overall,” said Orbus Vice President of Print Operations Aaron Kozar, “so we must be happy with the 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.
The VUTEk FabriVU 340i+ model by PRINTING United features an in-line fixation function that eliminates the necessity for a separate heat press when producing direct-to fabric.
This new soft signage printer forms part of an extensive portfolio of EFI display graphics inkjet options at the show.
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The 126-inch (3.2-meter) wide EFI Pro 30h hybrid roll/flatbed LED printer in EFI’s booth stands out as the ideal solution for businesses targeting production sign and display graphics as a growth opportunity. It can print up to 4,777 sq.ft. (230 sq.m) an hour and features four colors as well as dual channels of white.
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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.
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VUTEk H5, an advanced hybrid flatbed/roll LED inkjet printer measuring 126 inches (3.2 meters) wide, will be on show. This high-performance, high-productivity machine produces top-quality images at speeds of up to 110 boards per 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 an improved vacuum, material edges guides, and 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’s exhibit features the 65-inch (1.6-meter) wide EFI Pro 16h hybrid LED printer, a system with a low total cost of ownership that delivers high-quality output at speeds up to 476 square feet (44 square meters) per hour. Nazdar SourceOne has the EFI Pro 30f dedicated flatbed printer, which can produce a maximum area of 120 x 80in (3.05 x 2.04 meters). This versatile flatbed printer can print media as thick as 4 inches (10cm) at speeds of 2130 feet per hour.
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’s exceptional display graphics management and business intelligence capabilities earned it the 2022 PRINTING United Alliance Pinnacle Product Award for software and workflow/MIS/CRM solutions. 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%. And, in head-to-head comparison with the competing solutions in the market, Prep-it’s powerful and detailed nesting capabilities saves users at least 10% in media costs.
There are new digital opportunities available in growing market segments
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. And booth #C4918 features the latest, highly advanced Digital Factory DTF and DTG automation, production, and personalization software solutions from EFI Fiery’s recent acquisition of CADlink® Software.
“EFI’s leading-edge portfolio at PRINTING United is a great example of our unwavering commitment to providing customers with the best innovation advantage in display graphics and industrial inkjet printing,” said EFI VP of Worldwide Marketing Ken Hanulec. “We continue to drive our customers’ growth in these spaces with the right products to help them earn more margin in more applications, and stay ahead of the game in terms of capability, efficiency, versatility and sustainability.”
Visit www.efi.com for more information on advanced display graphics solutions by EFI.
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