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and variable data printing are steadily increasing,” said Ebrahim. MGI JETvarnish 3D Evolution Supplied by Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia, the MGI JETvarnish 3D Evolution is the ideal solution for digital and traditional PSPs looking for a scalable upgrade path with larger formats and quicker prototyping. The 100% digital process is a system that enables spot UV coating, digital hot foil, variable data and tactile effects. It can be used for packaging, commercial printing and digital printing. With the basic JETvarnish setup, users can spot varnish and create a 3D varnish image for a tactile effect from 7 microns up to 232 microns in a single pass on top of CMYK print. It has a Variable Data Enhancement (VDE) kit to enable “on-the-fly” variable data for text, graphics and images. For those who want to include foiling effects, the iFOIL-L Inline module allows the application of real foil without screens, plates, and dies. The MGI JetVarnish 3D Evolution supports large format prints and dynamic performance with 8-up format of up to 75 x 120cm. It has a high volume productivity with up to 4,200 B2 sheet size per hour for EVO
75 version. It is equipped with an innovative software suite developed by MGI that includes Job Cost Calculator, Job Manager and Varnish Editor. Uniquely MGI JETvarnish – AIS technology “The main advantage of the JETvarnish family against competition is its disruptive AIS technology. Short for ‘Artificial Intelligence SmartScanner’, it is the first, and the only one of its kind in the industry. We describe the AIS as Intelligent and Adaptive Digital Registration system for the MGI JetVarnish 3D series.” Prior to the AIS, the existing technology then was the use of registration cameras which provided a way for a digital embellishment printer to adjust its print based on paper feeding and general printed image position in relation to the paper. The AIS’ technology not only looks at the same qualities; it does a whole lot more: “The AIS scans and analyses the image on the printed sheet, compares it to a reference image uploaded to its storage, looks for changes and calculates the delta for each key point that it automatically determined. The AIS then sends instructions to the print controller to create a new mask file that
perfectly aligns on the images on the pre-printed sheet, resulting in a very precise delivery of UV ink,” Ebrahim explained. Prints, especially digital ones, vary from sheet to sheet, which is why the AIS does its analysis and response for each and every pre-printed sheet fed. In fact, when the AIS determines that what it scans looks very different from what it has in memory, it does not print at all, ensuring that wastage of the preprinted sheets is kept to a minimum, if not none. This adoption of AI brings about the following benefits to the customers and in effect, the customer’s customers including accuracy, efficiency, consistency, productivity, proficiency and the ability to maximise the printable area on a sheet by eliminating printer marks. Data intelligence is also employed. The AIS automatically determines over 300 key points for each design uploaded to the JetVarnish 3D Evolution. Then, using more than five Billion calculations per second, the AIS correlates - using data analytics each of the 300 key points, creates a new custom mask file then sends it to the print controller. It does so on each and every sheet in the print job.