Printing Innovation Asia Issue 11 2020
62 EFI launches two new printers for soft signage
truly differentiate themselves in a highly competitive marketplace.
The high volume EFI POWER and COLORS printers create profit opportunities in soft signage. EFI introduced two new printers for the high-end, high productivity soft signage market help display graphics producers reach new heights in productivity and extend their capabilities.
With their extreme speed and reliability, the EFI POWER and COLORS printers can often replace multiple soft signage printers, producing more premium signage work with a single footprint.” The new printers follow the market successes with VUTEk FabriVU® soft signage dye sublimation printers. There are more than 250 FabriVU printers installed worldwide.
The EFI COLORS 340 printer prints at up to 9,149 square feet per hour (in a four-colour x 4 configuration) while providing unmatched colour capabilities for premium-quality soft signage. For even higher-volume production environments, the EFI POWER 340 prints up to 16,835 square feet per hour. Leveraging technology from EFI Reggiani’s 70+ year legacy of best-inclass fabric printing, the new offerings have the ability to print with higher quality on a wider range of materials than other soft signage inkjet devices, with 100% penetration on both sides of the material. The printers are able to print either direct to fabric or to transfer paper using the same inkset, eliminating the significant cost and downtime related to switching over inks. “EFI, through our Reggiani division, has decades of experience bringing to market the highest quality in fabric printing in the industry,” said Scott Schinlever, COO, EFI Inkjet. “These two new printers are specifically designed to meet the most stringent quality and productivity needs in soft signage for companies that want to
A new level of quality in premium soft signage The EFI COLORS 340 printer is ideal for many applications, from table throws and pop-up promotional tents to SEG backlits, flags and retail fixtures. At 11 feet wide with the ability to handle different fabrics up to 450 gr/m2, the printer uses genuine EFI water-based CMYK dispersed dye inks. The printer gives users entrée into an ultra-premium point-ofpurchase category for soft signage, producing smoother colour transitions and ultra-realistic skin tones. Available with up to 24 printheads, the COLORS 340 offers greater versatility in colour capabilities to print in four-colour x 2, four-colour x 4 or six-colour x 4 configurations, as well as an eight-colour configuration featuring standard CMYK and light CMK colour inks, plus a penetrating agent. The EFI COLORS 340 produces high quality prints at speeds up to 9,149 square feet per hour. The printer’s 2,400 dots per inch (dpi)
resolution with four level grayscale printing and drop sizes from 4 to 18 picoliters can deliver 100% penetration on both sides of the material, making it ideal for the production of national flags. Its precision sticky belt feeding mechanism ensures near-perfect, continuous tone image quality at high speeds with no wrinkle artifacts on a wide range of materials. EFI’s unique continuous ink recirculation system for textile printing improves ink yield, reducing the need to purge while eliminating downtime associated with printhead maintenance. Extreme POWER meets maximum productivity needs The EFI POWER 340 digital soft signage printer has most of the capabilities of the COLORS 340 but at a faster speed of up to 16,835 square feet per hour. The POWER 340 is also capable of printing direct-to-fabric or onto transfer paper using genuine EFI water-based CMYK dispersed dye inks. Like the COLORS 340 model, it employs the proven, reliable sticky belt feeding mechanism. The POWER 340 features up to four colours, in either four-colour x 4 or four-colour x 8 configurations. With its remarkable speeds, users can profit from producing the appropriate quality at the highest speed with a lower total cost of ownership for high-volume demands. Reduce your footprint, increase your output With these two new solutions, soft signage producers can reduce their production footprint while also increasing their output by replacing multiple, slower devices with a single high-volume, premium-quality production powerhouse. Both printers employ a powerful EFI Fiery® proServer Premium digital front end, which means operators can take advantage of the ultimate in colour management, job management, and powerful tools for nesting, step and repeat, scaling, cropping, barcode creation and tiling.
