Commercial and Package Printers Gain Insights on Inkjet Applications at Fujifilm Technology Summit

FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division (2015 SGIA Expo Platinum Sponsor Booth #3113) recently hosted an Inkjet Technology Summit at its Chicago Technology Center, showcasing innovative inkjet technology solutions to invited attendees. Highlights of the three-day event included hands-on demonstrations of the Fujifilm J Press 720S, an offset quality B2 sheetfed production inkjet press, along with the Fujifilm J Press 540W, a web-fed inkjet press. “I am really thrilled to be invited to a Fujifilm Technology Summit. I saw a lot of innovative products. It’s been a great experience,” said Frank Woods, CEO, at Phoenix, Arizona-based Premier Graphics. “I’ve been a commercial printer all my life, and the J Press is a very exciting product.” The J Press 720S is Fujifilm’s second generation of the J Press 720, first introduced to the market in 2007. The new J Press 720S includes many of the features of the original 720 press, including a traditional offset paper feed, and a proprietary in-line paper priming system to enable printing on a wide variety of both coated and uncoated standard offset stocks. Newly introduced innovations include the use of a unique barcode system for rated speed and 100 percent accurate variable data printing; inline scanning of each sheet to automatically adjust print head nozzles to insure quality output throughout a print run and an improved drying system incorporating IR heaters, and hot air knives to deliver post process ready-printed output. The J Press 540W is targeted at shorter run print applications traditionally run on web offset presses, ideal for the production of catalogs, calendars, educational textbooks, manuals and on-demand book production. The J Press 540W incorporates Fujifilm’s high performance VIVIDIA ink and unique FM screening technology to facilitate superb image quality with smooth color tones and sharp text, enabling duplex printing within a single tower design, resulting in an extremely compact footprint of 22 feet x 9 feet and prints at up to 416 feet per minute.