Fujifilm – the digital head and ink company

Graham Leeson, caput of European communication, graphic systems partition, Fujifilm Europe and SM Ramprasad, assistant vice president, graphic fine art division, Fujifilm Republic of india at the Fujifilm stand in drupa 2016. Photo PSA

At drupa 2022 Fujifilm was strongly commercializing its various inkjet related products under the 'Fujifilm Inkjet Engineering' make, which brings together various technologies endemic by the company. These include Fujifilm's Samba inkjet heads that are widely used both in its own presses and by manufacturers such every bit Heidelberg which used it for its UV-ink based Labelfire 340 and aqueous ink Primefire 106. Fujifilm's own Jet Press 720S B2 size digital presses originally made for commercial printing are at present finding increasing traction in carton printing and more than fourscore of these presses have been installed worldwide.

The trend for short-runs, high-mix and quick turnarounds is increasing in the packaging sector, and traditional analogue printing, the mainstream in the flexible parcel field, faces difficulties regarding turnaround, cost and environmental performance, at least in some of the more developed economies. This has led Fujifilm to further develop the technology used in the Jet Press 720S to create an ink technology for water-based inkjet inks capable of being jetted on to flexible packaging movie.

A few of the flexible packaging samples on show at the Fujifilm stand. Photo PSA

The bleeding of inkjet ink is an issue in the non-absorbent film substrates used in flexible packaging, but the application of 'Rapic Engineering' created during the development of the Jet Press 720S enables an ink droplet to retain its stability where it has landed, and clear image reproduction is made possible by combining with proprietary undercoating engineering science. The combination of these technologies with Fujifilm'south high-definition Samba printheads has achieved productivity of more 30 metres a minute while printing at 1200 dpi high-definition, in full colour, enabling compatibility for digitalization for the reverse printing of flexible packaging.

Impress samples using these water-based inks were shown at the Fujifilm inkjet technology zone at the company's stand at drupa. An inkjet impress sample of a shiny metallic ink currently under development was also exhibited. The development of metallic ink meets the increasing demand for indoor signs, packages and label printing with metallic textures. Besides exhibited were some of Fujifilm'due south latest inkjet printheads, inks, image optimization results and samples including commercial printing, wide-format, parcel printing and numerous other industry segments.

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