COUNTDOWN TO DRUPA: FUJIFILM

Imaging giant Fujifilm will have one of the biggest stands at the drupa, and will use it to show a swag of new print solutions in commercial, wide format and packaging hardware, software and consumables.

It will launch the world’s first B2 sheetfed toner press, its first digital flexibles press, as well as new flexo plate, new inkjet heads and a new XMF workflow.

Fujifilm Corp and Fujifilm Business Innovation have now merged at a corporate level in Japan, with the result that the graphic communications division has grown from €1bn a year to €1.8bn a year.

The new toner-powered B2 Revoria GC 12500 will join the B2 inkjet Jetpress that the company launched a decade ago, and which now has 300 systems running around the world.

The Revoria GC 12500 will print in duplex (perfecting in old money) on a sheet 750x662mm, or six A4s, on media from 64-450gsm.

Fujifilm is also launching upgrades to its Revoria 1120, which currently prints in six colours, adding new specialty colours to enable it to print CMYK plus RGB. The company says it also comes with the world’s first pressure sensitive adhesive, which it says will work in applications such as direct mail.

The company will also have a new Jetpress 1160 continuous feed printer, available outside of Japan for the first time. It will print on both coated and uncoated papers, and comes with a paper stabiliser to overcome paper feed difficulties.

The new digital inkjet packaging press for flexibles if the Fujifilm FP790, which runs at 50 metres a minute at 1200 x 1200dpi on flexible film. Released in Europe earlier this year, five systems have so far been installed.

In wide format print Fujifilm will have the Prime flatbed, Prime hybrid and Ultra roll-to-roll systems on its stand, and will have a new Aquaforce ink, which is an aqueous ink with UV curing.

Fujifilm will be celebrating 90 years in business at drupa, it was founded in 1934.