FUJIFILM SHOWS DIGITAL B2 TONER PRINTER

Visitors to the Fujifilm stand at the Igas trade show in Tokyo have seen a B2 version of its Revoria toner-based digital press, as the company fires up its drive into the half-size sheetfed market.

Described by Fujifilm as the “world’s first B2 size sheetfed digital press that uses dry toner technology” the new version of Revoria was a technology demonstration. It is thought to use new technology to charge and distribute toner over the large sheet uniformly. The size of the sheet has always been the challenge for electrographic print systems to move up from SRA3 to B2.

Fujifilm already has a B2 digital press, Jet Press 750S, which uses inkjet technology, with an early version of the Jet Press installed at Serengeti Printers in Toowoomba.

The market-leading B2 printer is the HP Indigo, with the 15K and 100K presses which are toner-based, but they use HP’s own proprietary liquid toner rather than a dry toner. Other B2 digital presses, including Ricoh, whose Dragon Z75 has just gone into beta testing, also use inkjet. Canon is also thought to be working on B2 inkjet, based on its prototype Voyager machine shown at the last drupa.