New Fujifilm BI Revoria brings AI to digital print
Fujifilm Business Innovation Australia is using AI in its latest Revoria digital print systems, which it says open the door to new opportunities and revenue streams.
Fujifilm Business Innovation Australia is launching two new production printer models under its new Revoria brand. The Revoria Press PC1120 is a production colour printer for the high-end professional printing market, and Revoria Press E1 Series, a monochrome production printer for on-demand printing both for professional and office use.
The Fujifilm Revoria Press PC1120 is a single-pass 120ppm device that can print in up to six colours – CMYK with a choice of two from clear, gold, silver, white, and pink, with the option for undercoat and top coat.
According to Fujifilm Business Innovation the new press enables print businesses to grow into new, higher value markets, such as luxury brand promotion and packaging. It says the use of specialty colours such as gold, silver, white, pink, and clear will “open new doors” to on-demand luxury print opportunities.
The new press can print onto stock from 52gsm-400gsm, and can handle SRA3 sheets and banners up to 1,200mm in length.
Its resolution is 1,200x1,200dpi delivering 2,400x2,400dpi image quality, thanks to Fujifilm's HQ Digital Screen technology.
A range of line finishing units is available, including creasing, trimming, booklet making and square fold trimming. It also includes a cooling device to reduce the potential for wrinkles and aid post-press processing.
The company says "one of the most exciting" new features of the Revoria PressPC1120 is the AI-based Photo Quality Optimisation capability. The AI automatically determines the scene for each photographic image on a page, and corrects the image appropriately on the Print Server, for example brightening a dull image and correcting image sharpness.
The company describes this feature as a “game changer” for customers that handle large quantities of photography printing without a specific photobook printer, and for customers that don’t have the ability to retouch images in house. It says the AI automates print processes to save time, and spend less time in post-production.
The company says a plethora of metallic colours are made possible using gold, silver, white plus CMYK overlay, sleek varnish effect with clear, and an increased colour gamut with smoother gradients courtesy of pink.
The press is driven by Fuji’s own Revoria Flow PC11 print server, and the online expo also includes a launch for the new Revoria One workflow cockpit which links to XMF, offset and digital devices, as well as post-press.
The new printers have a scalable configuration that can evolve as the print business grows. New features include the Air Suction Feeder and Static Eliminator.
The company says the Air Suction Feeder enhances paper handling capabilities by reducing misfeeds and improving registration and alignment, and allows the printing of large production runs using a wide range of media types and sizes.
The versatile Static Eliminator enables printing on a variety of substrates such as films, metallic, and transparent media, with what the company says is “easy” post-production handling.