May 22 2008
FUJIFILM Corporation has developed ground-breaking, next generation inkjet digital printing technology that enables the world’s first high quality, high-speed printing on large sheet sizes (maximum print size: 720mm x 520mm) at high resolutions of 1200dpi at 4-level gray scale*2 by using a single-pass*1 inkjet printing method. In addition, it achieves quality levels comparable to offset printing for a variety of different types of coated papers. This digital printing technology achieving “high-speed,” “high-quality,” and “large sheet size” is set to revolutionise the printing industry by significantly enhancing the efficiency of the print production process.
Furthermore, with its excellent system design and development capability, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd (President Tadahito Yamamoto, hereafter “Fuji Xerox”) has developed the Jet Press 720 (temporary name), an inkjet digital printing system, which is a superior printing device that achieves high productivity, by incorporating this technology. Fujifilm will globally market the Jet Press 720 (temporary name), a revolutionary digital printing system realizing high-speed, large size printing at high resolution, to be supplied by Fuji Xerox.
The Jet Press 720 (temporary name), which is the combination of Fujifilm Group’s technologies, will be exhibited at the global print media exhibition “drupa2008” (location: Dusseldorf, Germany) to be held from May 29 to June 11.
Currently, the amount of short-run print is increasing in the commercial print market. In general, digital printing has been the preferred technology for such short-run print thanks to its short make-ready time. Up until now, there has been no digital print technology that achieves production speeds and quality comparable to offset printing on larger format sheet sizes. So many printing companies undertake short-run print using offset printing, a process which is more suitable for longer print runs. Fujifilm’s newly developed technology will realize digital printing with “high-speed,” “high-quality,” and “large format size” to solve this problem.