Fujifilm has launched the Jet Press 1160CFG, a high-speed full-colour continuous feed inkjet printer, for the commercial printing market. The printer is equipped with ‘The Paper Stabilizer’, a newly developed pre-drying unit that enhances productivity and stable print quality by regulating the amount of moisture in the paper before printing.
Sales has commenced in Europe and North America, while customers in Japan have already started operation, adopting the Jet Press 1160CFG for commercial printing on offset-coated paper.
Inkjet printers are well-known for their excellent reproduction of fine text and colours, making them ideal for printing books, brochures, and other applications. To attain and maintain such high-quality printing, the condition of the paper is vital, and this is dependent on several external factors such as season, temperature, and humidity of the storage location. With non-conducive storage conditions, paper can be easily exposed to moisture resulting in the deformation of the printed paper and a decrease in print quality as there is insufficient ink drying during printing, especially on thicker papers.
The enhanced drying technology improves ink fixation on thick coated paper and is also effective against waviness and wrinkles on thin paper by minimizing paper expansion and contraction. The pre-drying unit helps to dry the paper before printing and controls the moisture content of the paper to a constant level. By drying the entire sheet of paper, the paper quality can be kept constant, regardless of the paper storage environment, therefore stabilizing the print quality. Coupled with Fujifilm’s proprietary aqueous pigment ink, applications can be printed beautifully on both coated and uncoated paper without primer to fix the ink.
Users can also enjoy high productivity and high-quality printing with the maximum printing speed of 160 meters per minute (2,096 pages per minute on A4 cut paper) and a maximum resolution of 1,200 x 1,200 dpi. The Jet Press 1160CFG supports a wide range of commercial printing applications such as direct mail (DM) and brochures.
