The Fujifilm Jet Press 720S
Packaging for Professionals (P4P), has invested in the Jet Press 720S to produce high quality, short run for packaging, combined with ‘Kanban’ ordering and manufacturing principles.
The investment has allowed P4P to efficiently provide the company’s clients with packaging of the highest quality within extremely tight deadlines. P4P also produces samples and prototypes which precisely match the media and the print quality of the finished product.
‘Traditional printing in the packaging sector has always been problematic in two important areas,’ said Mohamed Toual, co-founder and CEO. ‘Prototypes were always inferior to the finished product, offering at best an indication of what the customer could expect. There was also, inevitably, a time lag for the production run due to the amount of manual labour involved in the production process. The Jet Press 720S, which I believe is now the benchmark platform in this sector has changed all this. Its quality, flexibility and efficiency means that these challenges have been overcome.’
The Jet Press 720S features new generation Samba printheads with each B2 width print bar containing 17 individually replaceable modular printheads, each with 2048 nozzles, ensuring the press can achieve native resolutions of 1200 x 1200 dpi. The print bar also takes advantage of VersaDrop technology, allowing the size and shape of each ink drop to be precisely controlled and placed on the paper. The replaceable modular printheads also significantly reduce the necessity for system downtime and minimise breaks in production for press maintenance, with a traditional offset fed paper feed mechanism providing high registration accuracy and reliable operation.
P4P’s investment in this new platform represents a European first and Fujifilm anticipates many other packaging specialists will follow. Taro Aoki, head of digital press solutions in EMEA for Fujifilm, said, ‘The new configuration of the Jet Press 720S enables companies specialising in folding carton production to offer their customers ultra high quality, short run, versioned and personalised packaging, while also achieving substantial reductions in substrate waste and associated production costs. Fujifilm’s focus on the packaging market is growing, and the launch of the Jet Press 720S for packaging has been designed to give packaging printers and entrepreneurs the opportunity to carve out profitable new markets for their businesses.’
