Fujifilm print on demand press dealer Jettech is taking over the demonstration centre in Luton this week for a Digital print and die cut expo.
This will put the Fujifilm’s presses through their paces along with XMPie software and a choice from Morgana for die cutting. One is the new Intel 7800 and the other the small format Aero Die Cut platen.
“The event is open to everyone,” says Jettech managing director Steve Andrew. “It’s about trying to change the mindset from having to automate as much as possible and to cut costs constantly to improve margins to showing people that there’s a different way.”
That involves being able to produce shorter runs with greater impact through using the fifth cloud option on the Revoria presses to achieve the sort of RGB colours they see on screens. “We want to bring three technologies together to help educate print companies about what is possible,” he says. “Many are coming to the end of payments on their bounce back loans and this sort of investment can help them deliver more to the market and achieve a greater return on their investment.”
Few realise that XMPie is available on a subscription SaaS model without the need to invest £50,000 in a server version to be able to offer an online portal for ecommerce to customers or for personalisation. That can deliver print ready files for the Fiery controllers and DFE on the presses which thanks to the fifth colour can achieve a close match to more PMS colours and then into the cut and cream units for finishing. “That process from file to print to finish takes four-and-a-half minutes,” he says.
And because of the simplicity of operation of digital presses and finishing, the company no longer needs the skills it once needed to run a litho press of a cutting and creasing on a Heidelberg platen.
“We see many companies are selling their litho press and concentrating on short runs with digital print and using trade printers if necessary,” says Andrew.
That also includes adding light weight cartons to the products that can be supplied. The presses he says are capable of printing on 600 micron board and Jettech has installed machines for luxury candle cartons and now for jewellery packaging.
