EFI celebrated a milestone at last week's Printing United show in Las Vegas, announcing the 300th installation of a VUTEk® FabriVU® 340+ soft signage printer, to be used to meet surging demand for dye-sublimation soft signage graphics by Orbus, a leading North American Las Vegas printer. This marks the fourth FabriVU 340 purchased by Orbus.
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| Dye-Sub or DTG, EFI's VUTEk FabriVU 340+ ticks all the boxes for soft signage and decor production |
Soft signage is expanding into new markets and, according to Orbus Vice President of Marketing Natalie Whited, it is the fastest-growing application among all the digitally printed graphics solutions the company provides. The new FabriVU 340+ model, which delivers a wide color gamut and deep saturation for higher-end fabric graphics, meets and exceeds Orbus’s continued growth trajectory. As with all VUTEk FabriVU printers, it prints both transfer paper and direct-to-fabric using the same set of high-yield, water-based Genuine EFI Inks.
Orbus is North America’s top trade manufacturer of soft signage and flag graphics for tradeshow exhibits, promotional displays, experiential retail and corporate interiors, and it relies on dye-sublimation solutions from EFI to ensure consistent, highly productive, high-end imaging in exceptionally large volumes.
Based in Woodridge, Illinois with a large Las Vegas site also, Orbus is one of the largest users of EFI soft signage printers worldwide. The newly installed FabriVU 340+ model joins two additional FabriVU printers at Orbus Las Vegas. The company has its fourth FabriVU printer at its headquarters facility, along with a pair of high-volume EFI industrial printers used exclusively for dye-sublimation production.
Orbus has an increasing presence as a provider of retail and corporate interior graphics, and the VUTEk FabriVU 340+ printer is particularly well-suited to produce those types of applications thanks to high-resolution printheads that provide precise, three-level grayscale imaging with no overlay for smooth transitions and perfect crispness.
The upgraded performance comes courtesy of the printer’s new, eight-printhead, CMYK x 2 array, along with new electronics for reliable and consistent premium-quality output of exhibit graphics, backlit graphics, retail fixture wraps, front lit graphics, block-out banners and fabric interior decor. A flag printing kit on the printer easily handles porous media in high-penetration applications by collecting inks without touching the rear side of the media.
With its 300th installation, EFI VUTEk with the FabriVU 340+ lays claim to be the number one dye sublimation soft signage printer globally, in the 3.4 metre wide class.
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