EFI has announced that environmental graphics production specialist Northeast Color in the US has recently became the first company to install the h series, with a VUTEk h3.
The new printer platform, which was developed by EFI’s global R&D teams from the ground up, is designed for high-volume production of premium-quality signage and graphics applications. The EFI VUTEk h3 prints up to 74 boards per hour and offers eight-colour and optional four-colour printing modes plus white, as well as five-layer print capability in a single pass.
The printer is a highly extensible platform as well, one that gives users the option of increasing throughput capabilities as needs demand.
Northeast Color also operates a pair of EFI VUTEk UV hybrid printers, and when the company sought to expand its business to address growing print capacity needs, Northeast Color president Jalmar Dijkstra saw a unique opportunity based on the VUTEk h series’ strong capabilities.
‘We were looking at printers from EFI and other manufacturers when EFI presented us with the option of being the first installation site for the h3,’ Dijkstra said. ‘It is the next step for us in terms of offering our clients better quality and higher capacity.’
‘The name of the game in our market is volume,’ he added. ‘A single franchise client can easily represent hundreds of locations, and at any given time there are multiple franchise sites that need to switch out and install new graphics. Our newest printer is designed to give us more agility and greater technical abilities to better serve our customers by producing even higher volumes of work on a wide range of substrates.’
‘Northeast Color turned out to be an ideal first site for our new h series,’ said Ken Hanulec, co-general manager, EFI Inkjet Display Graphics. ‘The company has a strong understanding of EFI and our total technology offering, plus Northeast Color’s high production volumes and product diversity will put the printer through its paces to ensure it exceeds market requirements for high-quality, high-volume production graphics printing.’
The printer series – the first hybrid VUTEk LED printer offering 1200 dots per inch (dpi) resolution – features new high-velocity 7-picolitre greyscale print head imaging for precision dot placement and consistency at high production speeds. VUTEk h series printers can run high volumes on a broad range of rigid and flexible substrates up to 5cm (2 inches) thick at full rated speeds thanks to automated material handling options to meet nearly any production need.
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