Drupa 2008 Imaging News

Forthcoming Fujifilm attractions showcased at drupa 2008

Drupa is about new technologies and future possibilities for printers as much as products you can buy now. Fujifilm had plenty of both to show at this year’s event.

Fujifilm UK success at drupa 2008

This year's show saw Fujifilm positioned in the digital hall for the first time which proved to be the perfect location.

Keith Dalton, director of Fujifilm Graphic Systems UK, comments: "This really has been a landmark year for us at drupa. It's been the first opportunity we've had to show Fujifilm's significant technological developments in the inkjet and digital printing arenas. With a wide variety of exciting new products and technologies on show which...

Fujifilm to construct new production line for Offset CTP plates

Responding to growing global demand and the need for environmentally-friendly printing products, FUJIFILM Corporation has decided to enhance its production capacity for CTP plates. The company will invest approximately 96 million Euros in its European manufacturing operation, FUJIFILM Manufacturing Europe B.V. (Netherlands), to construct a new CTP plates production line. Construction will begin in October 2008 and operations are planned to begin in January 2010. The European plate...

Fujifilm introduces Emblaze at drupa 2008

The system has been developed by FFEI in conjunction with FUJIFILM varnish coating technology and will be exclusively marketed by FUJIFILM in Europe.

Emblaze is a unique digital system for spot coating print from an A5 up to a B2 sheet with an equivilant output of up to 9000 A4 sheets an hour. It can handle print from 90 to 400 microns in thickness. No plates, blankets or wash ups required; this is a totally digital system using UV single pass...

FUJIFILM announces new flexo CTP plate technology

Flexo printing, a technology used mainly for long run packaging, carton and label applications, has experienced recent growth, particularly in developing countries such as BRICs. One of the reasons for this growth is that gravure printing is being replaced by flexo in certain situations because the former requires the use of harmful substances such as trichlorethylene. As a result, it is estimated that the Flexo printing market has been expanding by around 5% year on...

FUJIFILM announces new POD solution for PhotoBooks

Since 1997, IP Labs GmbH (acquired by FUJIFILM in January 2008) has been developing online photo service systems utilising its own unique technologies. The IP Labs systems have two distinct advantages. Firstly, they are extremely user-friendly and enable a variety of products to be easily ordered. Secondly, the systems are easily customizable. These advantages have resulted in the IP Labs systems being used in many photo labs and photo chain stores all over the world and especially in...

FUJIFILM Wide Format Inkjet at drupa 2008

High-end printers

The Onset from Inca Digital represents a breakthrough in Digital Printing technology. The most productive flatbed inkjet printer in the world, capable of speeds in excess of 500 m²per hour, Onset will be featured on video.

The latest variant of the bestselling Inca Spyder 320 will feature in live demonstrations. The model on display features the Ultratone system to give extended colour gamut plus white. Ultratone improves the...

Fujifilm announces World’s First Single-Pass*1, High-Speed, Large Format Size Inkjet Printing at High Resolutions of 1200 dpi at 4-level gray scale

FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO, Shigetaka Komori, hereafter "Fujifilm") has developed ground-breaking, next generation inkjet digital printing technology that enables the world's first high quality, high-speed printing on large sheet sizes (maximum print size: 720mm x 520mm) at high resolutions of 1200dpi at 4-level gray scale*2 by using a single-pass*1 inkjet printing method. In addition, it achieves quality levels comparable to offset printing for a variety of...

Merton based OK 2 Print wanted to reduce overheads and improve environmental performance with PRO-T

OK 2 Print have customers who are keen to work with an environmentally friendly supplier. This is particularly true of some local councils who now stipulate that their suppliers must have sound environmental credentials. By moving to PRO-T, the company have improved their environmental performance, reduced overheads and benefitted from further savings in time and cost from not needing to purchase and dispose of chemicals.

FUJIFILM announces V2.0 of its cross-media workflow, XMF, at drupa 2008

FUJIFILM Corporation today announces V2.0 of its advanced pre-media workflow, FUJIFILM Workflow XMF, that will bring further benefits to commercial printers operating both traditional analogue and digital print processes. Under the banner "DIGITAL

POWER AT YOUR CONTROL", FUJIFILM will be demonstrating how V2.0 of XMF can bring further control to multi-output print processes through the introduction of FUJIFILM's unique intelligent automation and image...