The Graphium will print 200 real jobs, slit into five ribbons and wind onto small cores 

The Graphium modular digital UV inkjet press, from FFEI Ltd, will make its UK debut at Ipex 2014 on the Fujifilm stand. 

The press offers converters flexibility and productivity, enabling them to accept complex projects with a wide gamut of colours on virtually any substrate. Supporting up to five digital colour modules and six flexo stations, Graphium offers the capability from a single vendor of being able to integrate optional flexo and finishing stations inline for conversion in a single pass. 

On the stand, the press will be running real label jobs, demonstrating its ‘concept to finished product’ capabilities. At the front-end will be FFEI’s RealPro Toolkit software that will check and prepare jobs for print, including ink setting, trapping and pre-flighting.

It will be printing across its 410 mm web width in five colours using a high-opacity white in addition to CMYK. Jobs will be finished inline with Edale designed flexo varnishing, die cutting and slitting along with an AB Graphic International Vectra multi-turret rewinder. In this way, Graphium will print 200 real jobs, slit into five ribbons and wind onto small cores for visitors to take away. 

‘This is the leanest method of producing short-run labels,’ said Andy Cook, FFEI managing director. ‘With more jobs, shorter lead times, lower costs and minimal waste, Graphium offers converters and commercial printers looking for additional revenue streams a powerful solution for meeting complex customer requirements in rapidly changing markets. 

‘Graphium represents a new generation of digital inkjet press aimed at the narrow web market. With low capital investment, high quality print, unparalleled productivity, Graphium brings all of these factors together for  a ‘cost-in-use’ that defines it as the most productive, high opacity digital white press on the market’

The press combines a range of technologies that allow users to convert complex jobs that are not economically viable with standalone conventional or inkjet presses. According to the company, with the workflow, prepress, colour management software and head calibration technology, users will receive a consistent quality through repeatable production and a match between press and proof.