The key to the Jet Press 1160CFG’s advanced capability is a unique Paper Stabiliser Unit that ensures high coverage, 1200dpi quality print is delivered with consistent high quality and reliability.

This unique technology eliminates the two major challenges associated with water-based inkjet technologies used in high speed presses:
• Controlling the behaviour of a range of paper types
• Effective drying of inkjet printed paper

Advanced Paper Stabiliser Unit

Paper is often the most difficult variable in the printing process to control. It can react differently depending on the local humidity, temperature and other outside factors.

The Paper Stabiliser Unit is not a pre-coat or priming station. There are no consumables to apply, replenish or pay for. The paper stabiliser does exactly that, eliminating the stress and shocks that paper normally experiences in other inkjet presses.

Precisely controlled heating and cooling of the paper before printing conditions the paper for a smooth, stress-free progression through the press, to give the best possible printed result.

Before entering the imaging section, the paper goes through a pre-drying process which minimises rapid paper expansion and contraction within the press. The paper stabiliser helps to reduce paper curling and misalignment, ensuring a smooth and stable paper feed, thereby increasing registration accuracy, improving print quality and reducing waste.

The benefits of paper stabilisation:

The Jet Press 1160CFG won’t shrink away from a challenge

The paper stabiliser reduces the cycle of paper shrinking and swelling with each round of printing and drying. Dimensional stability is dramatically improved leading to accurate and reliable front to back registration.

Early intervention from the paper stabiliser reduces the stresses and strains on the paper as it is printed. Swelling and shrinking is eliminated improving the condition of the paper throughout the print process.

Minimise wavy sheets and books

The chance of producing wavy books is reduced too. This is essential for high quality print on coated stocks with higher ink coverage, which are the most susceptible to waviness. The phenomenon of swelling and shrinking is even more pronounced between areas of heavy ink coverage and non-image areas. The stresses of heating and cooling, wet and dry, are significantly reduced with the Jet Press 1160CFG, leading to flatter sheets and books. Less stress means flatter books.

Stabilised paper, represented by the green line, swells and shrinks less as it carries less moisture overall from the start of printing the first side, to the end of drying the back side.

Media flexibility

The Jet Press 1160CFG paper stabiliser helps expand media compatibility including common offset stocks. You can also print on both thinner and thicker stocks, meaning you can take advantage of current paper stocks, simplifying inventory and reducing costs.

Prints beautifully on offset coated paper

The newly developed aqueous pigment ink prints beautifully on both coated and uncoated paper without a primer. By reducing moisture levels before printing, the Jet Press creates a less volatile environment for the paper with

lower changes in temperature and moisture content. Paper stabilisation reduces issues at the time of printing and down the line during post processing and finishing.

Avoid dirty guide rollers and print white spots

Without the paper stabiliser, ink can attack the paper coating by penetrating deep into the paper base. This leads to a weak surface that can be picked off the sheet making guide rollers dirty and leaving white spots in the print.

Stabilised paper has a more robust surface, avoiding white spots and providing better rub resistance of the finished print.

You need to produce short to medium run, high quality colour books, journals, brochures and catalogues

The Jet Press 1160CFG has the quality and speed to produce high quality publications on light to heavyweight stocks. Its unique features overcome the common challenges facing other, less capable high speed inkjet presses.

You need to fulfil direct mail campaigns in medium to high volumes on quality stocks

Direct mail is changing to compete in an ever-more challenging communications environment. As campaigns become more creative and targeted, the Jet Press 1160CFG has the capability to run higher quality mail pieces at higher speed with greater consistency.

You need to move jobs away from analogue processes that are less capable and efficient

Offset printing presses are ideally suited to long run, static jobs but are increasingly being used for short to medium run work. Presses become stacked with inefficient work leaving little time for the jobs that pay. Jobs moved to the Jet Press 1160CFG can be produced on the same paper stocks at comparable quality using technologies exclusive to Fujifilm.

Fujifilm is ideally placed to maximise the benefits of this exclusive system with:
• A heritage in inkjet printing over the last 25 years.
• A long history of continuous inkjet printing, with the highest market share for the supply and service of these presses in the Asia Pacific region.
• A deep understanding of the print industry with over 90 years experience – from the supply of offset plates and film to the latest digital technologies.

Deliver high quality, consistent and accurate colour output while optimising workflow efficiency and productivity.

XMF ColorPath, Fujifilm’s cloud-based colour management system, allows printers to create optimised colour profiles and calibrations to print to various standards, and provides tools to ensure that over time the standards are continually adhered to, all while achieving superior print results and meeting the demanding requirements of today’s print market.

Manage and monitor colour performance

The key to good colour management is the creation of accurate device link colour profiles, the ability to easily print to ISO standards, and above all to have a system that makes it easy to check and verify that standards are continuously being met. All of this and more is achieved with XMF ColorPath, Fujifilm’s cloud-based colour management solution. Optimised curve data and ICC profiles can be quickly and easily created in the cloud and deployed for everyday production within XMF Workflow.

Key features
• Cloud-based colour management
• Align offset and digital presses to ISO or G7 standards
• Optimise ink usage while maintaining conformance to ISO and G7 standards
• Create optimised colour profiles to allow for GRACoL and FOGRA standard proofing
• Verify if digital proofs and prints are within the tolerance limits of industry standards
G7® and GRACoL® are trademarks of Idealliance Control your colour.

The Jet Press 1160CFG can replace traditional offset production for a variety of print jobs, therefore bringing the sustainability benefits of digital printing to a wider range of print production.

The many environmental benefits of digital print are well documented, including the elimination of make-ready waste between jobs, the removal of the plate production process, the requirement for fewer press chemicals, and smaller stock holdings due to the on-demand nature of digital print.

The maximum substrate width is 790mm (31 inches) with a productivity of 50 m/min (164 feet per minute), no matter the number of colours. The high machine uptime and ability to change printing jobs and design adjustments within a matter of minutes contribute to the overall improvement of production efficiency of the entire factory.

Critically, the Jet Press FP790 is also able to fit into existing production processes with no other capital investments, along with being a much more sustainable solution than its analogue counterparts.

With the challenging demands of the flexible packaging market, particularly the short turnaround times and regulatory requirements, Fujifilm has carried out extensive testing of printed output from the Jet Press FP790 with various laminating, slitting and finishing processes, to ensure customers of the press are in the best possible position to maximise the production opportunities from day one.

Fujifilm extensively tested Henkel’s renowned portfolio of laminating adhesives to ensure compatibility with the Jet Press FP790 ink as well as verify adhesion properties and lamination performance in post-press production, to guarantee the highest quality output. Given the excellent results and positive outcomes from these rigorous tests, Henkel’s solvent-free laminating adhesives are Fujifilm’s recommended solution for use with the Jet Press FP790.

Fujifilm also successfully tested Nordmeccanica’s Simplex range of two-layer laminating machines for solvent-less adhesives. The environmental benefits of the Jet Press FP790, combined with Henkel’s solvent-free adhesives and Nordmeccanica’s solvent-less lamination technology, delivers a truly sustainable production solution. In addition, it will enable packaging converters to remain compliant with the increasingly stringent environmental regulations that are now commonplace throughout the industry.

By collaborating with renowned and leading manufacturers of pre-press and post-press
technologies, Fujifilm can clearly demonstrate that its new Jet Press FP790 is fully compatible and integrates effortlessly into existing production environments offering a ‘plug and play’ digital solution that delivers the highest quality finished packaging with minimal testing, training or setup.

Fujifilm’s Jet Press FP790 will feature a unique, smart Digital Front End (DFE) and unified workflow solution developed specifically by HYBRID Software to optimise the productivity and output of Fujifilm’s press.

This new XMF Packaging DFE is the first of its kind to be developed by a software company for use in the packaging market, and is a result of a close working partnership between Fujifilm’s R&D team and HYBRID’s specialist software developers.

Based on proven technology, the web-based,open architecture production workflow offers fully automated pre-press functionality to ensure the Jet Press FP790 press offers accelerated turnaround times, maximum productivity and reduced operating costs. In addition, its modular configuration allows for greater workflow expansion and upstream customisation to cater for specific user requirements.

Fujifilm employs environmentally friendly water-based primers and inkjet technologies, which meet or exceed all regulatory requirements for flexible packaging printing. The Jet Press FP790 is also able to minimise waste, reduce the number of consumables associated with traditional analogue production, and totally eliminate all elements of the plate-making process.