Focus on Wide-Format Printing Fujifilm Enabling customers to profit
Fujifilm’s Acuity Prime range incorporates dedicated flatbed and hybrid printers. The range combines LED UV technologies with award-winning design to deliver exceptional quality on a wide range of rigid and flexible media. With bed sizes up to 3.2x2m and productivity rates reaching up to 204sq m/hr, the Prime’s flatbed design, supported by a maximum of six dedicated vacuum zones and pneumatic registration pins, ensures precise registration and efficient media handling. Operators benefit from an intuitive and easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI), automatic print head maintenance, and visible ink status indicators for streamlined workflows. The Acuity Prime range incorporates up to seven colour
channels, including CMYK, white, clear, and jettable primer. It handles diverse substrates such as PVC, acrylic, wood, aluminium composite, and even industrial materials like glass and metal. Advanced features like colour-white-colour layering and double strike white printing enhance creative possibilities.
The Fujifilm Acuity Prime
With ink savings of up to 25%, the Acuity Prime range provides an optimal return on investment, while offering superior print quality. Alex Ashley, procurement manager at Wicked Brick, commented on his Acuity Prime investment in late 2024: “Our customers expect nothing short of excellence, both in quality and turnaround time. With the Acuity Prime, we’ve not only elevated the quality of our products, we’ve streamlined our production process too, which has enabled us to deliver exceptional results in record time.”
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Grantham Graphics Partnerships in business
Roland DG’s TrueVis MG-640 supplied by Grantham Graphics
Originally a sign making business formed in Blackpool in 1890, since then, Grantham
Graphic Technology division evolved into one of the UK’s largest resellers of sign printing equipment and supplies with an enviable reputation for service and support. For the past two decades, since introducing the very first fully working solvent printer to the industry, the Preston-based operation focused its efforts on selling and supporting large-format printers, cutters and finishing equipment for the outdoor graphics and signage industry. During that same time, Entwistle Group continued to expand its own wide-format business with a focus on
HP Printing green with Latex inks
Given the huge array of options to choose from, selecting the right wide-format printer for your business is no easy task. For this reason, print service providers should carefully consider exactly what they want from their print before committing to an investment. One of the main factors to consider in the current market is
sustainability; can the printer deliver an environmentally friendly service to customers? The HP Latex range offers all this and much more, allowing users to work with clients on a whole host of projects. Within this collection is the HP Latex 630 series, which is
available as standard or with a white ink (630W) option, further expanding the users’ capabilities. Both models have a top
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More sustainable printing with HP Latex printers
speed of 14sq m/hr in standard, six-pass
mode and can print on media up to 1.63m wide. In terms of sustainability, as is the case with all HP Latex printers, the machines run HP Latex inks, which are water-based and have a much lower impact on the environment than their solvent, eco-solvent and UV counterparts. Add in features such as 10GB of on-printer job storage and integration with HP PrintOS and the HP Latex 360 series presents users with all manner of exciting opportunities.
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CAD and inkjet graphics printers and associated supplies as well as its core business sustainable print. At the beginning of May 2022, the Graphic Technology division joined the Entwistle Group which has a similar heritage, tracking back its humble beginnings to 1899. Entwistle Group has heavily invested in print equipment as well as sustainability and looks to strengthen its group with the knowledge and expertise of the Granthams GT team.
Granthams GT is a supplier of wide-format technology including
solvent, latex, UV flatbed, UV roll-to-roll and indoor and outdoor applications. The company’s portfolio includes Mimaki, Roland, Graphtec, HP, Summa, Onyx, Flexi, Easymount and Metamark.
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