22 Issue 249 - October / November 2023 www.signlink.co.uk UNDER THE HOOD / FUJIFILM ACUITY PRIME HYBRID Fujifilm has been extremely successful with its Acuity Prime series of printers with the manufacturer pushing the envelope of both quality and production, carving a name for itself for being able to print on both flexible and rigid media. Never one to sit on its laurels, Fujifilm released at FESPA 2023 a new model in the form of the Acuity Prime Hybrid which clearly expands the capability of this series of printers. The Acuity Prime Hybrid has one major and significant difference (it might seem obvious but does need saying), it can print on both flat materials and now can print on reel-fed substrates too. This now greatly expands the ability and scope over that of the Acuity Prime model. However, when you look at the printer, Fujifilm has been clearly investing significant time and energy to ensure the new machine retains a small footprint. It would have been very easy to add the new media handling equipment expanding the capability at the cost of both the aesthetics and size of the printer. This has not been the case with the Acuity Prime Hybrid, the printer does not look any bigger, and the media handling tables for rigid substrate seamlessly fit into the body of the machine. Should you wish to switch to a reel-fed substrate, you simply remove a table front and rear of the printer, fold them up, and wheel them to some convenient place in the shop. With the tables removed, the media handling system is directly in front of you. Just because the reel handling is tucked away under the table of the printer, it is by no means undersized or lacking the ability to hold media. The Acuity Prime Hybrid has the capacity to hold reels up to 100kg in weight and this is down to Fujifilm retaining proud reference to maintaining ‘industrial build’ quality within the machine, not only in the media handling but throughout the machine. Ready To Go Fujifilm logically made no significant changes from the Acuity Prime when it designed the Hybrid model. Both models have the same robustly engineered overarm which carries the printhead. The Acuity Prime Hybrid is the printer that focuses on a CMYK inkset but with very good reason. As with any printer of this nature, there are six printing modes you can run production on depending on speed and colour laydown and there is image smoothing to ensure the highest quality of image regardless of production mode selected. Fujifilm recently launched the latest in the successful line of printers in its Acuity Prime range, this time with hybrid capability, for both roll and flatbed production. Brian Sims takes a closer look Should you wish to switch to reel-fed substrate, you simply remove a table front and rear of the printer, fold them up, and wheel them to some convenient place in the shop Fully Flexible Production ▼ Industrial build quality gives the Acuity Prime Hybrid capacity to hold reels up to 100kg
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