UNDER THE HOOD / FUJIFILM JET PRESS 1160CFG 25 www.printmonthly.co.uk January / February 2025 - Issue 352 Y ou only need to mention the name Fujifilm, and as one of the heavyweights of the printing industry, the brand can often be attributed to technical innovations. The latest offering for the European and American markets is a press which has already proven itself in Fujifilm’s heartlands of Asia. The Jet Press 1160CF was released at drupa earlier this year and is another step forward for inkjet technology. In order to look forward you need to look at history to understand the success this press delivers. Fujifilm was originally at the vanguard of the inkjet revolution, going back as far as the 1970s when it started delivering presses capable of delivering commercially acceptable copy from this new technology. Roll onto 2011 and it showed the world the first single pass sheet fed inkjet press, the Jet Press 720. Being present at the release you couldn’t help but take a step back and really understand this technology which had found its feet and proved it was here to stay. Following on from this was the Jet Press 750S, which raised the bar with 1,200 dpi and client ready copy at lithographic standards. In 2019 the company started to move the technology into web-fed markets and primarily into the transaction market, but the new press, the Jet Press 1160CFG, not only is a quality machine, but the speed of the press is another boundary which has been pushed to new levels. Web Innovation It is quite natural when we highlight web integration that thoughts automatically turn to websites and web pages doing ever more clever image processing. However, Fujifilm take a far more industry focused interpretation, and this innovative new press has a piece of technology underpinning the ability of it to uphold speed and quality. Typically, a lot of energy and thought goes into the printing process trying to alleviate problems with quality by adapting and changing parameters on the chemicals and inks being applied. Fujifilm has looked at this issue from the ground up and tackled the issue of substrates by controlling them prior to printing rather than after which is far more conventional. In the Jet Press 1160CFG, lots of investment has gone into a unit they call the Paper Stabilizer. What Fujifilm do with this technology is accurately adapt the biggest culprit of paper issues, which is moisture. This is done by passing paper through a series of rollers stacked in the unit prior to the printing unit. The media is then heated and the moisture content is set to the most desirable condition for the inks to be applied. Moisture is a massive headache to printers but a machine that has a conditioning unit built into it means that regardless of the month or weather, at the point of delivery to the printing unit the paper is at the optimum condition. If you apply that thought process further, once printed, quality issues such and waviness or cockling can be all but consigned to history, plus ink adhesion is greatly improved on thicker papers. As would be expected with any web press, the Jet Press 1160CFG has an unwind unit at one end of the press being capable of holding reels up to 1,270mm in diameter and stock of 64 to 250gsm. Moving these from the floor to reel stand is accomplished by the use of a series of buttons so the operator has the minimum of effort to lift even the heaviest of rolls. The whole unwind section, infeed and tension control system, and edge registration control is all fully integrated into the machine’s control systems, meaning the Fujifilm has launched its latest inkjet continuous printer, the Fujifilm Jet Press 1160CF which takes high volume inkjet commercial printing to new levels with innovative new technology CONTINUED INKJET INNOVATION Production speed Up to 160m/min Resolution 1200 x 600 @ 160m/min 1200 x 1200 @ 80m/min Colour CMYK water-based inks Web width 152.4 to 520.7 mm Grammage 64 to 250gsm Statistics
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