EFI announces new features for Jetrion 4000

EFI Jetrion kicked off its largest presence at Labelexpo by showcasing its Jetrion 4000 industrial inkjet system and several new product features.
 
The Jetrion 4000 UV inkjet system offers label converters a full-color narrow web alternative to toner-based digital printers for label runs of up to 50,000 labels. With speeds of up to 30.5 meters/minute at more than 1000 dpi with grayscale technology, the Jetrion 4000 delivers full-color label printing up to 13.9 cm (5.5 in) wide. The printer was a finalist in the Label Industry Global Awards, and was recently named best product of the year in the industrial (specialty) printing solutions category of the European Digital Press (EDP) Awards for 2008.

New features of the Jetrion 4000 on display at Labelexpo included a pre-die cut label printing functionality, variable-data printing (VDP) enhancements, a new ink set, and a new software suite.
 
On display for the first time was a Jetrion printing onto pre-die cut labels. The ability to print on labels that have already been die-cut means converters can purchase blank die-cut labels, run them through the digital press and produce finished labels. This unique new feature will be available in Q4 of 2008.
 
Also on display and available in Q4, Jetrion 4000 will take short-run printing to the limit by offering variable data printing. Building on its VDP leadership position in the label market with its large installed base of Jetrion 3000 series monochrome systems, the 4000 will also be able to print 1D and 2D barcodes, as well as variable text, numbers and graphics. This enables Jetrion users to fully seize the opportunity for business growth resulting from the ongoing explosion of security, track and trace, barcode and other VDP applications in the industrial inkjet market.
 
A new UV CMYK ink is now available, designed by EFI's chemists to spread easier and work on an ever broadening range of substrates. Unlike toner-based systems, Jetrion can now print onto lower-cost uncoated stock, an important benefit to cost-sensitive converters. The system will continue to provide ‘outstanding color reproduction combined with exceptional durability, reducing the need for costly over-laminates’, said the company in a statement.
 
New software for the Jetrion 4000 includes EFI XFlow (PDF-based workflow solution), the Print Manager easy-to-use interface for advanced job management, and the Fiery XF RIP (raster image processor), which brings all the strength of EFI's software capabilities to label converting. 
 
In addition to the EFI Jetrion booth, the 4000 industrial inkjet system was on display at the booth of newly appointed Jetrion distributor Pitman. EFI announced has signed a strategic distribution agreement for its range of Jetrion industrial inkjet systems with North American graphic arts industry supplier Pitman.

’This agreement will prove beneficial for Pitman, for EFI and for the label printing and packaging industry as a whole,’ said EFI president Fred Rosenzweig. ‘Now that the Jetrion 4000 is commercially available, Pitman provides the ideal channel to speed the rate at which our breakthrough technology can help label printers make the transition to digital printing to produce short run jobs economically.’