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A MAGAZINE OF NEW IDEAS, DEVELOPMENTS AND SOLUTIONS

IN THIS ISSUE

SNAPSHOTS ON INNOVATION

SUPERIA - MAKING OFFSET MORE PROFITABLE

VOL. 5, ISSUE 3

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT

GRAPHIUM - FOR LABELS, PACKAGING AND SPECIALTY PRINT

VOL. 5, ISSUE 3 • FALL 2015

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6 The next level

Why getting better every day drives Christmas City Printing

8 Superia

Making offset printing more profitable

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‘Tradition’ and the future

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Operation change

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Sign, sign, everywhere a sign

10 The message

The art of communicating your message today

William Rongey Editor > wrongey@fujifilm.com

A letter from Todd Zimmerman

Graphium looks to redefine specialty print market

ENERGY is published quarterly by FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division Copyright 2015 All rights reserved www.fujifilmgraphics.com

Survey examines state of graphics & sign market

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A LETTER FROM TODD ZIMMERMAN

‘Tradition’ and the future

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ontemporary communication is evolving. Today, we have multiple channels that enable us to communicate messages to a broad audience, instantly. In essence, we maintain contact with our customers, develop our businesses, and stay in close contact with our employees and stakeholders by utilizing the most effective and efficient methods of communication to be sure our message is both heard and understood.

Communicating your value message and “breaking through the crust” to reach your target audience is a challenge, but the result of successful and effective communication is a meaningful exchange of ideas leading to the right solution design to solve a critical need. We see this every day on an operational basis, as we develop relationships with customers as well as our colleagues within the FUJIFILM group of companies.

One important key to business viability and sustainability is not to abandon core principles, and risk too much on a new way. At the same time, we also have to avoid resistance to change and embrace the merits of ‘new thinking.’ Our clearest path is to understand the legacy of our success, preserve the business ideals and principals that have brought about that success, and simultaneously develop, and embrace, new ways to serve. In many ways, our new products and solutions stem from our deep understanding of traditional methods while challenging ourselves with new ideas to drive our thinking about how we could do things differently in the future. Challenging the status quo becomes the status quo when you foster a culture of continuous innovation.

Our cover article, “Hybrid Printing,” offers yet another example of marrying the best of the new and old.

It details the idea that today’s printers are evolving and adapting new methods and models because they can no longer rely on what is conventional. Printers are embracing the digital technologies as a way to produce new and innovative solutions to meet the needs of their customers. Many printers are diversifying, and In many ways, our new products we truly believe the printer of the future and solutions stem from our deep will be a hybrid of multiple capabilities.

understanding of traditional methods while challenging ourselves with new ideas to drive our thinking about how we could do things differently in the future.

In our second feature, “The Message,” we delve into how communicating your value is more difficult than ever before. With the multitude of channels and number of distractions everyone has today, connecting on a personal level is more complex than ever.

One could say that while it is incumbent on us to embrace a ‘hybrid’ view of our capabilities, it’s equally important to institute a hybrid way of communicating.

I hope you enjoy this issue, and thanks again for taking the time to read Energy.

Warmest regards,

Todd Zimmerman Division President, FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division Corporate Vice President, FUJIFILM Global Graphic Systems ENERGY

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What do the Toyota Prius, Brandy Boy tomatoes and the Graphium have in common? They are hybrids that resulted from innovatively combining the most desirable elements and features from two distinct functionalities. The Toyota Prius combines an internal combustion engine and electric motor for excellent fuel efficiency and terrific acceleration; Brandy Boy captures all the rich flavor of the beloved Brandywine heirloom tomato with a more shapely form, tidier growth habit, improved disease-resistance and bigger, earlier yields; and the Graphium is an innovative digital hybrid machine that combines the efficiencies of both digital and analog printing technologies.

Digital and analog each have their respective advantages.

Because of its tremendous versatility, hybrid printing offers increased capabilities with potentially larger profits than either technology alone.

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HYBRID PRINTING

Hybrid printers fill a need and add value, particularly in the label industry.

“In the prime label industry, the ability for label converters to print a job using analog, digital or a combination of both – all inline on the same machine – delivers many distinct advantages that can help them stay competitive,” says Michael Barry, product marketing manager, Digital Solutions, FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division. “With this new hybrid printing technology, you have the best of both technologies available—the flexibility of digital printing and the static low-cost elements of conventional flexographic printing.

And you can have all the finishing applications of traditional print manufacturing. This innovation dramatically improves the crossover point and bridges the gap between solely digital or solely analog.”

THE EVOLUTION OF HYBRID PRINTING

“The best solution was not available, until now. It took the right manufacturer with the right digital experience,” Barry says.

“With the Graphium, you have tremendous versatility and the capacity to fully customize functionality to meet various customer needs. It is designed to do it all, but it can be customized depending on the client’s particular application requirements.”

ADVANTAGES OF HYBRID PRINTING

Because of their need to produce specialty colors, laminating, foiling, die cutting, and other special effects and finishes, printers in the packaging industry have been slower than other commercial printers to adopt digital printing technology. However, the new hybrid printer addresses these specific needs and gives users a distinct advantage over analog-only printers.

“Hybrid printing presses are capable of all of this innovation, in-line with digital print, effectively eliminating some of the reasons that prevented more work in this industry from going digital. These are some of the strengths of hybrid printing, and the Graphium press,” Barry affirms.

This innovation dramatically changes the crossover point and bridges the gap between solely digital or solely analog.

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Digital and analog each have their respective advantages. Because of its tremendous versatility, hybrid printing offers increased capabilities with potentially larger profits than either technology alone. Three advantages are:

MORE PROFITABLE SHORT AND MEDIUM RUNS

The seamless melding of digital and analog printing presents increased opportunities for profitable short and medium runs. In conventional converting with a typical flexographic press setup, many functions are performed with the lowest ink costs. But setup time and fixed costs prevent profitable short runs. The addition of a digital printing component makes profitable short runs possible while still maintaining the manufacturing element of traditional print production. This is where digital comes into play. Digital is the most efficient print process for short-runs. Utilizing digital hybrid printing, more jobs can be completed with maximum efficiency and minimal waste.

GREATER HANDS-OFF DIGITAL PRODUCTION

In a standard digital press setup, manufacturing tasks (finishing, die-cutting, etc.) can be achieved, but not with the speed and seamlessness of in-line traditional print manufacturing. Hybrid printing allows for all the same finishing applications that flexo offers (such as laminating, die cutting, slitting, and more) all in-line. This reduces touch-points with virtually no effect on the speed of printing production. Hybrid technology turns digital printing back into a manufacturing process.

BROADER CAPABILITIES

Using hybrid printing technology, printers can easily and profitably achieve short-to medium-run length production with flood or heavy coverage white, heavy coverage of a specific color, out-ofgamut brand color, or metallic or specialty inks. For example, when printers are unable to achieve exact brand color using digital only, the hybrid can be used with more financial benefit than flexo only. Printers also can do long-run static work that requires multiple SKUs and variable data. Hybrid printing decreases the cost of the static component of variable work in long runs.

“This covers the majority of label and specialty printing needs for short to medium runs,” Barry says. “For example, before hybrid printing, a job that required a flood coat of white ink behind the design and that includes a variable would force converters to print digitally. But digital white inks are typically more expensive than their flexo cousins. Using the new hybrid

technology allows converters to run a flexo spot ink pre-digital – for a more competitive job price – and then they can digitally run the rest of the design with variable data. And since hybrid technologies can finish in-line using traditional flexo finishing methods, the benefits are compounded.”

FUTURE OF HYBRID PRINTING

With the development of hybrid cars, drivers no longer have to choose between fuel efficiency and performance; they can have both. Health-conscious beef lovers no longer have to choose between eating beef or chicken. Beefalo, a hybrid cross between domestic cows and the North American Bison, is as tender and tasty as most traditional beef, but contains less fat and cholesterol than a roasted chicken.

With the innovation of hybrid print technology, printers no longer have to choose between digital and analog technologies.

“We feel this is the way of the future,” Barry says. “Printers can have both processes in-line, and there are some major advantages to doing so. The ability to easily utilize digital technology will result in cost savings. The marriage between analog and digital technologies has a bright future.”

Graphium is manufactured by FFEI and distributed exclusively in North America by Fujifilm Graphic Systems Division.

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Unwind/Splice Table - Supports a roll with an outer diameter up to 39.” Standard splicing table and web guide for accurate feed into press.

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Web Clean/Corona Treatment - Print on what you like with the tools standard to prepare materials for print.

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Pre-Digital Flexo Station - Configure the Graphium with flexo stations before the digital print for heavy coverage colors, brand spot colors, metallics, and more!

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Digital Print Station - Digital CMYK + Overwhite and Underwhite capabilities for the greatest flexibility. Inter-color pinning at each channel.

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User Control Panel - Touch screen control panel for the operator to quickly queue-up multiple jobs for non-stop printing.

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Post-digital Flexo Station - Configure the Graphium with flexo stations after the digital print for varnishes, glues, spot colors, and more!

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Cold Foil/Lamination Station - Apply foils, dry or wet laminates in-line to meet customers needs without adding off-line processes.

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Three-Station Die - Convert fully finished labels with the ability to cut, slit, score, sheet, and matrix removal in-line.

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Rewind Station - Configure with a single or double rewinder for full label converting.

Optional shingling table can be added for a sheeted workflow.

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CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT

THE NEXT LEVEL

Christmas City installs milestone 5,000th XMF Workflow Service. Quality. Reliability. Ask any employee at Christmas City Printing (CCP), and they will tell you these goals are first and foremost on the to-do list of everyone at the Bethlehem, Pa., printer, every day.

Driven by its commitment to its customers, Christmas City Printing constantly is looking for the best ways to deliver on each and every one of the jobs it produces. Started in 1981 as a letterpress, stationary and business shop, it quickly transformed into a full-service offset commercial printing shop, which today operates out of a 14,000-square-foot building that offers everything from letterpress and offset, to digital printing.

Since that first day, the CCP team made a commitment to stay up-to-date on the ever-evolving technological advances that define the printing services landscape. That’s why it was no surprise when Christmas City became the 5,000th install of XMF Workflow from Fujifilm.

In addition, XMF Workflow is an end-to-end solution, from PDF creation and preflight through imposition, to trapping and output maintaining the PDF file format, right up to the final rendering stage using the APPE interpreter.

XMF’s latest version, V6.1, is a powerful and flexible production hub, harnessing the high-speed rendering technology Mercury RIP Architecture developed by Adobe to enable parallel processing of multiple jobs. This offers an outstanding processing capability that is two to 10 times greater compared to previous systems and, in turn, contributes remarkably to scaling-up the productivity of pre-press operations.

It was a decision that Chris Sicinski, VP at Christmas City, says made the printing operation a “better company for installing.”

With workflow sitting at the heart of any print operation – whether its offset, digital or a combination of the two – XMF Workflow quickly has become the central hub for all equipment at Christmas City Printing.

“The streamline process that XMF Workflow gives us is 10 times faster than our previous workflow,” Sicinski says. “With integrated imposition, unlimited clients (users), and also having the 3D proofing tool, our jobs are in and out of our shop faster than ever.”

XMF Workflow is a highly capable workflow system based on JDF specifications and Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) technology. This gives XMF Workflow tremendous flexibility and increased integration capabilities with MIS and other third party solutions that support the JDF specification. XMF has many high value features, including the ability to scale the system based on productivity requirements

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With integrated imposition, unlimited clients (users), and also having the 3D proofing tool, our jobs are in and out of the shop faster than ever.

– Chris Sicinski, VP, Christmas City Printing

For example, when required to output jobs simultaneously to the CTP, proofer, or the digital press, XMF allows minimizing the processing ‘standby time’ while the jobs are processed, and offers streamlined and effective use of the output devices. A single XMF unit is capable of performing RIP processing equivalent to multiple CTP setters. This not only greatly reduces the number of RIP units for each output device and allows cutting down on management and costs, but will also allow to ensure that calculations always stay consistent among different output devices.

“Our digital, CTP and proofing are all being color managed to one standard with ColorPath added to the workflow,” Sicinski says.

In addition, Christmas City has increased its productivity with the Xerox Color 1000 press. “Acquiring the (Xerox) 1000 was a huge competitive advantage for our digital department,” Sicinski says. “In this industry, I’ve seen graphic art vendors come and go, and Fujifilm has always stood behind their products.”

In today’s high-paced, competitive landscape, today’s printers need every edge they can get. “With intelligent automation and diverse remote features, XMF is a workflow system that brings substantial change to the production frontlines and the communicative environment,” says Shigenori Tsuji, senior manager, Workflow Division, FUJIFILM Global Graphic Systems.

“I am pleased that the system’s 'ability to make a change’ is being widely accepted in the global market.”

We are a better company for installing XMF Workflow.

– Chris Sicinski, VP, Christmas City Printing

A look inside what the Christmas City Printing team brings to the table PREPRESS

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BINDERY

Christmas City Printing (CCP) provides a full service prepress department to meet all of its customer needs. Its graphic experts work with state-ofthe-art equipment and are dedicated to preparing jobs to run smoothly and reproduce accurately.

CCP can meet any of its clients printing needs, with offset presses ranging from 18 inches to 40 inches.

For smaller printing jobs, its Digital Press is a very economical option.

Strict quality control checks are enforced throughout the entire run to ascertain nothing goes unnoticed and consistency is maintained. In addition, it assures the same color standard from the first dot of ink to the last press sheet.

The CCP bindery department prides itself in offering what you need. With a full-service bindery operation, there is no finishing touch that it cannot accomplish.

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SNAPSHOTS ON INNOVATION

What’s new with Fujifilm

INTRODUCING SUPERIA Fujifilm’s offset plate-making system

Fujifilm’s offset plate-making system offers new value to the offset printing industry through resource saving innovations that can reduce consumption of materials, labor, water, energy and emissions.

With SUPERIA, you now can reduce the costs normally associated with your conventional platemaking systems and turn them into profits.

SUPERIA supports resource savings directly leading to profits by achieving five resource saving benefits from a range of products, including CTP systems, printing-related processing chemicals, software and consulting. This enables SUPERIA to contribute greatly to improve the profitability of the offset printing system.

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Material savings

Generally, paper and ink account for the greatest ratio of printing costs; lowering the costs of paper and ink will lead to increased profit

Labor savings

Quicker turnaround times will increase capacity

Energy savings

Conservation of resources is important to reduce costs and increase profits

Reduced emissions

Reduction and/or elimination of chemicals and exhaust gases helps to protect the environment for a greener process

Water savings

Decreasing water usage lowers costs associated with potential drainage processing fees

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THE MESSAGE The art of communicating your message today

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hy did your customers choose you? It’s a fair question. With a slate of competitors in the marketplace – any marketplace – there are plenty of options.

Are you priced competitively?

Are your customers buying from you because of what you’ve sold them in the past? Do you get better referrals? Does it matter?

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THE MESSAGE

In the highly competitive printing services landscape, it’s all about delivering the right message to the marketplace – a value proposition that effectively communicates how and why you’re different right up front. In their book, “Rainmaking Conversations: Influence, Persuade, and Sell in Any Situation,” co-authors Mike Schultz and John Doerr say that even when brands know their value, many find it difficult to describe it.

In the selling fields, when somebody asks you what your product does and why it is a better fit than any other, what is your answer? Sure, you know you have to get your value proposition across, but Schultz and Doerr say you cannot deliver the same “canned speech” to everyone.

Their suggestion is to craft, and then learn to deliver specific nuggets of information you can use. Add all of these nuggets together, you have your value proposition positioning statement – a compelling, tangible description of how a company benefits from buying from you.

Stephan Liozu, founder of Value Innoruption Advisors, says it’s all positioning and identity. Part of this process is to have a focused, clear and compelling value proposition that crystallizes what your brand represents in the mind of your customers. In doing so, there are three critical tools to use: a compelling customer value proposition; one to three critical value drivers, or Unique Value Propositions (UVPs) that show value; and messages in the form of short stories, dramatic statistics or metaphors.

“The communication of value is essential in both the marketing and selling of products and brands,” he says. “Marketers have to equip the sellers with strong value communication strategies that support value-based selling and value-based pricing programs. Marketing communications teams have to work closely with brand and pricing managers to make sure the sales force receives the right value tools: selling sheets, value stories, value messages, ROI case studies, etc. It has to be a priority to respond to a more sophisticated procurement function.”

SIMPLIFYING YOUR APPROACH

The key is to make your customers remember the first and last things you tell them, which, in theory, opens with strong and compelling value drivers, and finishes with a resounding bang.

Albert Einstein once said, “If you cannot explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” But the challenge is to manage complexity and to synthesize everything into a simple value communication strategy in an age where buyers and customers are overloaded with information.

The key is to make your customers remember the first and last things you tell them, which, in theory, opens with strong and compelling value drivers, and finishes with a resounding bang.

So, why is it so hard?

“These three tools support a pricing strategy and allow the commercial force to defend the value of the brand and not give away pricing right off the bat,” Liozu says. “First you sell value, and then you negotiate price.”

Kanika Tolver, a certified ScrumMaster with Sevatec Inc., says one of the main reasons is that creating and maintaining your value proposition requires continual market research, experiential marketing and creating a great customer experience.

Liozu says the emergence of technology has made the business world more accessible and transparent. The key is to make your brand stay on top of your customers’ minds in the vastly growing marketing jungle.

“Once you identify a brand story that connects with your consumers, communicating the brand values will never end, but your brand story will remain consistent,” Tolver says.

“Creating new ways to communicate the brand values online and offline will continue to evolve throughout the life of the brand.”

“This is why brands have focused, crisp and compelling value propositions that resonate with the right customer segment,” Liozu says. “Both B2B and B2C brand managers have to pay close attention to the current marketing noise and must adopt very progressive segmentation approaches combined with value and pricing management science.”

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There has never been a better time to get started with customer value management programs, which include value creation, value quantification and value capture. Liozu says these three dimensions of value management then have to be combined with innovation, marketing, pricing and selling strategies.

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Tolver says the digital marketing age is more complex than traditional marketing, because online brand marketers must develop creative and innovative ways to convey the brand values through Search Engine Optimization (SEO), social media and online advertising.

“The art of creating a compelling story through online engagement can be difficult when you are trying to create an impactful, emotional connection with consumers,” Tolver says. “When creating a good customer experience, companies need to create customer personas and pay attention to online analytics (email subscriptions, website traffic, social media metrics, etc.). The question is where are my consumers at online?”

WAYS TO BUILD YOUR VALUE PROPOSITION

Both B2B and B2C brand managers have to pay close attention to the current marketing noise and must adopt very progressive segmentation approaches combined with value and pricing management science.

To get a full picture of your value proposition, co-authors Mike Schultz and John Doerr write in their book, “Rainmaking Conversations: Influence, Persuade, and Sell in Any Situation,” say that you must be able to cover these six areas:

– Stephan Liozu, Founder, Value Innoruption Advisors In the end, it all comes down to having the right leadership – something Liozu says is imperative in every situation. “People in organizations listen to two voices: the CEO and their direct supervisors. The CEO and the C-suite set the tone of what is important for the business. If value management and pricing excellence are to be a strategic priority, they have to become the ‘Energizer bunnies’ and beat the drum across the organization.”

Liozu says that executive champions drive the confidence of the organization, remove bottlenecks, provide resources, invest in sweat equity, and drive the process with conviction. “So, it is a cultural transformation to position customer value as a strong corporate initiative with a focus on the three steps: creation, quantification and capture.”

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Target customers – Whom do you serve? What makes for an ideal customer regarding industry, location, size, type and so on? Know your target customer so you can craft messages that will resonate with them. The more you can position specialization for a particular buyer set, the more you typically resonate and differentiate.

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Need/business problem – What types of needs and business problems do you address? How do you help? This helps prospects understand how and when they should use you.

Impact of solving need – What are the rational and emotional benefits of solving the need? Getting this right is a major factor in whether or not you resonate.

Your offerings – What’s your product and service approach? How do you run your company, solve problems and work with customers? Notice what’s fourth? Think buying first and selling second, and frame your offerings within the context of the needs you can help solve.

Proof of concept – How can you demonstrate that your approach has worked to solve similar problems for others? How do you substantiate your claims? How do they know that what you say will happen, actually will happen?

Distinction – Why is your offering preferable to other options for solving the need?

Do you have something special about you that’s worthwhile to share? Is there some way to highlight how you’re distinct from others?

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Operation Change Graphium looks to redefine specialty print market The mission is clear: Innovate and transform Those are the defining yardsticks for Graphium – the high-speed UV inkjet press with a 16-inch print width that targets converters and printers of labels, packaging and specialty print applications.

Graphium, delivered by Fujifilm North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division, and United Kingdom-based FFEI Ltd., is a modular UV inkjet press that provides the flexibility and productivity to print any number of complex projects requiring a wide gamut of colors on virtually any substrate.

As an exciting addition to Fujifilm’s inkjet portfolio, Graphium combines a range of leading technologies, including Fujifilm’s innovative XMF Workflow, a prepress and color management software, as well as inkjet head calibration technology to ensure consistent quality and repeatable production. That translates into consistent proof-to-press match and alignment to color standards – yielding high-quality, vibrant printing.

Graphium also makes converting short to medium print jobs profitable, as the press streamlines workflow, requires less setup material, less ink/varnish/laminate, provides lower running waste and eliminates overruns. Furthermore, it is one of the only modular digital inkjet presses that presents the option to integrate flexo and finishing stations for hybrid production and conversion in a single pass – greatly expanding the opportunities that can be converted.

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The more adaptable the printer, the more opportunities they will have to expand their offerings and enhance their business.

Graphium will change how printers operate.

– Terry Mitchell, VP of Marketing, FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division

Graphium is a modular digital inkjet press that presents the option to integrate flexo and finishing stations for hybrid production and conversion in a single pass.

“In today’s competitive landscape, being able to proactively respond to dynamic product and industry changes is a necessity to remain competitive, especially in the labels and packaging market,” says Terry Mitchell, VP of Marketing, FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division. “The more adaptable the printer, the more opportunities they will have to expand their offerings and enhance their business. Graphium will change how printers operate.”

Utilizing greyscale print heads that produce a range of drop sizes from six to 42 picoliters, Graphium prints fine details, smooth tones and small font text resulting in unrivalled print quality at class leading, single-pass print speeds up to 164 ft./ minute. It also utilizes Fujifilm’s Uvijet inks in a color set, including cyan, magenta, yellow and black, together with a high opacity white. Uvijet inks provide a wide color gamut, excellent adhesion and durability on a wide range of substrates including most grades of top-coated PE, top-coated PP, PVC and paper.

Supporting up to six digital channels, and virtually any number of flexo stations, Graphium offers the unique capability of being able to integrate optional flexo and finishing stations in-line for conversion in a single pass. This capability significantly reduces production time and cost in comparison to traditional offline finishing.

“The direction that packaging is taking in terms of customization and shorter runs requires a solution that incorporates printing and finishing in-line,” says Michael Barry, product marketing manager, FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division. “Graphium addresses this need and will enable Fujifilm to transform how the printing for packaging and labels is done. Graphium is truly a game-changer.”

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Survey examines state of graphics & sign market

It seems like everybody is keeping a close eye on the graphic and sign market. Today, the median average of today’s graphic and sign company is around $1.2 million annually – and growing, according to the “2015 SGIA Specialty Imaging Industry Survey.”

The survey, culled from insights from 193 U.S. sign and graphic producers, takes an inside look at the technologies, equipment and markets being served today. Here’s a look at the top five graphic & sign applications:

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Harvest More with Hybrid Printing When we asked narrow web flexo printers to describe the perfect short run digital label press solution, they didn’t mince words. Don’t change the way we print and convert labels, they said. The design needs to be inline and modular; seamlessly connect with flexo and finishing stations; all without any compromise in productivity or image quality.

Graphium UV Digital Hybrid Inkjet press from FFEI and Fujifilm enables you to profitably dominate the growing demand for short and medium label runs by incorporating flexo and digital print processes in line with specific finishing options like cutting, sheeting, varnishing, lamination, foiling and embossing. Graphium is fully variable data compatible and also has printing support for coated and uncoated substrates, allowing you to print on the substrates you’re using today.

To order a print sample or see how hybrid printing can impact your business, visit fujifilminkjet.com today.

The Graphium UV Digital Hybrid Inkjet Press increases your label printing versatility by delivering up to any number of pre or post flexo colors. Graphium boasts a visual image quality of over 1080dpi at speeds up to 160 feet per minute. Available in 13” and 16” width versions, Graphium is designed to print on most common label stock including coated, uncoated, high-gloss, cast-coated, PVC, PE, PET, PP, BOPP and metalized material.

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