On the first morning of Viscom Germany, there's been considerable interest in Fujifilm’s new Acuity LED 1600 UV printer. This is the first European showing of the machine and according to Gary Barnes, Fujifilm’s European Product Manager for the Acuity family of printers, there’s been a constant stream of visitors to the stand (H61 in Hall 8a) seeking more information on the new printer.
The Acuity LED 1600 supports UV-curable inks and features a long-life and low-power-consumption LED light source. This high-performance wide format inkjet printer features a proprietary-design LED light source, high precision and high speed printhead and fast curing UV-LED ink. Gary Barnes comments, “All the key components used to create the Acuity LED 1600 have been manufactured by Fujifilm. This is the crucial factor in ensuring that the new machine prints faster and generates more energy saving costs. By developing everything in-house, we’ve managed to garner higher productivity from LED technology.”
The latest addition to Fujifilm’s range of digital printers will be commercially available later this year. Gary Barnes comments, “The Acuity LED 1600 will make a very good addition to any sign shop’s digital printer line-up. In recent years, large posters, in-store POP and window displays are produced in increasingly smaller print runs, with short delivery time and with increased graphical designs. With its high quality design and build and best-in-class productivity of 20 square metres per hour, the Acuity LED 1600 addresses these needs.”
The printer comes standard with eight colour inks: cyan, magenta, yellow, black, light cyan, light magenta, white and clear. The combined use of colour ink and clear ink can produce high-gloss output for premium finish. The ability to apply colour and clear inks in a single pass, which is difficult in conventional printers, can dramatically improve output efficiency.
The printer also comes with Spot Color Matching software, which can automatically generate a colour comparison chart against the desired output colour. This simplifies the process of matching spot colours, e.g. those used in a logo, to reduce the workload of print producers.
