Fujifilm announces its participation at Hunkeler Innovation Days, taking place from 24th-27th February 2025, in Lucerne, Switzerland. In line with the Hunkeler Innovation Days 2025 theme, ‘Connect’, Fujifilm will partner with several market-leading vendors to demonstrate the full capabilities of its inkjet solutions.
The Jet Press 1160CFG will take centre stage on the stand. Launched at drupa 2024, the Jet Press 1160CFG is a high-speed full-colour continuous feed inkjet printer. The printer is equipped with a unique and newly developed ‘Paper Stabiliser’, designed following vigorous R&D and analysis of paper characteristics during high-speed continuous feed printing, in addition to Fujifilm’s long-standing heritage within inkjet printing. The conditioning unit enhances productivity, production efficiency, and print and finishing quality by regulating the amount of moisture in the paper before printing. With the enhanced drying technology, the press delivers high-speed printing of 80 metres per minute – even on thick and thin coated paper.
Fujifilm will showcase the press in collaboration with Hunkeler’s finishing equipment to produce high quality promotional postcards live at the show. Additionally, a joint demonstration with Meccano Tecnica, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of bookbinding equipment, will highlight the possibilities of Fujifilm’s inkjet technology for high quality, flexible, short-run book production. Finally, Fujifilm will highlight instant switching capabilities between books of varying sizes and pagination, in collaboration with Horizon and their StitchLiner technology.
In addition, Fujifilm will showcase its integrated inkjet solutions. Integrated inkjet is an approach that custom-integrates an inkjet print engine into an existing press or other print equipment. This greatly expands inkjet flexibility thereby opening new workflow options and more production synergies between inkjet and the wide range of finishing technologies for even more innovative and novel print production strategies.
Fujifilm’s inkjet integration experts will be in attendance to demonstrate the many ways this can be done. For example, inkjet can be integrated in place of existing analogue print engines or in addition to analogue print engines. Fujifilm’s inkjet print engines on display at Hunkeler Innovation Days include the 42K Printbar System and the Mini 4300 Printbar System, which can be placed in various locations of the process including in places where finishing alone typically resides. Fujifilm has integration products for a wide range of printing including monochrome, four colour, extended gamut, jettable functional fluids, and spot varnish embellishment.
“It’s a pleasure to be exhibiting at Hunkeler Innovation Days,” comments Taro Aoki, Head of Digital Press Solutions, Fujifilm EMEA. “Our participation underscores Fujifilm’s commitment to innovation and collaboration, in keeping with the ‘Connect’ theme of this year’s show. The Jet Press 1160CFG is a milestone product for Fujifilm. There is nothing else like it on the market, particularly with its advanced paper stabiliser. We have been market leaders for continuous feed inkjet in the Asia-Pacific region for some time and we’re now delighted to be bringing this technology to the European market.”
