The world's fastest digital textile printer, EFI Reggiani BOLT, provides higher image quality
The world's fastest digital textile printer, EFI Reggiani BOLT, provides higher image quality
By Inkjet Insight/Released: June 25, 2021
Release date: Friday, June 25, 2021
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The hardware and software enhancements of ultra-high-speed inkjet printers eliminate the challenges of single-channel imaging, smoother solids, and improve print uniformity, etc.
Fremont, California-Electronic Imaging has enhanced the world's fastest digital textile printer, EFI™ Reggiani BOLT. This upgrade combines hardware and software enhancements to minimize artifacts, compensate for missing nozzles that may occur over time, and enhance uniformity to provide smoother solid colors. The upgrade also provides better quality and smoother gradients, plus it allows faster print head replacement and greatly increases the file processing speed of large and complex files up to 200%.
In the latest version of EFI Fiery®BT-1000 digital front-end driver printers provide better and more intense tones and improve the ability to match existing color profiles, which are usually used for digital textile printing.
These improvements are an important step to further improve the position of digital printing in the industry, bringing more environmentally friendly and sustainable inkjet technology to the forefront, replacing the analog dyeing process, which makes the textile manufacturing industry the second most polluting industry in the world.
"With the industry's highest speed and higher printing quality, EFI Reggiani BOLT can help promote the revolution in textile printing, shift more production to digital technology, and ensure that with excellent throughput, unparalleled reliability and uptime, The investment in a large amount of work gets the fastest return." said Adele Genoni, senior vice president and general manager of EFI.
"With the new improvements of BOLT, and its ability to print ultra-high quality at a record speed of 90 m/min on a variety of designs and fabric types, the economic intersection between fabric analog and digital printing is more than ever Both are low. The era of single-channel technology has arrived, which is a first-class, sustainable, high-quality, high-throughput digital textile printing solution."
This 1.8-meter-wide single-channel printer-the first digital textile printer to receive the InterTech™ Advanced Printing Technology Innovation Award from the Printing Alliance-is in a favorable position and will have a major impact on the industry. With its current installation base, EFI Reggiani BOLT has been responsible for printing more than 50 million line meters of fabric worldwide.
Faster processing and higher quality printing
Currently, the EFI Reggiani BOLT upgrade is available worldwide, and its hardware and software enhancements can improve overall performance, printing quality, consistency and user-friendliness, including:
Nozzle output and uniform compensation function improve the appearance of pure colors and improve the overall printing quality
For large and complex files, improved performance and processing speed;
A new digital camera is integrated, which not only provides accurate and consistent printing results, but also shortens the time for print head replacement and calibration;
An enhanced user interface-based on EFI Fiery Command Workstation 6.0-it is easier to use;
Fiery Smart Ink Estimator is a key tool that can help determine job profitability, based on the accurate calculation of ink costs before printing.
To learn more about EFI Reggiani's leading digital textile printing solutions, please visit www.efi.com/reggiani.
