HuigHaverlag Printing has become the first printer in the Netherlands to buy one of the B2 sheetfed inkjet presses.
Director Chris Knip visited Ipex on the first day of the show to seal the deal and met Fujifilm head of digital press solutions, EMEA, Taro Aoki, and sales and marketing manager, digital press solutions, EMEA, Chris van Bosch.
HuigHaverlag already runs a mixture of offset and digital kit, and the firm said it had been searching for a digital press that could match or exceed offset quality.
Its services to retail clients include short-run, high-quality point-of-sale materials that are versioned to specific store requirements.
Knip said the Jet Press represented “the next step” in terms of improving the speed, quality and flexibility of this service.
“When we saw what the Jet Press 720 could achieve, we realised this could take our production to the next level,” he said, and described the print quality as “truly exceptional”.
Fujifilm Europe senior vice-president Yasufumi Morimoto said: “We are confident it will help them improve the service to their customers and ultimate improve profitability. We look forward to a long and fruitful partnership.”
The 100-employee firm is based in Wormerveer, north of Amsterdam. It has also invested in Fujifilm’s XMF workflow and XMF ColorPath colour management system. It said a critical factor was the ability to colour match output over time, and to match the 720’s output to its ISO 12647-2 certified offset printing.
At Ipex, Fujifilm (S4-E330) is demonstrating the capabilities of the press by scheduling 27 separate jobs on it, on four different stocks. The press prints at 2,700sph at 1,200dpi.
