United States (English)
320 cm
Print width
393 m² (109 boards)/hr
Max. productivity
1200 dpi
Resolution
CMYKcmyk + 2 white
Colours
CMYKcmyk + W + Clear, CMYK x 2 + 2W, CMYK x 2 + Clear
Optional configurations
Future-proof your business with a powerful competitive edge
The EFI™ VUTEk® h5+ hybrid flatbed/roll-fed LED printer is the way to future-proof your business right now. Move business forward with higher productivity, print quality, reliability, capability, and profits. All with the ease of use and LED environmentally friendly benefits you expect from an industrial-built VUTEk hybrid printer from EFI.
Offer customers more high-value applications
Day/Night backlit graphics
Print high-quality backlit graphics onto a wide range of backlit media to create displays that will set you apart from your competitors.
Indoor signage
Produce indoor signage for retail stores and restaurants by printing directly to foam board, aluminium, acrylic, styrene, and other rigid substrates.
Window, wall, and floor graphics
Use films with an adhesive backing to create full-colour graphics applied to the inside or outside of windows, and vinyl graphics on walls and walkways.
Retail graphics
Print on a wide range of rigid and flexible materials to create retail signs, POP displays, and more.
Posters
A high-value application with a low production cost, posters can be printed on inexpensive media or more durable media depending on the duration and location of the installation.
Bus shelters
Print eight-colour graphics with the use of white ink directly to acrylic panels for installation at bus and other transit shelters.
3D signage/thermoforming
Graphics printed with EFI Transform-TF Inks are ideal for high-elongation thermoforming applications, such as outdoor signage, POP signs and displays, day/night backlit signs, promotional products, beverage lights and signs, vending and gaming panels, and much more.
Highlights
Versatile hybrid platform
Board, sheet, or roll-to-roll printing on media up to 5.08 cm thick in one innovative footprint. Includes media hold-down rollers for uneven or curled media.
Production-level printing
Five rows of printheads for eight-colour production up to 139 m² (40 boards) per hour. Switch to fast-four-colour printing (optional) quickly and easily in the operator software to accommodate burst capacity. Includes skip white functionality in x and y directions.
Brilliant imaging
Four (optional) or eight colours plus white, optional clear ink, and UltraDrop™ Technology 7pL greyscale printheads for up to 1200 dpi resolution.
White ink and multilayer printing
High-resolution EFI white ink leads the industry in brightness and opacity due to variable drop printing capability and can be imaged like any colour or using multilayer printing with up to nine layers in a single pass.
Precision printing
Automated table and carriage alignment, magnetic linear drive control and step mechanics and electronics, and a camera-based vision system for subpixel alignment, printhead density balance, and step and bi-directional setup.
Efficient production
Mechanical crash detection stops and media height measurement help prevent job stoppages and wasted ink and media.
Innovative ink delivery
Ink loading with a drop-in design eliminates wasted ink and the need to manage leftover ink. The system features fill-while-printing functionality and an ink security system with low ink, colour, and location indicators.
Industry-leading LED technology
Extend your range of supported substrates, increase uptime, reduce operating costs, and move towards more sustainable production with low VOCs, lower energy consumption, and less waste and consumables.
Genuine EFI Inks
Expanded gamut CMYK pigments for world-class Pantone® matching. EFI pigment dispersions ensure optimised size and concentration for best-in-class ink stability.
Fiery Driven
Fiery® proServer Premium digital front end with colour management workflow and RIP optimised for EFI VUTEk printers.
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Fiery IQ
Use the Fiery IQ™ suite of cloud applications to connect your people, processes, and print devices to make better data-driven decisions that improve your ROI, minimise cost, maximise profit, and boost your revenue.
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Leading print providers choose EFI
Print and media handling options
EFI UltraClear Coat provides a more flexible cure and can be used for decorative applications as well as for a final protective coating. It prints inline, simultaneously with the image, saving time versus using a separate offline coating system, and in gloss* or matte finishes.
* Use Gloss print mode for full protection
EFI VUTEk Endura Clear Ink – Enhance an entire image (full flood) or selected areas (spot) to add extra pop to colours or special effects to graphics. Endura clear ink is printed in line with the other colours and provides a hard surface cure with a gloss finish.
EFI Transform-TF Inks – next-generation, LED-curable digital inks formulated for first- and second-surface interior and exterior and non-backlit and backlit applications where common thermoforming is specified. Transform-TF inks exhibit outstanding elongation characteristics while maintaining excellent adhesion and opacity and provide ideal characteristics for heat bending and routing of acrylic sheets with no chipping or loss of adhesion. And since Transform-TF inks adhere to a broad range of materials, applications go well beyond thermoforming.
Gloss+ print mode – use this innovative print mode to add a flood or selective gloss effect to graphic prints without the use of clear ink. It’s the perfect way to add value to short-run, speciality jobs.
Double vacuum kit – get better control of thicker media and thin, light-edged materials by doubling the vacuum strength on the print table.
Media handling accessories
All new media hold-down rollers mount to existing MEG rails and the spring rollers force media into the vacuum, often eliminating the need for MEG skis.
Media Edge Guide (MEG) skis are available in 1.6 mm, 2.4 mm, and 0.30 mm thicknesses.
Tables
- Standard flat table: 3.2 m x 1.5 m
- Narrow depth flat table: 3.2 m x 0.5 m
- Table with rollers for heavy substrates: 3.2 x 1.5 m
- U-shaped walk-in table designed for small rigid media: 3.2 x 1.5 m
- U-shaped walk-in table with rollers designed for small, heavier rigid media: 3.2 x 1.5 m
Automation options
- 3/4 automated media loading
- 3.4 transition table
- 3/4 automated stacking
Roll-to-roll Media Handling Options
- Standard unwinders/rewinders
- Max. roll weight 320 cm air core: 181.4 kg
- Max. roll weight 137 cm air core: 77.1 kg
- Max. roll diameter: 304.8 mm
- Elevated dual-drive unwinders/rewinders
- Max. roll weight 320 cm air core: 181.4 kg
- Max. roll weight 137 cm air core: 77.1 kg
- Max. roll diameter: 304.8 mm
- Super-duty unwinders/rewinders
- Max. roll weight 3 in air core: 320 kg
- Max. roll weight 6 in air core: 800 kg
- Max. roll diameter: 700 mm
- Super-duty dual-drive unwinders/rewinders
- 320 cm-wide max. roll weight 3-inch full-width air core: 320 kg
- 152.4 cm-wide max. roll weight 3-inch full-width air core: 272 kg
- 320 cm-wide max. roll weight 6-inch full-width air core: 1000 kg
- 152.4 cm-wide max. roll weight 6-inch full-width air core: 500 kg
- 152.4 cm-wide max. roll weight per side 3-inch dual drive air core: 400 kg
- 152.4 cm-wide max. roll weight per side 6-inch dual drive air core: 500 kg
- Max. roll diameter: 500 mm
- Min. roll width: 610 mm
- Max. roll width on full-width air core: 3200 mm
Resources
EFI VUTEk h5 Mapubli Case Study
Mapubli increases production capacity with new EFI VUTEk h5 hybrid flatbed/roll-to-roll printer.
The EFI VUTEk h5 provides Mapubli with unlimited possibilities, and much more!
Since Mapubli acquired the VUTEk h5 from EFI, the company benefits from a wider material range, more applications, shorter turnaround times and increased productivity. But that's not all! Watch the video to see what else Mapubli's Managing director Jose Miguel Monteagudo has to say about his sixth VUTEk printer and EFI as a partner.
Schmitz invests in an EFI VUTEk h5 to further future-proof its business
Bruno Schmitz, CEO of Schmitz Digital Printing, tells us how his VUTEk h5 printer has helped the company to improve print quality, speed, reduce the ink layers, and ensure their operations remain environmentally friendly.
Genuine EFI Inks
