Packaging
EFI™ Nozomi single-pass inkjet printing technology is the most efficient way to manufacture high-graphic packaging and the most effective way to create highly profitable business opportunities. EFI Nozomi printers produce image quality that competes with high-quality flexography and offset printing while providing a streamlined process. High value-added services, such as small or medium runs and variable data printing, can generate new sources of revenue and market opportunities, such as eCommerce and displays.

Don’t overlook an opportunity to leverage your eCommerce packaging as a key marketing channel. Learn how you can enhance your brand, elevate your customer experience, and stay top of mind with the power of digital printing for corrugated eCommerce packaging.

EFI™ Nozomi single-pass digital inkjet printing technology for corrugated packaging and displays is a transformative technology for increasing printing capabilities and crafting new business models.

The metal packaging industry can now benefit from highly flexible, industrial digital inkjet printing with the advanced capabilities, efficiencies, and sustainable printing of the EFI™ Nozomi 12000 MP single-pass printer.
Textile
With over 75 years of innovation, research, and technological excellence, EFI™ Reggiani has become the trusted brand for integrated, scalable solutions for the entire textile process – from yarn treatment to fabric printing and finishing.

EFI™ Reggiani digital printers deliver high-performance solutions that keep textiles and profits flowing, whether you’re operating a small manufacturing site or a large industrial plant. Our industry-leading scan and single-pass printers offer cutting-edge technology for a wide range of fabric and paper printing applications. With exceptional productivity, precise printing accuracy, superior quality, and efficient ink usage, EFI Reggiani printers provide the most competitive cost per foot available on the market.

With an installed base surpassing 3,000 units, EFI™ Reggiani analog printers represent premium quality and reliability. With extended uptime, fast setup, and reduced water consumption, EFI Reggiani analog printers are top-performing machines delivering high efficiency and profitability.

EFI™ Mezzera high-efficiency, textile treatment machines for preparation, washing, and dyeing lines improve the characteristics of finished garments.

The EFI™ Jaeggli Extensa hank mercerizing machine for yarn treatment offers high operational flexibility, easy repetitiveness, and absolute evenness. Get consistent top results in the yarn’s final quality in terms of vibrancy, strength, dimensional stability, and dyeing affinity.

Deliver the most brilliant shades on any textile application with a full range of certified, environmentally friendly, water-based inks.
Sign & Display
EFI™ digital inkjet printers for the sign and display market have played an instrumental role in leading the analog-to-digital revolution. From the introduction of the first VUTEk® wide-format airbrush printer to the latest developments in LED curing technology, EFI wide- and superwide-format flatbed, hybrid, roll-to-roll, soft signage, and specialty printers continue to expand the possibilities of digital print.

EFI™ superwide roll-to-roll LED printers offer the best in terms of performance, versatility, cost of ownership, usability, and environmental friendliness.

EFI™ production-level, wide-format LED flatbed printers are ideal for printing on sheets of flexible or rigid materials, irregularly shaped or heavy objects, or materials with uneven surfaces, which are held securely to the table with a vacuum system throughout the printing process.

EFI™ production-level, digital inkjet hybrid flatbed/roll-fed LED printers offer the ultimate flexibility with the ability to print roll-to-roll, flexible sheets, and rigid substrates in a single footprint. With a fast changeover from flexible to rigid materials, EFI hybrid LED printers offer cost-effective production and are perfect if you want to offer a wide variety of sign and display graphics applications.

Shift your capabilities, productivity, and profit margins into overdrive with EFI™ super-high-speed printers for ultra-high volume producers of sign and display graphics.

EFI™ production-level dye-sublimation printers produce beautiful, digitally printed fabrics, soft signage, banners, flags, and other custom applications faster and more efficiently with inline fixation or a one-step transfer process.

Genuine EFI™ Inks and Coatings are custom-formulated for every EFI sign and display inkjet printing system. It’s how we ensure you get the highest color quality, durability, performance, reliability, consistency, and predictable running costs.
Industrial Printing
EFI™ Cretaprint® digital inkjet printers are robust, industrial printing systems for the decoration of ceramics.

EFI™ Cretaprint® inkjet printers are the most advanced digital ceramic decorating systems. With the printer, Genuine EFI Cretacolor Inks, and Fiery® color management system working as one, EFI is the only company in the industry that supplies a total solution to help your business maximize your digital printing success.

EFI™ Rialco industrial ink products include formulated color systems for the timber preservation sector, and dye powders and other components for the ink sector.
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EFI™ superwide- and wide-format roll-to-roll LED printers feature a rich collection of value-added options and software that transform them into all-in-one, multi-purpose platforms – expanding your capabilities, application offerings, and profit opportunities.

Option Availability by Printer Model

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Inline Finishing Workflow

EFI’s unique inline finishing workflow automates the complete printing and finishing process on the fly and in a single system. The system can include all or any combination of the following components: printing, automatic inspection of printed output, printing customer information on the back of the media, vertical slitting and trimming, horizontal cutting, and rolling of the final graphics into scrolls and taping the edges with labels with printed job information.

Inline finishing workflow benefits

Print

Inspect

Label

Y-slit and X-cut

Roll & Tape

Saves valuable time and eliminates bottlenecks at finishing stations
Replaces additional expensive finishing equipment and saves valuable floor space
Ensures perfect print quality with minimal operator intervention
Prevents finishing, shipping, and installation errors
Increases yield

Inline Finishing Options

Y-slitter – for the vertical trimming of margins or slitting media into multiple jobs, minimizing media waste, and increasing the printing area.

R2R Y-slitter

Simultaneous printing and media cutting on the Y-axis
Modifiable configurations include:
- Single-bladed for trimming margins
- Double-bladed for slitting of single media into two jobs (blades are fixed 8 mm apart)
Simple and easy installation with no tools required
Easy manual adjustment of the slitter position along the printer table
Retractable blades for maximum safety
And waste collectors to roll up trimmed remnants, increasing overall productivity and eliminating the mess

ID backprint – a device that prints file information on the back of the media, facilitating the identification of finished jobs for packing, shipping, and installation.

Printed data includes:
- File ID
- Printing date and time
- Print mode
- Copy number and more
Eliminates the need for manual labeling
Helps prevent shipping errors
Saves time during installation of the printed job

Roll & Tape – an automated device that takes printed cut sheets directly from the printer, rolls them into scrolls, and tapes the edge with labels that have job information printed on them.

Synchronized with the inline finishing workflow
Delivers labeled rolls immediately following printing
Includes a removable container that collects multiple rolled and marked jobs ready for delivery to the customer

Double-side Printing Options

Automatic blockout printing – an automatic system that enables printing on both sides of opaque blockout media, resulting in excellent registration between sides.

Accuracy of ≤ 5 mm over 32 linear feet
Includes an optical sensor system, dedicated electronics, and software
Simple, easy, and fully automatic system
Eliminates the need for guesswork and manual manipulation
Reduces required operator skill level
Two available workflows to be defined before printing:
- Head-to-head printing for short jobs where media is rolled back, flipped over, and reinstalled with side B up
- Head-to-tail printing for longer jobs where printed media is collected on a front core, flipped over, and reinstalled with side B up

Notes

Single-roll printing for side B
Use of X-cutter and Y-slitters with automatic blockout is limited:
- Slitters – possible according to built-in instructions
- Cutter – can be used for side B

Automatic backlit printing – Automatic, patented system for perfectly aligned double-sided backlit printing on backlit media.

Accuracy of ≤ 2 mm over 32 linear feet
Camera-guided software automatically corrects registration on the x, y, and tilt axes
Includes two cameras, LED strip along the printing table, and dedicated software
Simple, easy, and fully automatic system
Eliminates the need for guesswork and manual manipulation
Reduces required operator skill level

Colour Options

White printing

colorful conference window graphics

Enables printing on colored and transparent media
Opens up a myriad of creative possibilities
Instant uptime of white printheads, thanks to the advanced circulation system in the ink tanks and along the entire ink system
Multiple white print modes for various challenging applications:
- White only
- White as background
- White on top of color
- White for backlit applications (C-W-C)
- Five-layer printing (C-W-B-W-C) for blockout printing on clear
Various additional multi-layer print modes

UltraClear Coat

Gray couch in front of a gray textured wallpaper with selective clear applied as a special effect.

Printed inline, simultaneously with the image
Printed on top of the color layer
Enhances the output, adding extra pop to the colors and offering beautiful creative possibilities
Full flood or selective
Glossy or matte finish with the same ink
Provides three years of outdoor protection against:
- Abrasion and scratching
- Chemicals such as detergents, gasoline, and IPA
- Weather damage
- Air pollution
- UV fading/yellowing
Saves time versus separate offline coating systems

Download Clear Ink Matrix [PDF, 2.20 MB]

Media Handling Accessories

Motorized winder – integrated winder and unwinder solution with motorized pneumatic inflatable core shafts for precise and excellent media collection.

Improves media advancement and print quality
Allows using larger and heavier rolls
Supports full printer-width media as well as multi-roll printing:
- 6 ft x 5 ft (2m x 1.6 m) units for 3 m printer models, front/back
- 10 ft x 5 ft (3m x 1.6 m) units for 5 m printer models, front/back

Media collection kit – a set of accessories that facilitate neat media feeding/collecting, holding in place media rolls positioned directly on the rear or front of the printer to prevent them from shifting sideways.

Delivered with EFI VUTEk roll-to-roll printers (excluding the EFI Pro 32r+), the standard kit for single-roll media collecting includes:
- One pair of back media limiters
- One pair of front media limiters
- One pair of media disks for attaching to both ends of
- 3 in. core (can be used for both front and back)
Additional multi-roll media collection kits (front) can be ordered separately (one for 3 m, two for 5 m)

Media edge guard (MEG) – used for media types with uneven or wavy edges that tend to curl or unravel, such as textiles and wallpaper.

Designed to protect the print carriage and printheads from crashing into uneven media edges
Eliminates ruined jobs and prevents media waste
Can be attached quickly and easily with magnets anywhere along the printing table
Use as many units as needed and multiple units for multi-roll printing

Media spreaders – a pair of clamp-like devices that stretch the media sideways to enable neat media inlet to the printer.

Helps prevent potential media wrinkles
Improves media advance
Facilitates printing on various types of challenging media
Easy to install at both ends of the press beam on the rear of the printer
Position and tilt angle are adaptable to the media type and width
Two units are included as standard with VUTEk 5r+ and VUTEk Q5r printers

Three-meter super duty unwinder – fully integrated unwinder or rewinder option for EFI VUTEk roll-to-roll 3-meter and 5-meter printers.

Enables working with heavy 3 m media rolls up to 1,748 lb (793 kg)
Enables continuous, uninterrupted work without stopping to change rolls
Increases productivity in high volume runs due to less make-ready
Equipped with dancer and external motor
Material width: 126 in (320 cm)
Maximum media diameter: 28 in (70 cm)
Standard 3 in core; optional 6 in core

Dual roll split shaft for the EFI Pro 32r+ – consists of two individual motorized airshafts. Ensure precise and accurate media collection and improved media advance, resulting in excellent print quality.

Enables printing simultaneously on two media rolls with different diameters
Tension between the rolls is automatically adjusted according to the media diameter
Media loading and unloading is flexible, simple, and quick
Shafts can be inflated to fixate the media and avoid shifting side to side
Supports media rolls up to 441 lb (200 kg) per shaft

Auto mesh system – Printing on mesh and other porous substrates becomes faster, easier, and cleaner than ever before.

Auto mesh Power Tool for EFI roll-to-roll printers.

Full shift non-stop continuous mesh printing
Reduced mist and overspray
Decreased operator labor
4 user-defined blotter speed levels

Notes:

Consumable blotter paper supplied by EFI
Supported on VUTEk Qr and Xr series and EFI Pro 33r printers only

General Options

Wrinkle analyzer – helps avoid printhead strikes caused by media wrinkles, saving time and money by preventing ruined jobs and enabling the use of lower-cost media.

Media height detector identifies a media wrinkle before it reaches the printhead
The front-end software prompts the user to raise the carriage just enough to avoid a head strike that may ruin the job and, then, to resume printing

Software Options

Quality maintenance kit – enables printer operators to self-diagnose and fix print quality issues, including:

Uncalibrated printer
Missing or deficient nozzles

Self-ownership and fast onsite reaction
Minimizes service visits and increases uptime
Extends printhead lifespan up to 30% on average
The optional system includes software and a dedicated scanner

Media saving wizard

Designed to improve media stock management
The user enters the length of the media each time a new or partially used roll is loaded into the software
Before the media is removed from the printer, a label with the remaining media length is printed on the rim of the roll
The software will alert the user before starting a job if the remaining media on the roll is insufficient for the job

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