Wide-format Digital Printing: Wide Open to the Opportunities

Multiple vendors at the show noted that there is growing interest in color matching wide-format ink-jet printing to offset, particularly through the use of the G7 process.

Sheetfed and web offset printer HGI Co. made a splash at last year's Graph Expo by ordering an Inca Onset digital UV press from Fujifilm, and subsequently set up its Tempt in-store production division. A scaled down version (in terms of price and speed) of the same technology—the new Inca Onset S20—was shown publicly for the first time this year. It outputs 50 full bed (63x123.6˝) sph on substrates up to 2˝ thick.