EFI begins year of wide-format releases with H700 launch

EFI will expand its Rastek range of entry-level wide-format UV-cured printers during 2009.

It has just launched the H700 hybrid (roll-to-roll and flatbed) machine, a 1,200dpi, 1.8m wide machine capable of producing up to 30m2 per hour at up to 1,200dpi.

The H700 is made by Chinese firm Flora, but according to EFI president Fred Rosenzweig, it has been extensively re-engineered by EFI to meet the firm’s quality and reliability requirements. He added that the CMYK plus white machine would be aggressively priced at sub $100,000 (£73,000).

Later this year, the H700 and the T660 flatbed, which Rosenzweig said had proved popular in the UK for signage and component printing, would be joined by a larger flatbed, the T1000 for sign and graphic applications.

The T1000 is a larger 1,219x2,032mm 4inx8in version of the 1,219x1,524mm T660.

The Rastek division was formed last October when the firm acquired Raster Printers outright.


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