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products, people and news summer 2006
he platesetter plays a central role
in prepress quality and productivity,
whatever your production requirements.
To keep ahead of the competition, you
need to ensure that you choose the right one.
Fuji has a choice of violet and thermal machines
to suit everyone. When quality is paramount, the
new Luxel V-8 HD delivers new standards in both FM
and conventionally-screened work. If productivity is
top priority, the Luxel V-8 HS is just the ticket –
producing 50 B1 plates an hour at 2400dpi, it’s the
fastest commercial violet platesetter in the world.
For busy B2 users, we’ve launched a multi-cassette
fully-auto version of the successful Luxel V-6. Both
the new V-8 models and the extended V-6 range
combine Fuji design and engineering quality and
environmental benefits with the proven cost-of-
ownership advantage of violet imaging.
If you prefer thermal CTP and fancy going
processless with the new Brillia HD PRO-T plate
we’ve got a new range of productive high-quality
platesetters to support it; you can read about the
first PRO-T users’ experiences on page 7.
Whatever you print and whoever you print it for,
we’ve got a better platesetter for you. For more
information, drop us a line – see page 8 for details.
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Ultimate CTPFuji unveils complete new rangeof thermal and violet platesetters
2. V-8 violet power; Ipex report
3. New B1 and B2 thermal engines
4. Building better platesetters
5. Luxel News improves bottlenecks
6. Eco-friendly platesetter design
7. PRO-T transforms platemaking
8. Go! Workflow; fully-auto V-6
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Fuji shows the future of premedia Better plates, platesetters and workflow draw the crowds at Ipex
Setting new standards for speed and qualityNew flagship B1 violet platesetters raise the bar for quality and productivity
Demonstrated live at Ipex, Fuji has
introduced two flagship B1 violet
platesetters that are designed and
engineered to set new standards in
quality, productivity and cost of
ownership.
The Luxel V-8 HD features a new High
Definition imaging head which combines
the latest improvements in violet laser
technology with a refined optical system
(see page 4). This yields an enhanced
laser beam profile and hence a sharper
dot on the plate, which brings better
image quality and improved processing
stability and consistency.
Used in conjunction with the High
Definition Brillia LP-NV2 plate, the
system offers unparalleled dot
reproduction and linearity while retaining
high productivity levels – the fully
automatic Luxel V-8 HD can image 32 B1
plates an hour at 2400dpi.
For situations where peak production
demands require the fastest possible
throughput of plates, Fuji has introduced
the Luxel V-8 HS, whose 60,000rpm
spinner, twin-laser optics and optimised
plate handling enable it to produce 50
B1 plates an hour at 2400dpi, and 70
plates an hour at 1200 dpi, making it the
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fastest commercial B1 platesetter in
the world.
The Luxel V-8 HS can produce a four-
colour B1 set in under four minutes. A
unique rapid restart feature and the
ability to continue operation with one
laser if the other fails ensures maximum
availability and non-stop productivity for
high volume or fast turnaround work.
Both Luxel V-8 platesetter models
will ship in fully automatic configurations
and be upgradeable to work with the
forthcoming Brillia HD PRO-V chemistry-
free violet plate, providing a clear path
to processless working.
The Fuji stand at Ipex in April was
kept busy as visitors were treated
to demonstrations of a new range of
plates and platesetters, together with
a preview of a completely new workflow
system. Crowds gathered to watch the
Brillia HD PRO-T processless thermal
plate being output and printed live on
the stand, as well as to have a close-
up look at the new Luxel V-8 B1 violet
and Luxel T-Series B1 and B2 thermal
platesetter ranges.
The preview of the new JDF-based
workflow currently under development
was also a popular attraction. To be
formally launched later in the year, the
new workflow is the first to employ the
new Adobe PDF Print Engine, announced
by Adobe at Ipex; Fuji was the only vendor
to demonstrate an implementation of
the new technology at the show.
The new workflow is designed from
the ground up to be based on JDF
(Job Definition Format), requiring no
translation or conversion to work
with the new industry standard. It is a
cross-media production tool designed
to set new standards in productivity
and efficiency, automating all the
usual workflow production steps such
as trapping, imposition and colour
management for both CTP and digital
print production. It will also provide
added-value services such as 3D
visualisation based on actual RIPped
data and intelligent image processing.
Based on image correction
technology developed over many
years for Fuji’s photographic minilab
products, the Image Intelligence module
automatically corrects poor quality
images, enabling users to bring the
vast majority of images up to a good
standard with no manual intervention.
Orders taken at the show included
the sale of the first Luxel V-8 HD High
Definition B1 violet platesetter to
Dessain Printing of Mechelen, Belgium,
where it will be used to produce 300
plates a day to feed three web presses.
Swansea-based IMEX Group was one
of many printers at the show looking to
switch to processless CTP. The company
ordered a thermal Luxel T-6300S CTP
system running the new Brillia HD PRO-T
processless plates.
THE LUXEL V-8 HS CAN PRODUCE A FOUR-COLOUR B1 SET IN UNDER FOUR MINUTES
Wowing the crowds: Fuji’s Andy Bain introduces
the new JDF-based workflow (top) and Steve
Cookman demonstrates the Brillia HD PRO-T
processless plate.
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Fuji has launched a range of violet
platesetters designed specifically
for the newspaper sector, based on
its proven violet CTP technology. The
Luxel News range comes in 80, 100
and 120 plates-per-hour versions, all
of which have the fully automated
plate handling and robust build quality
necessary for newspaper production.
Dual violet laser configurations
allow the Luxel News machines to
achieve these high productivity levels,
with the additional benefit of built-in
redundancy, long life and low laser
replacement costs. The platesetters
are designed to complement the
Brillia LP-NNV violet newspaper
plates.
All three units offer 1016, 1200
and 1270 dpi output for newspaper
requirements, but also additional
resolutions up to 2540 dpi, making
them suitable for producing quality
colour supplements or commercial
work. Each can support either five
high-capacity cassettes or five large
format ones for bigger plate sizes.
Both productivity and resolution can
be field upgraded in the 80 and 100
plates-per-hour models.
Violet platesetters make the newsHigh performance range for newspaper market also offers commercial quality
Upgradeable productivity and automation
options are key features of both the new Luxel
T-63 series of B2 platesetters (top) and of
the T-9 B1 family (above).
Together with the Newspaper Society
and Production Journal, Fuji celebrated
a decade of the Newspaper Awards in
May. The Awards recognise excellence
in newspaper production, and to mark
their tenth year, Fuji sponsored a special
new award, Innovation of the Decade, for
Saluting innovation PDF wins at Newspaper Awards
those who have been at the forefront of
innovation for the last 10 years.
The Award was given to Adobe’s
Portable Document Format (PDF), the
wide spread adoption of which has
brought ‘far-reaching production
benefits for creative professionals,
Fuji’s Keith Dalton (left) with Adobe’s Alan Felgate (centre) and Production Journal editor Gary Cullum.
agencies, publishers and printers.’
A charity appeal organised by Fujifilm
at the event raised nearly £6000 for the
North and Mid-Bedfordshire branch of
the Alzheimer’s Society, the UK’s leading
care and research charity for sufferers
of dementia, their families and carers.
Thermal platesetters with a future
Ipex saw the launch of an enhanced
range of Fuji thermal platesetters
that offer new cost-effective upgrade
paths for automation and productivity.
Available in both B1 and B2 formats,
the Luxel T series has established an
excellent reputation for reliable, high
quality plate production.
Customers purchasing manual, semi-
auto and single cassette autoloading
systems can now easily upgrade to
the highly automated multi-cassette
autoloader. Luxel T platesetters are
available with a range of resolutions,
standard and custom punch options
and most can have the number of lasers
increased to raise productivity.
The Luxel T-9 series addresses the
B1 market with six models delivering up
to 35 B1 plates an hour at 2400dpi. They
support plate sizes between 1160x940
and 450x370mm. Similarly, the T-63
series offers up to 21 B2 plates an hour
at 2400dpi with plate sizes ranging from
830x660 to 324x370mm.
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uppose you’re the
manufacturer of a
proven and successful B1
platesetter that delivers
high levels of quality and
performance to a wide range of printers.
How do you improve it?
This was the question that Fuji’s
engineers set out to answer. The Luxel
V-9600 CTP B1 violet platesetter has
been extremely successful, with more
than 1500 installations worldwide. But
the market doesn’t stand still – what is a
cutting-edge feature one year becomes
part of the standard product’s
specification the next. So how could they
make the best better?
The answer was to develop new
versions that offered even higher
image quality and greater productivity,
giving more options to precisely meet
customers’ needs while still maintaining
the consistency, reliability and cost
of ownership benefits of the existing
platesetter. The result is the newly
announced Luxel V-8 HD (High Definition)
and V-8 HS (High Speed) platesetters.
Precision profilingOne of the key drivers for Fuji’s
platesetter development has been
continuing advances in violet laser
technology, with increasingly powerful
devices becoming available, currently in
the 60mW range but with 120mW units
on the horizon.
Power’s only part of the story, though.
For maximum image quality and to exploit
the latest FM and hybrid screening
technologies, the laser beam needs to be
precisely focused in order to generate
an even, sharp dot, with no noise or
artefacts. Fuji engineers developed a new
High Definition optical system for the
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platesetters, called Pure Beam, which
delivers a perfectly formed dot with no
edge effects.
Coupled with the high precision
manufacturing and alignment procedures
that go into every Luxel platesetter, the
High Definition imaging head and Pure
Beam technology mean that the Luxel
V-8 HD platesetter delivers a 10-micron
focused spot, giving the hardest possible
dot on the exposed plate.
This brings an immediate advantage
with existing violet plates in FM
screening applications, but the full
benefits of the V-8 HD will be
experienced when it’s used with the new
Brillia LP-NV2 High Definition violet plate.
The combination sets new standards in
image quality and processing stability for
all types of work, meeting the quality
requirements of the most discerning
printers.
Faster, fasterMaximum throughput without
compromising existing quality levels was
the design goal for the V-8 HS, which
at 50 B1 plates an hour at 2400 dpi
is the world’s fastest commercial B1
platesetter. One of the factors that
determines how quickly you can image a
plate inside an internal drum platesetter
is how fast you can spin the mirror that
deflects the laser beam onto the plate.
Until now, most spinners have been
limited to around 40,000 – 45,000 rpm,
not because faster spinners couldn’t be
made, but because of the problems in
accurately positioning and controlling
the beam at such high speeds.
As engineering manager George
Darmanin explains, “We’re writing 70
million dots a second and they all have to
be in the right place at the right time.”
To achieve the phenomenal speed
Designing revolutionary platesetters that set still higher standards for quality and speed in a highly competitive market isn’t a trivial task. Michael Walker went to Fuji’s factory in Peterborough to see how it’s done.
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Contract newspaper printer Mortons of Horncastle was facing a prepress bottleneck in producing over 110 regional weekly and monthly publications. Up to 40 or more pages of a typical 56-page publication would often arrive within the last hour of the deadline, meaning that dozens of plates would need to be output very quickly.
Managing director for production Jim Lee and his colleagues discounted thermal CTP as being unable to provide the necessary productivity, but weren’t keen to commit to another green laser CTP device. “We knew that violet was the way to go,” he says.
Up and running fastFujifi lm installed a Luxel News 100 violet platesetter at Mortons’ Newark site in March 2005, and had it producing plates for real jobs on the second working day after its delivery. Running at 1200dpi
on Mortons’ two key plate sizes, the platesetter’s throughput is around 80 plates per hour.
In addition to meeting Mortons’ productivity requirements, the Fujifi lm platesetter is able to act as back-up for existing Autologic units, thanks to its support for higher resolutions, enabling it to produce 1800dpi work for heatset printing of colour supplements.
Mortons’ production staff have noticed the quality improvement that the violet platesetter has brought. “The dot from the internal drum platesetter is clearly better than from the old fl atbed device, which means there’s less chance of it fi lling-in in critical tonal ranges or areas of detail,” comments Lee.
Looking ahead, Lee is excited by the possibility of processless violet plates; they would be an infl uential factor in the eventual replacement of the Autologic units.
Mortons breaks bottleneck with Luxel NewsThe fi rst installation of Fujifi lm’s new violet platesetter for the newspaper industry has solved production bottlenecks and improved quality at a regional newspaper printer
of the V-8 HS, Fuji uses a 60,000rpm
spinner with two violet lasers writing
simultaneously, thanks to an ingenious
defl ection method that prevents the
beams from crossing over as the mirror
rotates, a technique that was pioneered
in the award-winning ‘Sumo’ imagesetter.
The other half of the equation is
the mirror. A new precision-machined
Beryllium mirror was developed for
the Luxel V-8 HS, which minimises
deformation under centrifugal forces as
it spins, keeping dot position and shape
accurate even at such high speeds.
To complement the high speed
imaging, improved plate handling and
control electronics have been designed,
allowing plates to travel through the
unit nose-to-tail so that as soon as one
plate is imaged, the next is ready to be
loaded into the drum, while the fi rst goes
straight on into the processor; additional
vacuum grooves have been added to the
inside of the drum to ensure more rapid
plate positioning prior to imaging.
The technology and design advances
made in the development of the Luxel
V-8 HD and HS platesetters will be
incorporated into other forthcoming
models, but if you’re a B1 printer
who needs the ultimate in quality or
productivity, plus a path to chemistry-
free working with the forthcoming
Brillia HD PRO-V plate, V-8 power is
available to order today.
Fine-tuning of the violet laser beam profi le
gives the Luxel V-8 HD its outstanding hard
dot characteristic for ultimate quality imaging
(left). Precision engineering and alignment of
the laser optics is the other half of the story
for both the V-8 HD and V-8 HS (below).
“THE DOT FROM THE INTERNAL DRUM PLATESETTER IS CLEARLY BETTER THAN FROM THE OLD FLATBED DEVICE.”Jim Lee, managing director for production, Mortons
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he phrase ‘design for
environment’ might bring
to mind economical
diesel or even hybrid cars,
well-insulated buildings
or fuel-efficient boilers, devices that all
extract more output from reduced input
when used. But in Fuji’s Vision for the
Environment programme, it’s the entire
product lifecycle that’s evaluated for
environmental impact, not just the phase
where it’s being used by the customer.
Counting the carbonA key parameter in Fuji’s Vision for the
Environment programme is Lifecycle
Assessment in which the carbon dioxide
Waste not, want notFuji’s Vision for the Environment initiative aims to minimise the environmental impact of a product throughout its working life, from design to disposal
emissions associated with each step of
the product’s life are calculated. Against
these values are set the CO2 ‘credit’ for
recycling the components and materials
at the end of the product’s life.
The ultimate aim is to produce a
product with a net CO2 emissions figure
of zero in manufacture and disposal, and
as low as possible for usage. At Fuji’s
award-winning Peterborough factory,
where the Luxel V-6 and V-8 ranges of
violet platesetters are manufactured,
this has meant a painstaking
assessment of every stage of the design
and manufacturing process.
“The general aim is to make products
lighter and smaller and to use fewer
materials and less energy throughout
their life, without compromising
performance or reliability,” explains
Roger Melville of Fujifilm Electronic
Imaging.
The sum of the partsThe materials aspect is handled by
looking at each product and counting
the number of parts and weighing both
the unassembled parts and the finished
whole to assess the amount of wastage
during manufacturing. The percentage
of recyclable materials used is analysed,
as is the type and quantity of raw
materials used.
Alternative construction techniques
or materials that lower the parts
count or product weight – but
without compromising product quality,
performance or safety – are considered,
as are opportunities to reduce or
eliminate machining and other time-
and energy-consuming manufacturing
operations. A good example is the choice
of Xanite, a composite material used to
form the drum of the V-6 platesetter
by moulding, thus completely avoiding
the machining operations necessary on
aluminium castings.
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Dramatic weight lossThe results of this approach are
significant. Comparing the manual
version of the Luxel V-6 platesetter to
its predecessor, the newer machine is
44kg lighter, which helps with transport
costs, while its parts count has been
reduced by more than 300, which not
only simplifies manufacture, but improves
reliability too. Similarly, its packaging
weight was reduced by 43 per cent
and its volume by 42 per cent. Severe
drop-testing is carried out to ensure
that the packaging still meets the same
standards of protection.
A comparison of the single-cassette
auto model of the V-6 against the model
THE AIM IS TO MAKE PRODUCTS LIGHTER AND SMALLER AND TO USE FEWER MATERIALS AND LESS ENERGY
it replaced showed an even better
improvement, with a product weight
reduction of over 1300kg, and a 68 per
cent saving in packaging weight.
The CO2 emission figures for the new
platesetters show that the largest
contribution to emissions relates to
the products’ usage, which has to be
calculated on assumed levels of activity
during a seven-year working life, while
the manufacturing amounts are largely
balanced by the recycling benefit at
the end. Energy efficiency is always an
important criterion in product design,
and in the platesetters manufactured
by Fujifilm Electronic Imaging it’s
helped by violet lasers having lower
power consumption than their thermal
counterparts.
Thanks to this comprehensive
approach to environmental issues,
Fuji continues not only to exceed
legal requirements, such as the RoHS
(Restriction of Hazardous Substances)
Directive that comes into force this
summer, banning materials such as lead
from electrical and electronic goods,
but to develop products that are state-
of-the-art in performance, quality and
environmental attributes.
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The first UK installations of Fuji’s Brillia HD PRO-T processless thermal plate have been highly successful, according to two printers who began using the plates in March of this year.
At West Bromwich colour printer Hill Shorter, which serves clients in the fine art and music promotions business, CTP developments had been kept under continuous review, but according to repro director John Foley, early ‘processless’ offerings carried performance penalties that were unacceptable:
“Some of the processless CTP systems we considered would only have produced eight plates an hour – we could already do that manually,” he comments.
As well as improving productivity, Foley was keen to be able to implement FM or hybrid screening. “When Fuji told us they could offer processless that ran at the same speed as ordinary thermal CTP and
True processless transforms printers’ prepress
“WE ARE GETTING JUST AS GOOD QUALITY FROM PROCESSLESS AS FROM THE PROCESSED PLATE.”John Foley, repro director, Hill Shorter
Fuji’s new Brillia HD PRO-T processless thermal plate has been radically simplifying prepress operations and improving productivity at printers in West Bromwich and Northampton
without the chemistry problems, we knew the moment had come,” he confirms.
Smooth transitionIn early February 2006, Fuji installed a Luxel T-9000CTP B1 thermal platesetter to produce plates for Hill Shorter’s three Heidelberg presses, initially running the Brillia LH-PIE processed thermal plate. The move to processless followed very soon after with trials of Brillia HD PRO-T.
“Fuji’s support was first class,” comments John Foley. “They knew we had to maintain production throughout the transition and we achieved this. The trials went very well and we are getting just as good quality from processless as from the processed plate.”
Further, it’s possible to switch between the two plate types without needing to make any press adjustments, as both plates require identical press conditions and give identical performance.
Processless CTP has also been under scrutiny at commercial printer Avalon Print of Northampton since the company’s inception in December 2004. Managing director Darren Briers had been evaluating processless options in order to achieve a number of goals:
“I like the idea of completely removing a process and, like many printers, we have a space issue. As well as freeing up space, moving into processless plate production will make us more productive and will also remove the plate developer waste disposal bills.”
Saving space, time and money weren’t the only motivations, however:
“I am very keen on green issues. I see the move to processless as an important step in working towards an ISO 14001 environmental standards accreditation,” Briers adds.
No compromiseHaving switched successfully to Fuji Brillia LH-PIE thermal plates at the end of 2005, Briers and his colleagues decided to test Fuji’s claims for the new ‘no-compromise’ Brillia HD PRO-T thermal plate.
“Some of the ‘processless’ alternatives require gumming after exposure, which we didn’t want to have to do,” recalls Briers, “We wanted to use a true processless plate.”
The plate performed well right from the earliest stages of the trial. According to Briers, “Set-up was incredibly straightforward. We made a profile of the platesetter, ran one set of plates, made some adjustments and have successfully run jobs from the PRO-T plates on both our presses.
“Our first test was a live production job and the Brillia HD PRO-T plate was spot-on in terms of imaging speed, print quality and on-press behaviour, matching the processed Brillia LH-PIE thermal plate exactly. It does everything Fuji said; I’m really pleased.”
“PRO-T WAS SPOT-ON IN TERMS OF IMAGING SPEED, PRINT QUALITY AND PRESS BEHAVIOUR” Darren Briers, managing director, Avalon Print (pictured left)
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What would be your dream job? Being part of the coaching staff at
Manchester City or house-husband to a very
wealthy wife.
Do you have any hidden talents? I’m the greatest footballer of my generation.
What’s the best thing about your job? I like dealing with people, and enjoy the
variety of contacts you build up – colleagues,
logistics and factory staff, UK customers
and European distributors.
What’s the most challenging project or request you’ve had? Being part of the project team helping to
configure a new company-wide ERP
system. It required us to support
the business post-implementation, which
meant many long days and weekend
hours. Stock checks in very high warehouse
locations are also a challenge, because I’m
scared of heights.
What’s your most effective or best personal asset? My cheeky Northern charm. And I work till I
drop.
What advice would you offer someone applying for your job?Prepare yourself for the interrogation of a
lifetime if you are interviewed by my boss. He
will grill you like a well-done steak.
Do you have any unfulfilled ambitions? Professionally, to be part of a team
universally recognised as the benchmark for
inventory control in the industry. Personally,
to see my kids grow up healthy, happy and
successful.
Passing the platesIt’s supply chain manager and Manchester City supporter Paul Sloan’s job to make sure that consumables flow smoothly and efficiently from Fuji’s manufacturing facilities around the world, through the Bedford warehouse and out to customers across the UK
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To further extend its technological and
market lead, Fuji has recently opened
a completely new research facility, the
Advanced Research Laboratories in
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The 56,000
square metre facility brings together
under one roof engineers specialising in
a wide range of fields from chemistry to
optics and software development.
Under the banner ‘intellectual
fusion, innovation and value creation’
the laboratory will aim to foster an
outstandingly innovative research
group. This will be the source for
ground-breaking new Fuji technologies
and products, thanks to cross-
fertilisation of such disparate fields
as organic synthesis, precision micro-
machining, lens design, laser technology
and image processing.
FUJI AT WORK
The future – invented hereIt’s all systems Go!Fuji Open Workflow gains improved imposition and screening options plus further MIS integration
The latest updates to the Fuji Open
Workflow were received with interest
at Ipex. Now sporting an intuitive icon-
driven user interface called Go!, Fuji
Open Workflow v10 includes its own
easy-to-operate automatic imposition
capability in addition to support for
third-party imposition packages.
The system’s improved MIS support
and integration enables automatic
imposition from MIS-supplied JDF job
tickets and is fully compatible with the
The final addition to Fuji’s modular and
upgradeable B2 violet platesetter
range is the Luxel V-6 Multi Cassette
Autoloader (MAL). Aimed at customers
who require high
throughput, support for
multiple plate sizes and
unattended operation, the
Luxel V-6 MAL offers flexibility in
plate formats, from duplicator
sizes up to the largest B2
presses.
Three cassettes, each holding up
to 150 plates, can be used online, with
an option to have a further four offline,
interchangeable in minutes to maximise
productive time. There is a tilted loading
trolley option for use in confined spaces.
Remote system monitoring is supported
as standard and there is an internal
punch option.
The Luxel V-6 MAL is optimised for
use with the new High Definition Brillia
LP-NV2 violet plates and designed to
provide unparalleled quality and low
cost of ownership. It supports upgrades
to the workflow and automation to
increase the unit’s productivity and
to take advantage of the forthcoming
Brillia HD PRO-V chemistry-free plate.
B2 unit gets big ideas Fully-automatic option completes V-6 platesetter range
new CIP4 specification.
Fuji Open Workflow now supports
a range of new screening options,
including Taffeta, Fuji’s second-
generation FM screening and Fuji
Co-Res AM screening. A benefit of this
increased screening support is that
it’s now possible to apply different
screening types to different objects on
a page, particularly useful in security
printing. Fuji Open Workflow v10 is
available immediately.