The next-generation Reggiani BOLT is an advanced, ultra-high-speed textile digital single-pass printer that has the potential to revolutionise the textile printing market, providing users with high uptime and reliability, outstanding performance, superior printing uniformity and accuracy, long print head life and minimal maintenance needs.
The new printer was unveiled at the EFI Reggiani open house in Bergamo, Italy. Reggiani BOLT has created huge interest in global textile market opportunities, with nearly 300 customers and journalists in attendance to see the new BOLT in action.
EFI Reggiani Vice President and General Manager Adele Genoni said, ‘The innovative development of our new single-pass printer comes from Reggiani’s speed of innovation in digital textile printing, its 70 years of history, and our proprietary knowledge of high-volume analogue rotary printing. Our EFI colleagues’ proven, worldwide expertise in single-pass technology and, most importantly, EFI Reggiani’s serious commitment to listening to and addressing our textile customers’ needs, have allowed us to achieve incredible results with our newest print technology. The EFI Reggiani BOLT re-writes the rules of digital textile single-pass printing, delivering superior throughput and quality with a highly competitive return on investment for customers. We are excited to bring this technology to our customers and see their businesses succeed and grow.’
The BOLT offers an innovative, low-maintenance, fast-startup recirculation print head that delivers better, more-uniform printing with superior uptime. Thanks to its cutting-edge print head concept and high-performance ink delivery system, the BOLT has throughput speeds of up to 90 metres per minute (more than 8000 square metres per hour) at a 600 x 600 dots per inch (dpi) resolution.
It features high-end greyscale imaging in drop sizes from 5 to 30 picolitres, and also provides premium-quality 600 x 4800 maximum dpi resolution printing, allowing customers to address the full range of design needs. The print head has been developed in partnership with a leading print head manufacturer and will be available exclusively for EFI Reggiani.
The EFI Reggiani BOLT meets growing requirements for high-quality, ecologically sustainable digital textile imaging in apparel, decor and other markets. Paired with an EFI Fiery® digital front end (DFE) print server offering unique, high-speed processing capabilities on demand, the BOLT printer is a robust, industrial platform designed for 24/7 operation and continuous productivity that drives high-volume throughput while reducing the cost per metre.
Efficient, high-powered EFI Fiery technology
The Reggiani BOLT is a Fiery Driven printer, featuring an EFI Fiery DFE with RIP and colour management technologies running on Fiery XB bladed hardware for maximum performance. Fiery technologies for the printer give textile printing businesses the ability to successfully produce highly challenging jobs with the finest detail, demanding colours, smooth gradients and more. EFI colour scientists developed special algorithms and custom screening for this Fiery system to deliver vivid print results, including high saturation without losing detail, and superior colour even when using the fastest print mode.
The list of EFI Reggiani advancements includes two recent launches, the COLORS digital printer, which provides unparalleled performance with up to 12-colour printing, and the TERRA pigment ink with binder solution featuring in-line polymerisation, a process that speeds up customers’ printing with one of the industry’s greenest production technologies.
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