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EFI-Inkware and Mutoh Partner to Bring BioWare Biofriendly Inks to Mutoh Hybrid Inkjet Printers
Tuesday 22. July 2008 - EFI (Nasdaq: EFII), the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, and Mutoh, a worldwide leader and manufacturer of large format commercial inkjet printers, today announced that Mutoh has named EFI-Inkware as the manufacturer and supplier of MUBIO inks to Mutoh worldwide.
MUBIO inks are a low viscosity version of EFI-Inkwares BioWare inks and are the only inks to be recognised by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) “Design for Environment” program and authorised to display the EPA “Design for Environment” logo.
“We are delighted to be working with EFI-Inkware to bring true biofriendly printing to Mutoh customers,” said Randy Rickert, Mutohs General Manager. “MUBIO inks are composed of 80% plant-derived substances (corn), contain no harmful VOCs, and with the low viscosity version we are bringing faster drying times to markets. This will be a major benefit to our customers as they leverage the ValueJet 1608 Hybrid printers for business growth and a reduced environmental footprint. Since initially rolling out the program, we have installed several ValueJet 1608 Hybrid printers a month using MUBIO inks and have received rave customer reviews.”
MUBIO inks and the ValueJet Hybrid printers were jointly developed by EFI-Inkware and Mutoh to ensure maximum efficiency, quality and range of output. The Mutoh ValueJet 1608 Hybrid easily converts from flatbed to roll-to-roll, and features drop-on-demand Micro Piezo Inkjet Technology. It is a 4-colour printer with a maximum resolution of 1440 dpi, and includes automatic media thickness detection. The ValueJet 1608 Hybrid prints directly onto corrugated plastics, polystyrene, PVC, acrylic, Polycarbonate, Xanita board, BioFlex biodegradable vinyl, foam board, aluminium composite, banner material, wall coverings, and more.
“Our partnership with Mutoh is an important part of EFI-Inkwares strategy to deploy BioWare inks to printer manufacturers,” said Stephen Emery Manager, OEM Ink Sales & Marketing, of EFI-Inkware. “I have been printing with MUBIO inks for a couple months; they survived rain storms with great outdoor durability and scratch resistance!” said Ken Kubalak, Owner of Sign Here of TN in the U.S. “The performance of the inks printing directly on rigid substrates and roll-to-roll has been outstanding. We receive great reviews from our corporate accounts for projects we print for their charitable golf events.”
MUBIO inks are available immediately. These inks perform especially well on rigid media, significantly broadening the array of applications that can be produced using the ValuJet 1608 Hybrid printer.