LFP - Large-Format-Printing
EFI Adds to Wide-Format Offerings with Affordable New Rastek Hybrid Flatbed
Wednesday 13. May 2009 - New Rastek H650 Prints with Photographic Quality on Multiple Substrates
EFI (Nasdaq: EFII), the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, today announced a new 64-inch (162.56 cm) addition to their popular Rastek line of environmentally-friendly, wide-format printers, the Rastek H650 UV hybrid flatbed, which delivers best-in-class image quality at an affordable price, making it the perfect choice for production and print shop environments that are looking to offer quick service and photographic quality on a wide variety of rigid and flexible substrates. The new printer will be on display from May 12-14th in EFIs stand (Hall 1 – A20) at FESPA Digital Europe in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
“Our customers have been asking for a more affordable way to produce wide-format applications, and the new Rastek H650 answers those calls without sacrificing whats important in a wide-format printer,” said Darrell Etter, director, product marketing, EFI Rastek. “The H650 delivers much more than comparable printers on the market today, including faster speeds, better quality, a high-quality vacuum drive belt and the ability to print with white ink. Competing systems just cannot match what the Rastek H650 offers.”
The affordably-priced Rastek H650 prints CMYK plus white in grayscale resolutions up to 600 dpi and in a binary resolution mode that prints at 1200×900 dpi. In its billboard mode, the Rastek H650 produces output at 600×300 dpi at 230 square feet (21.37 square meters) per hour, and in its high quality, 16-pass mode at 65 square feet (6 square meters) per hour.
The Rastek H650s superior media handling system includes a high quality vacuum belt drive with three vacuum zones capable of handling roll or rigid media up to 1.8 inches (4.572 cm) thick and has a print width of 64 inches wide. Media options include Fome-Cor, PVC, plywood, aluminum, acrylic and glass, as well as traditional flexible substrates. This printer is the perfect, affordable solution for businesses that want to print wide-format applications ranging from banners and billboards to posters and point-of-purchases graphics.
The new Rastek H650 UV hybrid flatbed printer is on display in EFIs stand at FESPA Digital Europe, and is available for order now.