Wide Format Imaging

The newest addition to the lineup of best-in-class digital printers at Fujifilm Sericol's new multi-million dollar, 7,000 square foot Solutions Center is the Inca Onset. For a limited time starting in August, commercial point-of-purchase (POP) printers will have a unique opportunity to test drive the Inca Onset. Equipped with 576 Fujifilm Dimatix heads and jetting three billion droplets of ink per second, the Inca Onset produces in excess of 100 beds of commercial quality print an hour making.

The Inca Onset represents a dramatic step change for inkjet technology and represents the first High Speed Inkjet (HSI) platform to hit the market. The Inca Onset is production proven with a current install base of nine units. Based upon production data from these customers, the conservative estimate is that they are producing well over 500,000 square feet of commercial output daily.

"We know that Onset owners are billing as much as $200,000 of output per day," stated Terry Mitchell, director of marketing for Fujifilm Sericol. "Most of the units are running at least two shifts and some are running three shifts. This is not surprising as the Onset is based on the extremely successful and robust design of previous Inca flatbeds."

The first North American installation of an Inca Onset occurred in February 2008 at Holland and Crosby, a large POP printer in Toronto with both screen and digital capacity.

"To us it was a no-brainer: I expect the Onset will conservatively pay for itself in three years and I would not be surprised if it was a year and a half," said Scott Crosby, partner at Holland Crosby. "The term ‘breakthrough' gets thrown around a lot, but believe me this is a breakthrough…something I do not think anybody in the market expected."