Bluejet Of Gdansk Look To Their New Fujifilm Onset X3 HS To Provide Short-Run Lengths And More Personalisation
One of Poland’s largest producers of comprehensive branding solutions is expanding its product portfolio with the industry’s leading platform for high quality, high productivity large format print
Based in Gdańsk on the Baltic coast of Poland, Bluejet has been a manufacturer of high quality packaging and retail displays for almost 20 years.
With a constant focus on new technologies, Bluejet specialises in personalised large format digital printing with automation at the heart of its production.
To further advance its automated printing capabilities, the company invested in an Onset X3 HS with full automation from Fujifilm which was installed in June 2021.
From advertising and marketing to the textile and funeral industries, Bluejet offers a vast portfolio of products to its multi-market customers based throughout Europe.
The company, through a variety of printing, coating and thermoforming methods produces stands, displays, hangers, wobblers, posters and other various atypical products onto a wide range of materials – including cardboard, plastic, metal and wood.
“What the print industry is seeing is an increase in demand for shorter run lengths and more personalised work.
The pandemic has led to sharp falls in overall production outlays – mainly from offset – and these jobs are being transferred to large production digital machines like the Onset X3 HS.
Thanks to this new technology from Fujifilm, we will be able to win many new customers.
The last 18 months have shown us that automating processes can help us to work in a more stable way and ensure our deliveries to customers remain consistent. Next year, we aim to install more printing equipment and robots.” says Piotr Kaczorowski, CEO of Bluejet.
The Fujfilm Onset X Series
The powerful Onset X is a 10th generation UV flatbed from Inca and Fujifilm, benefiting from over 15 years of engineering evolution and expertise.
The Onset X series now includes a range of enhancements that result in much higher print speeds and machine utilisation, and therefore higher productivity.
In the Onset X HS, key setup tasks have now been fully automated, taking the job setup time from around 15 minutes down to around 30 seconds.
This results in far less operator intervention and a substantial boost to printer uptime & utilisation.
The new Onset X HS model offers headline print speed of up to 1450m2/hr, an increase of over 50% compared to the Onset X.
This is made possible by the introduction of a new ‘single cycle’ print mode and a new high performance Uvijet OX ink.
The Onset X series takes advantage of Fujifilm’s Q-class piezo printheads that deliver precise drop placements at high speeds, and feature unique Fujifilm technology and manufacturing processes, for example, a highly durable silicon nozzle plate.
