EFI VUTEk 3r+
The most technically advanced three-meter LED roll-to-roll printer on the market that offers the highest image quality, highest rated throughput speeds & the highest range of options.
138 in
Max. print width
4,370 ft²/hr
Max. Productivity
up to 1200 dpi
Resolution
CMYK + optional lc, lm, lk, white, clear
Colors
Take your performance, quality, and efficiency to the extreme
The EFI™ VUTEk® 3r+ roll-to-roll LED printer helps you go to the extreme every day when it comes to job turnaround times, versatility, quality, and satisfying customers. It offers high image quality, high throughput speeds, and a wide range of value-added Power Tool options—for a low total cost of ownership.
Offer customers more high-value applications
1. Day/Night backlit graphics
With EFI’s industry-leading white ink and multi-layer printing, you can produce premium-margin backlit applications that will boost your bottom line.
2. Window graphics
Use window film with an adhesive backing to create full-color graphics applied to the inside or outside of windows.
3. Indoor/Outdoor banners
Produce stunning banners with brilliant graphics and images, single- or double-sided, to help promote events, store locations and sales, restaurant openings, and much more.
4. Floor graphics
Produce durable short-term or semi-permanent floor graphics for brand and product promotions and directional signage on flooring, tile, and carpet.
5. Indoor hanging banners
Produce stunning double-sided blockout banners to promote brands, store locations, sales, and more.
6. Tradeshow and exhibition graphics
Create backlit graphics, indoor hanging banners, and booth backdrops on sturdy media that allows the graphics to pop, such as vinyl material, polypropylene, or soft banner material.
7. Wallcoverings
Produce custom wallcoverings with EFI superwide LED roll-to-roll printers. Create exciting textures, eye-popping colors, cool motifs and more with white, clear, and multi-layer printing on a wide range of UV printable wallcovering materials.
8. Billboards
Produce cost-effective out-of-home applications, such as billboards and posters, with EFI’s superwide roll-to-roll printers and optional Power Tools.
9. Truck side curtains
With EFI superwide roll-to-roll LED printers, truck side curtains are printed, coated, cut to size all inline – and ready for other post processes thanks to EFI’s unique PRINT COAT CUT workflow that saves time, money, and labor.
Highlights
Productive roll-to-roll printing
Quick and easy media loading that handles a wide variety of flexible substrates. Roll-to-roll, free-fall, and multi-roll (2 rolls of 63 in) at production speeds up to 4,370 ft2 per hour.
Inline finishing
EFI’s unique roll-to-roll workflow automates the complete printing and finishing process on the fly and in a single system.
EFI UltraClear Coat
EFI UltraClear Coat can be used for decorative applications as well as for a final protective coating. It prints inline, simultaneously with the image, saving time versus using a separate offline coating system, and in gloss or matte finishes.
Fiery IQ
Use the Fiery IQ™ suite of cloud applications to connect your people, processes, and print devices to make better data-driven decisions that improve your ROI, minimize cost, maximize profit, and boost your revenue.
High-quality imaging
Piezo drop-on-demand inkjet technology that utilizes 18 print heads with 7pL UltraDrop™ technology for up to 1200 dpi true resolution.
Low TCO
Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) with low power consumption, low ink consumption, minimal media waste, and optional Power Tools that save money, labor, and floor space.
Ink for a super range of applications
EFI – 3M™ SuperRange UV LED Ink offers a hard surface cure, a wide color gamut, excellent adhesion properties, and the industry-leading 3M™ MCS™ Warranty when printing with cobranded EFI and 3M UV LED inks on 3M flexible media.
Industry-leading LED technology
Extend your range of supported substrates, increase uptime, reduce operating costs, and move towards more sustainable production with low VOCs, lower energy consumption, and less waste and consumables.
White ink and multilayer printing
Superb white ink printing performance in single- and multi-layer print modes.
Ink performance that’s as impressive as it is flexible
EFI – 3M™ SuperFlex Ink not only offers an extended color gamut, but also delivers super flexibility for fleet and vehicle graphics, outdoor applications, and more. With its super elongation characteristics and the ability to withstand heat installation without cracking, SuperFlex ink qualifies for a seven-year 3M™ MCS™ Warranty for vehicle graphics.
Power Tools to boost your capabilities and profits
Y-slitter – for the vertical trimming of margins or slitting media into multiple jobs, minimizing media waste and increasing the printing area.
- Simultaneous printing and media cutting on the Y-axis
- Modifiable configurations include:
- Single-bladed for trimming margins
- Double-bladed for slitting of single media into two jobs (blades are fixed 0.3 in/8 mm apart)
- Simple and easy installation with no tools required
- Easy manual adjustment of the slitter position along the printer table
- Retractable blades for maximum safety
- And waste collectors to roll up trimmed remnants, increasing overall productivity and eliminating the mess
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X-cutter – unique roll-to-sheet horizontal cutter incorporated in the printer.
- Automatically cuts media on the X-axis between jobs on the fly
- Controlled via the front-end software
- Does not affect productivity
- Saves valuable time at the finishing station
- Replaces expensive cutting equipment and saves space
- Prevents finishing errors and increases yield
InSpec – vision system installed on the print carriage that performs automatic inline print quality monitoring for single and multi-roll printing. Includes a camera and light source as well as dedicated electronics and software. Designed to identify print imperfections in real-time during the print process, fix them when possible, and alert the user.
ID backprint – a device that prints file information on the back of the media, facilitating the identification of finished jobs for packing, shipping, and installation.
- Printed data includes:
- File ID
- Printing date and time
- Print mode
- Copy number and more
- Eliminates the need for manual labeling
- Helps prevent shipping errors
- Saves time during installation of the printed job
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Roll & Tape – an automated device that takes printed cut sheets directly from the printer, rolls them into scrolls, and tapes the edge with labels that have job information printed on them.
- Synchronized with the inline finishing workflow
- Delivers labeled rolls immediately following printing
- Includes a removable container that collects multiple marked jobs ready for delivery to the customer
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White printing
- Enables printing on colored and transparent media
- Opens up a myriad of creative possibilities
- Instant uptime of white printheads, thanks to the advanced circulation system in the ink tanks and along the entire ink system
- Multiple white print modes for various challenging applications:
- White only
- White as background
- White on top of color
- White for backlit applications (C-W-C)
- Five-layer printing (C-W-B-W-C) for blockout printing on clear
- Various additional three- and five-layer print modes
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Seven-color printing
- Enabled by adding three light colors: light cyan, light magenta, and light black
- Based on the existing printhead configuration, without adding more heads
Benefits
- Expanded color gamut
- Smooth gradient transitions
- Vivid and crisp colors
- Fine details
- Smooth skin tones
UltraClear Coat
- Printed inline, simultaneously with the image
- Printed on top of the color layer
- Enhances the output, adding extra pop to the colors and offering beautiful creative possibilities
- Full flood or selective
- Glossy or matte finish with the same ink
- Provides three years of outdoor protection against:
- Abrasion and scratching
- Chemicals such as detergents, gasoline, and IPA
- Weather damage
- Air pollution
- UV fading/yellowing
- Saves time versus separate offline coating systems
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Automatic blockout printing – an automatic system that enables printing on both sides of opaque blockout media, resulting in excellent registration between sides.
- Accuracy of ≤ 5 mm over 10 linear meters
- Includes an optical sensor system, dedicated electronics, and software
- Simple, easy, and fully automatic system
- Eliminates the need for guesswork and manual manipulation
- Reduces required operator skill level
- Two available workflows, to be defined before printing:
- Head-to-head printing for short jobs where media is rolled back, flipped over, and reinstalled with side B up
- Head-to-tail printing for longer jobs where printed media is collected on a front core, flipped over, and reinstalled with side B up
Notes
- Single-roll printing for side B
- Use of X-cutter and Y-slitters with automatic blockout is limited:
- Slitters – possible according to built-in instructions
- Cutter – can be used for side B
Automatic backlit printing – Automatic, patented system for perfectly aligned double-sided backlit printing on backlit media.
- Accuracy of ≤ 0.08 in (2 mm) over 32 linear feet (10 linear meters)
- Camera-guided software automatically corrects registration on the X, Y, and tilt axes
- Includes two cameras, LED strip along the printing table, and dedicated software
- Simple, easy, and fully automatic system
- Eliminates the need for guesswork and manual manipulation
- Reduces required operator skill level
Three-meter super duty winder – fully integrated unwinder or rewinder option for EFI VUTEk roll-to-roll 3m and 5m printers.
- Enables working with heavy 10 ft (3 m) media rolls up to 1,748 lbs (793 kg)
- Enables continuous, uninterrupted work without stopping to change rolls
- Increases productivity in high volume runs due to less make-ready
- Equipped with dancer and external motor
- Material width: 126 in (320 cm)
- Maximum media diameter: 28 in (70 cm)
- Standard 3 in core; optional 6 in core
Motorized winder – integrated winder and unwinder solution with motorized pneumatic inflatable core shafts for precise and excellent media collection.
- Improves media advancement and print quality
- Allows using larger and heavier rolls
- Supports full printer width media as well as multi-roll printing:
- 2 x 5.2 ft (2 x 1.6 m) units for 3 m printer models, front/back
- 3 x 5.2 ft (3 x 1.6 m) units for 5 m printer models, front/back
Media edge guard (MEG) – used for media types with uneven or wavy edges that tend to curl or unravel, such as textiles and wallpaper.
- Protects the print carriage and printheads from crashing into uneven media edges
- Eliminates ruined jobs and prevents media waste
- Attaches quickly and easily with magnets anywhere along the printing table
- Use as many units as needed and multiple units for multi-roll printing
Media spreaders – a pair of clamp-like devices that stretch the media sideways to enable neat media inlet to the printer.
- Helps prevent potential media wrinkles
- Improves media advance
- Facilitates printing on various types of challenging media
- Easy to install at both ends of the press beam on the rear of the printer
- Position and tilt angle are adaptable to the media type and width
- Two units are included as standard with VUTEk Q5r printers
Wrinkle analyzer – helps avoid printhead strikes caused by media wrinkles, saving time and money by preventing ruined jobs and enabling the use of lower-cost media.
- Media height detector identifies a media wrinkle before it reaches the printhead
- The front-end software prompts the user to raise the carriage just enough to avoid a head strike that may ruin the job and, then, to resume printing
Mobile operator station – mobile workstation slides from its home position towards the middle of the printer.
- Saves the operator from moving back and forth between the station and the output
- Equipped with a touch screen for quick and easy operation
- Increases productivity and usability
Media saving wizard
- Designed to improve media stock management
- The user enters the length of the media each time a new or partially used roll is loaded into the software
- Before the media is removed from the printer, a label with the remaining media length is printed on the rim of the roll
- The software will alert the user before starting a job if the remaining media on the roll is insufficient for the job
Quality maintenance kit – enables printer operators to self-diagnose and fix print quality issues, including:
- Uncalibrated printer
- Missing or deficient nozzles
- Self-ownership and fast onsite reaction
- Minimizes service visits and increases uptime
- Extends printhead lifespan up to 30% on average
- The optional system includes software and a dedicated scanner
Use the Fiery IQ suite of cloud applications to connect your people, processes, and print devices to make better data-driven decisions that improve your ROI, minimize cost, maximize profit, and boost your revenue.
