Heidelberg is expanding its digital printing portfolio with the introduction of the new Jetfire
family, aimed at the growing industrial digital commercial printing market. These systems
utilize advanced inkjet technology from their cooperation partner, Canon. The new Jetfire
family will be integrated into the Heidelberg ecosystem via the Heidelberg Prinect workflow,
offering end-to-end solutions that combine offset and digital printing within a single system.
This integration ensures maximum flexibility and cost-effectiveness, especially for commercial print operations. By leveraging its expertise in both offset and digital printing,
Heidelberg provides print shops with a hybrid production environment for more efficient and
cost-effective printing in the future.
Dr. David Schmedding, Head of Sales at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG commented,
"Our aim is to offer our customers who want to operate offset and digital presses
simultaneously an attractive and integrated service and product portfolio”.
Heidelberg and Canon see growth potential in the expansion of inkjet printing and want to
jointly establish this technology in the printing industry for industrial production. With this
step, HEIDELBERG is also adding sheetfed inkjet solutions to its portfolio alongside toner
based Versafire systems and sheetfed offset presses.
As a first step, Heidelberg will be offering an existing B3 digital printing system from Canon
with corresponding integration into the Prinect workflow, its own service and consumables
under the name Jetfire 50 from drupa 2024 in Düsseldorf. It is planned to deliver the
machine to customers from the first quarter of 2025. In a further phase, Heidelberg is
expected to offer an inkjet digital printing press in B2 format for commercial printing from
mid-2025, with first shipments planned for early 2026. This machine will use state-of-the-art
inkjet technology to take industrial digital printing to a new level and will be offered as the
Jetfire 75 from Heidelberg. The new digital printing systems are intended to also be operated
fully automatically in an integrated system together with offset presses using Prinect Touch
Free via the Prinect workflow from Heidelberg.
"Heidelberg is the partner for printing companies that can supply and integrate all modern
technologies in a technology-neutral and demand-oriented manner," continued Schmedding.
"We offer the entire spectrum from toner to inkjet, from offset printing to flexo printing -
controlled from a common Prinect workflow." |
