Taking a fresh look at Fujifilm

Fujifilm is one of the world’s foremost developers of material and imaging equipment. The name is synonymous with pioneering technologies that drive greater value for packaging and label printers.

The business has recently launched its latest global campaign, inviting businesses to ‘take a fresh look at Fujifilm’. Creation is proud to supply proven Fujifilm technology to its customers, so what better opportunity to explore why?

In addition to serving the needs of Creation customers in the packaging and label printing market, Fujifilm also supplies material and imaging solutions to wide format and commercial printers.

Creation and Fujifilm are closely aligned in terms of business values, aiming to put core focus on sustainability and in doing so, help to secure a stronger and more robust future for the printing sector.

Fujifilm has a comprehensive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme that seeks to reduce the environmental impact of its operations, as well as promoting ethical and responsible supply chain activities. Similarly, Creation puts sustainability at the heart of everything it does. The business believes that it’s vital every business shares a vision of eco-friendly practices, from prepress through to the completed product.

As part of its range of packaging and label prepress services, Creation supplies a number of Fujifilm solutions. With a reputation as a leading name in packaging and label reprographics, Creation’s product range is carefully selected to ensure quality, value, stability and sustainability.

Flenex-FW

Eliminating the need for harmful VOC solvent washout in packaging and label prepress, Fujifilm Flenex-FW is a water-washable flexo plate that challenges the idea that sustainability is a compromise.

In addition to lowering the carbon output of prepress, Flenex FW reduces platemaking process times to under 40 minutes across exposure, washout, drying, post-exposure and detacking. For printers, this represents a time saving of around 300% faster over typical solvent systems.
By utilising the expertise and innovation of Fujifilm, Creation accesses an entirely new level of speed and agility when responding to the evolving needs of its print customers. In addition, Flenex-FW is ideal for even the longest print runs, delivering a consistent 200lp at 4000 dpi, along with 1% process dot structure for precise, crisp graphics.

Varnish Plates

New to the Creation range, Fujifilm supplies varnish plates that bring the power, stability and versatility of flexo to wide-web offset printing applications.

Driving new efficiencies for Creation customers, the use of Fujifilm Varnish Plates in offset printing brings key advantages in speed and productivity, such as eliminating the need for Stripping Blankets.

With the addition of Fujifilm Varnish Plates to its range, Creation is able to extend its product range to the wide web sheetfed printing sector for the first time.

Fujifilm’s connected approach to printing sustainability
Creation believes that Fujifilm’s comprehensive sustainability strategy, which makes low-energy, low-carbon printing simpler, lights the way towards a stronger and more robust industry.

In all its varied aspects, print is an essential tool of modern business; from printed brochures, catalogues and sales documents to the everyday packaging and labels that adorn the products that consumers purchase and handle every day.

With carbon ‘net zero’ reduction targets on the horizon and in an age of heightened environmental concern, Fujifilm believes that print can be used in a more efficient and responsible way on a number of fronts. This includes cutting waste in both materials and energy use, as well as making printed goods more easily recyclable.

A central part of its sustainability strategy is the drive for circularity, moving businesses and consumers alike further away from linear ‘take, make, waste’ economies and towards closed loop circular economies where raw materials are used in ways that enable reuse and recycling by default, not as the exception.

With a global push to ‘take a fresh look at Fujifilm’, why not do it with Creation? A trusted partner to label and packaging printers, Creation specialises in turning good design into an outstanding finished product.

Could Creation be the key to boosting your label and packaging print operations? To find out more about Creation and its expertise, click here to contact our team today.