EFI has added a line of printing systems for ceramic tile printing, including electronics, an engineered ink system, EFI ceramic ink sets, automatic printhead cleaning technology, a color management system, and more.

New EFI ceramic inks: Colors include dark blue, reddish brown, yellow, golden yellow, beige, pink, and black. Special effect inks include sinking ink, extra white, matte glaze, glossy glaze, and luster.

Cretaprint C4 printer, available in up to 29-in. widths, features:
• A new vacuum system;
• A compact frame holding eight individual bars that can be pulled out if required;
• Bar separation optimized for steam and mist extraction;
• Automatically adjustable height of both the vacuum bars and the jetting distance;
• New cleaning system;
• The ability to detect and correct missing nozzles;
• And a newly designed transport system.
Also available are the Cretaprint C3+ and Cretaprint P3+ printers with widths up to 27.5 and 55 in., respectively.

EFI Fiery proServer v 1.4 Digital Front-End: The Fiery proServer is a color management system for ceramic tile printing. It ensures accurate and consistent color quality while lowering ink consumption, according to the company. The Fiery also allows automatic creation of a special effect channel for digital decoration as well as automatic white ink-channel generation for dark-colored glazes.

Additional EFI enhancements introduced include:
• New ink system;
• New EFI electronics;
• Enhanced user interface;
• Tone Adjustment System;
• Tile thickness laser detector;
• Double tile printing;
• SMS alerts;
• Cretavision relief recognition; and more
 

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