Expanded colour gamut gives creart a new digital alternative for spot-colour offset applications while bringing RGB-designed colours closer to print.
creart expands creative print and colour offering with Fujifilm Revoria Press PC2120 installation
- creart
- Fulda, Germany
- Revoria Press PC2120
Highlights
- Investment: creart has installed a Fujifilm Revoria Press PC2120 to expand its digital print capabilities and bring more traditional offset work in-house.
- Colour: The press’s extended gamut with green and pink toners reproduces 93% of Pantone spot colours and improves RGB-to-print colour matching.
- Productivity: Inline and Plockmatic finishing and automation have significantly reduced production times, with one brochure workflow dropping from around one hour to just seven minutes.
- Customer offering: creart can now produce more creative, personalised and short-run applications with improved colour quality, while reducing reliance on external suppliers.
The Revoria allows us to reproduce colours much more accurately, meaning we can print what customers see on their screens.
- Torsten Gröger | Production Manager | creart
Founded in 1970 and employing around 30 people, creart provides creative design, photography, media services, commercial print production and multimedia solutions for customers ranging from local businesses to global brands.
Historically, creart combined offset printing and digital print production for a wide range of customer requirements. However, changing market dynamics, including declining offset volumes, shorter run lengths and increasing demand for rapid turnaround work, prompted the company to reassess its production capabilities. It was looking for a digital solution that could reproduce the colours and applications that had previously relied on offset and spot colours. The arrival of the Revoria Press PC2120 provided the combination of print quality, extended colour capability and automation that creart was in search of.
Alongside enhanced print quality, the installation has also reduced production times on several existing jobs. A brochure production workflow that previously took around one hour can now be completed in just seven minutes thanks to the inline finishing in the Revoria Press PC2120. Similarly, a 48-page brochure incorporating process colours and gold toner has seen production times reduced from approximately one day to around six hours.
Gröger comments: “The integrated Plockmatic finishing solution was a critical part of the investment decision.
“We want to put paper in at one end and receive a finished product at the other. The combination of the Revoria and inline finishing allows us to do exactly that. We’ve maximised our operations and become much more efficient in production.”
creart has also praised the Revoria Press PC2120’s intelligent automation features, particularly its integrated media profiling capabilities, which help deliver strong first-time results, simplify operation and reduce make-ready times.
Gröger comments: “The team adapted quickly to the PC2120, supported by Fujifilm’s training, and we’re continuing to explore new applications. It gives us the colour gamut and productivity we need for both everyday work and more creative jobs, while helping us reduce production time. We know it was the right choice for our business.” Looking ahead, creart plans to bring more previously outsourced work in-house and develop further applications using the PC2120’s extended colour gamut and speciality toners.
Mark Lawn, Head of Print on Demand Solutions, Fujifilm Europe, comments: “The Revoria Press PC2120 is already changing everything in relation to creart’s business. The company is being brave and embracing everything the press has to offer. They can now use digital production for applications that would previously have relied on offset and spot colours, while opening up a much wider range of creative colour possibilities. The extended colour gamut is a big part of that, as colours that were previously unprintable are now printable. It’s great to see what the team is already achieving with the press. We are delighted to support their continued growth.”
