Fujifilm is looking for beta sites for the Jet Press 540W inkjet web press it showed at DRUPA last year.

The press, then known as the Jet Press W, is unusual in that it prints duplex within a single tower, making for a relatively compact footprint (it’s 6.6 metres long and 2.8 metres wide).

Fujifilm has installed a demo press at its advanced print technology centre in Brussels, and it is understood another will be on show at Australia’s PacPrint trade show in Melbourne in late May.

The company is targeting newspapers alongside high quality, short run digital print markets such as leaflets and personalised magazines, as well as school textbooks and book printing.

The 540W prints webs up to 540 mm wide using a range of stocks between 64-157 gsm, at speeds up to 127 metres/minute. Top print resolution of 600 dpi will be upgradeable to 1200 dpi later this year.

Front end is Fujifilm’s XMF workflow with FM-based Fujifilm screening.

Graphic system division product development and marketing manager Taro Aoki says the company is excited to be launching the press to the market, and hopes to have beta sites “in the near future”.