Saga Digital, a new Dubai-based graphics solutions company, is targeting the packaging sector with EFI equipment as well as finishing solutions such as Colex cutters.
Director Abdallah Ghalayini said the firm sees a growing market in packaging through an expansion in short runs.
In addition to its Jetrion, EFI can offer packagers hybrid printers that are suited to performing short runs for screen or offset printers, he said.
“Short run is becoming larger and larger runs over the years, with the introduction of faster printers,” he said.
“Look at the HS100 closely and you can see how it could be a solution for a good chunk of a conventional packaging printer. Speeds up to about 100 boards per hour, at exceptional near photo quality resolution, in many cases even better than what the conventional printers need at this point.”
A capacity to cure with Arc or LED UV opens up a much wider range of substrates, letting printers use the same substrates for digital and conventional, he added.
“If a conventional printer does not have the need or the budget for the HS100, we recommend the GS2000Lx and the GS3250Lx,” he said.
Saga Digital also sells EFI’s modular firmware for colour management, connecting conventional and digital printing, workflow management, MIS and the administrative systems, he added.
“On the finishing line, we have our high quality CNC systems, that are very robust and pretty fast production,” he said.
“They can cut, V-cut, kiss cut, crease, router cut, engrave automated reading marking made on the printers.”