208 in
Max. print width
3,800 ft²/hr
Max. productivity
up to 600 dpi
Resolution
CMYK + optional lc, lm, lk, white
Colors
Print beautiful graphics at production speeds
Accelerate your productivity and print quality at the best cost of ownership with the EFI™ Matan 5 superwide roll-to-roll printer. It offers maximum versatility for a wide range of indoor and outdoor applications.
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Highlights
Productive roll-to-roll printing
Quick and easy media loading that handles a wide variety of flexible substrates. Roll-to-roll, free-fall, and multi-roll (3 rolls of 63 in) at production speeds up to 3,800 ft2 per hour.
White ink and multi-layer printing
Superb white ink printing performance in single- and multi-layer print modes.
Media savings
Unique roll loader for up to 300% better media utilization — only 15.7 in (40 cm) of wasted material on every roll loading.
Inline finishing
EFI’s unique roll-to-roll workflow automates the complete printing and finishing process on the fly and in a single system.
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Fiery Driven
Built-in Fiery® SE digital front end with color management workflow and RIP optimized for EFI printers.
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Power Tools to boost your capabilities and profits
Y-slitter – for the vertical trimming of margins or slitting media into multiple jobs, minimizing media waste and increasing the printing area.
- Simultaneous printing and media cutting on the Y-axis
- Modifiable configurations include:
- Single-bladed for trimming margins
- Double-bladed for slitting of single media into two jobs (blades are fixed 0.3 in/8 mm apart)
- Simple and easy installation with no tools required
- Easy manual adjustment of the slitter position along the printer table
- Retractable blades for maximum safety
- And waste collectors to roll up trimmed remnants, increasing overall productivity and eliminating the mess
X-cutter – unique roll-to-sheet horizontal cutter incorporated in the printer.
- Automatically cuts media on the X-axis between jobs on the fly
- Controlled via the front-end software
- Does not affect productivity
- Saves valuable time at the finishing station
- Replaces expensive cutting equipment and saves space
- Prevents finishing errors and increases yield
ID backprint – a device that prints file information on the back of the media, facilitating the identification of finished jobs for packing, shipping, and installation.
- Printed data includes:
- File ID
- Printing date and time
- Print mode
- Copy number and more
- Eliminates the need for manual labeling
- Helps prevent shipping errors
- Saves time during installation of the printed job
White printing
- Enables printing on colored and transparent media
- Opens up a myriad of creative possibilities
- Instant uptime of white printheads, thanks to advanced circulation system in the ink tanks and along the entire ink system
- Multiple white print modes for various challenging applications:
- White only
- White as background
- White on top of color
- White for backlit applications (C-W-C)
- Five-layer printing (C-W-B-W-C) for blockout printing on clear
- Various additional three- and five-layer print modes
Seven-color printing
- Enabled by adding three light colors: light cyan, light magenta, and light black
- Based on the existing printhead configuration, without adding more heads
Benefits
- Expanded color gamut
- Smooth gradient transitions
- Vivid and crisp colors
- Fine details
- Smooth skin tones
Automatic blockout printing – an automatic system that enables printing on both sides of opaque blockout media, resulting in excellent registration between sides.
- Accuracy of ≤ 5 mm over 10 linear meters
- Includes an optical sensor system, dedicated electronics and software
- Simple, easy, and fully automatic system
- Eliminates the need for guesswork and manual manipulation
- Reduces required operator skill level
- Two available workflows, to be defined before printing:
- Head-to-head printing for short jobs where media is rolled back, flipped over, and reinstalled with side B up
- Head-to-tail printing for longer jobs where printed media is collected on a front core, flipped over, and reinstalled with side B up
Notes
- Single-roll printing for side B
- Use of X-cutter and Y-slitters with automatic blockout is limited:
- Slitters – possible according to built-in instructions
- Cutter – can be used for side B
Automatic backlit printing – Automatic, patented system for perfectly aligned double-sided backlit printing on backlit media.
- Accuracy of ≤ 0.08 in (2 mm) over 32 linear feet (10 linear meters)
- Camera-guided software automatically correct registration on x, y, and tilt axes
- Includes two cameras, LED strip along printing table, and dedicated software
- Simple, easy, and fully automatic system
- Eliminates the need for guesswork and manual manipulation
- Reduces required operator skill level
Three-meter super duty winder – fully integrated unwinder or rewinder option for EFI VUTEk roll-to-roll 3m and 5m printers.
- Enables working with heavy 10 ft (3 m) media rolls up to 1,748 lbs (793 kg)
- Enables continuous, uninterrupted work without stopping to change rolls
- Increases productivity in high volume runs due to less make ready
- Equipped with dancer and external motor
- Material width: 126 in (320 cm)
- Maximum media diameter: 28 in (70 cm)
- Standard 3 in core; optional 6 in core
Media spreaders – a pair of clamp-like devices that stretch the media sideways to enable neat media inlet to the printer.
- Helps prevent potential media wrinkles
- Improves media advance
- Facilitates printing on various types of challenging media
- Easy to install at both ends of the press beam on the rear of the printer
- Position and tilt angle are adaptable to the media type and width
Wrinkle analyzer – helps avoid printhead strikes caused by media wrinkles, saving time and money by preventing ruined jobs and enabling the use of lower-cost media.
- Media height detector identifies a media wrinkle before it reaches the printhead
- The front-end software prompts the user to raise the carriage just enough to avoid a head strike that may ruin the job and, then, to resume printing
Media saving wizard
- Designed to improve media stock management
- The user enters the length of the media each time a new or partially used roll is loaded into the software
- Before the media is removed from the printer, a label with the remaining media length is printed on the rim of the roll
- The software will alert the user before starting a job if the remaining media on the roll is insufficient for the job