EFI VUTEk X5r Roll-fed UV-LED Printer

The EFI™ VUTEk® X5r is a 5.2-metre roll-to-roll LED printer, expertly designed for high-volume production across a wide range of indoor and outdoor signage and display applications. Seamlessly integrated automation, software, and hardware work together to enable full-shift unattended printing, providing a complete print-to-finished-graphic workflow system on a single platform, while elevating image quality at production-level speeds.

Built for your success, the VUTEk X5r delivers everything you would expect from an EFI VUTEk roll-to-roll LED printing system—while introducing innovation like never before.

Push the boundaries of brilliance

Maximum productivity that ensures greater profits

• VUTEk X5r: up to 751 m² per hour

High-quality printing that secures more jobs

• CMYK, optional white, and UltraClear Coat
• 5 pL drop sizes and true resolution up to 1200 dpi
• Outstanding white ink printing performance in single- and multi-layer print modes
• White ink and UltraClear Coat can print together for enhanced design possibilities

Innovative technology that requires minimal operator intervention

• In-line and offline verification of media roll length and ink tank levels, Wrinkle Analyzer, and mobile operator alerts
• Auto Mesh printing for full-shift, non-stop continuous mesh printing
• Nozzle Compensation for monitoring nozzle health and maintaining consistent print quality
• Large and heavy roll media handling solutions for uninterrupted printing

Inline finishing workflow that drives production savings

Automate the entire printing and finishing process on the fly within a single system using EFI’s unique inline finishing workflow.

• Includes all or any combination of the following components:
  - Printing
  - Automatic inspection of printed output
  - Printing customer information on the back of the media
  - Vertical slitting and trimming
  - Horizontal cutting
• Saves valuable time and eliminates bottlenecks at finishing stations
• Replaces additional costly finishing equipment and optimises floor space
• Ensures perfect print quality with minimal operator intervention
• Prevents finishing, shipping, and installation errors
• Increases yield

Power Tools to boost your capabilities and profits

The VUTEk Xr Series of roll-to-roll printers is offered with EFI’s rich collection of value-added Power Tool options and software to give you the flexibility to automate the complete printing and finishing process, minimize waste, and expand your capabilities, application offerings, and profit opportunities.

• Y-slitter – single- or double-bladed – for separating multiple jobs on a single, full-width roll, minimizing media waste, and with waste collectors to eliminate the mess.
• X-cutter cuts media on the X-axis on the fly, without slowing down printing.
• InSpec automatic inline print quality monitoring system that can identify various print imperfections and fix them on-the-fly, using EFI’s unique roll-to-roll Nozzle Compensation System.
• ID Backprint for printing customer information on the back side of the media. Also available with white ink for color-backed media.
• Automatic Backlit supports multi-roll and enables printing each side with a different print mode.
• Automatic Blockout is available for multi-roll and supports cutting and slitting.
• Auto Mesh System for a faster, easier, and cleaner way to print on mesh and other porous substrates.
• White Printing with a variety of multi-layer print modes.
• UltraClear Coat can be used for decorative applications or as a fi nal protective coating. It prints inline, simultaneously with the image, saving time versus using a separate offl ine coating system, and in gloss or matte fi nishes.
• Motorized Winders are an integrated winder and unwinder solution with motorized pneumatic infl atable core shafts for precise and excellent media collection.
• Media Spreaders are a pair of clamp-like devices that stretch the media sideways to enable neat media inlet into the printer.
• Three-meter Super Duty Winder is a fully integrated unwinder or rewinder option for 3- and 5-meter EFI VUTEk roll-to-roll printers.
• 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.
• Auto Maintenance Kit enables printer operators to self-diagnose and fi x print quality issues, including an uncalibrated printer and missing or defi cient nozzles.