Brillia LH-NN2 is a brand new printing plate which uses Fujifilm’s patented MultiGrain technology. Among the many benefits are an improved printing efficiency, facilitated plate making, reduced ink usage and faithful tone reproduction. In addition and above all, up to four times as many prints can be extracted from the same plate.
Daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter’s printing house, a Fujifilm client since 2003, has been successfully using the new printing plate for half a year now. It was in the second half of 2008 when they suddenly experienced a most troublesome situation. DN Bostad is one of the printing house’s biggest print series with 200,000 copies, but already after 70,000 prints, the plates were worn out and needed to be changed – and then changed again. A request was quickly sent out to all suppliers involved in the printing process to find a solution.
During this period, the R&D department of the Japanese Fujifilm Corporation was finally ready with the testing of a brand new type of plate. It was tried and the success was immediate. Dagens Nyheter could now print more than 300,000 copies without changing plates. In addition to the cost-efficiency, less chemicals and ink are used, to the benefit of the environment.