Enhanced colours, a wider gamut, and improved quality with the power of pink toner

When speaking to Fujifilm Revoria PC1120 customers, all of them cite the additional colour channels of our flagship, 6-colour POD press as a major reason behind their investment. Typically, it’s the ability to produce added-value special effects with those speciality toners, that first appeals to them. And yet often, the biggest value they get out of it, and what most impresses their customers, is the enhanced colours, wider gamut, and improved quality they can achieve with the addition of one very special toner: pink.

One Revoria PC1120 customer in Germany recently illustrated this point very powerfully. When doing a job for a customer in CMYK only, he adds a sample to the package when he sends it off, showing what the job could have looked like with pink toner added into the mix. The difference can be incredibly striking, and in his case, often leads to those customers requesting their next job to be printed in CMYK+Pink.

Pink helps to make skin tones of any hue smoother, with noticeably reduced grain, and pink also adds a wider range of printable colours, increasing the gamut in purple, orange and yellow shade, to name a few. To put it simply, adding pink toner in a fifth channel allows you to achieve colours that are impossible with CMYK toner alone.

Now, with Fujifilm’s new 5-colour mid-range models, the Revoria EC2100S and the Revoria SC285S, the power of pink toner to enhance almost any print job is firmly in the mainstream, and within the reach of a much broader market than ever before. We’re calling it 5UPER COLOUR.

RGB to CMYK

When we run demonstrations for customers on our Revoria presses – they often challenge us to try to match colours designed in RGB – like purples, blues, reds, pinks, and oranges. Even the very best CMYK-only presses can’t reproduce these colours with complete accuracy, because no matter how good a CMYK printer is, it can’t print colours that are beyond the CMYK range.

The addition of pink toner, changes everything, allowing an extraordinary level of colour accuracy and expands the ability to match colours from RGB design files in the final printed product. What’s more, the pink toner is applied automatically, with no need for manual intervention or complex changes to the design file. All that’s required is a click on “RGB simulation ON” and Fujifilm’s AI-assisted colour matching gets to work, adding the quantities of pink toner necessary to match the colours the designer intended.

From a designer’s point of view – this is hugely significant – and opens up a range of creative opportunities in ultra-short run print that simply would not have been cost-effective in the past.

Skin deep

Skin tones, of any hue, are notoriously difficult to accurately reproduce. Fujifilm’s POD range actually handles them remarkably well, even in CMYK, thanks in part to Fujifilm’s Super EA-Eco toner, with a particle size that’s the smallest in the industry, and also thanks to the 10-bit depth available in Fujifilm Revoria devices that massively increases the number of colour tones that can be achieved. But as good as it can get in CMYK, adding pink toner takes the clarity, evenness and accuracy up yet another level again, delivering skin tones of the highest quality.

Taking the power of pink mainstream

From enhanced quality; to an extended colour gamut; to better colour accuracy and brighter and more vibrant tones – pink toner has been transforming the higher end of the POD market for some years now. But it’s never before been truly accessible to the mid-range, mainstream market. That all changed in January 2025 with the European launch of Fujifilm’s Revoria EC2100S and SC285S. Pink toner, with its wide ranging benefits, is now well and truly in the mainstream, allowing more print service providers to offer added value print, and helping them differentiate the solutions they offer over and above standard CMYK providers.

5UPER COLOUR from Revoria: extra colour, extra applications, extraordinary results.