Research and Markets: The US Commercial Printing Industry Includes About 35,000 Companies with Combined Annual Revenue of About $100 Billion
Research and Markets www.researchandmarkets.com/research/171a2f/commercial_printin has announced the addition of the ” Commercial Printing ” report to their offering. First Research is the leading industry intelligence company that helps sales teams perform faster and smarter, open doors, and close more deals. First Research performs the “heavy lifting” by synthesizing hundreds of sources into an easy to digest […]
Grapo to highlight Shark options at Fespa
Czech company Grapo Technologies is to take its Shark hybrid UV printer to Fespa in order to highlight new feed and cutting options now available. According to Grapho, the Shark now has options to cater for longitudinal and tranversal cutting of substrates up to 1mm thick. It also includes a feeder capable of handling stock […]
Free Webinar: Direct Mail Dynamics
May 18, 2010 2:00 p.m. Eastern (11:00 a.m. Pacific) Take back the creative controls with PaperSpecs’ next FREE Webinar – Direct Mail Dynamics! Chief Folding Fanatic Trish Witkowski of foldfactory.com will present a power-packed hour of folding inspiration and direct mail tips. She’ll show you how to map out your own successful plan with fresh […]
Agfa Graphics launches new :Azura V chemistry-free plates at IPEX
Agfa Graphics today announced the launch of the :Azura V chemistry-free plate for violet CtP systems. The new violet photopolymer plate works with gum, similar to Agfa’s industry-leading, ThermoFuse-based :Azura plates for thermal systems. This new, chemistry-free plate works with all mainstream violet CtP units currently in use at commercial print sites across the world […]
CSW, Inc. introduces Gen2 digital plate system
CSW, Inc. is rolling out a unique, new flexographic plate solution which removes many of the print limitations inherent to the flexo plate manufacturing process. Their Gen2 Digital Printing Plate System uses a combination of digital workflow, patented exposure and processing method and HD screening which delivers tangible benefits to flexo converters and packaging buyers.CSWs […]
New Color-Logic Process Metallic Color swatch chart demonstrates worry-free metallic printing
Color-Logic, http://www.color-logic.com/tech/ developer of the Color-Logic Process Metallic Color System, has announced the availability of a new color chart demonstrating metallic printing produced using the new system. The Color-Logic metallic color chart, with 250 brilliant metallic color swatches, was produced using only five inks, rather than the 250 different inks required with traditional metallic printing […]
Label Summit Latin America begins next week
Label Summit Latin America, taking place next week on May 11-12 in the Hilton Mexico City Reforma hotel, has lined up a wide variety of industry experts to present to delegates during the conference. Industry experts from Latin America, North America and Europe will represent some of the world’s leading label converters, end users, technology […]
The All New Print Production Handbook by David Bann
Every aspect of print production is covered in this informative, insightful and revealing book. From traditional printing and binding techniques to the next generation of print and production skills, nothing is left out. Each stage of the creative process is explained within the book in clear, concise text that goes alongside detailed color diagrams. The […]
Standard Finishing Systems' Partners to Premier New Technologies and Set World Records at Ipex
Standard Finishing Systems’ partners Horizon and Hunkeler will demonstrate a broad portfolio of new postpress and paper handling solutions—including a slate of first-ever showings and a world record for folding speed—throughout the halls of Ipex 2010 in Birmingham, England, May 18-25. A range of tightly-integrated feeding and finishing solutions for the high-speed continuous-feed digital print […]
Heidelberg Details its Latest Installs of Prepress, Press and Postpress Products
Risa Blythe, founder of Girlie Press, Inc. in Seattle, Wash., admits her company was “happy” with the results from an older, competitive CtP system—right up until it installed a two-up Suprasetter A52 thermal platesetter with Prinect workflow from Heidelberg in January. “We hadn’t realized how much happier we could be,” she said. “We wanted not […]
GMG ColorProof wins EDP award for Best RIP Solution for Wide Format
GMG, developer and supplier of high-end color management and proofing solutions, has won the award for Best RIP Solution for Wide Format of the Year 2010 from the European Digital Press Association (EDP). The award is presented to GMG ColorProof 5.1 for incorporating several new technical features and performance improvements, providing highest-ever achieved production reliability […]
Printing Companies are Boosting Productivity by Implementing MIS to Production Workflow Integrations
AT THE dawn of this still relatively new millennium, the printing industry was all abuzz about the concepts of computer-integrated manufacturing, the Digital Smart Factory and lights-out manufacturing. Workflow integration via the job definition format (JDF) became its quest for the Holy Grail. At the center of this automated processing was to be a management […]
