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 […]
Multichannel Marketing Links Consumers Experiences
An online survey conducted by ATG, shows that consumers are using multiple channels to research, shop and purchase, and catalogs area strong driver to the web. Nearly one-third of consumers say they rely on more than three of different channels (online, in-store, print catalogs, mobile devices, customer service reps) from the time they start researching […]
BPIF targets SME printers with environmental certification scheme
London-based printers can take advantage of a new BPIF scheme that offers a fully-funded route to environmental certification. EcoPrint London is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, which is managed by the London Development Agency, and is led by a Steering Group of London printers and stakeholders. The scheme has been set up to […]
10 cool brochure designs
From the author: Brochures are actually one of my favorite items to design. I love the detail and planning that goes into creating an eye-catching brochure design. But I’m always impressed when I see another graphic artist take a brochure design idea to the next level. Tri-fold brochures are great and serve their purpose, but […]
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 […]
IMPIKA to unveil the iEngine 1000 at IPEX
Visitors to IPEX 2010 will have an opportunity to preview the technological, graphical and economic advantages of the latest addition to the IMPIKA line of digital print engines: the iEngine 1000. The unique and innovative iEngine 1000 design is the direct result of IMPIKA’s longstanding mastery of inkjet technology. The simple, flexible and compact iEngine […]
UK Newspaper Printer Adopts Kodak Inkjet Inline Imprinter
CN Newsprint, Carlisle, England, is the first to use the new Kodak Prosper S10 imprinting system in a newspaper production environment. The company is exploring commercial opportunities for the inkjet technology, which delivers variable data, 600-dpi high-speed offset in line with an offset press. The company is testing specialty applications for Kodak’s Stream inkjet technology, […]
Ipex 2010 – all set to be a 'sell out'
Ipex 2010 has reached almost full capacity with more than 75 new international suppliers signing up to exhibit in the last couple of months, adding a total of 1,300 square metres to the overall floorplan. The latest companies to confirm their attendance include Adobe, Brandtjen & Kluge, Grafitek International, Timsons, Impression Technology, XMPIE, Tarrant Machines, […]
KBA C16: an innovative new commercial web press
With commercial printers still reeling from the impact of the economic meltdown, overcapacity and price erosion, most reports of new investments in the Europeans web offset market tend to focus on high-volume press lines for 64, 72, 80 and even 96 A4 pages on the cylinder. But the proliferation of such presses over the past […]
NewPage and Spicers Paper announce new partnership on Discovery Brand
NewPage Corporation and Spicers Paper announced today a definitive agreement for NewPage to supply Spicers Paper with a private label brand of coated papers, Discovery, effective immediately. Discovery is a recognized and long standing Spicers Paper brand that is the foundation of the company’s exclusive Advantage Grade family of coated paper products. Discovery, supplied by […]
