Infotrends Releases White Paper Detailing MGI’s History, Digital Technology

The Meteor DP8700 XL takes this versatility to a new level, offering 3,600 dpi/270 lpi print resolution (including stochastic), increased print speeds up to 4,260 A4/letter sheets per hour, a new auto-adjusting offset feeder table (ensuring registration of ±0.2mm left-right, ±0.5 mm top-bottom, front-back), along with many other new features.

In addition to highlighting the Meteor DP8700 XL, the white paper’s analysis looks at MGI’s innovative production inkjet solutions: the JETvarnish digital inkjet spot UV coater and the JETcard, which integrates four- to six-color UV inkjet printing (with full variable data), spot/flood UV coating, security (black light visible) coating, data encoding and verification (magnetic stripes) into just one unit, designed for high-volume plastic card production. Also hinted at are future developments in MGI’s production inkjet technologies for the commercial printing market.

Rounding out the white paper are MGI’s innovative finishing technologies, including the DF360 multi-function finishing unit and the PressCard Pro and PunchCard Pro, lamination and die cutting solutions for the plastic card manufacturing segment.

“We were thrilled to work on this project with Jim Hamilton and InfoTrends; they did an excellent job of articulating MGI’s long history of innovation for the global graphics market,” said Michael Abergel, executive vice president and managing director of MGI USA. “Our versatile digital portfolio has been making an impact in nearly every segment for almost 30 years, and this white paper is a great representation of the many accomplishments of MGI as a company over the years as well as a glimpse of what our future holds.”

“The announcement of the Meteor DP8700 XL is significant not only because it extends the Meteor product line to new levels of productivity and format, but also because it puts the industry on notice that MGI is expanding its product line and distribution capabilities in a way that puts them into direct competition with much larger companies,” said Jim Hamilton. “MGI’s value proposition combines printing, finishing and value-added features in ways that no other vendor is currently doing.