Digital Output Devices: A Digital Printing Redux
French developer MGI brought its drupa-introduced Meteor DP8700 S to Chicago. The full-color EP device can accommodate formats up to 13x19˝ at speeds approaching 3,300 sph. Also garnering considerable attention, as it did in Germany, was the JET-varnish 3D inkjet spot UV coater, capable of adding raised effects up to 100 microns in thickness.
John Parsons (john@intuideas.com), former Editorial Director of The Seybold Report, is an independent writer, ghostwriter, and editor. He is the co-author of the interactive printed textbook, Introduction to Graphic Communication, on the art, science and business of print, which has been adopted by Ryerson, Arizona State, the University of Houston, and many other schools and vocational training centers. Custom editions of the book are under consideration by major printing companies and franchises for internal training purposes.
