At its 13th annual plant tour and workshop held this week in Brainerd, MN, Bang Printing provided a demonstration of a digital web press with Kodak Stream Inkjet Technology. The company also illustrated for customers how this combination enables greater efficiency in its book production business.
Although I love summer, I really look forward to the fall season and the print shows each year at McCormick Place in Chicago. It is a truly exciting time seeing all the new technologies and devices. It is like being a kid in a candy store.
Developed for OEMs in need of creating a compact, cost-effective printer that easily integrates in to their media handling systems, the Sirius-12G from Memjet facilitates printhead maintenance without the need to break the plane of the media, enabling a wide range of applications.
Jaren Marler has been tapped to serve as Mark Andy's new chief technology officer. His leadership has already been an influential asset to Mark Andy’s engineering efforts, and this promotion supports the company's continued advancement of its Digital Series technology.
Printers looking to break away from the commodity trap should consider digital signage, banners, wide-format graphics and point-of-purchase/point-of-sale (POP/POS) output as a way to expand their sales and profit margins. That was the key takeaway from Printing Impressions’ “Opportunities in Wide-Format Digital Printing” regional colloquium held last month in Oak Brook, IL.
For those of you who are investigating high-speed inkjet, when talking to your OEM, be sure you request your supplier’s best and brightest when discussing how to best integrate high-speed inkjet into your existing operations. Or align yourself with an industry expert who can help with the evaluation, qualification and justification process. Your production department will certainly thank you for it.
During the course of almost two decades, the more inkjet I got involved with, the more I needed to incorporate inkjet into my daily life, oh, I mean production. I’ve had the opportunity to work with some of the greatest “suppliers,” I mean ink chemists, who have made creating great color and print quality the easy part of my job. Working with UV platforms gave me the extra rush I needed, for the time being.
At the Inkjet Summit 2014, which was held April 7-9 at the Ponte Vedra Inn and Beach Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, Canon Solutions America served as a Keynote Sponsor, and also received the “Best Sponsor Case Study” award, presented to its Production Print Solutions division during the Awards Dinner on the final night of the event.
Xerox has opened its newest innovation facility bringing aqueous inkjet products and services to the forefront. The Impika Inkjet Innovation Centre in Aubagne, France is a 91,000-square-foot showroom featuring Impika’s inkjet devices, adjacent to the company’s expanded R&D and production facilities.
For those who attended the 2014 Inkjet Summit at the Ponte Vedra Inn and Beach Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, there was no doubt that this 2014 edition was even stronger, more informative and more engaging than the first one, and plans are already in motion to raise the bar still further.
