The ninth annual Dscoop conference, Break the Mold, will be held March 6-8 in Orlando, FL. New this year, education sessions will be structured around attendees’ roles and business functions within their organizations, including Business Owner/Management; Sales & Marketing; Creative & Pre-Press; Operations; and Technical.
The installation of a new HP Indigo W7200 series digital press, has given District Photo in Beltsville, MD, the high productivity it needed to complete jobs during the peak season of photo production. This also marks the 100th installation milestone of an HP Indigo W7200 series digital press.
Landa has announced major upgrades to its Landa S10FC and S10C Nanographic Printing presses, that include a new Landa Operator Cockpit, new ink ejectors, and an advanced paper handling system.
A young designer I spoke to the other day was very frank about the fact that she did not like digital printing because you could only print on white paper. Granted there are some print providers that prefer to print on white coated stock all day long (digital or offset, it does not matter to them). And these few give our whole industry a bad reputation.
HP is developing new solutions designed to help print service providers maximize their return on investment in production inkjet equipment. New workflow and color management solutions include HP SmartStream Composer and HP SmartStream Web Press Color Studio.
It was love at first sight for Russell Marcum, director of commercial printing firm Texoma Print Services in Durant, TX. At least, that is how he felt after seeing a five-color, 29˝ Presstek 75DI digital offset press in action at the Presstek demo center. Last June, the press was installed in Texoma's 10,000-square-foot facility, which the company moved into earlier this year.
More than 2,000 enthusiastic HP users packed the auditorium at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, TN last month for the opening of the eighth annual Dscoop conference. The three-day meeting included scores of educational sessions geared toward HP users, as well as an exhibit area with nearly 100 partners showing equipment and software designed to work with HP equipment.
As a Landa technology fan, Cheryl Kahanec, executive vice president of EarthDigital, was impressed and excited when she was approached by two of Landa's executives in late 2011. EarthColor signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to purchase an unspecified number of Landa Nanographic Printing presses.
Nosco, a full-service packaging solutions provider based in Gurnee, IL, plans to use the the HP Indigo 30000 digital press to extend digital printing to larger quantities of folding cartons and to produce customized cartons using variable data for serialization, personalization and brand protection.
Installation of the first HP Indigo 10000 beta systems has now been completed at U.S.-based Sandy Alexander, Israel-based Old City Press, and U.K.-based Precision Printing. The color-proofing bundled solution for the HP Inkjet Web Press family allows print service providers to check color quality offline.
