Design Design, a B2B manufacturer and distributor of gift and stationery items had been outsourcing printing. In March 2010 they formed a separate printing company, Verdant Graphics, to serve the print needs of Design Design and the local community. Verdant chose the Presstek 52DI to produce quality printing with short turnaround times.
The Presstek 52DI-AC combines the power of DI printing with the capabilities of in-line aqueous coating. Commercial, in-plant and packaging printers can expand the range of applications they produce, thus opening new business opportunities.
This print communications firm installed a Presstek 34DI to fill the gap between their conventional offset and Konica Minolta toner-based equipment. In addition to profitably printing short-run, high quality printing on the 34DI, they are enjoying its capability to print on heavy stocks and complement their other production equipment to deliver new applications.
This paper explores the specific areas where Presstek DI presses offer environmental and economic advantages over conventional offset, digital toner and inkjet printing technologies Presstek DI presses redefine printing and integrate new innovations, which lower its environmental impact while creating new business opportunities for printers.
BROTHERS OMAR Rodriguez and Hugo Cervantes, owners of East Los Angeles-based X-Igent Printing, know a thing or two about starting a commercial printing business from the ground up. When the shop they were working for was acquired by a new owner, they decided to cash in $70,000 of the equity in a home they purchased in 2000 to launch their own brokerage, turned printing operation, in 2001.
NEW YORK—Vyomesh (VJ) Joshi, executive vice president of HP's $29 billion Imaging and Printing Group, received the 23rd annual Prism Award for distinguished leadership during a luncheon held here last Wednesday within the ornate Gotham Hall. The annual event raises scholarship money for New York University's Master of Arts in Graphic Communications Management and Technology program.
DIGITAL PRINTING is in? need of a press agent, or a PR? firm that can boost its image and explain to the masses exactly what it is capable of performing. But John Roberds, founder and president of Tulsa, OK-based Odyssey Digital Printing, knows that the role of educator, promoter and cheerleader falls squarely on the shoulders of his venerable sales staff.
Presstek, Inc. today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in United States District Court in New Hampshire against a distributor of printing plates manufactured by Israeli company VIM Technologies, Ltd. The Complaint alleges that Prograf Digital Services, Inc. and its President Joseph Musgrave violated Presstek’s rights by selling VIM printing plates, which Presstek alleges infringe Presstek’s U.S. Patent Nos. 5,339,737 and 5,487,338. Presstek also claims that Prograf and Musgrave have violated Presstek’s federally registered DI Trademark, which Presstek has held since 1992.
Printing Impressions’ Digital Printing and Workflow News for December, 2008.
Despite a budget crunch and a state-wide ban on new equipment, this in-plant justified a new four-color direct imaging press.
