Digital Printing-Production Inkjet - Continuous Feed (Color)

Canon Solutions America hosted about 40 existing customers and prospects from around the country during its East Coast Inkjet Insider Summit held in Hartford, CT, last week. The highlight of the event was a tour of Data-Mail’s full-service direct mail printing and lettershop facility in nearby Newington, CT, and an optional visit to Data-Mail’s sister lettershop location in Windsor, CT.

It has been an interesting 16 months for Access Direct Systems, a company that has traditionally made conservative, measured decisions in mapping out its game plan. But its desire to remain a flexible, focused partner for its mailing clients is what led it to make an unprecedented, production inkjet-related initiative.

Inkjet adoption has primarily centered around continuous-feed inkjet press installations for high-speed, high-volume applications—but the long-announced wave of cut-sheet inkjet printers starting to enter the marketplace will also become game-changers for more mainstream sheetfed offset and cut-sheet toner digital shops.

These are good days for the production inkjet printing business, for both users of the technology, as well as its related equipment and supplies manufacturers. Everyone is growing, everyone seems to be making money and promises of technology advancement are being delivered upon.

As the 2015 Inkjet Summit approaches April 27-29 in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, we asked these production inkjet experts—Inkjet Summit Advisory Board members who will also be sharing their expertise and knowledge as speakers and facilitators throughout the event—to briefly address select aspects of the production inkjet landscape. One thing is clear: the growing implementation of production inkjet printing is a disruptive technology that is rewriting many former industry paradigms.

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Direct mail marketing firm Wilen Direct in Deerfield Beach, FL, has added a new Kodak Prosper 6000C press to meet the demand for quick turnaround and high-quality, four-color variable direct mail solutions across various formats and substrates. The press will also provide Wilen’s clients with a more efficient page inventory and a wider array of size and substrate options.

With the promotion of Aurelio Maruggi, Eric Wiesner has been tapped as HP’s IHPS vice president and general manager.

In place since 2009, the global strategic alliance between HP and Pitney Bowes has been renewed. This collaboration extends the solutions portfolio with industry-leading products such as the Pitney Bowes IntelliJet Printing System.

Sport Graphics in Indianapolis has produced a 267×165-foot sign on the JW Marriott showing this year’s NCAA men’s tournament bracket.