Merrill Corp. in St. Paul, MN, has installed a Ricoh InfoPrint 5000 continuous-feed color print platform to print highly-regulated and compliance-driven communications for its customers in the financial services, health insurance and other corporate markets.
Choosing an inkjet-compatible paper will provide a more stable platform to print to G7 Gray. Some coated inkjet papers using aqueous pigment inks will even achieve G7 Color. How do you currently measure, match or control your high-speed aqueous inkjet processes?
As part of its strategic investment in digital printing technology, IWCO Direct has installed a new Océ ColorStream 3900 digital inkjet press at it's Hamburg, PA, facility. The new press in Hamburg will use Océ's newly developed Premium Pigment ink solution, which expands the color gamut and provides more vibrant color saturation.
Logo Label Printing of Durham, NC, has added an EFI Jetrion 4830 UV inkjet system to provide volume printing without the added costs of plates, setup, and prepress charges, for a wide assortment of substrates, including foil and clear label.
Do you currently sell both offset and inkjet? Are you confident that your sales staff understands the basic differences? Not knowing will affect your sales and integration of new technology.
Until there is an inkjet fluid that dries quickly and stays on the uncoated paper surface, designers wanting to design to the machine color space will have to require the printer to “fingerprint” the machine on the uncoated paper, as well as request the output profile for soft proofing. We can call this proofing profile “Uncoated Kool-Aid.”
The inkjet industry’s lack of communication reminds me of my 16-year-old teenager. He is a bright, creative, innovative and responsible young man, whom I can depend upon to be consistent and hard working. But, when it comes to communication
A new Ricoh InfoPrint 5000 continuous form inkjet press has been purchased by Edwards Brothers Malloy for its Ann Arbor, MI, digital print center. The press will be installed this month, with full production planned for November, and will aid in the production of short-run work.
Inkjet is a new and wonderful “disruptive technology” that is ever-changing to adapt to customer and market needs. Speed requirements are pushing print head jetting capabilities which, in turn, is requiring changes in inkjet fluid chemistry.
When it was time to upgrade to its first large-format direct-to-substrate printer, Willamette Print & Blueprint (WP&B) in Portland, OR, chose the Screen Truepress Jet2500UV board and roll inkjet printing system because of its ability to print on flexible and rigid substrates, such as corrugated fiberboard, aluminum composite material and acrylic sheets.
