Digital Printing-Production Inkjet - Continuous Feed (Color)

Original Impressions in Miami, FL, has chosen a Screen Truepress Jet520 inkjet printing system for its ability to produce books on demand, long-run catalogs and personalized marketing materials.

At the upcoming PRINT 13 in Chicago, more than a dozen Memjet-powered products from a record-setting number of Memjet partners will be launched and exhibited. Three Memjet-powered products have already been awarded Must See 'Ems in advance of the PRINT 13 show.

Canon Solutions America hosted its "When Print Meets Multi-Channel" event at SG360°, a direct mail and marketing solutions specialist based in Wheeling, IL. Attendees had the opportunity to learn about digital printing, variable data and multi-channel marketing, and how to monetize them in their own printing operation.

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.

IWCO Direct has installed an Océ ColorStream 3900 digital inkjet printer at its Chanhassen, MN headquarters. With full-color and monochrome print capabilities and speeds of up to 56 million letter impressions per month, the investment increases IWCO's capabilities and capacity for customers utilizing highly relevant, time-sensitive direct mail campaigns.

Seiko Epson has invested approximately 16 billion yen in two new production lines in Japan. The lines have been constructed to manufacture next-generation print heads—the core component in inkjet printers—for use in business and industrial printing systems to come to market in the latter part of the 2013 fiscal year.

Epson believes that the enhanced precision and density of the new print head will act as a platform for significantly improving the fundamental performance of Epson inkjet printers, and for making further improvements going forward.

Frederic Printing, a Consolidated Graphics (CGX) company based in Aurora, CO, does its job when it comes to having the right people in place. The firm is always aggressively seeking out new talent. Chris Greene, Frederic president, notes that Denver is not exactly a printing mecca, so he usually has a fairly strong sense of who's out there and who might complement the existing Frederic staff.

Financial Statement Services (FSSI), a full-service print and mail firm based in Santa Ana, CA, has installed an Océ ColorStream 3900 digital color printing system. The new MICR and dynamic perforating capabilities of the new press, give FSSI the ability to compete more effectively in the growing transactional document and check-printing business.

The inaugural Inkjet Summit 2013, held at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, in April, was a first-of-its-kind conference model for the printing industry. One of my biggest takeaways after attending the Summit was the consensus among printer attendees, leading consultants and participating industry suppliers alike that inkjet production printing will be a disruptive technology.

The Inkjet Summit 2013, held at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, near Jacksonville, FL, drew more than 65 print professionals, comprising CEOs, general managers, and senior vice presidents in charge of plant operations, technology and digital print operations at leading companies.