From Hollywood films to publishing and medical technologies, Canon U.S.A.'s new inspirational brand ethos spotlights the breadth of the company’s capabilities and contributions to developing imaging technologies that showcase the impossible for customers.
For this issue, we decided to take a look at four digital print shops targeting the high-end market, and how they meet and exceed their customers' expectations. There are a few common threads, but it is interesting how each company tailors its approach to its own personality, its target market and even its geographic location.
MGI Digital Graphic Technology will launch and preview five new digital solutions during GRAPH EXPO 14 in Chicago. The lineup featured includes the Meteor DP8700 XL+, the DF Pro, the JETvarnish 3D Evolution T Option, the DP1000 XL and the JETvarnish 3DS.
Recent upgrades made to the Kodak NexPress Digital Production Color Press Platform include the ability to support sheet lengths up to 1 meter, a Dura Coat mode, a Light Black HD Dry Ink Station as a standard feature and an Automated Imaging Cylinder Cleaning System. These configuration changes will become standard on all presses built in 2015, and will be available as optional or standard upgrades on the majority of installed Kodak NexPress presses.
At GRAPH EXPO 14, OKI Data Americas will demonstrate its new and expanding product line of digital production printers developed to serve short-run commercial applications. OKI will introduce the C711DW, a high-quality digital color label printer with finishing system, and also a new envelope feeder accessory for two of its digital color printers from the C900 series.
MELVILLE, NY—Canon U.S.A., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced the new imagePRESS C800 Digital Color Press Series, which combines new and proven technology to help deliver the level of print quality, productivity and flexibility expected of the imagePRESS line, in a compact, scalable footprint. Comprised of the imagePRESS C800 and imagePRESS C700, this series is designed for small-to-medium commercial, franchise, in-plant and quick printers, and is equipped to handle a variety of media options, including heavyweight coated stock, textured stock and envelopes.
Showcasing a range of technologies and innovations, Xeikon will highlight its specialty "Suites" at GRAPH EXPO 14, which not only include a Xeikon digital color press, but also the appropriate print media, software and workflow solutions, consumables and tools, as well as pre- and post-print equipment, required for a true end-to-end digital printing solution.
Canon U.S.A. has introduced its imagePRESS C800 Digital Color Press Series, that is designed for small-to-medium commercial, franchise, in-plant and quick printers, and is equipped to handle a variety of media options, including heavyweight coated stock, textured stock and envelopes.
A Kodak NexPress SX3900 Digital Production Color Press has been installed at Phoenix Graphics in Rochester, NY. Phoenix Graphics supplies over 70 percent of election ballots used annually in the state, and it plans to use the press, in part, to support this project.
At GRAPH EXPO 14 in Chicago from Sept. 28–Oct. 1, MGI will be showcasing two of the 2014 Must See 'Ems Award Winners, the JETvarnish 3D with the "T2" upgrade and the Meteor DP8700 XL+, winners in the Post-Press and In-Line Finishing and Digital Press categories respectively.
