Digital Printing-Wide Format - Hybrid

After evaluating a number of different offerings, AlphaGraphics installed an EFI H1625 LED wide-format printer at its center in Suwanne, GA. The production printer model is a hybrid roll/flatbed device that includes industry-leading white ink and EFI’s "cool cure" LED inkjet technology and it is the latest in a series of upgrades that have helped to expand AlphaGraphics' business.

At the ReproMAX 30th anniversary conference recently held in Las Vegas, Capital Imaging of Lansing, MI, and Beeline and Blue of Des Moines, IA, were selected as Partners of the Year; and HP was named Vendor of the Year.

This year's SGIA Product of the Year competition was held at the 2014 Expo in Las Vegas, October 22-24. The contest showcased the best printers, technologies and consumables from the specialty imaging community. "Whether they were a seasoned company or an industry newcomer, each and every entry came to win," said Ray Weiss, SGIA’s digital imaging specialist.

The new Anapurna M2500i with optional automated board feeder (ABF) will be demonstrated by Agfa Graphics at its booth during the SGIA Expo in Las Vegas, from October 22-24. The Anapurna M2500i is the most recent i-series introduction, offering printing systems with higher productivity and quality. 

Steve Urmano has joined InfoTrends as the director of the company's Wide Format Printing Consulting Service. In his role, Urmano will develop InfoTrends’ annual global market forecasts and quarterly trackers for the wide-format printing market.

At GRAPH EXPO 14 taking place between Sept. 28 and Oct. 1, at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Canon U.S.A. will unveil the latest additions to its production and wide-format solutions portfolio, and will demonstrate how the company’s solutions help enable creativity without boundaries and inspire innovation.

Scheduled for October 22 in Las Vegas, Blue Ocean Worldwide will showcase its expanded superwide-format print capabilities at an Open House from 5:30 to 9 p.m. The company just added a sixth EFI VUTEk printer to its fleet after it moved into a larger location.

Two Chicago-area marketing services firms have joined forces to extend impact for their business clients. Tradeshows and Displays has become a subsidiary of Plum Grove, a print, promotional products and signage firm. The merged Plum Grove company provides a 360-degree approach to trade show marketing and printing.

For the first time, PriscoDigital will be exhibiting at SGIA 2014, conducting live continuous end-to-end workflow demonstrations on various rigid media. Using high-speed production equipment and optimized software from HP Scitex, Caldera and Esko, PriscoDigital demonstrate the wide range of products that print service providers, commercial printers, packaging printers and others can produce.

A new, hybrid roll/flatbed EFI H1625 LED printer has been installed at the Gladstone, MO, FASTSIGNS center. The new press allows the shop to produce high-quality, flatbed-printed parking lot signage, backlit signs and other display graphics.