Digital Printing-Wide Format - Hybrid

Brent Moncrief has joined Durst U.S., the North American subsidiary of Durst Phototechnik AG, as its new vice president of sales and marketing. He succeeds Chris Howard, who has been promoted to vice president for business development.

Guests invited to the recent series of Technology Summits in Kansas City, KS, hosted by Fujifilm North America, Graphic Systems Division, gained in-depth knowledge of wide-format applications, and opportunities to serve this growth market.

Livermore, CA-based Evron Graphics became one of the first companies in the world to install the EFI H1625 LED hybrid roll/flatbed printer—a brand-new inkjet product that brings EFI’s greener LED inkjet platform to its wide-format line of entry-level production technologies.

The EFI VUTEk GS5500LXr Pro printer will make its worldwide debut at Shanghai AD & Sign 2014. The new roll-to-roll inkjet product is part of an exhibit offering the industry’s most significant digital portfolio for greener, more productive graphics printing.

At FESPA Digital this week in Munich, Germany, EFI will showcase its UltraDrop 7pL grayscale print head technology on its VUTEk GS series printers. FESPA also marks the worldwide premiere of EFI Fiery proServer Version 6, a scalable and flexible digital front-end workflow offering significantly faster processing speeds.

Canon Solutions America, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A, outlines the top five questions that a printer should ask when selecting media for a wide-format printer. The white paper “Smart Media Decisions for Your Wide Format Printer,” is also presented.

At the ISA International Sign Expo this week in Orlando, FL, EFI is showcasing the first LED printer in the entry-level EFI wide-format line, the new EFI H1625 LED printer, as well as the EFI VUTEk HS100 Pro UV inkjet press, a high-volume production solution offering near-offset quality for display graphics, corrugated packaging and other applications.

Last month Agfa Graphics held an open house for select industry journalists and customers at its new competence center in Mississauga, Ontario. The first of a series of North American "Red Carpet" customer events, the open house kicked off with a keynote presentation from Dominiek Arnout, Agfa Graphics' vice president/inkjet, and his team, who shared the latest in research developments and applications, as well as the changing dynamics in digital sign and display printing.

Join In-plant Graphics Editor Bob Neubauer and a panel of industry veterans on March 20, at 2:00pm, for the "Seize the Wide-format Advantage" webinar sponsored by Canon Solutions America.

At FASTSIGNS International's annual convention in Anaheim, CA, a record-breaking 79 FASTSIGNS centers were recognized for exceeding $1 million in annual sales, including 71 locations in the United States, four in Canada, three in Australia and one in the United Kingdom.