Based in Bensenville, IL, Sign Works has become the first print service provider to install the Anapurna M3200 RTR from Agfa Graphics. The six-color, 126" Anapurna M3200 roll-to-roll system allows the company to offer better products and faster service.
A new 64" Texart RT-640 dye-sublimation transfer printer, with print control technology, ErgoSoft Roland Edition RIP software, and a choice of four- or eight-color ink configurations, will be revealed by Roland DGA at the 2014 SGIA Expo in Las Vegas.
At GRAPH EXPO 14 in Chicago, HP announced its collaboration with KBA to develop new roll-to-roll inkjet solutions for the high-volume corrugated packaging market that will provide value chain cost savings while meeting brands’ rigorous quality and volume requirements.
The Garvey Group has received its second installation of a high-volume EFI VUTEk inkjet press, a 3.2-meter HS100 Pro UV, at its suburban Milwaukee production facility. Operating at speeds of up to 100 boards/hr., the press is a true digital alternative to labor-intensive screen printing operations. Earlier this year, the company installed a VUTEk HS100 Pro press in its Los Angeles facility.
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.
Digital textile printing is quickly transforming the world of display graphics. Merritt Graphics of East Hartford, CT, recently decided that the time was right and just finished installing a new PrinterEvolution Eos126 DS dye-sublimation printer. The machine simplifies dye-sublimation printing into a one-step process, achieving 24-hour-per-day production demands. It also added improved fabric finishing with an Impulsa Sewing System.
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.
Epson is the official inkjet printer and paper partner for the "Wilderness Forever: 50 Years of Protecting America’s Wild Places," exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. The exhibition-quality prints were created with Epson’s 44" Epson Stylus Pro 9900 inkjet printer.
