Digital Printing-Wide Format - Roll to Roll

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.

Since installing an EF VUTEk HS100 Pro UV inkjet press and a VUTEk GS3250LX Pro LED inkjet printer with hybrid flatbed/roll-to-roll capabilities, Dome Printing in Sacramento, CA, has brought most of its large-format printing work in-house. Complementing its installation of new EFI VUTEk printing equipment, Dome also acquired an Esko cutting table for finishing flatbed-printed graphics jobs.

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.

Canon U.S.A. has launched the Océ PlotWave 500 large-format printing system. Printing at speeds of 10 D-size plots per minute with virtually no warm-up delay, and cloud integration, users can print faster, share faster and finish projects faster than before.

For a small printing company in a small state and operating in a small market, Beeline and Blue has a penchant for thinking big. Wide-format digital printing in general and the Digital Décor solution in particular are definitely the main talking points in Beeline and Blue's future.

Six new models have been unveiled by Canon U.S.A. in its imagePROGRAF lineup that include four new five-color, large-format inkjet printers, and two new large-format imaging systems. These devices offer faster printing speeds, lower operation costs, along with upgraded software for an enhanced user experience particularly in mobile and cloud-based printing applications.

As part of a restoration project at the Panthéon building in Paris, Agfa Graphics printed the canvas walls and the floor of the famous building. The visual on the floor was composed of more than 70 panels, which were printed on an Anapurna M2500 large-format inkjet printer.

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.