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.
In an old warehouse in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) lies 200 of the world's greatest paintings—all under one roof. Not the real things of course, but high-quality reproductions, all printed with inkjet technology from Agfa Graphics.
Epson has revealed the next generation of large-format color printers—the Epson SureColor T3270, T5270, T7270, T5270D and T7270D—that are available in both single- and now dual-roll models, and feature the Epson PrecisionCore TFP print head and Epson UltraChrome XD pigment ink.
The new VersaEXPRESS RF-640 high-speed large-format inkjet printer, from Roland, can produce rich, vivid prints at speeds of up to 48.5m2/h (521.9 ft2/h), with an ink savings of up to 20 percent compared to previous models.
