Digital Printing-Wide Format - Roll to Roll

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.

Trivia time, folks. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Hint: Apparently, he drives a 2014 Toyota Highlander, as well. Anyone who has spent any amount of time absorbing the escapades of the happy little sea sponge—known as SpongeBob SquarePants—and his annoying starfish neighbor from the Nickelodeon cartoon, knows that he has never been able to pass his boating test. Thus, SpongeBob will have to spend his time as a passenger in the Highlander.

ColorNet Printing & Graphics, which serves the metropolitan Washington, DC, market from its facility in Sterling, VA, and its sister company, Rockville Printing and Graphics, in Rockville, MD, installed a six-color, two-meter wide EFI VUTEk QS2 Pro UV hybrid roll/flatbed inkjet printer, in its Virginia location to meet demand for high-end, wide-format graphics.

Mutoh America has partnered with ErgoSoft for a RIP solution on its dye-sublimation line of ValueJet printers. "The powerful Ergosoft RIP is known in the dye-sublimation and textile markets for its scalability, advanced printer control options and award-winning color management features that I am sure our dealers and customers alike will appreciate," said David Conrad, director of marketing for Mutoh America.

Mac Papers is now a full line distributor for Mutoh wide-format equipment and consumables. Through this partnership, Mac Papers now complements its existing wide-format offering with Mutoh’s full line of solvent and eco-solvent printers, UV curable printers, inks and media for customers across the Southeast United States.

Fogra has have confirmed that EFI’s VUTEk wide-format printers with LED curing show energy reductions of up to 82 percent when compared with devices that use conventional mercury arc lamps.

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.

Gandy Digital's new 30,000-square-foot facility in Ontario, Canada, has been designed to provide increased production flexibility, efficiency and automation, for the continued supply of products and customer service. “We have designed our new plant to not only drive production efficiencies and reduce costs, but to also provide an environment where design creativity could be maximized," said Hary Gandy, CEO.

Blanks Printing in Dallas, has upgraded its print production platform to include a pair of EFI VUTEk GS-series LED products, a 3.2-meter VUTEk GS3250LX Pro hybrid flatbed/roll-to-roll inkjet printer and the new, 3.2-meter VUTEk GS3250LXr Pro roll-to-roll inkjet printer.