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.
The new UD-300 on-demand diecutter with new separator and conveyor unit option from Duplo USA, can produce a variety of digital print and packaging products, such as custom-shaped brochures and direct mailers, stationery, retail packages, labels and folded boxes in quantities as low as one.
Today's cutters, folders, saddlestitchers and binders are extremely "intelligent." This is a necessity due to the need to reduce makeready time, and to compensate for the lack of "old hand" experience in the bindery. In today's digital print environment, training apprenticeships have all but disappeared, and an operator may be thrown into production with a few days worth of training.
If you're out there selling six- or seven-figure systems, make sure you spend the time and effort to ensure that your proposal clearly explains your system, its advantages and all of its configuration and options. Don't hand your prospect a price list generated by software. They deserve better.
At the BindRite 2014 annual meeting, National Print Owners Association (NPOA) president John Stewart concluded that labor costs are rising significantly faster than other shop expenditures.
According to MBO America's Director of Sales Lance Martin, the Inkjet Summit offered the perfect venue for the company to show off its latest successes and new equipment for digital and hybrid shops. Martin noted the well-targeted event allowed him to "reintroduce MBO to the digital inkjet crowd."
Komfi, a manufacturer of one-sided laminating equipment, has chosen AmeriLam and other members of the Innove Global Group to represent the company in North America.
As the industry evolves, it is fitting that digital finishing receives more attention today as the North American market moves further towards industrial inkjet production. Now more than ever before, there is a need for highly efficient finishing systems that can keep pace with the increasing speed of inkjet printing systems, and which in turn cater to rising print production demands.
Your company has just ordered a brand new finishing system, and you're excited as all get-out about getting this baby on the floor and operating. Your operators and maintenance people are pumped and ready-to-go. What could go wrong? Plenty.
In an effort to better serve the growing digital market, Muller Martini is relocating the manufacturing of Scalable SigmaLine from the Swiss factory to its Allentown, PA, production facility, and will begin producing the digital book manufacturing systems in May. The new facility will also feature a Demonstration Center where customers and industry professionals can experience live demonstrations of the technology.
