Offset Printing - Sheet-Fed

ALEXANDRIA, VA—06/06/07—It’s spring cleaning time at Fannon Fine Printing in Alexandria, Virginia. After a three-year search, Daniel Fannon and his team are installing a Roland 500 29-inch press. The six-color-plus-coating system replaces a pressroom full of equipment that includes a 40-inch six-color Roland Rekord, a 20-inch four-color GTO, and an 18-inch Quickmaster DI direct imaging machine. Taking advantage of the autonomy that is inherent in a family-owned business, Fannon did not have to report to a board of directors or a flock of shareholders, instead he listened to his marketplace before zeroing in on a new press. The voices included those of the top designers

Every printer knows what happens when sheets of paper become electrostatically charged: they stick together as they're taken in from the stack, potentially stopping up the feeder. A static charge is especially likely to build up when paper that is too dry is printed in cold weather and other times of low atmospheric humidity. To control static, the moisture content of paper should range between 45% and 55%. Working spaces should be air-conditioned or humidified at a 50% to 55% level of relative humidity. Antistatic equipment such as discharge electrodes and ionic blowers reduce electrostatic charge by raising the surrounding air’s electronic conductivity,

NILES, IL—05/31/07—KBA North America, a leading press manufacturer based in Williston, VT, is announcing that The Garvey Group, one of the Midwest’s most successful printers, has garnered six top printing awards from the Printing Industry of Illinois/Indiana Association’s Pinnacle Print Awards. Six of Garvey’s nine large-format printing pieces submitted to the competition won awards for jobs produced on its KBA Rapida 205 81-inch six-color sheetfed press. The Garvey Group received its awards at PII’s 5th Annual Pinnacle Print Awards Gala on May 22 in Des Plaines, IL. “We are so honored to win these large format awards from PII,” says Ed Garvey, president of

KENNESAW, GA—May 31, 2007—Heidelberg USA announces the following new product installations: Great Atlantic Graphics Aims High and Scores with Speedmaster XL 105 Great Atlantic Graphics in Malvern, PA is doing higher math these days since the company installed a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 105 6-color press last month with coating unit, extended delivery and DryStar 3000 dryers, including advanced presetting and storing functionalities. Also installed were Prinect Image Control and the CP2000 Center Options Instant Gate and Prepress Interface. According to Pressroom Manager Cal Bou, the new press already has logged more than 2.5 million impressions after just six weeks in production, turning out commercial

DAYTON, OH—May 14, 2007—WorkflowOne announced today that under its sub-contractor agreement to Océ Business Services, the company has secured a multi-year contract with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) to provide a comprehensive program of offsite print management. UPMC is a leading integrated health care enterprise and one of the nation’s most acclaimed academic medical centers. Under the terms of the contract, WorkflowOne will provide a supplemental strategy for UPMC’s outsourced print. The strategy will include an analysis of UPMC’s current business stationery, marketing materials and forms to determine opportunities for standardization and consolidation, while identifying candidates for print on demand or migration to

WILLISTON, VT—05/02/07—KBA North America, a leading press manufacturer, is offering another comprehensive five-day seminar on lenticular printing and prepress work, scheduled for May 29 to June 1. The professional development seminar, held at KBA’s headquarters, brings together KBA’s lenticular, printing and marketing experts with owners and press operators of the award-winning KBA Genius 52 UV press. Lenticular printing is a special technique that involves printing an image on the back side of lenticular plastic, allowing the eye to simultaneously view alternating sections of multiple images to give the impression of 3-D, flip, or motion. “After our first seminar in late 2006, we decided to

A SMALL, but growing number of printers are taking a big leap of faith (and finances) to invest in what may well be the commercial and packaging printing equivalent of the Gold Rush. Printers big and small—like Branch Smith Printing, Carter Printing, Ambassador Press and Strine Printing, to name a few—are expanding into large- and very-large-format sheetfed technology and betting the ranch...’er, press...on their ability to boost productivity and expand into new product niches. Hoping to hit the motherload of profitability, printers are staking their claim by offering up to 81˝ formats to blend the high-quality printing capabilities of sheetfed offset with the ability

William “The Refrigerator” Perry, a retired Chicago Bears football player known for his considerable size (6-foot-2 and 370 pounds), was enlisted to help promote the new very- large-format capabilities of North Bergen, NJ-based Edison Litho & Printing at the annual GlobalShop Show (held in Las Vegas in March). Perry appeared at Edison’s booth to sign autographs and have his picture taken with show-goers. “We wanted to stand out at the show, and what better way to promote our large-format capability, but to have a celebrity football player at our booth,” says Joe Ostreicher, Edison Litho’s vice president. “We chose William ‘The Refrigerator’ Perry because he

Las Vegas show features football great while North Bergen, NJ mayor cuts ceremonial ribbon NORTH BERGEN, NJ—04/30/07—Edison Litho & Printing, one of the largest large-format litho printers in the Northeast, has been effectively promoting its large-format capabilities at different recent events. At the GlobalShop show, the largest retail design and in-store marketing event held in Las Vegas in early March 2007, Edison enlisted William “The Refrigerator” Perry, a retired Chicago Bear football player known for his considerable size—standing 6 ft 2 inches tall and weighing as much as 370 lb.--to promote its KBA Rapida 205 81-inch six-color sheetfed press and its KBA Rapida 162

KENNESAW, GA—April 30, 2007—Heidelberg USA announces the following new product installations: Doubled Capacity and New Business in 2007 for Walker Printing Company, Inc. Owner Taylor Blackwell of Walker Printing Company, Inc. has worked hard to gain loyal customers. With the installation of Heidelberg’s 4-color Speedmaster XL 105, the customers are now coming to him. “Our customers are excited about everything the press can do” Blackwell said. “They want to come in and see it run.” Walker Printing Company has more than doubled its capacity since the new press was installed in December, replacing an older Heidelberg model. The company’s new press comprises the latest