Ferrostaal Equipment Solutions North America announced it now has in place an experienced team of sales, technical support and customer service managers and representatives to serve customers across the United States and Canada. Starting next week, it will begin announcing its lineup of authorized dealers.
In the offset printing category of the 41st WorldSkills competition, the gold and silver medals went to two young women. The pace was set by 22-year-old printer Makiko Ito, who finished some way ahead of Susanna Virtanen from Finland.
Specialty Finishing, a full-service folding carton manufacturer, purchased two KBA Rapida large-format sheetfed presses from KBA North America at GRAPH EXPO 2011. “We chose to purchase two large-format presses from KBA because they could offer the highest level of automation and productivity, as well as a custom-configured press for our particular needs,” says Mark Wright, Specialty Finishing president.
Offset press output still comprises 90 percent of the printing done, by some accounts, but you wouldn’t know it based on all the attention given to digital inkjet- and toner-based devices at Graph Expo. Lithographic press manufacturers aren’t standing still, however.
In the case of Ross PrintMarketing, the printing element is not as important as the overall campaign. The value proposition offered by the Denver-based firm is as a purveyor of marketing tools, some of which are print-based (such as direct mail), and others that are data-driven (including response rate and ROI analysis).
Simple folding machine techniques for consistently better signatures.
In static sheetfed, web offset and digital printing, the term “crossover” denotes the number of impressions at which a per-unit cost advantage can be gained by switching a job from one process to another. Technological advancements continue to enable companies that offer all or most of these processes to be competitive over a wider range of jobs, extending the run length crossover between processes.
More than 1,000 trade visitors from all over the world are expected to attend the Sheetfed Summit 2011, which will run from May 16-20, 2011, at the manroland Offenbach Print Technology Center. Value-added printing for improved business and production processes will be the focus.
Foster, a trade printer based in Santa Ana, CA, has inaugurated its new 46,000-square-foot facility and started up its second KBA Rapida 162a 64" sheetfed press, a five-color conventional press that sits alongside its 2008-purchased KBA Rapida six-press with UV capabilities.
Chairwoman and CEO Lynne Alexander has positioned the 113-year-old firm well for the future, backed by a $7 million capital expenditure initiative that includes a six-color, 73″ manroland 900 XXL large-format sheetfed press with in-line aqueous coater as its centerpiece.
