Printing Impressions magazine has honored Agfa Graphics with two Gold Ink Awards this year. The company's Azura video card won a gold award in the "Direct Mail" category, and the Agfa Graphics 2014 VIP Calendar won a silver award in the "Calendar" category.
The latest commercial printer in North America to join the Agfa Graphics environmental recognition program, GreenWorks, is The Salem Printing Co. in Salem, VA, for its use of eco-friendly plates from Agfa Graphics. The program honors customers who demonstrate their commitment to the environment while promoting sustainable technologies, products and practices within the graphic arts industry.
An intensive three-day course on digital wide- and grand-format printing will be offered by Agfa Graphics and IDEAlliance. At the end of the course, participants will become G7 certified in the fields of color management, process and quality control for proofing and printing.
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.
Housed in Hopkins Printing's recently moved and renovated wide-format area, the new Agfa Jeti Titan HS flatbed inkjet printer offers Hopkins the opportunity to print on a new series of substrates including clear glass, clear plastics, foamcore and white plastics.
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.
Agfa Graphics is re-launching its GreenWorks Accreditation Program as part of its ongoing commitment to help reduce the graphic communication industry's environmental impact. The program is designed to accredit customers in the graphic communications industry in North America, who achieve greener outcomes through technology, products, services and practices.
Agfa Graphics will be hosting an Open House event at its City of Industry, CA, facility featuring wide-format inkjet printing engines, media, 3-D printers and more on June 18 and 19, 2014. Educational sessions will include information on expanding business into new markets. The event will also feature equipment and supplies from Agfa Graphics and many of the industry's leading manufacturers.
Commercial Printing Industry News Briefs from Printing Impressions’ June 2014 edition, including HardingPoorman, Lithographix Inc., Brilliant Graphics, Graphic Edge Printing and Packaging, Kodak, Agfa and Heidelberg, First Edge Solutions, The U.S. Postal Service, Menasha Packaging, and Quad/Graphics.
Kodak, Agfa and Heidelberg have joined together to file petitions with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) in an effort to combat patent licensing demands made on their customers by CTP Innovations. The petitions, through an established process with the PTO known as Inter Partes Review, seek to invalidate U.S. patents 6,738,155 and 6,611,349, which were acquired by CTP Innovations and are being asserted against the customers in patent infringement lawsuits brought by CTP Innovations, a non-practicing entity.
