Agfa Graphics North America has expanded its Duratex and Graphix media lines to include value selections in banner, backlit, adhesive backed, rigid and textile media. The Duratex brand serves UV, latex and solvent markets while the Graphix brand designates aqueous media.
Phase 3 Marketing & Communications, headquartered in Atlanta, is the first U.S. printing firm to house a new Agfa Jeti Titan HS wide-format printer. The Jeti Titan HS will bring faster speeds, better quality and more output, and it will be a great complement to our existing machinery for digital POP printing," said Gail Turner, senior vice president, operations and purchasing, Phase 3 Marketing & Communications.
Agfa Graphics will show the latest additions to its portfolio of UV-curable wide-format inkjet printers, including two models from the new Anapurna i-series, as well as the new Jeti Titan S/HS, at FESPA 2014 in Munich, Germany, May 20-23.
As it prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary, the executive leadership team at Costa Mesa, CA-based Primary Color prefers to look ahead as opposed to reflecting on where it's been. Not that the multi-faceted printing and marketing services performer needs to wash away the past...it's the future, however, that is generating much excitement among the Hirt brothers (Dan, Ron and Mike).
Last month Agfa Graphics held an open house for select industry journalists and customers at its new competence center in Mississauga, Ontario. The first of a series of North American "Red Carpet" customer events, the open house kicked off with a keynote presentation from Dominiek Arnout, Agfa Graphics' vice president/inkjet, and his team, who shared the latest in research developments and applications, as well as the changing dynamics in digital sign and display printing.
Select industry journalists and customers were recently invited to Agfa Graphics' “Red Carpet” event at its new competence center in Mississauga, Ontario. Following a series of presentations, the event marked the official regional debut of of the the six-color Jeti Titan S and HS UV curable wide-format printers.
Agfa-Gevaert has announced its full year 2013 results. While the product portfolio rationalizations and the weak investment climate weighed on the industrial inkjet segment’s sales, Agfa Graphics continued to increase its share in the global wide-format inkjet printing market.
Agfa Graphics' Apogee StoreFront 2.1 brings a series of new features centered around the print buyer experience. Support for personalized stores is one of the main new functions, and users can now customize a store so that individual users only see those products and categories that they need.
Industrial printing applications are indeed widespread and involve all situations whereby one or more printing steps are integrated in the manufacturing process and thereby contribute to the functionality of the end product. Gravure, flexography and screen printing are the prevailing technologies today but will be replaced by digital if this can reduce the overall cost of the process and/or provide more application possibilities.
Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ February 2014 edition, featuring Marshall & Bruce Printing, BPI Media Group, Mountain Ink Printing and Melcher Printing, Primary Color
