Agfa Graphics

Agfa’s booth (#1227) will feature an inkjet experience that people don’t always get to see: a comprehensive showcase of real-world applications that creatively portray inkjet output in various environments—home decor, a fine art gallery, outdoors and a retail setting.

Agfa Graphics announced that the :Apogee Users Group meeting at GRAPH EXPO is rapidly filling up. The meeting is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 12, from 4:00 to 7:30 p.m. in room S106b in the South Building, Level 1 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

During GRAPH EXPO, X-Rite/Pantone, booth 448, will be showcase their full range of standards-compliant color management solutions for profiling and calibrating scanners, monitors, printers and presses; press quality control tools for proofs, plates and prints; ink formulation tools; dedicated flexography and packaging solutions; and process control and color certification for the digital supply chain.

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Agfa will be showcasing an assortment of its wide-format printing systems at the open houses being held at Pitman, an Agfa company, demo facilities in City of Industry, CA, and Wilmington, MA, on Wednesday, June 22, and Thursday, June 23, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ June 2011 edition, featuring items on Original Impressions and Astro-Dynamic Print and Graphic Services.

Prestone has purchased two HP 5500 large-format inkjet printers (indoor and outdoor), a Roland Solvent Jet printer (outdoor), an Agfa Anapurna M 2050 eight-color hybrid inkjet printer, a large-format laminator (hot and cold lamination) and a Kongsberg i-XL-24 ICut digital cutter.

RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ—Agfa Graphics will be implementing a silver surcharge on graphic film products effective May 9. Peter Wilkens, president of Agfa Graphics, notes that the price of silver continues to escalate, increasing nearly 60 percent year-to-date with no signs of stabilization. This follows an 80 percent increase in silver prices in 2010, he added.

“Year-to-date, silver prices have increased almost 60 percent with no signs of stabilization,” said Peter Wilkens, president of Agfa Graphics. In lieu of raising graphic film product prices, a surcharge will be implemented to compensate for these extraordinary market conditions.

Nutis Press has purchased the high-speed, UV flatbed inkjet press for installation in its newly renovated, G7-certified facility in Columbus, OH. “More and more, our customers are demanding shorter runs and sometimes with same-day turnaround,” said Tom Jasper, vice president of production at Nutis.