Consolidated Graphics, Inc. (CGX) has streamlined its color management across several of its location, thanks to Fujifilm’s patented Taskero Universe, a groundbreaking suite of monitoring and analysis tools designed to increase profitability and reduce waste. CGX has implemented Taskero Universe at several sites and has found it to be “invaluable to management and to customers.”
HP today announced developments for its HP Inkjet Web Press platform to help print service providers (PSPs) become more profitable and accelerate their transition from analog to digital printing. On show at an open house event at Los Angeles-based O’Neil Data Systems — site of the first HP Inkjet Web Press beta installation — the press demonstrates how customers can benefit from market-leading total cost of ownership, excellent productivity and a high level of quality.
Printing Impressions' Upfront Commercial Printing Industry News for May 2009
Printing Impressions' Commercial Printing Industry National News for May 2009
THE ECONOMY is acting as a clog in the plumbing of printing industry M&A. The system is feeling more and more pressure from companies prolonging their desire to sell a business that perhaps needs an infusion of new blood or new equipment. Then there is the buyer...his hands locked by tight credit markets or unrealistic seller expectations.
GAUGING WHEN a technology is really going to take off is always a tricky proposition. Product roll-outs usually get pushed back due to unforeseen technical issues, and potential buyers tend to be more cautious than even a low-ball projection for the rate of adoption.
AS DIGITAL printing demand, applications and operations grow, adjustments are being made in finishing strategies. In-, near- and off-line solutions all still have their place, but determining the best approach has become a more site-specific decision.
Printing Impressions' Commercial Printer News for February 2009
Cyril-Scott Co., a Consolidated Graphics company located in Lancaster, OH, is set to become the first installation of Stream Printheads, Kodak’s new, much anticipated continuous inkjet solution for inline printing on an offset press. First demonstrated at drupa 2008, the Stream Printhead using Kodak Stream Inkjet Technology is a hybrid solution that provides a true bridge between offset and digital printing, extending the business and revenue opportunities of printers of all sizes and adding value to printed pages.
HP today announced it has completed its most successful year in the graphic arts industry to date, building on increased sales activity, leads and interest from its first announcement of new-platform technologies in March, through the debut of those solutions at drupa in May, to subsequent fulfillment of sales in the months following the show.
