FUJIFILM Graphic Systems Div.

Who could have imagined only three years ago you’d be able to access all relevant management information from your printshop by using an app on a smartphone? Or, allow your clients to view, annotate and approve jobs on their iPads?

Twenty of the printing industry’s foremost suppliers have signed on as sponsors for the upcoming Vision 3 Summit to be held Feb. 19-22, 2012, at the Marco Island Marriot in Marco Island, FL. The second-annual executive leadership conference has the theme “Focus Your Vision on Transformation and Growth.”

Unigraphic Inc. of Woburn, MA, was seeing more demand for large-format point-of-purchase displays and management concluded the company was at a crossroads. “We were pushing the limits of our existing large-format equipment,” said Bob Quinlan, president. “We looked at everything out there, and the Inca Onset S40 from Fujifilm just blew everyone else away, with the best quality, the highest speed and the most up-to-date technology.”

Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ January 2012 edition, featuring items on Mollet Printing, Jarob Inc. and Wild Apple Graphics.

Today it is becoming much more common to find printers using more than one printing technology. The trend in the future will be for much of the work to be done using a common workflow and for the output technology to be selected at the time of production.

Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ December 2011 edition, featuring items on McCoy Printing and Veritas Document Solutions.

Initially equipped with three roll-fed solvent printers, the company brought in its first UV flatbed digital inkjet printer in 2005 and six months later invested in an Inca Spyder from Fujifilm. Due to its aggressive growth strategy, Jarob set out to find the best wide-format digital inkjet printer for their business, looking at all available options in high speed, high productivity, and high quality platforms, ultimately selecting a six-color Inca Onset S40 with automation.

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ November 2011 edition.

Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ November 2011 edition, featuring items on Lithoprint Corp. and Northeastern Envelope.

McCoy (Torrington, CT) says it enjoys increased cost savings and higher efficiencies when printing on the Onset compared to traditional offset printing. The firm specializes in screen, offset and wide-format digital printing, producing the most demanding POP and outdoor campaigns.