The “Onset Challenge” is a simple, five-step process that demonstrates how the Onset family of wide-format inkjet printers can help unlock new business and increase profitability. The site also gives the user a custom return-on-investment calculator to demonstrate just how quickly the press can pay for itself.
Print Direction Inc. (PDI) of Norcross, GA, has installed the UV flatbed press to increase capacity and respond faster to customer demands for point-of-purchase graphics. PDI was established in the early ’80s as a full-service provider of print solutions and fulfillment.
Commercial printing industry news briefs for April 2011, including items on Competitive Folding and Gateway Printing & Office Supply.
Differences in the inkjet imaging systems now being employed can have an impact—to varying degrees and relative to each other—on head cost, failure rate and cleaning/maintenance requirements; substrate flexibility; print resolution; color saturation; print width; and more. It doesn't quite rise to the level of an apples to oranges comparison, but the technology has very distinct flavors.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ March 2011 edition.
Beginning with a $110,000 grant from the Dow Jones Foundation, Manugraph DGM provided the four units added to the original press donated by Goss. Also donated were a Baldwin spray dampening system, Quad Tech register control and MEGTEC infeed and splicer.
Excell Color Graphics of Fort Wayne, ID, installed a Xerox Color 800 press to accommodate quick turnaround, short-run jobs, and a Fujifilm Acuity Advance HS UV inkjet flatbed printer, enabling the previously traditional offset shop to produce posters and signage.
The idea behind a photo book is relatively simple—reprint in book format a bunch of your digital photos for display, sharing and safe keeping. Now, a group of photo imaging industry companies and organizations, including a few business rivals, has formed a consortium to standardize the store experience when creating such photo tchotchkes and to promote the fact to consumers they can make such swag.
Membership in Innovations in Photo Imaging includes Kodak, Xerox, Fujifilm North America, Hewlett-Packard Co., Noritsu America Corp., Independent Photo Imagers Inc. and the Photo Marketing Association International.
Customers can use their Van Son ink purchases from Fujifilm to help finance professional services such as: G7 education and implementation, stochastic screening implementation, custom compensation curve development, color management education and implementation, pressroom densitometry education and SWOP education and implementation.
In addition to increasing capacity to keep up with the growth of its business, TGS wanted a device that could help it accommodate the growing demand for faster turnaround times and last-minute changes. Its clientele includes advertising agencies, print brokers, retail clients and major brands
