ANN ARBOR, MI—Edwards Brothers Malloy announced that it has acquired a Ricoh InfoPrint 5000 continuous-feed inkjet press for its digital print center here. The press will be installed this month, with full production planned for November. Capable of running one- to four-color text, the press claims to provide significant speed and price advantages over traditional short-run offset and digital toner printing.
Hundreds of guests turned out for Sandy Alexander's open house gathering to network, socialize and explore new printing trends and technologies. The event featured the company's One-to-One Cross-Media Marketing Solutions and specifically its two HP Indigo 10000 digital presses.
HP CEO Meg Whitman has told the Canalys Channels Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, that the company will enter the 3-D printer market in the middle of 2014.
"3-D printing is in its infancy," she said. "It is a big opportunity and we are all over it. We will have something by the middle of next year."
That "something" will be aimed at service providers to help them establish 3-D printing bureaux. Whitman said HP is asking "how do we commercialize to print faster, at lower price points?
As a member of the HP Indigo Preferred Media Partner Program, Neenah Paper will support the needs of the HP Indigo printer community for premium substrates, with specific emphasis on premium uncoated papers.
In an effort to improve productivity, expand capabilities and deliver more value, as well as higher quality products to its clients, The John Roberts Co. of Minneapolis, has installed a news new seven-color, 29˝ HP Indigo 10000 digital press.
With only two sheetfed offset presses on the show floor, digital printing vendors were the 'hot' booths at PRINT 13. Here's a sampling of some of the production inkjet, wide-format inkjet and toner-based digital presses that were highlighted for commercial print shops
There was a distinct air of optimism in the halls of McCormick Place South, and Paul Hudson, president and owner of Hudson Printing, could feel it.
When Greg Duffey and Joe Brenneis discussed joining talents to open a business, they initially thought a franchise printing company was not what they wanted, but after being presented with an opportunity to purchase a failing Minuteman Press in Norwalk, CT, they thought they might be able to turn it around.
With roots that go back almost 50 years, Sandy Alexander, of Clifton, NJ, is the product of a long string of corporate mergers, executive shifts and proprietary realignments. The most recent of these came in the announcement that a management team under Michael Graff, Sandy Alexander's president and CEO, had completed a buyout of the company from its former owners.
There are opportunities in digital print for packaging, but also challenges. Among the challenges are selling the value proposition to end users, format, and workflow. One solution at PRINT 13 was the Xanté Excelagraphix 4200P, which Xanté COO Mark Swanzy says is unique in terms of high-speed, small footprint, and high-quality printing.
