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Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ October 2012 edition, featuring Foster Printing and A.C. Printing.

Commercial printing industry news briefs from Printing Impressions’ October 2012 edition, including items on RR Donnelley, PIA-NAPL Merger, Acme Bookbinding, Presstek, InnerWorkings, InnoMark Communications, and TC Transcontinental Printing.

Chicago-based Classic Color manages and produces eye-catching creative content for top national brands. With the addition of the HP Indigo 7600, it now can digitally print a variety of unique, customized applications in-house, such as posters, brochures and direct mail.

At GRAPH EXPO 2012, PriscoDigital LLC will be holding continuous end-to-end workflow demonstrations at its booth on various rigid media, utilizing the new Kongsberg XN Automatic Cutting System from Esko. This is reportedly the first time the XN system will be demonstrated at a major trade show in North America.

Trucolor, the large format and sign imaging division of FLM Graphics, has added an HP Scitex LX850 industrial printing system to its extensive range of large format imaging capabilities. “FLM Trucolor's acquisition of the new HP LX850 reinforces our long-term business strategy to provide our customers with the latest technology and advanced print solutions for their marketing communications needs,”said Peter Desbets, president of FLM’s Trucolor division.

BALTIMORE—Vertis Holdings and SGS International announced an agreement under which SGS will augment its design-to-print packaging solutions with the purchase of additional prepress packaging equipment, data files and certain related assets from Vertis.

The xpedx booth at GRAPH EXPO will feature equipment including EFI Rastek H652, HP Designjet L26500, Epson SureColor S70670, Esko Kongsberg XN24, Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 and X-Rite. The display will also showcase software from EFI Digital StoreFront and Onyx, and various paper, synthetic, flexible and rigid substrates from industry leading suppliers.

ATLANTA—Standard Press recently completed the installation of a new wide-format printer, the HP Scitex FB 700, which has the ability to produce a wide range of high-resolution products, including point-of-purchase and point-of-sale materials, vinyl and retractable banners, indoor and outdoor signage, event materials, trade show graphics and clings.

Phoenix-based R and R Images has ordered a second HP Indigo 7600 digital color press to address increased demand for marketing collateral and high-quality photo products. Those products have driven more than 70 percent revenue growth for the company in the past two years.

Atlanta’s oldest independent printer just got bigger and better as Standard Press announced the successful installation of a new wide-format printer. The HP Scitex FB 700 has the ability to produce a wide range of high-quality and high-resolution products.