The HP Scitex FB7600 and XP5500 industrial presses will debut in HP booth 919 at the 2011 SGIA Expo in New Orleans, Oct. 19-21, 2011. At the show, HP also will kick off the first HP Print Excellence Awards for HP Scitex and HP Designjet customers to recognize best-in-class wide-format graphics applications. The contest will culminate at the drupa 2012 tradeshow, where HP will announce winning customers and applications.
HP announced that Britten Banners is building a competitive advantage in wide-format graphics production, using the HP Scitex FB7500 industrial press to increase productivity and shift from analog to digital printing for medium-length runs.
HP announced that Yariv Avisar, vice president and general manager, HP Scitex Large Format Printing Solutions, Imaging and Printing Group, will be leaving HP. Xavier Garcia has been named the new general manager of the HP Scitex organization.
The Condé Nast pilot program will feature print-to-home services for subscribers to schedule the delivery of content from their favorite brands directly to their personal HP Web-connected printers. It enables the publisher to reach readers more frequently than with print magazines and more tangibly than via e-mail.
My Premium Book is the first business tool available to members of the new HP Creative Printers Network and can be leveraged by printers for marketing and selling high-quality, digitally printed art books, catalogs, manuals and other books.
Seeing the equipment and software on the show floor are only part of the value of shows like Graph Expo. At least for analysts and members of the press, a big part is learning how companies are approaching the market and how they think about their products and services.
Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ Oct. 2011 edition, featuring items on Docuplex Graphics, Haapanen Brothers and J.W. Boarman Co.
The Internet has proven to be something of an elixir, a cure-all tonic for trade printers that were either suffering or stagnating. It has played a large role in the growth, perhaps even salvation, of some trade firms. We’ve encapsulated three notable trade printers, along with a look at what’s fueled their fire and provided confidence in the foreseeable future.
Wide- and grand-format printers really stood out around the show floor, with the size of some devices giving them the impression of being the new “heavy iron” in the industry. Even the new crop of inkjet presses for high-volume page production was overshadowed a bit by their wider brethren, as fewer vendors elected to bring machines to Chicago.
Instead of seeing a gaggle of tire kickers, the printers and trade finishers who perused McCormick Place South during Graph Expo 2011 had more sober intentions. There is clearly pent-up demand in the marketplace, particularly for finishing equipment.
