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Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ August 2011 edition, featuring items on The Foresight Group and Mercury Print Productions.
LOWELL, MA—King Printing has become the first North American book manufacturer to install a new HP T350 color inkjet web press speed upgrade. The HP T350 inkjet web press is 50 percent faster than the HP T300, which King Printing had installed in 2010. It is running at 600 fpm and producing up to 3,927 letter-size ppm.
Top advertising agency executives and media/marketing decision makers in the Northwest area will have the opportunity to hear experts from major companies evangelizing print by sharing case studies, facts and expertise during “Print Delivers NW” on July 26 in Seattle.
Tursack Inc., a Consolidated Graphics company, has officially launched its new capability to produce grand-format digital prints on HP Scitex LX800 and FB500 inkjet printers. “The installation of the HP systems starts a new and exciting phase at Tursack,” said Aaron Grohs.
The HP Scitex FB700 inkjet printer will enable Vertis to print vivid images, brilliant colors and white ink on an expanded line of large-format substrates, including glass and corrugated plastic. Earlier this year, Vertis installed two HP Scitex large-format printers.
HP will be hosting an wide-format inkjet printing event in its new HP Graphic Arts Experience Center in Alpharetta, GA on June 15-16, 2011. Prisco customers will have an opportunity to experience the highly productive HP Scitex FB7500 and HP Scitex TJ8600 printing systems in action.
Alert readers will recall that O’Neil was a beta installation for the first HP T300 30-inch Inkjet Web Press in 2009. The company now has the complete HP inkjet web press portfolio: the HP T200, T300, T350 and the new 42-inch, T400. Just for good measure, two HP Indigo digital presses are on hand for cover work.
Operations manager Steve Ellithorpe says each inkjet press has specific production strength. “The 30-inch T300 and T350 are perfect for letters and statements,” he explains. “TheT400 lets us put rolls side by side, doubling our throughput and the 20-inch T200 fits all of our
The current high-speed inkjet web presses from vendors such as HP, Océ, InfoPrint, Screen and Kodak are exciting but impractical for most general short-run commercial printers. “They’re too expensive, too large, and too limiting for the range of substrates and formats commercial printers need,” says David Davis, a director at Interquest. “They’re great for many specialty providers such as book printers, direct mail and transactional printers, where these products have made a big impact in short order.”
But as Drupa 2012 draws near, we can expect to see more options for the “average” printer. “Inkjet is a very scaleable process,
Roundy’s Supermarkets, a leading Midwest retail grocer with more than 150 stores, has signed a contract with Grandville Printing to digitally print in-store shelf tags and price signs every week. “GPC’s ability to deliver pre-burst and sorted tags has increased the efficiency of store-level pricing execution, which allows us to place more focus on serving our customers,” said Jason Benish, Roundy’s vice president of Pricing and Strategic Initiatives.
