Commercial printing industry news briefs, including items on Consolidated Graphics, RR Donnelley, Valassis, Grafix Systems, Southwest Offset, Mercury Print Productions, Rider Dickerson, Fort Orange Press and Printcrafters Group.
For Prince Frederick, MD-based DirectMail.com, combining ink-on-paper and technology is something the company has done quite well since it opened for business 41 years ago. In the past 10 years, its principals have fine-tuned their direct marketing approach by combining data and print with new digital technologies.
Opportunities abound for printers to leverage electronic alternatives, particularly for clients who want to have multi-channel connectivity with consumers, be it in books, magazines, advertisements, direct mail, etc. In order to appease the masses across numerous platforms, printers need to become adept at as many technologies as possible.
Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ June 2011 edition, featuring items on Original Impressions and Astro-Dynamic Print and Graphic Services.
Prestone has purchased two HP 5500 large-format inkjet printers (indoor and outdoor), a Roland Solvent Jet printer (outdoor), an Agfa Anapurna M 2050 eight-color hybrid inkjet printer, a large-format laminator (hot and cold lamination) and a Kongsberg i-XL-24 ICut digital cutter.
HP’s Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) revenue grew 5 percent with a 17 percent operating margin. IPG continued to deliver strong performance across the business with share gains in all printing categories and 41 percent year-over-year growth in commercial printer hardware units.
“The new capabilities of the HP 7500 press—including the larger sheet size, the ability to print on thicker substrates and the white ink kit—will allow us to offer better and more cost-effective solutions to our customers,” said Bill Barta, Rider Dickerson president and CEO.
Strategic Content Imaging chose the HP T300 because of its ability to reliably deliver quality printing on coated media—an important factor in the educational publishing space. Approximately half of the HP T300’s workload is devoted to book printing contracts for major publishers.
Commercial printing industry national news from Printing Impressions May 2011, featuring items on The Herald and Foster Printing.
After comparing print samples with output from competing devices, Integrity Graphics executives determined that the HP Indigo 7500 press offered the high quality and broad media compatibility needed to drive continued expansion in their popular custom MarketingHub program.
