Standard Finishing Systems

BOSTON—When two homemade bombs were detonated along the course of the Boston Marathon in April of 2013, the lives of three people were taken away and more than 250 others were brutally injured. Sadly, countless victims suffered trauma and the loss of limbs.

Thankful for the heroic measures taken by doctors and nurses to save Gillian Reny's life and her badly damaged legs, Steven Reny, president of Andover, MA-based Standard Finishing Systems, and his family, started The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Fund, which takes a three-pronged approach to helping advance innovative trauma technologies. More than $3.5 million has been raised for the fund since February of this year.

The ColorWorks Pro Plus from Standard Finishing Systems, performs bookletmaking, creasing, bleed trimming, folding, stitching and stacking, making it a nearly full-service "bindery in a box." The ColorWorks Pro Plus is the product of a close engineering alliance between Horizon International and Xerox.

At this year's GRAPH EXPO, Standard will showcase 4,800 square-feet of postpress and paper handling solutions and unveil its line of Horizon Rotary Die Cutters to the North American market. Live demonstrations will show how users can produce a comprehensive range of finished products.

The 2014 Must See 'ems winners have been selected and will be on exhibit at GRAPH EXPO 14 and the co-located CPP EXPO show, slated for Sept. 28 to Oct. 1, at Chicago's McCormick Place. Chosen by a panel of industry experts, these innovative technologies represent advances in 11 categories spanning the entire graphic communications industry.

Premiering at GRAPH EXPO 14 in Chicago, the new Standard Horizon RD-4055 Diecutter has been selected as a 2014 Must See 'Em Award Winner. The RD-4055 creases, perforates, slits, hole punches and round corners various substrates up to 0.019" thickness (diecutting only) for digital and offset printed sheets.

RESTON, VA—The 2014 Must See ’ems winners have been selected and will be on exhibit at GRAPH EXPO 14 and the co-located CPP EXPO show, slated for Sept. 28 to Oct. 1, at Chicago’s McCormick Place. Chosen by a panel of industry experts, these innovative technologies represent advances in 11 categories spanning the entire graphic communications industry.

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ March 2014 edition, featuring Vedda Printing+, Texas Bindery Service, Walsworth Publishing, Southern California Graphics

Standard Finishing Systems has announced three new product installations. Texas Bindery Service of Cedar Creek, TX, has added a BQ-470 Perfect Binder; The Bindery of San Diego, has installed a SPF-200L Landscape Bookletmaker; and Paper Tiger of Santa Fe, NM purchased a StitchLiner Saddlestitcher.

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.