Exhibitor and attendee registration for the 39th annual Graphics of the Americas Expo & Conference (GOA) being held in Miami, February 27-March 1, 2014, is up again year over year. In addition to the many co-located events taking place at GOA 2014 exhibitors are showcasing a full range of industry technology for applications.
Tech-ni-Fold has prevented a third U.S. company from continuing to sell a device that Tech-ni-Fold believes infringes upon its Tri-Creaser patents. As a result, Rosback Co. of St. Joseph, MI, will be discontinuing the current design of its TrueScore-Pro and TrueScore-Pro Quad products.
Tech-ni-Fold has prevented a third U.S. company from continuing to sell a device that Tech-ni-Fold believes infringes upon its Tri-Creaser patents. As a result, Rosback Co. of St. Joseph, MI, will be discontinuing the current design of its TrueScore-Pro and TrueScore-Pro Quad products.
Not all print shop proprietors have weighed in on the industry’s most pressing question, whether to go “all in” or hedge their bets on digital printing technology. If you plan on catering to both disciplines, having finishing capabilities that speak to the needs of conventional and digital printing is critical.
Fujifilm will show the J Press 720 inkjet press. Heidelberg will present Prinect Digital Workflow Integration. New features for the Kodak NexPress platform will be shown.
The Binding Industries Assn. has announced the winners of the 2012 Product of Excellence (POE) awards. For more than three decades, the POE awards have recognized outstanding examples of craftsmanship in binding, graphic finishing, information packaging, and custom loose-leaf manufacturing.
John and Carol Rickey, founders of House Graphics in San Diego, have been selected as the winners of Technifold USA’s 60,000 Tri-Creasers Essay Contest. The contest was a celebration of a milestone marking the production of the 60,000th Tri-Creaser, the patented creasing device popular in the printing and bindery industries around the world.
To celebrate, Technifold USA is sponsoring an essay contest, entitled “Why I Should Win the 60,000th Tri-Creaser Contest.” The winner gets two Fast Fit Tri-Creasers for the folding or scoring machine of their choice. The Tri-Creaser is a patented rotary creasing device that helps binderies and finishing departments boost productivity.
Tech-ni-Fold Ltd., a UK manufacturer of creasing, perforating and cutting solutions, reached a settlement this week in its patent infringement lawsuit against Update Ltd. and D&R Bindery Solutions of Chaska, Minn. Under the terms of the settlement, Update agreed to stop manufacturing the "Ultimate Score" product and its consumable components. Update also discontinued sales of its current Ultimate Score design in April of this year and is also transferring certain assets to Tech-ni-Fold Ltd.
Tech-ni-Fold Ltd. reached a settlement this week in its patent infringement lawsuit against Update Ltd. and D&R Bindery Solutions of Chaska, MN. Under the terms of the settlement, Update agreed to cease manufacturing the “Ultimate Score” product and consumables.
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.
A journey to Graph Expo in Chicago wouldn’t be complete without a trip to the Technifold USA booth. No, I’m not partial to binding equipment, nor do I get any particular jollies out of seeing creasing and perforating gear. But, you have to love people like Gina and Andre Palko.
Want an honest, open, unbiased and unfettered report on the quantity and quality of visitors who haunted the binding and finishing booths during Graph Expo earlier this month? Fact of the matter is, no such beast exists. Here are some observations that have two sides to them, and may or may not represent the truth.
What’s exciting about the 2-Stage Auto Feeder is that a clever engineering trick has nearly eliminated the negatives of a friction feeder by splitting up the workload into two sets of rollers.
THOUGH PRINT 09 may have gotten off to a slow start, the crowds eventually showed up. And when they did, many of them headed right for the bindery equipment. Nowhere was that more true than at the Standard Finishing Systems exhibit, which was bustling with activity on the third day of the show, even as other booths appeared to be on siesta. Mark Hunt, director of marketing for Standard, thought he knew why.
Tech-ni-fold Ltd in the UK was issued US Patent 7,563,220 on July 21, 2009 for it’s popular Tri-Creaser™, a creasing device which eliminates fiber cracking and retro-fits most popular folding and scoring machines.
The Binding Industries Association (BIA), the preeminent organization for the graphic finishing and custom loose-leaf manufacturing industry, announced today its 2009 Product of Excellence Awards (POE) winners. From around the world, companies submitted their best work to be judged against that of their peers.
DESPITE THE cancellation of the ACUP conference, ACUP lived on this year in a Webinar that attracted more than 100 in-plant managers from around the world. IPG partnered with the Association of College and University Printers to bring about the event, held on what would have been the last day of the ACUP conference. Three of the speakers who were scheduled to talk at ACUP gave their presentations online. Then, to replicate some of the free-flowing shop talk that is ACUP's hallmark, three past ACUP hosts held a lively roundtable discussion about the latest developments in their shops.
It was a month before Christmas at Messiah College, and the president's Christmas cards were cracking. The in-plant at this Christian college in Grantham, Pa., was doing everything it could think of to make the card—one of its most important jobs of the year—look its best. But after coming off of the Xerox DocuColor 260 and being scored and folded, the cards were still cracking on the folds.
"We backed off the pressure on the rollers, we [made] certain that the grain of the paper was going the right way, and we let the cards sit for a few days so that the paper would gather back some moisture. No matter what we tried, we were not happy," says Dwayne A. Magee, director of Messiah College Press and Postal Services.
SEWICKLEY, PA— October 9, 2008—The Binding Industries Association (BIA), the preeminent organization for the binding industry, is proud to announce its 2009 Product of Excellence (POE) Awards sponsors.
