DTG Connection (Fountain Valley, California) is a new company started by former executives of AnaJet and Ricoh DTG. These include former CEO Karl Tipre, former Vice President of North American Sales Adam Tipre, and former Marketing Director Paul Crocker. The DTG Connection team will be an authorized re-seller of the award-winning Ricoh Ri 1000 Direct-To-Garment … Read more →
Langley Holdings (Retford, UK), the diverse engineering and industrial group that owns German press manufacturer Manroland Sheetfed, has published its Interim Trading Statement for the six months ending June 30, 2020. The group reported a profit before tax for the period of €3.9 million on revenues of €370.4 million, compared with €24.3 million for the … Read more →
Ultimate TechnoGraphics (Montreal), a leader in imposition and finishing automation solutions, and Taopix (Newcastle, UK), a leading provider of personalization and photo-commerce software, have “revamped” their alliance to bring to the photo-print market the tools to easily build an automated workflow for a wide variety of photos products – such as photo prints, photo books … Read more →
Xaar (Cambridge, UK), a leader in the manufacture of inkjet printheads and the ongoing development of digital inkjet technology, has announced that Chuck Pemble has joined the company as Business Development Manager for the Americas. Based in the Boston area, Pemble will be responsible for building and growing OEM and integration channels in Americas that … Read more →
Tilia Labs (Ottawa, Ontario), a leading developer of planning, imposition and Artificially Intelligent (AI) software solutions, and Fujifilm North America’s Graphic Systems Division, have agreed to a new distribution partnership across North America. Fujifilm will sell Tilia Labs’ CAD-based nesting and imposition technology to complement its J Press Digital Printer for short-run packaging and commercial … Read more →
Xitron (Ann Arbour, Michigan), developer of the Harlequin-based Navigator RIP and workflow products for offset, flexo, digital and high-speed inkjet printing, has re-launched its new and improved website at www.xitron.com. Focusing on product categories with the goal of comprehensive information retrieval, the new design “fosters intuitive navigation” through Xitron’s product mix. “As our products and … Read more →
Durst North America (Rochester, New York) has announced that industry veteran Steve Lynn, Durst’s Director and General Manager of New Markets, will lead the division. “Steve is a highly skilled technical business leader that will be a resource for both Durst sales personnel and also the customer base” said Tim Saur, CEO and Managing Director … Read more →
The Flexographic Technical Association (FTA – Bohemia, New York) has announced the release of a collection of booklets, each comprising topics essential to a specific area of the flexographic printing process. The booklets’ content comes from Flexography: Principles & Practices 6.0, the sixth edition of FTA’s helpful technical resource manual introduced initially in 1962. Flexographers … Read more →
Canon Canada (Brampton, Ontario), a leader in digital imaging solutions, has announced the appointment of Naoki “Mike” Sannomiya to the position of Senior Vice-President and General Manager for the company’s Business Information Communications Group (BICG). Sannomiya first joined Canon in 1987 in a sales role with Canon Marketing Japan. Since then, he’s built over 30 … Read more →
Characterized by Kodak as the first digital packaging press to match the productivity of flexo and the quality of gravure, the new Kodak-Uteco Sapphire EVO W is the first flexible packaging press using Kodak’s latest continuous inkjet technology. With a print width of 49.2 inches, the EVO W can inkjet print on flexible plastic films, … Read more →
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Canada (Mississauga, Ontario) is now offering a new document scanning and management service called Digital Day 1. Working closely with market leader and partner Nimble Information Strategies, Konica Minolta’s aim is to help organizations of all sizes future-proof their documents in a fast, efficient and more cost-effective way. Digital Day 1 … Read more →
Drytac has expanded its North American range of specialty floor graphics media with two new additions to its FloorTac family. Both FloorTac Textures and FloorTac Emerytex White RB are one-part solutions with non-slip certifications “designed for optimal ease of installation and maximum safety in public spaces.” Drytac FloorTac Emerytex White RB is an 8 mil … Read more →