Spiel Associates (booth 220) will be featuring, among other cutting-edge finishing technologies, its Sterling Digibinder PUR Plus – a fully-automated PUR perfect binder that can bind up to 500 books per hour up to 2” (50 mm) thick. A colour touchscreen facilities the ease of set-up via an automatic book thickness gauge. The book size, … Read more →
Characterized as North America’s premier packaging event, the 2017 Pack Expo tradeshow is expected to attract over 2,000 top-tier suppliers of advanced packaging equipment, materials, containers, automation technologies and other supply-chain innovators. Attendees traditionally include: corporate, general, plant and project managers; engineers; production supervisors; those involved in operations and quality control; purchasers; package designers, brand … Read more →
Sun Chemical has collaborated with Sappi North America to create a unique companion piece for its award winning Innovative Solutions book for brand owners and converters. The companion piece features 10 printed sample pages utilizing Sun Chemical UV inks and coatings and combines it with Sappi’s high quality coated printing paper. It showcases some of … Read more →
Mouvent – a new company founded by a joint venture between Bobst and Radex and focused exclusively on digital print using pioneering digital technology – has revealed the groundbreaking technology behind its range of new digital printers. The Mouvent Cluster is a radical new approach, said the companies, that uses clusters instead of fixed-size print … Read more →
PrintReleaf (Denver, Colorado) has announced that its reforestation rate, reflecting the broad acceptance of its service among printers, nearly tripled in the last twelve months, to nearly a quarter-million copier pages per month in June of 2017. Since the service was introduced in 2014, PrintReleaf has planted more than 465,000 standard trees – the equivalent … Read more →
RISO (Burlington, MA) will be exhibiting its full line of inkjet printers at booth 3213 at Print 17. The Print 17 tradeshow is the largest gathering of the printing, publishing, in-plant, graphic communications and mailing/fulfillment communities in the Americas. It’s returning to Chicago September 10-14, 2017, once again at McCormack Place. The showcased technology will … Read more →
C.P. Bourg (Booth 2002). Who will be the first customer worldwide to order the “new” Bourg Sheet Preparation Module (BPM) at Print 2017? The Bourg Sheet Preparation Module BPM is designed for 1-up or 2-up job imposition and vastly simplifies perfect binding production. This innovative accessory eliminates multiple time and labour-consuming processes by converting large … Read more →
Neenah Paper has characterized its new synthetic paper as “a significant addition” to its portfolio of labels for harsh environments. The Neenah Performance Labels portfolio of high performing, highly engineered substrates is designed for applications in demanding conditions. Its Kimdura line of label stock has been used for more than 30 years for challenging applications … Read more →
Top Value Fabrics (TVF, Carmel, Indiana) has expanded its textiles for latex printing with a new line of Latex Performance Textiles specifically engineered to create durable, high-quality production graphics utilizing HP Latex Technology. “Working closely in our partnership with HP, Top Value Fabrics has developed a proprietary coating for our top-selling digitally printable textile products … Read more →
The company’s 2016 Corporate Sustainability Report focuses on how its research and development efforts have led to new products and services that help customers improve their eco-efficiency goals. Sun Chemical highlighted four recently developed products in its newest report that can offer customers significant eco-efficiency benefits. Two examples, SunBar oxygen barrier coatings and SunFuse (PolarSeal) … Read more →
Mutoh America, an industry leader in wide-format printers, was recently honoured with the 2017 SGIA (Specialty Graphic Imaging Association) Product of the Year Award for the ValueJet 1638X 64” printer in the Solvent or Latex Ink Under 80” category, as well as the ValueJet 626UF UV-LED printer in the Small Flatbed category, and the ValueJet … Read more →
HP has announced an historic deal with Shutterfly, the world’s leading online retailer and manufacturer of high-quality personalized products and services, adding a second phase of HP Indigo 12000 Digital Presses and naming HP as Shutterfly’s preferred digital press provider. The announcement comes just a year after Shutterfly acquired the first phase of 25 HP … Read more →