Prime Data (Aurora, Ontario) has welcomed industry veteran Jim Wisner to its team as Vice President of Business Development. Wisner is highly respected in the printing and direct-marketing industries and has worked with clients across almost every vertical – including NFPs, financial, consumer goods and services, teclo and tech. His exceptional knowledge and expertise of … Read more →
Memjet has characterized its new DuraFlex inkjet printing technology as a modular, single-pass print solution that combines Memjet’s signature features of speed, simplicity and affordability with new attributes – such as enhanced durability, A4 and A3 plus widths in a four-colour printhead, a high-speed data path, and modules that control all printhead functions. Together, these … Read more →
Quark (Denver, Colorado) has announced the availability of QuarkXPress 15.0.1, the first update to QuarkXPress 2019 page-layout software that was released July 9, 2019. Included in this update for QuarkXPress 2019 users are improvements to many customer-requested items relating to the following: Retina cursors on Mac. Cursors will no longer pixelate. They’ll be as sharp … Read more →
Xplor Canada has announced that registration is now open for Xplor Canada’s Annual Conference taking place September 18, 2019. The event will be held at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto and is sponsored by BlueCrest, RRD Canada and Canada Post. This year’s Xplor Canada Conference looks beyond 2020 at what the future holds for the CCM … Read more →
The Better with Less – Design Challenge, organized by Metsä Board (a European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards headquartered in Metsä, Finland) is now in its second year. The competition inspires graphic designers from around the globe to create more environmentally-friendly packaging solutions for e-commerce, cosmetics and food. Submissions can be made in four … Read more →
Pitney Bowes (Stamford, Connecticut), a global technology company that provides commerce solutions in the areas of e-commerce, shipping, mailing, data, and financial services, has announced that it’s entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Software Solutions Business to Syncsort (Pearl River, New York) for $700 million (USD) in cash. The transaction is expected to … Read more →
SOHO Business Solutions (Markham, Ontario) has taken its digital and finishing capabilities to an entirely new level with the addition of an AccurioPress C2070, an AccurioPress 6136, and a bizhub Press C1100 from Konica Minolta Canada – as well as a 3-sided-trim booklet maker. From its humble beginnings in a garage in 2007, SOHO Business … Read more →
The Printing Industries of America (PIA) has announced the keynote line-up for its Color20 conference to be held January 11-14, 2020 at the Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa in San Diego, California. The Color20 program was designed to provide attendees with insights, best practices and answers to their most pressing colour management questions. It … Read more →
The Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA – Fairfax, Virginia) has announced the winning products – which are all produced by Printing United exhibitors and available for sale in 2019 – from more than 200 entries in 72 categories. “Our competition was juried, and judges reviewed entries very carefully, so that they can compare products objectively,” … Read more →
Impulse Graphic & Display Solutions (Mississauga, Ontario) has expanded its wide-format portfolio with Fujifilm’s Acuity Ultra, a 5-metre (197-inch) Superwide UV Press featuring exceptional cost-in-use for outputting high quality interior and exterior graphics. “We push the limits,” said President Alex Cachia. “We’re a unique print service provider with clients in various industries – including automotive, … Read more →
Epson’s new SureColor T5470M is a 36-inch printer with an integrated scanner that offers a fast multi-function solution for printing, sharing and saving technical documents. The new model joins the Epson SureColor T-Series of wide-format printers. The sleek print/copy/scan combination produces accurate A1/D-size prints in as fast as 22 seconds, making it an ideal choice … Read more →
Xeikon (Lier, Belgium) has developed a specific solution for printers looking to enhance and increase their range of labels. It’s the unique combination of the Xeikon X-800 workflow and the PantherCure UV ink that can generate a tactile layer, responsible for a “haptic effect” in print, said the OEM. Haptic technology simulates touch in a … Read more →