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DIY workflow
Gradual Software’s (Ghent, Belgium) CaslonFlow 5.5 visually glues together third-party applications into one seamless flow and facilitates file transfer between remote sites. With expanded features, a streamlined user interface and support for more third-party applications, CaslonFlow 5.5 allows users to build efficient workflows for individual production environments across the entire publishing process.
See www.gradual.com
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Convert images from 2D to 3D
HumanEyes 3D (Mineola, NY) has created a software program for converting conventional, flat, 2D images into 3D without layering and tracing. The user marks a few areas of an image according to general placement (foreground, middleground, background). An algorithm calculates depth parameters of the entire image. This is designed to help with natural scenes that include content such as hair or plants, whose edges are difficult to trace.
See www.humaneyes.com
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Continuous forms VDP and verification
The Videk (Rochester, NY) Print Verification System (PVS) can read both sides of a two-up duplex statement. Multiple “regions of interest” are defined on both sides of each document. The PVS:


• Checks the readability of the bar code used for intelligent inserting options.
• Assures that the correct disclosure information is printed.
• Performs a print quality assessment.
• Confirms printing is synchronized correctly between the front and back of each page.
• Assures print registration is correct on both sides of the two-up document.

Capture realistic print effects on screen
PrintDevizor, developed by Stonecube (Bristol, England), simulates process and spot colors, metallics, fluorescents, blocks, gloss/matte varnishes, lamination, embossing and other special finishes through its real-time, interactive print visualization program. Multiple effects can be applied using design images generated in standard creative software. Each finish can be viewed with 360° rotation in a range of lighting envi-ronments. It is available for Mac and PC.
See www.stonecube.com
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Spectrophotometer supported by halftone printer
GretagMacbeth’s (New Windsor, NY) Eye-One Pro spectrophotometer now is fully supported by Proof Director Pro version 3.x to calibrate and linearize the Fujifilm FinalProof GxT digital halftone printer. Eye-One Pro provides tools to implement a color managed CMYK workflow. The device measures emissive and reflective objects, spot colors and flash/ambient light. Users can calibrate and profile monitors, CMYK output devices, scanners and digital projectors.
See www.gretagmacbeth.com
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Low-VOC solvent inks for CIJ printers
Jetrion (Ann Arbor, MI) has introduced the industry’s first low-VOC solvent inks for continuous inkjet printers, enabling commercial printers to reduce VOC levels in the bindery and pressroom. The inks have run at top bindery speeds on a variety of CIJ printers and reportedly are positioned at a price point lower than OEM printers.
See www.jetrion.com
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Management tool from order capture to billing
iWay Manger, the latest product in a family of Web-based solutions from Press-sense Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel), is an enhancement to control and optimize the existing base of iWay Prime installations. The iWay Manager takes the iWay Prime’s BOP (Business, Operations, Production) solution further into customer management, fulfillment and billing, and adds a wrapper with comprehensive CRM capability at the front-end for order capture and management. Also added is MIS capability at the back end for billing and fulfillment.
See www.press-sense.com
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Cross-media software suite
Pageflex (Cambridge, MA) Persona Cross Media Suite is a desktop application enabling targeted and personalized content in print and e-mail, incorporating variable data and cross-media functionality. The core technology features an XML composition engine designed for variable data and “flex” technology to automatically resize items on a page based on the amount of custom content added.
See www.pageflexinc.com
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Paper for HP Indigo
Mohawk Fine Papers (Cohoes, NY) introduces a new technology for HP Indigo printers. A proprietary process known as i-Tone—produced in collaboration with NALCO (Naperville, IL)—is applied to Mohawk Superfine and 50/10 papers. The paper shows high adhesion at 99.5 percent, with minimal flaking at one mm or less, and a strong blanket memory.
See www.mohawkpaper.com
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Heatset ink system
The ARROWEB ink system from Flint Ink (Ann Arbor, MI) for heatset printing applications incorporates proprietary resin chemistry and reportedly provides benefits including quicker color startups, better ink transfer and gloss, good ink-water balance, high-quality output, and consistent color control and reproduction. Organized by tack and strength, the system has customization options available to accommodate requirements such as coatability, special hues and enhanced rub resistance.
See www.flintink.com
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Automated desktop binding
GBC (Addison, IL) has introduced an automated binding solution for multi-user offices, print-for-pay shops and high-production binding environments. With the ProClick Pronto desktop system, users can produce up to 450 letter-sized documents per hour. A preloaded cassette eliminates the need to load elements one at a time. ProClick elements, available in three sizes and four colors, can be opened, allowing pages to be edited, added or deleted and then re-bound with the same element.

The ProClick Pronto is available in two models: the ProClick Pronto P2000 and the ProClick Pronto P3000. The P2000 is a high-productivity, bind-only unit engineered to complement GBC’s punches. The P3000 integrates an electric punch into the same machine for an all-in-one punch and automated bind solution.
See www.gbc.com
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Inkjet CTP technology
PlateWriter 4200, Glunz & Jensen’s (Ringsted, Denmark) inkjet computer-to-plate system, enables press-ready aluminum plates without chemical processing for small- and mid-format printers. It jets a LiquidDot solution onto a nonphotosensitive aluminum printing plate. The imaged plates then are fed through a plate-finishing unit that dries the plates and bonds the liquid dots to the plate surface. The plate-finishing unit has a built-in gumming station to protect the plates from damage before going to press. The technology reportedly reduces plate production costs by eliminating chemicals and processing equipment.
See www.glunz-jensen.com
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Try out coating for free
Craig Adhesives and Coatings (Newark, NJ) now offers a free trial program for its 1077M-3 coating product used by sheetfed offset printers running hybrid inks. This new trial program will allow printers to order a free five-gallon sample to compare with their current products.

The 1077M-3 coating, one in a series of high-performance coatings, reportedly produces higher gloss readings, less gloss back and consistent results, job after job, on a variety of presses. This UV coating currently is used in high-end packaging, including cosmetics, toothpaste, pharmaceutical, CD, DVD and golf ball packaging.
See www.craigadhesives.com
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Magnet upgrade
The Magnet Upgrade to the automatic loading system (M73 Strip Starter) for the Spartanics (Rolling Meadows, IL) M-500 Decorated Material Die Cutting System reportedly is the only automated feeding system for optically registered die cutters that is capable of handling magnetic materials.

The upgrade switches to non-magnetic material jobs without any system configuration changes. It will handle magnetic substrates in all thicknesses commonly used for printed magnet products (between 0.254 and 1.52 mm thick).
See www.spartanics.com
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Installations and expansions

• Vincent Direct (Columbus, OH) has installed a Komori (Rolling Meadows, IL) 40-inch, eight color plus coating printing press, and Fry Communications (Mechanicsburg, PA) has added a Komori System 38S eight-unit heatset web press.

• A to Z Printing Co. (Lincoln, NE) has added a second six-color Heidelberg (Kennesaw, GA) Speedmaster CD-102.
• Quebecor World has installed three gapless Goss (Westmont, IL) Sunday presses: an eight-unit 3000/32 in a two-web stacked configuration at its facility in Lebanon, OH, and two four-unit 4000/64 presses in Stillwater, OK.
• Xerox (Rochester, NY) announces the following installations: an iGen3 110 Digital Production Press and DocuTech 155 HighLight Color System at Advantage Mailing (Orange, CA); three DocuPrint 1050 Continuous Feed digital printers, a DocuTech Production Publisher with inline saddlestitcher and a Nuvera 120 Digital Production System at Offset Paperback Manufacturing (Laflin, PA); three Nuvera 120 Digital Production Systems, an iGen3 and a DocuPrint 1050 Continuous Feed System at Blaze Digital Printing Services (Lumberton, NJ); a Nuvera 120 Digital Production System at Masthof Press (Morgantown, PA); and an iGen3 at Hartford Direct Marketing Mailing & Fulfillment Services (Berlin, CT).
• Total Printing Systems (Newton, IL) has acquired a second Kodak (Dayton, OH) Versamark two-up duplex digital printing system.
• Tensor Group (Woodridge, IL) has installed its first heatset press in Canada at Prolific Web (Winnipeg).
• Digital Color Graphics (Indianapolis) has purchased a Xerox (Rochester, NY) iGen3 with a Fiery Q5000 color server from EFI (Foster City, CA).

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