New Products

Jul 1, 2005 12:00 AM, AP staff

PRINT 05 new products from: Heidelberg, Printable Technologies, Canon, Xerox, KBA North America, Bobst Group, Sun Chemical, Crown Holdings, Jetrion, Videojet Technologies, Nipson America and Pitman Co.

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The biggest print & converting event of 2005
From Sept. 9-15, Chicago’s McCormick Place will host the biggest printing and converting event of the year. If you’ll be among the 80,000 people on hand for the show, you’d better bring your walking shoes. Even if you only plan to see a smattering of the 800 exhibitors, they’ll be spread out over 750,000 net sq. ft. About 200 companies, occupying a total of 450,000 net sq. ft. will feature folding carton, label printing and flexible packaging equipment.

Looking to diversify your business? See the Wide Format Pavilion, Mailing & Fulfillment Center and RFID Showcase. Want to improve your efficiency? Don’t miss the JDF Applications area. Visitors from more than 70 nations are expected—special programs are planned for Latin American, Asian and Canadian attendees. For complete show info, including vendor contact details, see www.print05.com.

Heidelberg showcases new XL 105
Heidelberg’s highlights include the XL 105 Theater, which will showcase the new Speedmaster XL 105. The 62-ton XL 105 is rated at 18,000 sph and has a 29.52 x 41.34-inch sheet size. Key features of the XL 105 include automated sheet travel; new feeder and delivery; a coating unit said to streamline makereadies and a high-performance inking/dampening system.

Outside the XL 105 Theater, the Heidelberg booth (1200) will be divided into five sections:

Quick Print Solutions.
Commercial Print Solutions.
Print Solutions.
Packaging Solutions.
The Prinect Experience.

Heidelberg’s Prinect Experience will include customized demonstrations of the company’s Prinect portfolio workflow management solutions. This seamless workflow management system integrates and optimizes work processes in printing operations from color management to production and from prepress to finishing. The Prinect Experience at PRINT ’05 will include up to 10 workstations programmed to demonstrate how Prinect connects the entire workflow of a print shop.
See www.us.heidelberg.com/hd/print05.
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Web ordering/job submission and variable data
Printable Technologies (Booth 7139) will release two new modules and a new user interface for its PrintOne Customer Center. The PrintOne Customer Center branded Web portal lets print buyers conduct business and make purchases from their print service provider. Users can match the look and feel of the customer portal to any enterprise Intranet or Web site.

JobExpress, a driver-based PDF creation and job submission module, lets end-users create and submit ad hoc jobs from any application by selecting the application print function. After the user has reviewed and approved the PDF proof, the file is encrypted and submitted to the PrintOne server, and a job submission form is presented to the user for completion. The job is then priced automatically, and the user can approve the print job and proceed to check out.

Online List Purchase provides a seamless process for both consumer and business databases from list management companies such as HomeData, D&B, Equifax, Advo and Acxiom (through AccuData).

On the variable data side, Printable’s FusionPro 3.0 expands the functionality of DL Formatter. New features include:

Export of text and all common style attributes from QuarkXPress, including QuarkXPress 6.5. (Support for text and style export from InDesign is being developed.)
Field definition "fill-in-the-blank" functionality for convenient personalization.
Improved print data stream output for PPML, VIPP and VDX.

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Large format printers, media
Canon’s OnDemand announcements included the 44-inch imagePROGRAF W8400 and 24-inch W6400 large-format inkjet printers. Proprietary print head technology enables high-speed printing at 2,400 x 1,200 dpi with four-picoliter ink droplets. The six-color pigment ink set offers interchangeable black inks. Canon’s large format media portfolio now includes a glossy adhesive film as well as two media for the fine arts market, Canon Fine Arts Photorag (188 gsm) and Canon Enhanced Velvet (255 gsm) for posters, banners, backlit displays, photographs and fine art reproductions.

Software for the imagePROGRAF models includes: PosterArtist, a template-based program to design and customize poster signs and banners; Digital Photo Print Pro, a photo-printing tool that allows the editing, manipulation and management of digital images and large graphic files to efficiently interface with PhotoPrint Select; as well an Adobe Postscript 3 software RIP. See Canon at PRINT in Booth 2079.
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Workflow dominates Xerox display
Visitors to Xerox’s bi-level Booth 1228, the second largest at PRINT, will get a bird’s-eye view of the company’s FreeFlow workflow offerings, with industry expert Harry Waldman as their tour guide. Five solution zones will show how offset and digital can work together, print-on-demand and Web-to-print, book publishing, personalized communication applications and promotional and transactional possibilities.

The PRINT show will build on Xerox’s OnDemand highlights which included the 70-ppm DocuColor 7000 Digital Press, Epic Cti-635 inline coater for the iGen3, Horizon ColorWorks 8000 bookletmaker for the DocuColor 7000 and 8000 and the Manual + Book Factory for the Nuvera.

The company also has expanded its remote services beyond the iGen3 to provide proactive monitoring and preventative maintenance support for Nuvera 100/120 digital copier/printers, Nuvera 100/120 digital production systems and the DocuTech 128/155/180 highlight color systems.

On the sales and marketing side, Xerox has announced the ProfitAccelelerator Vertical Market Kit, a set of tools and sample print applications designed to help commercial printers boost their business in 10 key industries, including healthcare, retail and banking.

Visitors to the Xerox booth also will see Output Manager, workflow software that helps users manage the flow of print jobs to the most appropriate networked printer.

In cooperation with Duplo, printed pieces coming off the Xerox iGen3 are sent to Duplo’s DocuCutter 645 where the JDF associated with the print job directs the device how to full-bleed trim and crease the document. Postcards and greeting cards can be creased and trimmed automatically.
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KBA to crank out 40 different jobs
KBA North America’s (Booth 4045) 12,000-sq.- ft booth will feature five presses:

Rapida 105, a 41-inch, six-color plus coater, 18,000-sph sheetfed press with 50+ installations worldwide.
Rapida 142 (shown), a 56-inch six-color plus coater.
Performa 74 five-color plus coater, a recent acquisition from Czech Republic press manufacturer Grafitec.
Genius 52 UV five-color, said to be the world’s first waterless UV press.
74 Karat digital offset press, KBA’s waterless DI press with a Gravuflow inking system.

Attendees will see 40 different jobs being printed on a variety of substrates, including paper, plastic and board.
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Diecutters, folder-gluers and more
Bobst Group (Booth 800) will target folding carton converters and other package printers with its 6,000-sq.-ft. display. Look for live demonstrations of the SPeria 106-E diecutter, SPeria 102 Foilmaster, Amazon 105 A-1 folder-gluer and an Apollo 1450 CTS. Products scheduled to debut at the show are the Angle-Lock Blanking system and "InTouch," the direct customer connection for Bobst parts and service.
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Inks, coatings and more
Sun Chemical (Booth 811) will highlight its package of printing consumables. Kohl & Madden will feature Marathon, a new sheetfed ink series with a wide lithographic window and extended stay-open properties that reduce the need for press washes and streamline make-readies.

Sun Chemical’s North American Publication Inks will show results of its PrintEasy heatset offset product line. PrintEasy includes highly versatile inks formulated for use on specific grades of paper. PrintEasy also includes a total package of fountain solutions, blankets and technical service processes.

Both K&M and Publication Inks products can be matched with fountain solutions and blankets from Rycoline Products, a 2004 Sun acquisition. Rycoline will showcase blankets and founts designed specifically to improve performance with other Sun Chemical products.
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Now that’s inkjet can-do
Crown Holdings and Jetrion (Booth 857) have produced a full-color, digital inkjet printed can. Jetrion’s proprietary flexible and formable color inkjet inks were used to produce ultra high-resolution images on a coated metal substrate that subsequently was formed by traditional manufacturing processes. Jetrion’s prototype, single-pass drop-on-demand (DOD) inkjet system was used to produce the images on a coated metal substrate.

Inkjet ink portfolio
Jetrion’s portfolio of high-performance inkjet inks can be used for a range of packaging, addressing, coding, direct mail and wide-format applications. CIJ ink, makeup and wash products currently are available for addressing and coding applications for Scitex, Videojet, Domino and Imaje printing technologies. Jetrion also offers a comprehensive line of DOD inkjet inks and—for Xaar and Spectra DOD printing technologies—CMYK solvent inks for outdoor applications and UV inks for packaging, point-of-purchase, private label, textile and large format/signage.

Jetrion’s 3000 series of DOD inkjet printers offer a range of speeds, inks and print resolutions. Users can run multiple 3000 series printers via the same Windows-based controller and graphic interface.

Flint Ink Corp. created Jetrion in 2003. Jetrion specializes in high performance inkjet inks, printing systems and integration services for industrial printing markets.
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Enhanced inkjet addressing
Videojet Technologies’ (Booth 2879) G4100 digital imaging system combines high print resolution and throughput with ease of use. Developed with HP thermal inkjet technology, the G4100 features a 4.25-inch print band in a single head that allows commercial printers to customize mail pieces with up to 1,200-dpi resolution for addresses, message text and graphics. At speeds up to 500 ft./min., high-resolution print jobs can be completed quickly, and the G4100’s self-wiping print heads reduce maintenance.

The system’s dual 775 mL ink cartridges dramatically reduce downtime. When one cartridge empties, the G4100 automatically switches to the other, so the empty cartridge can be changed while avoiding a temporary shutdown.
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Nipson & Pitman tackle VDP
At OnDemand, Nipson America and Pitman Co. discussed the companies’ recently announced a distribution partnership. Nipson and Pitman are targeting commercial printers, converters and packaging operations that want to add digital capabilities to their existing flexo and narrow web offset presses. Applications for Nipson’s cold-flash fusion technology include labels, tags, books-on-demand and security documents.

"Our customers expect us to bring them new ideas," said Joe Demharter, president of Pitman. "They want to know how to get into variable-data printing." Larry D’Amico, Pitman’s vice president of direct imaging sales, added that Pitman’s 20 imaging specialists are ideally positioned to help customers identify potential variable-data applications and demonstrate solutions.

Noting that Pitman reaches between 30 to 40 percent of U.S. commercial printers, Robert Stabler, president of Nipson America, said the partnership will help Nipson expand its reach.

Nipson’s offerings include the 230 ft./min. VaryPress 200 which can produce more than 500 images per minute at 600 dpi, in two-up simplex mode. In addition to the conventional twin engine duplex configuration, Nipson also offers a single-engine duplex (SED) version that takes advantage of the printer’s wide paper path to print both sides of the web with a single print engine.

At PRINT, Nipson will be in Booth 12049; Pitman will be in Booth 7546. Circle 178 or visit freeproductinfo.net/ap

PRINT 05 draws attendees from around the world
Visitors from more than 70 nations will attend PRINT 05. The list of current international visitor delegations is headed by five groups of more than 100 people each, representing China, India, Russia, Brazil and Mexico. See www.print05.com.