Pressroom: General
It's a sign
Jan 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Kate Achelpohl, Marguerite Higgins and Dan Marx
With the help of wide-format digital imaging, you can offer current clients a broader range of services while you broaden your customer base. Expanding your capabilities can counteract any declines you’re experiencing in your traditional commercial printing business. One potentially profitable rung on the ladder of vertical growth: wide-format digital imaging and the $5.5 billion sign and banner market. ...
Ellerhold & XXL
Jun 1, 2006 12:00 AM, By Katherine O'Brien
With models ranging from 20 to 81 inches, KBA North America has presses for practically everyone. At a recent open house held at its Radebeul, Germany facility, attendees learned the story behind KBA’s largest press, the 81-inch Rapida 205. ...
Inkjet advantage
Jun 1, 2006 12:00 AM, By AP staff
Rock-Tenn, a POP printer, discovers the fluidity of digital print....
Single-pass inkjet
Jun 1, 2006 12:00 AM, By Rob Haak
Inkjet offers alternatives to electrophotography at the high end; to all types of conventional printing technology for small to medium volumes of print-on-demand, just-in-time, and customized or personalized print; to continuous inkjet for industrial marking; and in the transactional printing and business color markets. ...
April Cover Story: Which side are you on?
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 AM, By Patrick Henry
The gap between what half-web presses can do and what long perfectors can't is closing. Nonetheless, after speaking to the major half-web and long perfector vendors, it seems that there's a place for both....
Sheetfed presses
Obtaining good fit on a sheet
Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Raymond J. Prince
Most medium to large plants have employed computer-to-plate (CTP) as their primary platemaking method, the promise being improved fit. In many cases,...
Iron giants
Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Patrick Henry
AMERICAN PRINTER asked the major manufacturers of VLF presses and three of their customers about the realties of stepping up to production in formats...
Modern times
Aug 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Katherine O' Brien
From lobby to loading dock, Modern Postcard (Carlsbad, CA) lives up to its name. Cofounder and senior vice president Jim Toya-Brown design-ed the 75,000-sq.-ft....
Presses plus a whole lot more
Aug 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By AP staff
You never know what you'll find at Graph Expo. Consider this story: Impressions Printing (Oklahoma City) is a small commercial printer specializing in...
The all-rounder plus
Aug 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Denise Kapel
In Booth 646, MAN Roland (Westmont, IL) will show the Roland 700 HiPrint with the company's InlineFoiler. MAN Roland unveiled the Roland 700 HiPrint along...
Web presses
Presses plus a whole lot more
Aug 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By AP staff
You never know what you'll find at Graph Expo. Consider this story: Impressions Printing (Oklahoma City) is a small commercial printer specializing in...
GraphExpo New Products
Oct 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Color proofs on Diamond Jet papers Mitsubishi Imaging (MPM), Inc., (booth 4629) has released a new color proofing solution using Diamond Jet proofing...
Papa's got a Brand new Goss
Oct 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien
Visitors to Papa John's 36-acre campus in Louisville, KY, soon notice some quirky details. Consider the stop signs on the property. At first glance, they...
Decision points
Sep 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Jill Roth
Decision Points 2006 was the theme for the 54th Annual Web Offset Management and Technical Conference held at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, this...
Saying YES to JDF!
Sep 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien
Joe Novak doesn't have an easy job. He's the director of technology for Williamson Printing Corp. (Dallas), one of the largest printers in the United...
Digital presses
Designing for digital print
Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Michael Riebesehl
The new generation of designers is learning its craft in a world where everything happens in real time, driving new relationships with technology and...
Cultural exchange
Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien
This past June, about 15 members of the Digital Solutions Cooperative (Dscoop), an HP Indigo press users group, participated in a conference held at the...
Xerox to showcase end-to-end solutions
Aug 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Katherine O'Brien, editor, AMERICAN PRINTER
It's not just about digital printing machines. That's the message Xerox (Rochester, NY) will stress at Graph Expo in booth 1219. We're going to continue...
Presses plus a whole lot more
Aug 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By AP staff
You never know what you'll find at Graph Expo. Consider this story: Impressions Printing (Oklahoma City) is a small commercial printer specializing in...
The digital difference
Feb 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Edited by Claudia Hine
Model Graphics and Media has installed an HP Indigo press ws4050 for short to medium runs of high quality, full-color labels. It allows the 39-employee firm to capture applications ranging from St. Patrick’s Day lapel badges for a local Irish pub to vibrant brand-assured labels for a leading consumer products company. ...
DI presses
Small press, big performance
Aug 1, 2005 12:00 AM, By Denise Kapel and Carrie Cleaveland
NAPL’s fundamentals to success include quality, service, speed, price, reliability, responsiveness and relationships—capabilities press manufacturers have been working to facilitate with increased automation and other productivity enhancements on small-format offset presses....
It's a "DI"fferent world, part 2
Nov 1, 2004 12:00 AM, John Zarwan and the AP staff
It's been almost 13 years since Heidelberg launched the first direct imaging (DI) press, but some pundits say recent imaging technology, plates and press introductions could puch DI to new levels of popularity....
It's a "DI"fferent world, part 1
Nov 1, 2004 12:00 AM, Katherine O'Brien and the AP staff
It's been almost 13 years since Heidelberg launched the first direct imaging (DI) press, but some pundits say recent imaging technology, plates and press introductions could puch DI to new levels of popularity....
Why DI?
Aug 1, 2003 12:00 PM, by Mayu Mishina, Managing editor | mmishina@primediabusiness.com
Aug 1, 2003 | Direct-imaging (DI) presses take advantage of two of the biggest trends in the graphic-arts market: short runs and digital workflows. Because DI presses...
DI presses: Where are they now?
Feb 1, 2002 12:00 PM, by Samantha Oller, Senior associate editor, and Allison K. Mclean, Associate editor | APeditor@primediabusiness.com
Feb 1, 2002 | At Drupa 2000, 13 direct-imaging (DI) presses were announced. Two years later, a few of these presses haven't made it off the drawing board. Nonetheless,...
Makeready
The all-rounder plus
Aug 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Denise Kapel
In Booth 646, MAN Roland (Westmont, IL) will show the Roland 700 HiPrint with the company's InlineFoiler. MAN Roland unveiled the Roland 700 HiPrint along...
Saying YES to JDF!
Sep 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien
Joe Novak doesn't have an easy job. He's the director of technology for Williamson Printing Corp. (Dallas), one of the largest printers in the United...
Mixing small batches of ink in-house
Jan 1, 2005 12:00 AM, AP staff
Mercury Print Productions (Rochester, NY) has grown from one $400 printing press in founder Valerie Mannix's basement to a custom-designed 70,000-sq. -ft. facility. Mercury’s latest innovations include the recent installation of an Offset Paste Litho (OPL) series paste ink dispenser from INX International Ink Co. (Elk Grove Village, IL)....
The evolution of the press check
Jan 1, 2005 12:00 AM, By Denise Kapel
Press checks have been a mainstay of print buyers' job requirements since the advent of commercial printing. Now that the portable document format (PDF) and the Internet enable printers to quickly transmit increasingly accurate proofs anywhere in the world, the onsite press check is no longer the only game in town. However, some print buyers—particularly those with challenging print jobs—still expect press-side proofs. ...
Getting to color faster
Sep 1, 2002 12:00 PM, by Mayu Mishina, Managing editor, and Allison K. Mclean, Associate editor | APeditor@primediabusiness.com
Sep 1, 2002 | With shrinking run lengths becoming the norm, a fast press makeready is key to making money on a job. And technology, say vendors, is key to making presses...
