Digital Printing Machine

Romein Grafisch Management in The Netherlands recently invested in a four-colour HP Indigo press 3050. The new acquisition replaces its original HP Indigo press 1000 the capabilities of which generated the original impetus to go digital almost three years ago. The speed and ease of variable digital printing provides a strong technical complement for Romein Grafisch Management's corporate slogan fast, flexible, and free of stress.

'We began digital printing with an HP Indigo press 1000 because it combined excellent offset quality with the flexibility of variable printing,' said Jasper Romein, managing director, Romein Grafisch Management, who manages the company with his father Wim. 'Today we are replacing this machine with a four-colour HP Indigo press 3050 to achieve even higher productivity and deliver even higher printing quality.'

Romein Grafisch Management's customer base mainly consists of advertising agencies and printing companies.

Efficiency Starts with I.D.

There are many ways to reduce material handling costs when moving rolls, sheeted board and pallet loads between plants, sheetfed presses, pallet storage racks, diecutters, and folder-gluers. All of these cost reduction opportunities depend on a common capability: the means to identify pallet loads after each operation. For most converters, that means pallet load tickets.

What You Need to Know— A load ticket should be affixed to each pallet of product as it exits sheeting, printing, diecutting, and folding-gluing. And, for each operation a new load ticket could (or maybe "should") be affixed. The following is minimum information that should be included on each load ticket:
• Job number
• Job name/customer
• Date
• Machine name and number (Press #3)
• Operator
• Quantity
• Pallet X of N (pallet 3 of 6)
This information is usually produced manually in smaller box plants, however putting a small digital printer at each machine is no longer a large investment.

Superwide Digital Print For Packaging Prototypes

A Sheffield (UK) company has produced prototypes for a world-renowned tool manufacturer. Digital printer Pinders has produced new packaging prototypes for Stanley Tools using what it said to be the latest in print and cutting technology. Last year Pinders invested more than GBP300,000 in two new specially imported print and cutting machines.

The company's six-metre square specialist Esko cutting table means prints can be cut, routed, perforated or creased in to any shape.

Nipson Digital dives into the red

LONDON (SHARECAST) - Digital printing machines group Nipson Digital sank into the red during the first half following a poor performance from its maintenance business, although a recovery is expected to accelerate in the second half. The group posted a loss before tax of 1.1m versus a small 88,000 profit a year earlier, while turnover came in almost 7% higher at 16.86m from 15.80m this time last year. The group blamed the slide into the red on decreased margins on maintenance business, patent litigation expenses and higher financial expenses. The maintenance business was profitable during the second quarter such that losses which were incurred during the first quarter have been recovered to achieve break even for the half year, said the group. Nipson expects this business to continue to be profitable throughout the second half.

(AFX UK Focus) 2006-08-10 08:02 GMT: Nipson Digital Print sees recovery accelerating in H2 after H1 loss

LONDON (AFX) - Nipson Digital Printing Systems PLC said it expects the recovery in its business it to accelerate in the second half of 2006, after it posted losses in the first half to June 30.

The company posted a pretax loss on ordinary activities of 1.115 mln stg for the first half compared with a profit of 88,000 stg a year earlier and an operating loss of 871,000 stg compared with a profit of 146,000.

Sales for the period increased by 6.6 pct to 16.856 mln stg from 15,802. Equipment sales were 7.7 mln stg, up 16 pct year-on-year, and were strong throughout the period, especially in the US, despite the weak dollar.

In the second quarter, the gross margin was 28.4 pct, up from 25 pct in the first quarter.

Nipson Digital said its equipment order book is at its strongest ever and recurrent revenues will benefit from growth in the printing capacity of its installed machine base.

Brother Gulf gears up to tap growing market demand for MFCs

In a bid to capitalise on the growing demand for Multi-Function Devices in the Middle East, Brother Gulf, a global leader in the development and manufacturing of printing, communication and digital imaging products for homes, SOHOs and enterprises, and a subsidiary of Brother Group, Japan, announced the Middle East launch of its new series of Laser Flatbed Multi-Function Centers (MFCs) at a press conference held at Shangri-La Hotel, Dubai. Speaking at the press conference, Toyomi Ido, President, Brother International Corporation, Japan, said, The rapidly evolving business environment in the Middle East has seen significant changes taking place in business practices across the corporate sector, keeping pace with the technological innovations. One area that has definitely seen a growing trend in the recent years is office printing, where there has been a notable shift from single function devices to machines that offer multi-function capabilities.