| Laser Image Corporate Printing Continues Expansion, Moves to ...
DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2006--In July, Laser Image Corporate Printing, a 19-year old digital print service in RTP, completed its move to larger quarters at One Park Center, 4018 Patriot Drive, Durham, NC. Laser Image provides a full range of design and printing services for documentation, business identity and marketing collateral materials. The company also provides a complete range of fast-turnaround direct mail services. "The move effectively doubles our space," President Richard Smith said, "allowing us to expand services in great demand, especially data management, graphic design, and direct mail marketing. We've already added another five-color digital press and expect to hire 4 - 6 new employees in the near future. "Our clientele requires a great variety of printed materials produced on demand and delivered very fast.
Xerox iGen3 Digital Press Enables Modern International Graphics to Diversify Business
Modern International Graphics Inc. is using a Xerox (NYSE: XRX) iGen3(R) 110 Digital Production Press to help grow its digital printing business and become a more strategic partner for its clients. With an iGen3 110 digital press and a Xerox Nuvera(TM) 120 Digital Production System, the graphic communications company expects to grow its digital printing from 5 percent to 20 percent of overall print volume within the next two years. "We recognized that to only be good at ink on paper could be a death sentence," said Dave Margiotta, president and owner, Modern International Graphics Inc. "Getting the iGen3 digital color press was part of a business decision to continue to diversify our services and become more of an integral part of our clients' business, rather than just be an output device." According to Margiotta, the Xerox iGen3 will help the company give customers a better return on their investment, including higher response rates on direct mail campaigns.
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. Now the company has put its technology to a new use by producing a range of packaging prototypes for Stanley in just two days. The Vutek superwide format digital printing press allows Pinders to produce full coloured, finished, weatherproof graphics directly on to virtually any surface up to two metres wide for projects including packaging, display boards and point of sale material, said the company. The company's six-metre square specialist Esko cutting table means prints can be cut, routed, perforated or creased in to any shape.
New press helps to personalize mass marketing
The arrival in Hawaii of a digital printing press the size of a small bus is generating new business for a local company and the three brothers who run it. Honblue, owned by brothers Matthew, Larry and Robert Heim, created a subsidiary, Boomerang, to operate and market the giant machine, named Xerox iGen3. They said it took two Matson containers to ship it and the accompanying components to Hawaii from the Mainland, and Xerox technicians spent three weeks installing it. .
Brother Gulf gears up to tap growing market demand for Multi-Function Devices
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 today (Thursday, August 3, 2006), 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.
Newspapers encouraged to go electronic
What is a seemingly impossible scene today may be the norm in China's near future: A subway passenger scanning an electronic newspaper in the form of a plastic video screen thin, foldable and wireless with constantly changing text. In the guideline to the 11th Five-Year Program (2006-10) for China's Press Industry, unveiled on Friday, "digital printing" is seen as the future of print media. The country's traditional print media are encouraged to develop digital products such as e-newspapers and provide value-added information services according to the guideline set out by the General Administration of Press and Publications. The administration also plans to start an experimental programme for e-newspapers to test the technology and platforms for digital publishing with the participation of print media, IT companies and mobile service providers.
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