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GraphExpo Show Daily September 14 2015

G“Transform” Your Business at GRAPH EXPO 15 RAPH EXPO 15, themed “Transform,” delivers the most innovative and comprehensive exhibition in the Americas of inkjet, digital, offset, flexo, gravure, and hybrid technologies, products, and services for the commercial, transactional, converting and package printing, publishing, mailing, in-plant, photo imaging, marketing, and industrial printing industries. The event presents the latest graphic communications technologies in live equipment demonstrations across the exhibition floor, plus education on the most in-demand products and newest profit-making opportunities. GRAPH EXPO 15 offers more than 70 interactive learning sessions and 50+ co-located events for attendees across 12 key market segments. GRAPH EXPO 15 has strengthened the lineup of specialty show floor sections with three new attractions: Materials Matter, Industrial Printing, and Applications Island. Along with these three exciting new features, the show floor will also present attendees with the many show sections that are back by popular demand. These include: Software: Workflow & Design/Prepress, Press/Finishing, The Inkjet Candy Store, Deliver-The Mailing & Fulfillment Center, The Marketing Pavilion, News Print-The Newspaper Pavilion, The In-Plant Place, Education Main Street, and The Printerverse. Materials Matter Materials Matter showcases the powerful role that paper and non-paper substrates play in every print job, revealing the tactile qualities and impact of print. Mohawk, in cooperation with GASC, created this collective booth area at GRAPH EXPO 15 to celebrate the essential role that materials play in the print ecosystem. This new specialty hub is a featured showcase where multiple substrate manufacturers can demonstrate the powerful role that their paper and non-paper substrates play in the printing process. Industrial Printing Pavilion The Industrial Printing Pavilion, sponsored by the Society for the Plastics Industry (SPI), GASC, and CPP EXPO, is where the exciting new worlds of package printing, commercial printing, and industrial manufacturing converge. The vast array of industrial applications includes such things as floor tiles, wallpaper, acrylic, glass panels, metal, wood, ceramics, textiles, laminates, and more. The variety of plastic applications includes affinity/ ATM/credit/gift/phone cards, ID badges, and POP displays. The Industrial Printing Pavilion also features Future Print, sponsored by Flex- Tech Alliance, where attendees can see the hottest new and emerging print technologies, including RFID, printed electronics, and live demonstrations of 3D printing options and the profit-building applications they create. Applications Island Applications Island is an exciting show floor “oasis” of hot, unique new print applications. This new beach-themed gallery, completely created by print applications with everything complete access to the solutions, best practices, and hottest trends for bridging print with marketing to achieve the results print customers’ demand. Sponsored by the United States Postal Service, this year’s Mailing & Fulfillment Center showcases vendors displaying everything from software to consumables to full-blown mailing systems. On display are the latest innovations in hardware and software, from addressing, variable, pURL, bar coding and data processing to digital, continued on page 31 from the display walls, to the furniture, will also feature print categories that include cross-media direct mail, digital label, books, and more. Inkjet Candy Store Having made its debut two years ago at PRINT 13, the Inkjet Candy Store (Booth 3040) is a dynamic show floor pavilion dedicated to a representative sample of the latest wide-format printers. Stop by and compare and contrast inkjet technologies—aqueous, UV, rollfed, flatbed—the current models from top manufacturers, and the applications for which they are best suited. The Inkjet Candy Store is a good first stop for visitors to take notes and plan which manufacturers, models, and/or applications to follow-up on and which exhibitors to visit. Deliver: The Mailing & Fulfillment Center At GRAPH EXPO 15, still the largest mailing show in the world, Deliver—The Mailing & Fulfillment Center offers attendees Official Show Daily | PrintingNews.com GRAPH EXPO | September 13-16, 2015 | 29


GraphExpo Show Daily September 14 2015
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