IGS and AZON Unveil Bottle Printer The one and only “Plug and Play” system on the market, the Rotax for bottle printing on UV A3 and A1 and B0 Indy machines, is coming from Azon through its U.S. dealer IGS and the Gate Group (Booth 3961). The new Azon innovation enables 360 degree printing on a wide range of materials. The possibilities of digital printing have now been doubled with a specially designed rotary adapter. Rotax allows printing on a vast range of cylindrical objects with diameter ranging from 41 mm to 127 mm and height up to 279 mm. With new rotary adapter, it is possible to print more varied print applications. Print on cylindrical and cone objects such as beer and wine glasses, cups, candles, tube, cans, tanks, vases, awards and much more. Rotax makes cylindrical printing efficient and precise by delivering both white and full color prints. The Rotax attachment is easy to install, quick to mount, and smooth to operate. It takes only two Printing on minutes to simply cylindrical and mount the adapter, cone objects is insert a connector now efficient and start printing. and precise. User friendly settings and functions, simple installation steps, intuitive and user-friendly operation are only some of the features which will satisfy the customers’ needs. Xerox Wows with Five-Color XiGen5, Entry-Level Inkjet Offering erox (Booth 631) drew a huge crowd Monday morning with several major announcements, including the Xerox Rialto 900, an entry-level, small-footprint inkjet device, cloud-based versions of its FreeFlow software, and its new five-color iGen5. The press conference opened with updates to Xerox’s FreeFlow Core, a GRAPH EXPO MUST SEE ’EMS winner, now available in a cloud version. FreeFlow Digital Publisher, which offers digital and print workflow in a single, unified workflow, was introduced in a cloud version, as well. For customers looking for digital publishing only, Xerox is offering a slimmed down e-publishing-only version. Xerox demonstrated XMPie’s new PersonalEffect v. 8.0. In a matter of minutes, the presenter produced multiple print and digital editions from a single PDF. The digital edition was automatically emailed to each attendee and automatically reformatted for optimum readability on their digital devices. For show visitors who want to experience this first-hand, Xerox is offering booth visitors the opportunity to create their own personalized applications using one of Xerox’s iPad stations. “We had a lot of interest yesterday and I’m sure the stations will be jammed today,” said Kevin Horey, Vice President/ General Manager Workflow and Solutions. Center stage was the new Xerox five-color iGen5. Xerox chose to go with an extended station, so the recipe is CMYK plus orange, green, or blue. “We can now read about 91% of Pantone Plus library to within 3 delta E,” said Anne Fitzpatrick-Post, Worldwide General Chris Irick, Worldwide Product Marketing Manager, High Entry Production Color, Xerox Manager, Xerox-developed production cutsheet products. For attendees wanting to know if their clients’ corporate colors can be hit with the extended color gamut, Fitzpatrick-Post said, Xerox offers a tool at www.xerox/gamut. The spotlight was turned on Chris Irick, Worldwide Product Marketing Manager, High Entry Production Color, who demonstrated Xerox’s entry-level inkjet Rialto 900. “This is the world’s first fully integrated inkjet press roll to cut sheet,” said Irick. “It’s a narrow web inkjet press that fills the gap between cut sheet and continuous feed products.” The press has a very small footprint, only 2" longer than Xerox’s color press offering on the floor, and is “the smallest of the products entering the space today. It offers a world-class, fully integrated user interface. Selecting a job is like selecting one off a service tablet or an iPad. We’ve added green button simplicity, making it simple to migrate from cut sheet or toner,” concluded Irick. EFI Showcases F“The Imaging of Things” lip flops. Tabletops. Glass surfaces. Coffins. Blimps. Seemingly a random collection of objects, but these comprise just a small sample of the kinds of things that today’s wide format printers can print on, said Guy Gecht, CEO of EFI (Booth 1902) at a press conference held Monday. “No company in the Silicon Valley is considered a leader in the industry unless their product is being used in the bathroom,” quipped Gecht, showing how EFI’s Cretaprint ceramic printing system can print bathroom tiles. EFI has been using the phrase “The Imaging of Things”—a play on “the Internet of Things”—to refer to its extensive lineup of wide format LED UV printers and the unique applications they make possible. One of the newest materials to enter EFI’s Imaging of Things is textiles, thanks to the company’s July acquisition of Italy’s Reggiani Macchine, a manufacturer of industrial textile equipment. “We’ve been looking at a textile company ever since we got into inkjet,” said Gecht. “Textiles are a very interesting way of expressing yourself, and even our signage customers like to print more and more fabric for soft signage.” (At about the same time, EFI also acquired Israel’s Matan Digital Printers, a manufacturer of superwide format equipment.) Guy Gecht, CEO of EFI Gecht identified three enablers of growth in the printing industry in general, and wide format in particular: new technologies, the ability to print on virtually anything, and—perhaps most importantly—industry creativity. “There is no more creative industry than the printing industry,” he said. While wide format printing gets all the ink, so to speak, EFI also has the new Fiery Hyper- RIP, said to be the world’s fastest digital front end (a 2015 MUST SEE ’EMS award winner in the Prepress and Premedia category). All these initiatives have meant growth for EFI, and the company recently hired its 3,000th employee. “You have to continue to invent yourself,” said Gecht. Azon Rotax bottle printer Sun Print Solutions Takes Digital HProduction to New Heights P today announced that Salt Lake City-based Sun Print Solutions purchased an HP PageWide Web Press T230, the company’s first production inkjet press, to expand digital print capacity and invest in growing general commercial print application areas like direct mail. Founded in 1941, Sun Print Solutions, a Sun Litho company, remains one of the oldest and largest general commercial printers west of the Rockies. First adopting digital print technology in 2010 with an HP Indigo 5500 Digital Press, the company went on to install one of the first HP Indigo 10000 Digital Presses, now with three HP Indigo 10000s at full production capacity. With its new HP PageWide Web Press T230, Sun Print Solutions can tackle a larger volume of digital pages, continuing to offer customers the value of variable data printing at significantly increased production speeds, up to 400 feet per minute. The company is specifically looking to invest in its digital direct mail offering, recently purchasing a mail house that will be a growth-driver in combination with its new HP PageWide Web Press T230. Additionally, Sun Print Solutions is now HIPPA-compliant, allowing the company to apply its new high-speed digital capabilities to the healthcare, financial and political arenas. “The HP Indigo 10000s have been instrumental in the quick growth of our digital print offering, so much so that we were currently at max production capacity and looking to expand our portfolio with a next-level digital solution,” said Jeff Isbell, CEO and president, Sun Print Solutions. “With the HP PageWide Web Press T230, we will not only greatly increase our digital capacity to meet current customer demand, but continue to evolve this legacy company in an industry where the future is digital.” (L - R) Haim Levit, HP; Jeff Isbell CEO and President Sun Print Solutions; Sean Rigby, Director of Sales, Sun Print Solutions; and Jacob Shamis, HP Official Show Daily | PrintingNews.com GRAPH EXPO | September 15, 2015 | 15
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