“Girls Who Print” Day at The Printerverse oin The Printerverse today, Tuesday, September 15, for the third annual National “Girls Who Print” Day. Held annually every Tuesday of GRAPH EXPO, this year’s event promises to be the biggest yet. With more than 5,000 members around the world, GWP Nation is the industry’s largest virtual sorority for women in printing and the graphic arts, and continues to promote the love of print, paper, design, and communication through networking, blogging, and education. The signature theme of GWP Nation is “Peace. Love. Girls Who Print,” and Girls Who Print Day highlights the camaraderie of GWP Nation. Members of GWP Nation will gather for events live in Chicago—as well as from around the world via live streaming video. A popular feature of “Girls Who Print Day” is the “Meet the Mentors” panel of women leaders in the industry. This year also includes a special student focus, with graphic arts educators around the country streaming the panel live to their classes, allowing students to ask questions. Today’s event also sees the presentation of the GIRLIE Award. In the spirit of peace, love, and equal opportunity, women and men alike are invited to stop by and join GWP Nation for a light lunch at noon. Based in Booth 3867, The Printerverse, presented by the Print Media Centr, spans 2,500 square feet and offers a mix of events focused on the latest industry trends and features activities, such as panel discussions, case study presentations, networking events, and periodic guided tours of the Printerverse Alliance members’ booths. “Girls Who Print Day” is popular on social media, and attendees will be sharing photos and videos via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Be sure to follow @PrintMediaCentr, @mbsmithTX, and #graphexpo to stay connected to what’s going on at #GWPDay, and see who stopped by to say hello. Fast-Growing Sheetfed LED-UV Technology Provides Significant Advancements, Benefits, and Savings One of the hottest topics among commercial • Environmental and safety benefits; UV, HUV, HR-UV, or LE UV all rely on mercury lamps; LED eliminates the risk of mercury or ozone contamination and is 100% compliant with future bans on mercury for human safety. “We are at the forefront in this transition to LED UV drying as this new technology gains acceptance,” says Chris Travis, KBA Director of Technology. “KBA is the only large-format press manufacturer that can offer LED hybrid presses using both traditional UV and LED-UV processes. We are also the only large-format press manufacturer that produces its own dryer; this means the KBA VariDry system is fully integrated into the press allowing for easy operation no matter if it is infrared, hot air, traditional UV, HR UV, or LED-UV.” At drupa 2012, KBA demonstrated LED-UV drying on a Rapida 106 41" press. Today, KBA can offer LED-UV presses on all formats with or without traditional UV capability. KBA also offers traditional UV presses that are LEDUV ready. This means that when a printer wants to switch to LED or complement a traditional UV press, it can be accomplished with a few modifications. This provides KBA customers with maximum flexibility and future-proofs their investment. The KBA VariLED LED-UV system is fully integrated into the press and can be actuated according to the print format. In the future, when running a short sheet the light-emitting diodes will turn off outside of the sheet. We’ve created the playbook for success in the wide-format business. The FASTSIGNS Co-Brand Program allows you to add a FASTSIGNS center within your existing business footprint for as little as $10,000 down. Visit Us in Booth 4245 Donna Booth decided to enter the wide-format printing market, but after two years, she signed on as a FASTSIGNS® Co-Brand franchisee. What happened? “I quickly realized that I’m a printer, not a sign business expert. FASTSIGNS provided my company with the depth of operational and marketing support needed to scale my wide-format business. Now we have a proven playbook for success, and a deep bench of experts available to help make our aggressive growth plans a reality. Wide-format sales are now driving 20% of revenue and climbing.” - Donna Booth, Owner of Prestige Printing and FASTSIGNS Co-Brand Franchisee For more information, contact Mark Jameson: mark.jameson@fastsigns.com | 214-346-5679 | fastsigns.com and packaging printers is LED-UV curing, a low-energy drying technology. KBA’s (Booth 213) R&D team in Germany, along with its ink partners, have integrated this instant cure-to-print technology as a modular LED-UV curing platform into its press line and is able to offer assistance to its current and prospective customers to capitalize on LED-UV’s many advantages and benefits. Called VariDry LED-UV the system’s significant advantages include: • Very low energy costs to power LED-UV; a savings up to 50% in power consumption and energy costs versus conventional UV dryers; • No heat on the printed sheet thus eliminating distortion of plastic substrates; • No spray powders or other chemicals • Yields more than 15 times the lifespan of conventional lamps; • Flexibility to move LED-UV lamps on press depending on printing applications • Inks can be cured at up to 340% total coverage at standard densities; • All stock types can be utilized including gloss and matte coated papers, uncoated offset papers, paperboard for packaging, non-porous synthetic papers, foil-laminated INTRODUCING THE HP INDIGO EPM PREFLIGHT SOLUTION FROM ENFOCUS sheets, and plastics such as lenticular as well as most plastic packaging, card, and label stocks; and WHAT? An innovative software solution that completely automates your HP Indigo EPM print production BENEFITS Increases HP Indigo EPM print volume Automatically sorts fi les for printing in HP Indigo EPM mode Optimizes manufacturing processes by reducing touch points Saves time, reduces cost and increases profi t PITSTOPSERVER “ Prefl ight Solution from Enfocus allows us to defi ne very specifi c parameters for our devices. It’s given us a confi dent automated workfl ow to save us more money with technology that we already had in place. “ PITSTOPSERVER MORE INFO? Contact your HP representative or Enfocus at enfocus.com/hpepm or sales@enfocus.com The HP Indigo EPM Brian Scott, President, Blooming Color Official Show Daily | PrintingNews.com GRAPH EXPO | September 15, 2015 | 41
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