Two Chicago-area marketing services firms have joined forces to extend impact for their business clients. Tradeshows and Displays has become a subsidiary of Plum Grove, a print, promotional products and signage firm. The merged Plum Grove company provides a 360-degree approach to trade show marketing and printing.
For the first time, PriscoDigital will be exhibiting at SGIA 2014, conducting live continuous end-to-end workflow demonstrations on various rigid media. Using high-speed production equipment and optimized software from HP Scitex, Caldera and Esko, PriscoDigital demonstrate the wide range of products that print service providers, commercial printers, packaging printers and others can produce.
A new, hybrid roll/flatbed EFI H1625 LED printer has been installed at the Gladstone, MO, FASTSIGNS center. The new press allows the shop to produce high-quality, flatbed-printed parking lot signage, backlit signs and other display graphics.
Brent Moncrief has joined Durst U.S., the North American subsidiary of Durst Phototechnik AG, as its new vice president of sales and marketing. He succeeds Chris Howard, who has been promoted to vice president for business development.
Guests invited to the recent series of Technology Summits in Kansas City, KS, hosted by Fujifilm North America, Graphic Systems Division, gained in-depth knowledge of wide-format applications, and opportunities to serve this growth market.
Livermore, CA-based Evron Graphics became one of the first companies in the world to install the EFI H1625 LED hybrid roll/flatbed printer—a brand-new inkjet product that brings EFI’s greener LED inkjet platform to its wide-format line of entry-level production technologies.
The EFI VUTEk GS5500LXr Pro printer will make its worldwide debut at Shanghai AD & Sign 2014. The new roll-to-roll inkjet product is part of an exhibit offering the industry’s most significant digital portfolio for greener, more productive graphics printing.
At FESPA Digital this week in Munich, Germany, EFI will showcase its UltraDrop 7pL grayscale print head technology on its VUTEk GS series printers. FESPA also marks the worldwide premiere of EFI Fiery proServer Version 6, a scalable and flexible digital front-end workflow offering significantly faster processing speeds.
Canon Solutions America, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A, outlines the top five questions that a printer should ask when selecting media for a wide-format printer. The white paper “Smart Media Decisions for Your Wide Format Printer,” is also presented.
At the ISA International Sign Expo this week in Orlando, FL, EFI is showcasing the first LED printer in the entry-level EFI wide-format line, the new EFI H1625 LED printer, as well as the EFI VUTEk HS100 Pro UV inkjet press, a high-volume production solution offering near-offset quality for display graphics, corrugated packaging and other applications.
