At GRAPH EXPO 14 taking place between Sept. 28 and Oct. 1, at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Canon U.S.A. will unveil the latest additions to its production and wide-format solutions portfolio, and will demonstrate how the company’s solutions help enable creativity without boundaries and inspire innovation.
Scheduled for October 22 in Las Vegas, Blue Ocean Worldwide will showcase its expanded superwide-format print capabilities at an Open House from 5:30 to 9 p.m. The company just added a sixth EFI VUTEk printer to its fleet after it moved into a larger location.
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.
Digital textile printing is quickly transforming the world of display graphics. Merritt Graphics of East Hartford, CT, recently decided that the time was right and just finished installing a new PrinterEvolution Eos126 DS dye-sublimation printer. The machine simplifies dye-sublimation printing into a one-step process, achieving 24-hour-per-day production demands. It also added improved fabric finishing with an Impulsa Sewing System.
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.
Epson is the official inkjet printer and paper partner for the "Wilderness Forever: 50 Years of Protecting America’s Wild Places," exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. The exhibition-quality prints were created with Epson’s 44" Epson Stylus Pro 9900 inkjet printer.
Since installing an EF VUTEk HS100 Pro UV inkjet press and a VUTEk GS3250LX Pro LED inkjet printer with hybrid flatbed/roll-to-roll capabilities, Dome Printing in Sacramento, CA, has brought most of its large-format printing work in-house. Complementing its installation of new EFI VUTEk printing equipment, Dome also acquired an Esko cutting table for finishing flatbed-printed graphics jobs.
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.
Canon U.S.A. has launched the Océ PlotWave 500 large-format printing system. Printing at speeds of 10 D-size plots per minute with virtually no warm-up delay, and cloud integration, users can print faster, share faster and finish projects faster than before.
For a small printing company in a small state and operating in a small market, Beeline and Blue has a penchant for thinking big. Wide-format digital printing in general and the Digital Décor solution in particular are definitely the main talking points in Beeline and Blue's future.
