Finishing - Digital Enhancement

Taylor Graphics, a California based printing company, has dedicated 100 percent of its efforts on trade printing. Recently, it invested in a JETvarnish 3D digital spot UV coater. “We were excited about the opportunity to offer our customers digital spot UV coating with the ability to do both flat and raised UV,” said Dean Taylor, owner of Taylor Graphics.

American Greetings will be installing its first Scodix S75 digital enhancement press at its Osceola, AR, production facility this summer. The new unit will enable the company to specify professional short-run enhancements, while maintaining a digital production workflow. American Greetings also be able to digitally enhance greeting cards with raised imagery, foil and metallic special effects, and glittering.

Since adding a new MGI Meteor DP8700XL digital press and JETvarnish 3D digital spot UV coater, Prestone Printing in Long Island City, NY, is now able to win new projects and offer a faster turnaround for its clients. "Our clients are now able to produce more innovative marketing collateral with an appealing schedule and price, due to the cost savings of using a digital press over an offset," said Ira Wechsler, Prestone Printing’s partner and vice president of operations.

At Ipex in London’s ExCel from March 24-29, Konica Minolta is showing how it is exploiting digital short-run packaging markets with demonstrations of its KM-1 B2+ UV inkjet color press for digital short-run production.

As a part of its UV in 3D Campaign at Graphics of America being held this week in Miami, The Printer’s Edge of Orlando, FL, has invested in a JETvarnish 3D digital spot UV coater.

MGI Digital Graphic Technology has been selected to receive the “Game Changer” award for its JETvarnish 3D inkjet spot UV coater with the iFOIL module at the 2014 Graphics of the Americas Expo and Conference, taking place February 27-March 1, 2014 at the Miami Beach. MGI will be showcasing this device, as well as the Meteor DP8700XL digital press, in full production demonstrations.

“I need a reliable source for raised-print business cards.” Sounds simple enough doesn’t it? But wait...“The raised print is a design and not lettering.” Now we are narrowing it down.

Gilded edges have been a staple of wedding invitations for years. More recently, I’ve noticed the occasional business card with color on the edge. But now...the trend is unmistakable.

At PRINT 13, Scodix will be introducing the Scodix Ultra digital press that is capable of producing 1,250 B2+ (21.5x31.0˝) size sheets per hour and is based upon the company’s Scodix SENSE technology.

At PRINT 13, Scodix will be exhibiting five modular digital production tools for quickly and easily enhancing digitally printed images with production effects for making projects stand out. Headlining these offerings will be Scodix Metallic, which recently received a 2013 Printing Industries of America InterTech Technology Award.