Finishing - Digital
Access Direct reported throughput on their five Standard Hunkeler/Horizon Roll-to-Fold solutions and the numbers are astonishing.
Recent surveys indicate that a majority of printing plant spending in 2018 will be on finishing. That makes perfect sense. The number of new products introduced for digital print has been dizzying. Advances in inkjet are enabling this technology to address an ever-wider segment of print. Inkjet is being used for higher-volume runs, as well as longer duty cycles of upwards of one hundred million pages per month.
The winners of Scodix’s annual Design Awards competition have been announced.
Color Ink will be scooping up the cream of the crop in decorative print embellishment applications with a new JETvarnish 3D press.
The new Standard Horizon StitchLiner Mark III installation at LandmarkPrint marks the first installation in North America.
Now more than ever, printers are investing in technology to automate their shops. Order entry and prepress is being automated with Web-to-print software, new digital presses continue to get more productive, and job information is flowing effortlessly through the system. That drive for automation is now being directed at finishing.
Working with manufacturers that offer preventative maintenance packages can be the difference between full uptime or a loss of producti
Blair Labeling installed Esko Automation Engine QuickStart for Labels, and reduced its manual prepress workload by more than 30%.
As a leading developer of finishing technologies, MBO offers solutions for every perforating requirement.
More than any other value-adding finishing step, perforating makes print interactive. When perforated sections are pulled from direct mail pieces and other kinds of printed matter, things start to happen. People pay their bills. They order products and services. They collect coupons for redemption. They request information. Perforating puts the ability to do all of […]