Epson America

With offset presses becoming scarce on the show floor and digital vendors pushing for higher volume and larger B2-format machines, digital presses are becoming the "big iron" components of the GRAPH EXPO show. Almost without exception, digital press vendors highlighted their workflow and digital front end (DFE) capabilities.

Ben Franklin Press & Label, an award-winning Napa, CA-based printer and converter, has selected the Epson SurePress L-4033A inkjet digital label press to produce vibrant, high-quality wine labels for numerous wineries. “We spent over a year investigating the digital press market and our research took us to Labelexpo 2011 in Brussels and then to drupa 2012 in Germany.”

The xpedx booth at GRAPH EXPO will feature equipment including EFI Rastek H652, HP Designjet L26500, Epson SureColor S70670, Esko Kongsberg XN24, Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 and X-Rite. The display will also showcase software from EFI Digital StoreFront and Onyx, and various paper, synthetic, flexible and rigid substrates from industry leading suppliers.

GRAPH EXPO will be offering a free live webinar on September 18, 2012. Sponsored by EFI and GRAPH EXPO, with presenter Hal Hinderliter, coordinator for the MUST SEE 'EMS program, the webinar will give prospective GRAPH EXPO attendees an opportunity to learn more about the 'must see' technologies, their implications for the graphic communications industry and possible applications.

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ September 2012 edition.

RESTON, VA—With the early announcement of this year’s top technology winners, Graph Expo 2012 attendees for the first time will be able to plan their Must See ’Ems booth visits in advance of the show. They also will be able to take advantage of a new Must See ’Ems pre-show webinar for more in-depth discussions of the winning technologies and the reasons they were chosen.

With the early announcement of this year’s top technology winners, GRAPH EXPO 2012 attendees will be able for the first time to plan their Must See ’Ems booth visits in advance of the show. They also will be able to take advantage of a new Must See ’Ems pre-show webinar for more in-depth discussions of the winning technologies and the reasons they were chosen.

Agfa Graphics will be hosting a free “Wide-Format Open House” event at its distribution center in Plano, TX, on Sept. 18-20, 2012, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Wide-format inkjet is a fast-growing segment in the printing industry and is helping many printers differentiate themselves by offering new and exciting products and services to their customers that previously were unattainable for most commercial printers.”

Building on the success of the original SurePress L-4033A, Epson America is introducing the SurePress L-4033AW, a seven-color inkjet digital label press with white ink that makes high-quality, short-run label printing easier and more efficient, even on clear and metallic substrates.

Agfa Graphics announced that its wide-format digital printing experts will be on-hand for the company’s free Open House Technology demos on May 22-23, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 50 Meister Ave., Branchburg, NJ.