MGI USA

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.

Konica Minolta has acquired a minority stake in MGI Digital Graphic Technology, and has formed a strategic alliance aimed at accelerating the innovation and commercialization of next generation digital printing solutions. Konica Minolta will acquire a 10 percent stake in MGI, valued at €13.7m, through a reserved capital increase.

MGI Digital Graphic Technology has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious “Best New Production Equipment” award at the 58th Annual Oscar de l'Emballage ceremony for iFOIL, the first production solution in the world capable of doing both embossing and hot foil stamping in a fully digital process.

Konica Minolta, MGI USA, Ricoh, OKI Data Americas, Esko and Mac Papers are among those signed up to exhibit at the Graphics of the Americas (GOA) 39th conference and expo in Miami Beach, FL, February 27-March 1, 2014. GOA connects attendees with leading print and graphic arts service providers in rapidly expanding Latin American markets.

With only two sheetfed offset presses on the show floor, digital printing vendors were the 'hot' booths at PRINT 13. Here's a sampling of some of the production inkjet, wide-format inkjet and toner-based digital presses that were highlighted for commercial print shops

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ October 2013 edition, featuring Marie Leising & Associates and Newhouse Associates, Fujifilm North America, Mohawk

MGI Digital Graphic Technology has entered into a new market, printed electronics and 3-D printing, along with the acquisition of CERADROP, a French company specializing in the design and manufacturing of high-end professional inkjet printing systems for the printed electronics industry.

The PRINT 13 Must See 'Ems winners have been announced. The 49 winning technologies were selected from a record number of entries submitted by a record number of individual companies.

To keep more of its spot UV work in-house, Boston-based John P. Pow Co. has invested in a JETvarnish 3D inkjet spot UV coater. The new addition will also allow the company to decrease turnaround times and offer more options for spot UV on shorter runs.

The Vatican has completed the installation of a Meteor DP8700 XL digital press within its in-plant production house (known as Tipografia Vaticana). The in-plant print's everything from magazines to brochures and all of the Vatican’s stationary and envelopes, as well as the weekly newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.