Saturday, May 31st, 2008
In his introduction at the HP press conference at drupa, Vyomesh Joshi the Executive VP of HP's Imaging and Printing Group stated that HP would be entering the 'Light Production' market. This is an area of the graphic arts market where HP has no products at this time. Its HP ...Friday, May 30th, 2008
Inkjet technology is dominating many conversations at drupa 2008. Yesterday RR Donnelley quietly announced a new four color inkjet web press that the company developed in-house. The press dubbed the IPS 3 prints on a 30 inch wide web at 400 feet per minute for four color print output and ...Friday, May 30th, 2008
Quebecor World has announced it has entered in a purchase agreement with Netherlands-based investment group Hombergh/De Pundert Group (HHBV): “The sale of our European operations is an important step in our restructuring activities that we believe should enable us to exit creditor protection in North America as a stronger player in ...Friday, May 30th, 2008
The recent announcement of the first B2 format sheet fed digital presses using inkjet technology from Fujifilm and Dainippon Screen will change the dynamics of the digital printing market. These two machines have been previewed at drupa and are expected to start shipping during 2009. The positioning of the new B2 ...Thursday, May 29th, 2008
It is a strange situation but the two leading Japanese prepress and inkjet suppliers that normally cooperate in their marketing and distribution have both come up with new products that are very similar, and it appears that neither company knew of the other company's developments. The interesting this is both ...Thursday, May 29th, 2008
This morning Screen held their drupa 2008 press conference. After touching on the fact that Screen is the "number one supplier of CtP in the world." the company spent a majority of their conference highlighting new print on-demand systems which the company calls "an exciting new era" for them. Updated and ...Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Today MAN Roland introduced its new branding and image in preparation for an IPO sometime in the future when the financial markets are in a better state. Currently MAN Roland is owned by a division of Allianz and is not a part of the MAN Group. The new branding will ...Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
HP today showed that its new Inkjet Web Press that is stated to be of 30 inch in print format actually is printing a 36 inch wide web. HP indicated to me that while the production version of this that is due for first sales installations during 2009 will have ...Saturday, May 24th, 2008
A team of student researchers from the Department of Graphics and Imaging Technologies at Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, KS) is seeking responses to its online survey about color preferences in transpromotional (TransPromo) documents. The students, under the direction of Prof. Jesus J. Rodriguez, have received a grant supporting their research from ...Saturday, May 24th, 2008
In a major announcement for drupa Fujifilm Japan has announced a breakthrough technology digital sheet fed inkjet printing press aimed at the commercial printing market. This press that is currently called the JetPress 720 images at 1,200 dpi with 4 gray levels on a sheet up to 720 x 520 ...
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