GLENDALE HEIGHTS, Ill.—Continual innovations in digital prepress and flexographic plate technology make it critical for converters, trade shops, and graphic arts professionals to stay informed. To help demonstrate some of the latest technology on the market, All Printing Resources, Inc. (APR) will host an Open House event in its new demonstration facility.
In late 2009, InfoTrends, Inc. (www.infotrends.com), a market research and strategic consulting firm, conducted a Web-based survey of converters about the role and prospective role of color digital printing in their operations. packagePRINTING magazine contributed to that effort by inviting subscribers to participate in this effort. InfoTrends is grateful to the many packagePRINTING subscribers that supported the survey. This article provides key results from the feedback.
BRYAN, OH— Epson America has appointed Anderson and Vreeland, Inc. (A&V), a manufacturer and distributor of flexographic printing materials and equipment, as a dealer of Epson’s line of printing and proofing solutions for the U.S. market, effective April 1.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—X-Rite, Inc. (www.xrite.com), a color management, measurement, and communication technologies company, and its wholly owned subsidiary Pantone (www.pantone.com), a provider of professional color standards for the design industries, announced that they will unveil new technologies and showcase their latest line of print and prepress color management solutions at Ipex (www.ipex.org), May 18-25 in Birmingham, UK.
CLEMSON, S.C.—OMET and EskoArtwork announced their next joint seminar at the Sonoco Packaging Institute at Clemson University; “Think before you Shrink”. It will also include hands-on training presented in conjunction with Karlville Development.
ALPHARETTA, Ga.—Neenah Paper Technical Products (www.neenah.com) has joined Epson’s EnvisionSM Partner Program as a technology partner focused on delivering media solutions that complement Epson’s healthcare products.
Recent equipment, software and service purchases by packaging producers from across the United States, including Cyber Graphics, MPI Label Systems, Prestige-Pak and others.
State-of-the-art and future technologies for packaging printing, including Blue Spark Technologies' printed battery, LED UV and white ink proofing.
CGS Publishing Technologies International, a global supplier of color management solutions, digital proofing systems and specially formulated media, announced that ORIS Color Tuner is the first system to receive GRACoL and SWOP certification on Epson Stylus Pro 7900 and Stylus Pro 9900 printers.
Printed electronics is the new hot topic in Silicon Valley—it enables the printing of circuits, displays, sensors, batteries, and solar cells which have many new attributes not seen before in conventional electronics, attributes such as electronics that are flexible, laminar, stretchable, lightweight, cheaper or which can be made in very large areas. The newspaper that has a moving display; skin patches which automate delivery of drugs; the bill board poster that is a digital display; the package that senses when you take your medication; plastic solar cells. These are all products available today thanks to printed electronics. The world’s biggest chemical, printing, electronics, and
