Masterpiece Graphix (MGX), a digital material manufacturer and treatment center, is launching a West Coast distribution center in the third quarter of the 2011 fiscal year. This new location will give digital press owners west of the Rockies quick access to hundreds of digital substrates, including HP Indigo-Certified materials, wine label stocks, sheet materials, and custom stocking options. The new location is expected to open by August 1, 2011.
Xeikon has entered into partnerships to offer objective and unbiased business development and business assessment/ROI services and tools to label printers in North America.
Label Summit Latin America opens up in Sao Paulo, Brazil May 17-18, 2011 at the Hotel Transamerica with a new format that will see live machinery demonstrations take place for the very first time.
Track-and-trace technology has developed enormously in the last few years. Even though bar codes have been around for nearly half a century, they play a key role today in supply chain management in many different ways—securing and documenting a variety of information from unique product identifier to production location, batch number, and expiration date. Bar codes are also the natural partners for today's product authentication technologies.
Digital printing technology, software, label presses and web converting equipment, featuring MACtac, Color-Logic, HP Indigo, Xeikon, and GraphixOne.
Masterpiece Graphix (MGX) announced a distribution partnership with Lowry Labels & Tape, making MGX’s selection of digital sheet and roll materials available in Canada.
Keller Crescent, a Greensboro, N.C.-headquartered printer and converter of healthcare secondary packaging, is celebrating 125 years in the industry. For Keller Crescent, which currently enjoys a strong market presence in pressure-sensitive roll labels, package inserts and outserts, and folding cartons for the pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare packaged goods industries, longevity is a product of a solid financial and infrastructural foundation and, most significantly, a long history of smart strategic choices.
Digital printing and workflow implementations by package printers, including items on Roland DGA Corp. and FLEXcon, INX International Ink Co., and Color-Logic.
The largest event for the label, product decoration and converting industry in India took place on 8 to 11 December at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. Labelexpo India was hailed a great success with 6,054 visitors in attendance, a figure that was up by 27 percent from the show in 2008.
MACtac Printing Products has enhanced its digital label offering with a series of qualified paper and synthetic film labelstocks for the Xeikon 3000 Series of digital label presses.
