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Not that long ago book manufacturers and paper suppliers looked at digital print production as a wholly unwelcome alternative to the honored publishing tradition of putting real ink on real [...]

This month marks the opening of Drupa, the world's largest graphic arts trade event, held every four years in Dusseldorf, Germany. Below are some of the numerous advances that equipment [...]

Exciting results using energy-curable inks and coatings, combination hybrid/aqueous configurations, high-gloss hybrid systems, and even newer matte/gloss hybrid innovations are pumping new life into print and print production and revitalizing [...]

Unique configurations and extensive automation are now allowing 'large-format' webs, which used to be synonymous with 'limited-product' equipment, to be surprisingly versatile while continuing to be an epitome of extreme [...]

True variable-data color, most observers of the digital scene agree, involves database-driven imaging production systems used for highly targeted marketing collateral, complex but effective one-to-one communications projects, and high-value/high-impact work [...]

Visitors at Ipex 2002 surely were convinced that they were witnessing the final transformation of a once-analog industry into a wholly electronic, digital-based activity (even if this conviction is not [...]

General business shifts and more immediate goals are driving companies to seek strength in numbers. Is this the start of print's final consolidation phase? Suddenly, the idea of reaching out [...]

Personal trust and confidence underpin every business connection, never more than in the bindery. With all the latest bells and whistles being offered by manufacturers of presses, folders, and guillotine [...]

New generation breaks the production bottleneck-and delivers unique product enhancements to clients. In just a few years, high technology has been applied to bindery machines, with astonishing results. New materials [...]

The 40'-wide sheetfed business, the backbone of commercial printing that's been under assault from versatile small-format multicolor machines and speedy web offset presses, is likely to get a big boost [...]

As the huge equipment exposition in Germany steps off briskly this month for its two-week run, a final wave of late breaking product announcements arrived in the past few weeks [...]

To general product category in the graphic arts industry is as broad or varied as the postpress area. In addition to the familiar processes-folding, stitching or adhesive binding, and cutting [...]

The biggest U.S. printing equipment show of the year is (a) riding a wave of economic recovery in both the national and industry arenas, (b) benefiting from its location in [...]

DYNAGRAPHICS, INC. acts on the axiom 'location is destiny' by getting totally involved in its clientele's creative activities, graphic concepts, artistic trends, and innovative projects. 'We're right in the high-energy [...]

UNIVERSAL LITHOGHERS is setting in to its new quarters (above) in Sheboygan, Wis., in a 38,000-sq-ft facility that's 80% larger than its old plant (below) and allows room for expansion. [...]

What is a color proof?. The answer depends on who you ask. In just the past year alone, the definition of a color proof has vastly expanded. It was once [...]

A lively, extensive discussion centers on features, technology, speed, and page formatting. Get ready, web printers. In this presidential election year, press manufacturers are running their own versions of a [...]

Black & White In Color The black-and-white look is staging a comeback, baffling some industry observers, reversing the color tide, rewriting marketing expectations, and rewarding designers, agencies, advertisers, and printers [...]

Manhattan, scene of a rich and noble tradition in the graphic arts, has in recent years undergone wrenching changes that transformed printing from a cottage trade based on manual skills [...]

Perfect Time, Perfect Place Once in a while, a major event takes on even greater significance because of the sheer context in which it happens to occur. Drupa 90, the [...]

Printing for the Super Bowl When the world's highestrated annual television event seizes everyone's attention this month, it will be print as much as airwaves that brings information, anticipation, and [...]

An award-winning commercial printer, after initial hesitation about sheetfed perfecting, is now heavily invested in the technology. It's still winning prizes, reaping benefits, and planning the next big thing. Dallas-based [...]

A worldwide supplier, with a major investment in film manufacturing and a new film technology, prospers by providing a forgotten but still very workable tool for print. Even as we [...]

Still in its infancy, waterless web printing is stirring up printers in Japan, Germany, and the U.S. In production tests, commercial trials, and live jobs, web printers in the world's [...]

Nearly 13 years after its reintroduction to the North American marketplace, waterless printing has pushed forward from being a technical novelty to being a viable printing system. Despite the quality [...]

Ipex '93, charged with serving both as the year's international technology bazaar and economic rescue of print's fortunes in Europe, performed beyond expectations. It delivered high visitor counts, active business [...]

It is with high hopes and expectations that the first North American web printers set sail on the voyage into waterless printing. Enticed by the process's promise to enhance quality [...]

In waterless printing, the absence of dampening transforms the fundamental dynamic of offset lithography from ink/water balance to ink/temperature control. As a result of this basic change, several process components, [...]

As waterless printing continues to win over advocates from even the ranks of once-skeptical printers, the gathering momentum puts a special spotlight on the Toray plate from Japan. While this [...]

A firsthand look at graphic arts plants in Japan dispelled many myths about that country's printing industry, straightened out some popular misconceptions, and provided an eye-opening look at how the [...]

By Roger Ynostroza, Senior Project Editor Workflow intelligence drives smarter press operations at Creel. Improvements in the operation of massive press lines increasingly come from workflow. That's been the case [...]

In a long career in manufacturing at one of West Germany's largest and most successful magazine publishing companies, Horst Pingel time and again has had to carefully match production capability [...]

An hour northeast of Paris, a picturesque village set amid rolling farmland yields to a sprawling printing plant purposely built by Jean Didier for the new Europe in the new [...]

In the aftermath of the rush to democracy in Eastern Europe business questions are everywhere: how quickly, how likely, stability and convertibility of currencies, abilities and potential of the workforces, [...]

By Roger Ynostroza, Senior Project Editor Purcashing a jumbo-sized sheetfed press boosts California printer's sales and market opportunities. Lithographix's purchase of a jumbo sheetfed press has supersized revenues and expanded [...]

The year's biggest international show delivered 'respectable' sales despite a light turnout and the effects of the September 11 attacks. The eyes of many industry watchers worldwide were on the [...]

If all goes according to plan, American printers will soon be hearing more about an Italian plate manufacturer Most printers, especially those in North America, are not yet aware of [...]

For Agfa Graphic Systems, a worldwide supplier presensitized printing plates and related chemistry account for 40% of its total annual revenues of about $2 billion. Two major acquisitions--the Hoechst printing [...]

The international 'print media trade fair,' which will once again include many converting processes, will be staged in Germany May 18-31. Four months from now, the 'greatest show in graphics' [...]

A record 17 technologies from a record field of 52 total entries earned top recognition in the 2005 InterTech Technology Awards program, which since 1978 has recognized promising technological innovation [...]

As a group, the 13 technological innovations that each earned a Lucite™ star in the 2004 GATF InterTech™ Technology Awards program reflect the current needs, interests, and emphasis of the [...]

Analysis of market for intaglio printing. General economic slowdown has affected printing. Press sales down because of investment costs. Some strategies for printers' survival given.

Analysis of personnel management in graphic arts industry. Includes discussion of hiring, training, and keeping qualified personnel. Technological innovation changes offer graphic arts and hiring must reflect the trend.

Research points to a bright future for graphic arts film. The predicted prepress automation techniques will not affect film use because of its cost effectiveness and advantage as a storage and archival material., Graphic Arts Film Bright Outlook, But No Surprises OVER THE YEARS, the stated purpose of automation in the printing industry has been to reduce labor and material costs and to [...]

Printers are smothering in a glut of machinery, copy shops are opening like fastfood franchises, and classified ads are filled with equipment for sale. Yet print buyers scramble to find [...]

Supplementing this issue's GAM 101 ranking of the largest printing companies in North America--a ranking based on annual sales revenues--are these profiles of the top 25 firms and chief executive [...]

Telephone Books Today The free-market forces that shattered America's telephone monopoly also catapulted the lowly but functional phone book into a multibillion-dollar commercial publishing enterprise teeming with profit-minded entrepreneurs. No [...]

After a four-year hiatus, the industry's official equipment exposition returns to New York City this month to a spanking-new exhibit hall to mount the largest such display ever held on [...]