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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 [...]

Book manufacturers and paper suppliers, still recovering from a difficult 2009, are sticking with sustainability, accelerating the use of proven conservation measures while devising newer practices. But the newer efforts [...]

There's little doubt that interest in sustainability issues has increased dramatically across the publishing supply chain in recent years. Issues like forest certification weren't even on the radar screen until [...]

Efforts by North American book manufacturers and papermakers to adopt environmentally responsible practices come at an inconvenient time. The strong Canadian dollar is causing higher prices for pulp and paper [...]

A quick walk-through of Print Oasis--the print buyers trade show in Chicago last month--brought home the evolving reality for sheetfed shops. With 39 print firms exhibiting side by side to [...]

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 [...]

At a series of recent pre-Drupa press conferences held in Europe and Greece, a number of graphic arts equipment manufacturers offered a glimpse of new technologies that would be unveiled [...]

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 [...]

High-end, variable-data digital color presses--once called the 'thoroughbreds' of print production for their exciting performance characteristics, enviable capabilities, and big-money potential (along with occasional high-strung behavior)--have been steadily maturing into [...]

A classic example of an industry-education partnership clearly focused on useful results is being formally unveiled this spring at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, N.Y. That's when RIT dedicates [...]

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 [...]

These days, the familiar mid-size sheetfed press-growing in number of printing units and format size-appeals to many: single-pass productivity that's versatile and affordable. Contributing mightily to the steadily rising sales [...]

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 [...]

A cross-section of expo announcements reveals business shifts, product debuts, and installation updates - and how the industry is evolving on an international stage. Visitors attending the Ipex '98 exposition [...]

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 [...]

Since the birth of lithography, printers have sought the ultimate in picture reproduction: printing that looks just like an original continuous-tone photograph. Ah, but how to achieve that end? Heavily [...]

Since November 3, the national mood has been fairly buoyant: a post-election surge in consumer confidence, a steadily improving economy, and (at presstime) a strong holiday retailing spree. In the [...]

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 [...]

Non-perfecting sheetfeds that can print up to 16,000 sheets per hour give up little ground to perfector models. The newest machines, even faster, are specially built for packaging work. Mid-size [...]

While preparing for the inevitable decline of film usage, this diversified vendor continues to perfect workflow solutions that utilize film. Agfa, whose Belgian-produced film products account for nearly half the [...]

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 [...]

The companies have combined sales exceeding $6 billion, scores of products, and global reach - now, a strategic alliance emerges. Three industry vendors, by sheer dint of their size, extent [...]

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 Brains built into the next generation offset presses may outsmart even the best operators. Here's why. Software developers and process analysts make up sheetfed [...]

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 [...]