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White Sale

Published: August 01, 2007, By Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
With Modernistic’s acquisition of a Durst flatbed UV inkjet digital printer, POP customers are seeing graphics that pack a punch.

Out in Front

Published: August 01, 2007, By Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
With an eye on huge growth in luxury brands, UpFront expands its resources with a Mitsubishi UV sheet-fed press.

Flexo Forges Bond

Published: August 01, 2007, By Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
With an eye on expansion into the wine label market, a South African converter buys its first flexographic press.

New Study Spotlights Inkjet Market Potential

Published: April 23, 2007, By pffc-online.com
PRIMIR commissioned I.T. Strategies to produce a study focusing on "Trends in Inkjet Technologies 2006-2011." The study targets five key markets, including display signage, graphic arts, packaging, decorative/textiles, and manufacturing/deposition.

The Digital Difference

Published: January 01, 2007, By Edited by Claudia Hine Managing Editor
Model Graphics explores new selling opportunities with HP Indigo digital web press.

Curing Cuts Co$ts

Published: November 01, 2006, By Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
Label printer Wilkri-Etiketten is testing a UV system, launched by IST Metz, on a pilot application. The result: higher yields plus energy efficiency.

Digital Deliberations

Published: June 30, 2006, By Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor

Baker Self Adhesive Label Co. has invested in digital technology to expand its printing capabilities with an Omega Digicon HS converting line from AB Graphic Intl.

Digital Integration

Published: March 31, 2006, By Alain Flament, Nipson Digital Printing Systems
Learn the seven key benefits adding a digital press can bring to your business.

HP Installs Press at RIT

Published: January 03, 2006, By pffc-online.com
The Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) Printing Applications Laboratory Worldwide Media Center (WWMC) had added a seven-color HP Indigot press ws4050.

The Digital Demand

Published: December 31, 2005, By Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
The Label Printers has expanded its manufacturing capabilities into color plateless technology with the purchase of a seven-color HP Indigo ws4050 digital press.

POP Goes the Platemaker

Published: September 30, 2005, By Edited by Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
Today's digital technology delivers the versatility and speed required to serve the new applications for corrugated and other POP display printed materials.

Packaging Must Open Up to Single-Pass Inkjet

Published: July 31, 2005, By Rob Haak, SPIKIX

In recent years inkjet has made big strides, and single-pass, drop-on-demand, full-color printing systems are emerging as credible competitors to current technology in many sectors.

Under the Hood

Published: April 30, 2005, By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
To the automotive industry, a label isn’t just a label, it’s a "part," and it can be just as important as a mechanical or electronic component in the vehicles they manufacture.

Digital Gone Wide

Published: December 31, 2004, By Nsenga Byrd Thompson, Associate Editor
While many within the converting industry still weigh the benefits of digital printing, Carolina Container Co., a 76-year-old corrugated converter, took a giant leap forward eight months ago. Looking to create new opportunities for its ever-growing point-of-purchase and display business (and most recently the trade show arena), the company created Digital Highpoint, a division solely dedicated to all that is digital.

Model Mock-Ups

Published: November 30, 2004, By Nsenga Byrd Thompson, Associate Editor
Driving its equipment to unconventional new levels, Haney PRC creates model mock-ups.

Whitlam Label Boosts Variable Printing Skills with Jetrion System

Published: September 22, 2004, By pffc-online.com
Whitlam Label Co., a beta test site for the Jetrion 3025 Inkjet System, has expanded its variable printing capabilities "significantly," reports Jetrion LLC, manufacturer of the label company's new system.

The Digital Edge

Published: August 01, 2004, By by Nsenga Byrd Thompson Associate Editor
To meet the growing demand for short- and medium-run print jobs, Rock-Tenn's Alliance division took a very long look at digital presses. We saw a need

Leading POP Producer Simpsongroup Installs First Scitex Vision CORjet in UK

Published: May 17, 2004, By pffc-online.com
Scitex Vision reports its customer, Simpsongroup, a UK-based manufacturer of point-of-purchase (POP) and point-of-sale (POS) corrugated displays, is the first converter to install the OEM's CORjet, "the world's first industrial, digital inkjet press for corrugated applications."

Creo & KBA Partnership to Continue Digital Printing Development

Published: July 03, 2002, By PRESS RELEASE
Creo reports it has signed a multi-year contract with Koenig & Bauer (KBA) for on-press thermal imaging technology.

Printing Best Practices Review: The Digital Impact

Published: March 22, 2002, By PRESS RELEASE
What's the best way to do print business in the current and continually growing digital climate? NAPL and PIA may have a few answers for package printers in "Best Business Practices for the Printing Industry."

Agfa on the Road Again for Digital Solutions Tour

Published: February 11, 2002, By PRESS RELEASE
Agfa says it will be out on the road once again this spring. The company is gearing up for a repeat performance of its successful Digital Solutions Road Tour, which began April last year.

Digital Data Standard Gets Thumbs Up

Published: February 06, 2002, By PFFC Staff
RESTON, VA -- The first in a series of digital data exchange international standards has been approved by the International Organization for Standardization

Presstek Names New DI Partner: KBA

Published: October 12, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
Koenig & Bauer is headquarted in Würzburg, Germany, and Presstek is headquartered in Hudson, New Hampshire, USA.

Indigo-Nilpeter Bring Inline Finishing to Digital Label Printing

Published: October 04, 2001, By PFFC Staff
Labelexpo Europe concluded at the end of last month, but an OEM agreement released at the show is the beginning of a new relationship between Indigo and

Delivering Digital: CTP Carries Flexo Printing to Competitive Quality

Published: September 01, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
I want a T1, DSL, digital cable line. That doesn't make any sense, right? For some of us, indeed, it doesn't make any sense. For others of us, well, we're

Got a Gem of a Job? Xeikon's Diamond Awards Gives Digital Users the Chance to Sparkle

Published: August 23, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
Xeikon users: Want to show off your digitally printed "gems"? The Xeikon Diamond Awards 2001 competition may be just the place to do it.

What's New in Digital

Published: July 31, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
New products from: BCM Inks USA, Datacolor International, Kodak Polychrome, Novaflow Systems, Preview Graphics & Systems, and Xeikon.

Digital Printing at Your Service: Keeping Customers Happy

Published: July 01, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
The other day PFFC's editors were discussing how pleased and surprised we were about the responsive service some of us recently received from our health

Jet Inks, Colorants, and Packaging What's Ahead?

Published: May 01, 2001, By Richard M. Podhajny, Ph.D., Contributing Editor
The rapid growth of ink jet technology in various printing sectors forecasts their use in package printing. However, use of ink jet printing in packaging

Forging Ahead into the Digital Printing Frontier

Published: February 01, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
The spirited converter Beau Label always has taken pride in its pioneering ways. Now, the company is pushing its printing parameters even farther with a brand new Indigo digital offset color press.

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