Production/Printing Processes

Mail-Gard, a division of IWCO Direct and a provider of critical communication recovery solutions, has enhanced its recovery capabilities with the installation of six Xerox Nuvera 288 printers at its Warminster, Pa. facility. The installation increases Mail-Gard’s cut sheet print capacity to nearly 2.8 million images per day.

InfoPrint Solutions Company, a Ricoh company, has unveiled its enhanced InfoPrint 4247-L03, the lowest priced impact printer in the company’s industrial family of products.

Davie, Florida-based Paitec USA’s inline MultiSeal pressure seal machine, which can process one- or two-page pressure seal documents, has arrived in the United States.

With today’s corporations and government agencies looking for ways to economize and print and mail their own variable data, on-demand mailing pieces, Davie, Florida-based Paitec USA has introduced its PM2100 Digital Color Print ‘n Mail System to fill the market need for an affordable color self-mailer production solution which does not require envelopes or tabs.

Innovative DuraBond technology is the building block of the new coldset and heatset metalback blankets recently launched by Plymouth, Michigan-based Flint Group.

Located in Rochester, N.Y., Xerox Corporation’s digital technology will bring speed and exceptional image quality to books produced on demand by the patented Espresso Book Machine. This cutting-edge book solution, sold by On Demand Books, produces millions of copyrighted, public domain, out-of-print or rare texts for consumers in a matter of minutes.

Analysts have called the current state of the U.S. economy the country's worst slump in 70 years. Despite a slight return to growth in the latter part of this year, the unemployment rate still soared to 10.2 percent (the highest U.S. jobless level in more than 25 years), the flow of credit remains constrained and economic activity is weak.

Atlanta-based Pamarco Global Graphics, the leader in anilox roll manufacturing, introduced the world's first anilox roll designed to work with computer-to-plate technology, E-Flo. With the advancements of CTP plate technology, flexographic printers have been longing for advanced cell technology to allow them to reach higher print quality levels with HD like images, while maintaining corporate branded colour consistency, lower dot gain and increased ink transfer.

New Bedford, Massachusetts-based C.P. Bourg is partnering with Fairport, New York-based Productive Solutions to develop, sell and support the company’s manufacturing integrity software for book binding and finishing applications.

Boston-based ABnote North America introduced lenticular printing on medium- to long-run plastic card and poster products. Lenticular printing, enabling printed images to appear three dimensional (3D) or even animated, is created in a process where an interlaced image is reverse printed directly on the smooth backside of a multi-angled lenticular lens.