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edwardthompson invests in Screen Truepress Jet520 to launch a new generation of bingo tickets

March 08, 2010 By: admin Category: Screen

Company launches personalised and localised full-colour ticket books to revolutionise UK bingo industry

8th March 2010 – edwardthompson, Sunderland, has invested over £2m in a high-speed, full-colour Screen Truepress Jet520 inkjet web press and near-line Hunkeler finishing system to launch a new generation of Bingo Ticket Books into the UK.

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Inca Digital regionalises european technical support network

March 08, 2010 By: admin Category: Inca

Growth in user base leads to further engineer appointments in France, Germany and UK to strengthen regional support

8th March 2010– Inca Digital, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of large format inkjet printing technology, announces that it is expanding its regional technical support network to enhance its service to Inca users throughout Europe.

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Inca Onset S20 widens colour options at Ipex

March 08, 2010 By: admin Category: Inca

Inca Digital capability for critical cosmetic and fashion display applications

8th March 2010 – Inca Digital demonstrates an enhancement to the high-performance, wide-format Inca Onset S20 UV inkjet flatbed printer at IPEX on the Fujifiilm stand (9-CD360). Inca will unveil an expanded gamut capability using Uvijet Ultratone ink to increase quality perception. This, coupled with Inca’s use of 28 picolitre drop print heads, produces smooth colour transitions reducing the graininess of light colours and producing smooth skin tones. This capability is critical for closely-viewed point of sale advertising, particularly for high value cosmetic and fashion products.

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Epson inkjet inspires display creativity at Fespa Digital 2010

March 03, 2010 By: admin Category: Epson UK

22-26 June, Messe Munich, Hall B2 Stand 360

03 March 2010 –  ‘Inspired creativity’ is Epson’s theme at FESPA Munich (22-26 June 2010) where it will show the ability of its Micro Piezo™ digital inkjet technology to produce innovative display graphics for the signage, decorative art and interior design markets on a variety of flexible paper, plastic and textile materials.

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Matthews Brand Solutions takes the white track with Epson and GMG

March 03, 2010 By: admin Category: GMG

The first UK installation of the Epson Stylus Pro WT7900 with GMG ColorProof and FlexoProof goes to the high-end packaging specialist

Tuebingen 03.03.2010 – Matthews Brand Solutions (www.matthewsbrandsolutions.co.uk) the global family of world-class specialists in packaging design, artwork and reprographics, has installed the UK’s first Epson Stylus Pro WT7900 inkjet printer and is running it with GMG FlexoProof software to create accurate halftone proofs for flexo and packaging applications. The Leeds company handles brand management for a wide portfolio of blue chip clients and requires top quality colour management and proofing.

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Print Research International forms to help businesses adapt to a changing world

March 03, 2010 By: admin Category: pr-int

03 March 2010 – Former St Ives technical director John Charnock has founded Print Research International, a one-stop knowledge base for the printing industry.

Print Research International is the access point to a global network of experts and consultants, all specialists in their disciplines, and offers business management and consultancy to help printers, manufacturers and organisations worldwide, adapt to and profit from the changing face of the international graphic arts industry.

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Screen appoints Schneidler Grafiska AB as distributor of its revolutionary Truepress JetSX in Scandinavia

March 02, 2010 By: admin Category: Screen

Amstelveen, The Netherlands, 2nd March 2010 – Screen is pleased to announce that it has appointed Schneidler Grafiska AB as its distributor to sell and support the revolutionary Truepress JetSX inkjet press throughout Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

The Truepress JetSX, is the world’s first full-colour B2 sheet-fed inkjet press. First seen at Drupa as a prototype, the TruepressJet SX will make its commercial debut at IPEX. The inkjet press combines high-quality and productivity with the ability to print single-pass duplex, opening up a huge array of opportunities to produce many value-added products.

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Screen PlateRite FX870 opens up new opportunities at Ticketmedia

March 02, 2010 By: admin Category: Screen

Ticketmedia, the company responsible for supplying and printing the advertisements on the back of the nation’s bus and tube tickets, has struck a first with the installation of a Screen PlateRite FX870 flexo platesetter to become the only paper convertor in the UK to have in-house computer-to-plate technology.

Based in Hove, East Sussex, Ticketmedia is a printing company with a difference. It offers transport companies a rebate on the cost of printing their ticket rolls by selling the valuable advertising space on the reverse. It is a unique concept with a proven success rate: to date it has launched more than 20,000 successful ticket campaigns, issuing over 22 billion ticket advertisements across the nation.

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Screen brings colour to life for Panasonic

February 25, 2010 By: admin Category: Screen

25 February 2010
In Panasonic’s multimedia ‘Take Over Shibuya at Night with the Night Color Series’ promotion, it was critical that the colour was correct on a variety of media.

Screen’s Truepress Jet2500UV was more than capable of producing the complete range of vividly-coloured images displayed in and around JR Shibuya station in Tokyo.

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Integration of color management solutions in Enfocus Switch now made easy with GMG FlowConnect

February 24, 2010 By: admin Category: GMG

GMG FlowConnect, Enfocus Switch and GMG ColorServer perfectly fit together and due to networked and automated color management workflows, there is an increase in productivity and production reliability.

Tuebingen (24.02.2010) – GMG, developer and supplier of high-end color management and proofing solutions, is pleased to announce the availability of its latest software solution GMG FlowConnect in combination with Enfocus Switch. GMG FlowConnect offers the possibility of centrally operating and controlling the GMG color management products GMG ColorServer and GMG InkOptimizer 4.6 in the production workflow. The GMG FlowConnect technology serves as the basis for various future workflow solutions. The first workflow has now been implemented using Enfocus Switch.

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