Are you considering a trip to Chicago at the end of this month for Graph Expo? IRgA is holding a member meeting the day before the show begins, so we hope to see you there!
If you’re considering attending, remember that the IRgA member meeting – at which we’ll vote on the slate of board candidates and discuss 2015 activities – will be held September 27 at 4 p.m. If you plan to come, please email Managing Director Ed Avis, ed.avis@irga.com, so he knows to expect you and he can give you details about the meeting.
If you’re coming for Graph Expo, here are some highlights:
Four Seminars You Should Consider:
Wide-Format Systems: An Unbiased Technical Update: http://graph14.mapyourshow.com/5_0/sessions/sessiondetails.cfm?ScheduledSessionID=18A9CFC1
Color Matching Magic Across Multiple Devices and Substrates: http://graph14.mapyourshow.com/5_0/sessions/sessiondetails.cfm?ScheduledSessionID=18A9CEC4
Wide Format Inkjet NOW: High Performance Production for Display Graphic Markets: http://graph14.mapyourshow.com/5_0/sessions/sessiondetails.cfm?ScheduledSessionID=18A9CAC5
3D Printing: New Profit Pathway for Commercial Printers: http://graph14.mapyourshow.com/5_0/sessions/sessiondetails.cfm?ScheduledSessionID=18A9CEC5
Sixteen Exhibitors You Should See:
3DConnectS - 3DConnectS serves EVERYONE involved with or interested in 3D printing. We help simplify and accelerate the research, acquisition and implementation of 3D printing solutions.
Canon - Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions. With approximately $40 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranks third overall in U.S. patents registered in 2013† and is one of Fortune Magazine's World’s Most Admired Companies in 2013. In 2013, Canon U.S.A. has received the PCMag.com Readers’ Choice Award for Service and Reliability in the digital camera and printer categories for the tenth consecutive year, and for camcorders for the past three years. Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest level of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it distributes. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visitingwww.usa.canon.com/rss and follow us on Twitter @CanonUSA.
Cyrious Software - Cyrious Software offers tools to simplify sign estimating, job tracking, invoicing, online ordering & more. We specialize in production focused solutions for large format, electric signs, screen printing, vinyl, vehicle wraps and other print and sign businesses.
With Control ®, estimate your jobs while tracking your actual costs, manage production, and automate your daily tasks. View hundreds of reports, monitor inventory levels, integrate your shipping & accounting. Get ready to get more done!
With Cyrious Online ®, be super easy to do business with. Easily set up online ordering websites for each major customer or group. Your customers can order exactly what they need from you 24/7. The result? More customers, happier customers and more sales with less selling costs. Ideal for your repeat users, multi-location businesses and corporate customers.
Epson: Epson will be exhibiting a wide range of supplies and equipment for graphics arts applications.
EFI - EFI™ Print MIS Systems, Print ERP Software and Web-to-Print eCommerce Software
Optimize your business performance with state-of-the-art EFI™ Print MIS Systems or Print ERP Software.
With over 10,000 Print Management Software (Print MIS and ERP) installations, EFI leads the way developing and delivering software systems to help you increase revenue, streamline your operations, improve your profitability and optimize your business performance.
GBC and Seal: At the forefront of the document finishing industry for more than 65 years, GBC® is the global, trusted leader in binding and laminating equipment, supplies and service. The GBC brand delivers innovative products that allow users to present, protect, secure, organize, enhance and transform all printed material to achieve a professional edge in a competitive marketplace. Discover how GBCsolutions can help you improve productivity, increase profitability and create documents and graphics that stand out for their durabilty and quality.
SEAL® is a market-leading brand for wide format laminating equipment, film and adhesives as well as wide format and grand format media. SEAL serves the needs of the sign and display, digital printing and photographic markets throughout North and South America. With products such as gudy® window, Print Shield® and Jet Guard®, customers trust SEAL to provide outstanding performance for today’s most demanding applications
Hewlett Packard: HP Graphics Solutions Business offers one of the most trusted and diverse portfolios of digital printing solutions, combining superior quality with timesaving operation and proven reliability. The HP Graphics Solutions Business portfolio is backed by the strength of HP, the world’s largest technology company, which strives to simplify the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. More information about HP Graphic Arts and our innovative digital printing solutions are available at www.hp.com.
KIP - KIP is a leading manufacturer of digital printers and scanning solutions for color and b&w wide format documents up to 36” wide. Compact in size and efficient in design, KIP wide-format digital imaging systems deliver high speed output and low cost of operation with an easy to use color touch screen that allows the user to select from 23 different languages for the operational display. As a world leader in wide format document production technology, KIP offers an extensive wide format digital printing and scanning product range that meets the ever-increasing demand for fast, high quality and cost effective digital reproduction.
KIP is committed to product designs that promote environmental health and sustainability. Our goal is to improve the customer experience by integrating environmental considerations into our business strategy – resulting in superior products. Customers increasingly value environmental aspects of products, such as energy efficiency, emissions reduction and the ability to recycle exhausted supply containers. We differentiate our products by integrating such features to deliver a low total cost of ownership and an improved user experience
Graphtec - Graphtec America, Inc. is a manufacturer of imaging products for the sign industry, garment and apparel industry, reprographics, and design and packaging industries.
Our diverse line of roll-feed and flatbed cutting plotters can accommodate any size project, large or small. Match any FC8600 or CE6000 with any wide format inkjet printer and you have the ultimate solution for creating large-format stickers and decals.
The Graphtec FC2250 and FC4500 Series are intermediate-format, flatbed cutting plotters and are ideal for cutting intricate designs on vinyl, photo-masking films, cardboard, and offset printing masking film for varnish coating. With Graphtec's optical registration system, contour cutting and creasing around pre-printed rigid cardstock and other media is a simple workflow.
The LCX603 is an all-in-one label printing-finishing system that includes printing, contour cutting, laminating, automatic weeding, and cross cutting producing finished label sheets. It is perfect for companies that need to produce short run, on-demand labels of any shape at a low cost. Ready to use caution labels, serial number tags, and safety labels can all be easily produced.
Mutoh - Mutoh America, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of wide-format printers and cutting plotters. Our line of exceptionally crafted printers have blazing fast print speeds, Smart Printing technologies and exceptional print qualities. Whether your printing Eco-solvent, UV, dye-sublimation or direct to textile, Mutoh has the ValueJet to fit your business needs.
Ricoh - Ricoh Production, part of Ricoh Americas Corporation, focuses on and responds to the rapidly changing dynamics in the business of print production. Ricoh Production’s dedicated sales and solutions engineers work with customers in the CRD, in-plant, transactional, and commercial graphic arts environments to define, build, implement and support solutions that meet the demands of their specific applications while maximizing efficiency, productivity, and profitability. Leveraging the direct manufacturing capabilities of its $20 billion parent company and best-in-class partner relationships, Ricoh’s TotalFlow portfolio of solutions deliver customer-driven solutions that co-exist in any operating environment to help customers meet and exceed print production business goals.
Roland - Roland will be showcasing its latest digital printing technologies at Graph Expo 2014 (booth 4253). The company will demonstrate its next-generation VersaCAMM® VSi Series wide-format printer/cutters – advanced eco-solvent inkjets offering everything users love about VersaCAMM®, plus new features and enhancements for even greater overall performance. Roland’s flagship SOLJET® Pro 4 XR-640 and XF-640 wide-format inkjets will be on display as well, along with innovative UV-LED printers from the company’s VersaUV® LEJ, LEC and LEF series. Roland VersaUV® LEJ and LEC series printers are transforming the pre-press process, making the creation of realistic package prototypes faster and more cost-effective than ever before. VersaUV LEF series printers are innovative devices capable of printing directly on virtually any type of item, including three-dimensional objects, to create a vast array of personalized products. Expo attendees can also get a firsthand look at Roland’s compact yet powerful 20-inch VersaStudio® BN-20 desktop printer/cutter. In addition to seeing Roland’s newest and most popular inkjets in action, booth visitors can check out the new Roland DisplayStudio™ digital sign system – a complete, turnkey solution designed to help sign shops create new revenue streams by introducing their print customers to digital signage. For more information, visit www.rolanddga.com.
RTI - RTI Digital is an OEM partner and supplier of digital print solutions using Memjet technology, globally, delivering value through consistent quality, operational excellence, and premier customer service
The core element of RTI Ditigal’s Vortex 4200 wide format printer are the Memjet printheads delivering single-pass printing for never-before seen speeds. The Vortex 4200 wide format printer is powered by Memjet technology which makes it possible to print in full color at 30 cm per sec (12 ips) and up to 1067 mm (42”) paper width. It features a 2 roll feed system, as standard, with additional sheet feeder, making the Vortex ideal for Display Graphics, Point-of-Sale, GIS (mapping) and CAD/AEC applications, coupled with perfectly matching accessories like an inline folding unit or a stacker.
The Vortex products bring new technology to the market to take advantage of the transition from traditional analog printing to digital and to deliver value to those customers through speed and quality.
The primary benefits of the Vortex 4200 are speed and productivity, enabling printers to dramatically increase productivity. For example, Memjet technology allows highly versioned print runs to produced up to 10x faster than traditional printing. And, unlike traditional inkjet systems, the Memjet technology maintains full productivity for all image types, color mixes, and media types.
With an effective speed of 500 B1 sheets per hour, the Vortex printer forms a useful adjunct to traditional analog print methodology (litho, screen print, flexo). The low set-up time and zero cost of setup means that short runs are now possible and cost-effective. Combine this with its variable data capability, and the Vortex 4200 makes previously impossible jobs now possible.
Vivid Laminating Technologies - Europe's leading designer and manufacturer of laminating systems.
With their product range including the award-winning Easymount Wide Format Laminators and the Matrix Laminating System, the best-selling professional laminator in Europe, Vivid are back at GraphExpo after a highly successful show in 2011.
Now with a network of established resellers in a number of states throughout the US, Vivid are looking to further expand their market share in America and their overall global distribution channels.
Xerox - Xerox will be exhibiting a wide range of graphics printing supplies and equipment.
Zünd - Zünd is the leading manufacturer of multi-functional digital cutting/finishing solutions. Built for 24/7 operation and powered by Zünd Cut Center, Zünd cutters offer the widest selection of tool options and workflow automation, making digital cutting simpler and more productive.
As Zünd’s latest solution for non-stop productivity in digital finishing, Zund America introduces a completely automated production workflow based on automatic QR-code capture and a robotic off-load system. Capable of processing one or, depending on size, multiple stacks of sheets with randomly nested print jobs, the system automatically (and instantaneously) retrieves the corresponding cut files and finishes them–all while the robotic arm continually picks up and stacks the cut/finished parts. The system, which is ideal for narrow-format, non-stop production, will be on display in conjunction with a Zünd S3 M-800 cutter. Zünd will also be showing a larger, fully configured G3 M-2500 system, with the latest high-capacity tooling for processing a wide range of materials at unsurpassed quality and productivity levels.