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digitalprinter Technology and business strategies in digital print November 2015 Issue 78 Revolutionary pigmented ink Direct inkjet printing on any fabric Come visit us at ITMA Hall 18 stand A106 www.velvet-jet.com Plus: Big Finishing Focus Carton printing Colour management Print Effi ciently tailored to suit tailored MIS solutions The Imprint Development and Support team have all worked as printers, estimators or print production managers. Their understanding of the business is unparalleled - which is why they are able to discuss your needs, understand your requirements and provide a solution that’s tailored for you. Talk to Imprint MIS and discover why it’s never just off the peg! Call now to talk to one of our consultants and organise a demonstration +44 (0)1245 231670 Email: [email protected] Imprint Business Systems Limited, Poplars, High Easter, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 4RB @imprintMIS Tailored to suit FINAL.indd 1 24/02/2015 14:25 contents_Layout 1 30/10/2015 17:38 Page 1 contents Sponsored by News and technology 2-10 Wide format Heidelberg open house has fast focus, Ipex to return 46-49 with UK focus in 2017 at NEC, business/marketing Inca’s X factor added to drupa mix, new Soljet made for heavy duty Repro-Sales presents Chinese choices wide format, Optimus and XMPie tie up. GPT’s Printoberfest Cover story 12 50 Software Bordeaux Digital PrintInk: digital technology for Colour management – the colour conundrum. the textile market. Smart Directions 14-20 54 Case study Latest survey results. Xpert intervention: CS Labels streamlines workflow Carton packaging. and colour management. Xerox Premier Partners 24 56 Software Bridging media. Drupa and beyond – the experts speak. Sharp Inspire Expo 26 58 Paper Round Information is currency. Latest paper market news for digital printers. The Big Print Efficiently Finishing Focus 60 28-44 Making the maths work. Crossing the finish line – page 28 Binding – page 34 64 People & Diary Booklet-making, stitching and sewing – page 39 Landa Group appoints new chief executive, ex-Berforts executives join CMP Digital Print Cutting and guillotining – page 40 Solutions, Screen Europe makes Toine Prudon Folding and creasing – page 44 international sales manager for Truepress Jet, wide format digital print specialist Amira Laminating – page 44 Bouchiba joins CMYUK from EFI, and more. ello again. It’s the November issue of Digital Printer and that disappointment, and then the digital print indus- has come to mean Big Finishing Focus time. Several pages of try will celebrate another year of creativity, inno- Hpost-press technology and installation news await you, cover- vation and passionate commitment to delivering ing all the main finishing processes. for its clients. By way of an awkward segue, by the time you read this I may well From passion to software – not an obvious have been ‘finished off’ myself, after another riotous Digital Printer leap, but I’m running out of space! We wanted Awards. We gave you the runners and riders last month; next month the experts to look into the future of print soft- you’ll get to see which thoroughbred won by a nose in each catego- ware and tell us where this exciting branch of the ry, and which was named as the true champion steeplechaser, the sector is going. Their thoughts start on page 56. Supreme Award winner. There will be exhilaration and there will be Andy Knaggs 2_Layout 1 30/10/2015 17:40 Page 2 Read more on all of these stories at News 2 www.digitalprintermag.co.uk Heidelberg’s Brentford open house to have fast focus Rapid Response is the theme for the Presto II saddle- Other time-saving solutions at Heidelberg UK's open house at stitcher connected inline the show include the new Digital its National Showroom in to a Stahlfolder. Front End, a faster Inpress Control Brentford on 18 and 19 Tharstern, IST, Morgana 2 colour and register control tool, November. Visitors are promised and ATS Banding will enhanced Prinect colour solu- ‘the quality of litho from the also be present. tions and rapid online consum- Linoprint CP and CV digital press- Collated flat sheets ables ordering. es and the speed of digital with from the digital press Sales director Jim Todd said: new LED UV offset technology and an 8-page A5 fold- ‘We want to show printers just demonstrated on a Speedmaster Heidelberg open houses offer a ed section from the how responsive our equipment SX 74’. chance to research and review. Speedmaster SX 74 LED- is. As run lengths shorten and Output from both LED-UV UV press will be com- turnaround times are slashed, litho and digital printing solutions Stahlfolders as well as solutions bined to produce an eye-catch- rapid response is the daily cul- will be immediately ready for fin- from third party suppliers, ing A5 format 36-page stitched ture of most printers.’ ishing on Polar guillotines and including Muller Martini showing product with a digital cover. www.heidelberg.com Pure Saxoprint capacity PSF sheet feeder with the Watkiss PowerSquare booklet maker to produce SquareBack books up to 224 pages thick. Online print specialist Saxoprint made a UK digital print partnership with HP Indigo house Pureprint Group, saying it needed a partner that shared its understanding of workflow systems and innovative technol- Flatbed system solves growing pains ogy, as well as quality standards and environment ethics. Pureprint The EFI Jetrix flatbed KX7-D roll to roll system has been added to Group described the strategic partnership as ‘a real pivotal moment’ Colour Studios’ production suite in Bath, to offer customers offer in the evolution of Pureprint into a ‘best in class provider around the flexibility and versatility. The system uses six picolitre head nozzles technology and productised space’. for high output quality and print speeds. Business is growing rapidly at Colour Studios and it needed a flatbed printer that could deliver. Germany’s OFT takes first Scodix Foil The company said the Jetrix could take on a wide variety of projects that it is involved with. The first installation of the Scodix Foil system in Europe has gone to a German-based foil technology expert, OFT, which serves prestigious brands across Europe. Earlier this year, OFT installed its first Scodix NEC visit concludes Ultra Pro digital enhancement press, and it now becomes the first Ricoh press deal company worldwide to offer professional foiling for run lengths of any count. Scodix Foil can produce a range of colours such as gold, Rapidity Communications signed up for silver, bronze, with no waste or mess. a new Ricoh Pro C9110 press at The Print Show, with the 130 pages per minute machine being seen as a back up to Automation powers booklet-maker buy Rapidity’s two HP Indigo 7600 presses, AB Print Group has invested in a new Watkiss PowerSquare 224 while also bringing a new banner printing booklet making system, choosing a nearline configuration as the capability. Rapidity is buying the Ricoh Pro C9110 with a high optimum solution for finishing work from an assortment of different capacity stacker and staple finisher and a high performance Fiery printers. 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For more information contact your local sales team 0370 607 9014 [email protected] antalis.co.uk 4_Layout 1 30/10/2015 17:41 Page 4 Read more on all of these stories at News 4 www.digitalprintermag.co.uk Ipex to return with UK focus in 2017 in Birmingham The return of Ipex to London tive approach to designing the industry, does not conflict has proven to be short lived. Ipex of the future,' said Peter with drupa and very much Organiser Informa Exhibitions Hall, managing director, Informa complements a variety of has announced a new partner- Exhibitions. 'We recognise that annual UK signage, packag- ship with Picon and the NEC as several aspects of Ipex 2014 ing and print shows’. it plans to take the event back were not successful, but we The announcement has to Birmingham after a single have learned from these and not been welcomed by show back in London in 2014. It will consult closely with the organisers of The Print Show, will however be UK-focused market to ensure that Ipex 2017 however, which took place and now run every three years, is a UK-focused, industry-driven for the first in October, also starting from 2017 – a timescale event that appeals strongly to at the NEC, to what seems a said: ‘We were expecting Ipex that has already been adopted exhibitors and visitors.’ favourable initial reception. The to come back at some stage as by drupa, starting from next Bettine Pellant, chief execu- Ipex news broke the day before an international event, but the year’s show. tive officer of Picon, said there The Print Show opened.