EFI announced that Lofton Label is one of the first EFI PSI™ Flexo customers to upgrade its software to EFI Radius. Lofton Label produces flexo and digital pressure sensitive labels, including extended content labels, coupons, and food and beverage labels.
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Competition is fierce in the packaging industry and is all the more challenging if employees cannot access reliable information or update data fast. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are one way to alleviate these issues because the software integrates companies’ entire business operations and centralizes data throughout the entire production-to-billing cycles.
Label Summit Latin America opens up in Sao Paulo, Brazil May 17-18, 2011 at the Hotel Transamerica with a new format that will see live machinery demonstrations take place for the very first time.
Cal Poly's Graphic Communication Department held its annual International Printing Week program for four days in January, hosting events such as a lecture series, dedications of new laboratory equipment, a Printing Week banquet, scholarship presentations, a Career Day, and the department's Advisory Board meeting.
EFI announced it had a record year of sales for its newly acquired EFI Radius MIS/ERP software, adding more new business in the second half of 2010 than any period since Radius was founded.
Masterpiece Graphix (MGX) announced a distribution partnership with Lowry Labels & Tape, making MGX’s selection of digital sheet and roll materials available in Canada.
EFI and Heidelberg USA, Inc. announced a new agreement under which Heidelberg will distribute the VUTEk GS series of superwide format digital printers to the commercial print market across the U.S.
Digital printing and workflow implementations by package printers, including items on Roland DGA Corp. and FLEXcon, INX International Ink Co., and Color-Logic.
Soon after releasing a new flexographic version of its Process Metallic Printing System, Color-Logic has released a version of the metallic effects system specifically for inkjet printers.
News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including EFI, EskoArtwork, Bunting Magnetics, Pulse Roll Label Products, DuPont Packaging Graphics, and Ral Print Etiquetas e Rótulos Adesivos.