The use of digital printing in the packaging arena is a significant, growing trend that promises a wave of technology advances and new products over the coming years. Digital printing technology is especially noticeable on the trade show circuit.
Digital printing and workflow implementations by package printers, including items on McCoy Printing, Allen Datagraph Systems Inc., EFI and HP.
Masterpiece Graphics, a custom coater of films, foils, papers, and plastics for digital printers in the narrow web and cut sheet market, has been named a technology partner by Color-Logic.
Color-Logic has named MSM Color as its manufacturers’ representative in the Midwest and certified EFI digital presses for its Color-Logic Process Metallic Color System.
Color-Logic has introduced Version 2.0 of its Process Metallic Colour System Design Suite. The company's director of sales and marketing, Mark Geeves, commented: 'We have significantly expanded the capability of our Design Suite. New features available to graphic designers include the ability to output separation files specifically tailored for printing on offset, flexographic, digital (HP Indigo, Xeikon, and EFI Jetrion), and certain wide format presses. Graphic designers can now prepare cross-media metallic separations for execution using any process desired by their clients. The Color-Logic Process Metallic Colour System enables printers to produce metallic special effects on their presses. Printers
WEST CHESTER, Ohio—Color-Logic, developer of the popular Process Metallic Color System, has announced that the process is now available for all print processes. Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves commented: “Color-Logic has significantly expanded the capability of our Process Metallic Color System. Licensed Color-Logic printers will now find the software produces specific files…
InfoTrends published its 2011 forecast for production level color digital presses used to print labels and packaging. InfoTrends estimates that converters worldwide spent $166 million on this category of color digital presses in 2010.
News on suppliers to the package printing industry, including Mark Andy, Heidelberg, acpo ltd., Bunting Magnetics, Presstek, Martin Automatic, and more.
Masterpiece Graphix (MGX) is launching a West Coast distribution center in the third quarter of the 2011 fiscal year. This new location will give digital press owners west of the Rockies quick access to hundreds of digital substrates.
Masterpiece Graphix (MGX), a digital material manufacturer and treatment center, is launching a West Coast distribution center in the third quarter of the 2011 fiscal year. This new location will give digital press owners west of the Rockies quick access to hundreds of digital substrates, including HP Indigo-Certified materials, wine label stocks, sheet materials, and custom stocking options. The new location is expected to open by August 1, 2011.
