Tom Slade expects a decision made nearly a year ago will have positive ramifications for many years. Last April after 25 years, family owned and operated Slade Print in Evansville, Indiana began reinventing and reinvesting in new technologies, industries and equipment. They have since purchased a local label company to go with a profitable sign business and created a digital division. Slade says installation in January of a new, 31-inch Colter & Peterson PRISM® paper cutter with Microcut® is doing an amazing job of supporting his digital business.
Increasingly smaller print runs mean that production lines have to be changed over frequently. In order to ensure efficient production, automated changeover processes are needed. Hunkeler AG organized and held the Innovationdays 2019 event under the motto “Success with Automation”.
Nahdet Misr in Cairo is the first publishing house in Egypt to invest in a Muller Martini KM 610.A perfect binder under the Kolbus brand featuring 32 clamps for excellent two-shot technology to ensure its continuing success – the company enjoys annual growth of over 20 percent.
The Israeli specialist of luxury packaging reveals all the potential of industrial digital embellishment by MGI.
Schätzl Druck & Medien GmbH & Co. KG in the German town of Donauwörth is investing in the hardcover book block solution showcased by Muller Martini at Hunkeler Innovationdays in Lucerne with an endsheet feeder, Vareo perfect binder, and InfiniTrim three-knife trimmer. The equipment, which is managed by the Connex workflow system, will be supplemented by a Muller Martini Diamant MC Digital bookline and a Kolbus DA 270 casemaker at the online printing house.
Schätzl Druck & Medien GmbH & Co. KG in the German town of Donauwörth is investing in the hardcover book block solution showcased by Muller Martini at Hunkeler Innovationdays in Lucerne with an endsheet feeder, Vareo perfect binder, and InfiniTrim three-knife trimmer. The equipment, which is managed by the Connex workflow system, will be supplemented by a Muller Martini Diamant MC Digital bookline and a Kolbus DA 270 casemaker at the online printing house.
Scodix, the world’s leading provider of digital enhancement solutions for the graphic arts industry, will highlight the business-enhancing capabilities of its family of digital enhancement presses at Hunkeler innovationdays 2019 (February 25th-28th, stand B12).
Tecnau is excited to give its customers and prospects a glimpse of feeding and finishing innovations for high-speed color inkjet printers which the company has begun rolling out here in 2019:
Dynamic, award-winning communications provider, Linemark, has greatly increased their value with the installation of a Kluge EHD Automatic Platen Press for Foil Stamping, Embossing, and Die-Cutting. The remanufactured press has been updated with Kluge's patented TRU-DWELL™ adjustable dwell system and TRU-TEMP™ dual surface heat control. Often called "the workhorse of the industry", the legendary Kluge EHD features speeds up to 3,300 impressions per hour and accommodates sheets up to 17"x24.75" (431mm x 628mm). Kluge's TRU-DWELL technology allows stop/dwell of the press at any position in the press operating cycle, most used at "dead-center" impression. Adjustable up to 3 full seconds of dwell time, it significantly expands the number of substrates that can be processed and has increased capability to run dies that have high tonnage ratings.
