News from our Exhibitors
HP Indigo doubles their presence at Printing Expo Online
Printing Expo Online are pleased to announce that HP Indigo have more than doubled their stand space at the show with the introduction of a new HP Indigo General Commercial Print Showroom. The new HP Indigo General Commercial Print Showroom features the HP Indigo 7K,...
Looking to a sustainable future for the label industry
Sustainability has moved from a marketing buzzword to an essential part of every company’s business strategy, as the world turns its focus to saving the planet from climate disaster. environmental impact In every aspect of modern life, consumers are demanding to know...
Meet Danny Sullivan, CEO of POSITIVE+
Being able to adapt and change according to customer requirements is core to running a successful print business – we spoke with Danny Sullivan, CEO of POSITIVE+, to better understand how they coped during the pandemic and what growth plans they have in place. Tell me...
The Ventura MC 200 Increases the Cycle Rate in Thread Sewing
The new Ventura MC 200 book sewing machine enables Central Dabasi Nyomda to significantly increase productivity. Hungarian printer Central Dabasi Nyomda Zrt. in Dabas is further expanding its capacity in book sewing with a Ventura MC 200 from Muller Martini.With the...
New year predictions: Charles Jarrold, BPIF
As CEO of the industry's trade body, it shouldn't come as a surprise that positivity is his watchword for the year ahead. Jarrold: flexi-working is here to stay What positives are you able to draw on from the experiences of 2021?We all emerged from the pandemic (well,...
ePac installing two HP Indigo 25K presses
The new ePac digital flexible packaging plant in Melbourne is seeing two HP Indigo 25K digital flexible printing systems go in, with installation by Currie Group. Taking two: New ePac flexible packaging plant in Melbourne has a pair of HP Indigo 25K digital...
HP Indigo Accelerates Industry 4.0 Solutions Across Industry Segments and Digital Product Portfolio
Innovation in automation solutions is driving growth at HP Indigo customers worldwide News highlights HP Indigo is driving digital transformation and industry 4.0 innovation to help print service providers capture significant growth in jobs submitted through ecommerce...
Xitron Partner Printware Installs 1,000th Navigator Digital Front End
DFE Drives Printware’s iJetColor™ Classic, NXT, Pro, and Pro 1175 Envelope Presses Ann Arbor, MI, USA June 22, 2021 – Xitron, a subsidiary of Global Graphics PLC and the developer of the Harlequin-based Navigator RIP and workflow products for commercial, flexo,...
THE VALUE OF DIGITAL EMBELLISHMENT FOR LABELS & PACKAGING
ADDING VALUE TO LABELS & PACKAGING The official dictionary meaning of ‘to embellish’ is ‘to make something more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features’. DIGITAL INNOVATOR Brand owners looking to use embellishments to add value to labels and...
Electric reckoning – the facts & figures
Sales of plug-in electric vehicles have been steadily rising year-on-year. In this review we take a closer look at some of the underlying figures that make up the Electric Vehicle (EV) market in the UK and Europe. Europe Despite significant market disruption caused by...
Hybrid Software Group acquires ColorLogic GmbH
Thorsten Braun and Barbara Braun-Metz Cambridge (UK), 28 October 2021 (17:45 CEST): Hybrid Software Group PLC (Euronext: HYSG) (the “Company”) announces that on 27 October 2021 it acquired the entire issued share capital of ColorLogic GmbH (“ColorLogic”), a...
Webinar: Discover How To Print, Laminate and Convert Digital Stand-Up Pouches
Stand-up Pouches - Same Day turnaround! Please join us & Sun Center USA, Inc. on the Packaging Impressions webinar on December 14th, 2021. Free educational webinar Learn how key industry leaders are delivering digital stand-up pouch/flexible packaging solutions...
How a Bookline Upgrade Significantly Increased Productivity
Because the volume of hardcover orders increased significantly, TNM Print in Chlumec nad Cidlinou in the Czech Republic invested in a Ribbon inserting machine and a BLSD book stacker for its Diamant MC 35 bookline, which went into operation seven years...
Collectors’ Passion for Print
Let no one say that print is not worth anything. Even today, rare stamps fetch top prices, and limited edition books are an attractive investment. I went on a search to find out what printed matter is collected. Not everything, but a great deal. My grandfather was an...
Productivity Doubled with the New RF 700
With a new RF 700 backgluing and backlining machine, D.R.J. Tiskárna Resl s.r.o. in Náchod in the Czech Republic not only relieves the Alegro perfect binder, which was previously also used as a gluing machine, but also significantly increased profitability. Diamant MC...
PERSWALL HERALDS A WALLPAPER RENAISSANCE WITH THE INSTALLATION OF A XEIKON CX500
WALLPAPER RENAISSANCE JUL 02, 2021 Perswall, part of the Embellence Group and a pioneer in digital wallpaper construction, is leading a wallpaper renaissance supported by the installation in 2020 of a Xeikon CX500 dry toner digital colour press. DIGITALLY PRINTED...
HP and WWF Announce Bold Partnership Expansion to Conserve and Restore Forests
News highlights: Announces WWF’s largest U.S. corporate partnership to-datePledges $80 million2 to expand its partnership with WWF to address the impacts on forest from printing¹ with HP printersPartners to restore, protect or improve the management of nearly 1...
Recruit New Workers – Thanks to Intuitive User Interfaces and Barcode Workflows from Muller Martini
Legacy bindery equipment requires machine operators with deep mechanical and bookbinding knowledge. These must be combined with job-specific information to achieve high production speeds in the first place. Employees with these skills are hard to find in today's job...
Clays installs first Heidelberg press from Exel Printing Machinery
Clays of Bungay UK, specialists in producing monochrome paperbacks and hardback books, have taken delivery of their first Heidelberg XL-106-5-LX supplied by Exel Printing Machinery. Predominantly an all Komori house, this machine is not only their first Heidelberg,...
Push what is possible when it comes to packaging
With innovative digital printing abilities, label and packaging converters are set to fundamentally change how this industry looks at digital packaging as a brand innovation touchpoint Brands big and small are beginning to wake up to the power of digitally printed...
Kopa Defuses Neuralgic Point in Production
The new gathering machine 3692 ensures greater production reliability and an increase in quality at Kopa. The Lithuanian printing company Kopa is investing in a 3692 gathering machine from Muller Martini and expects a major boost in productivity and quality as a...
Hybrid Software Group celebrates name change with the Euronext bell ceremony
Chairman Guido Van der Schueren rings the bell to open trading on the Euronext exchange in Brussels Cambridge UK, 20 October 2021: Hybrid Software Group PLC (Euronext: HYSG) celebrates its change of name and corporate identity today by ringing the bell to open trading...
Xeikon continues on pathway to full digitization of print manufacturing
Xeikon takes another strategic step forward with the announcement of new areas of innovation. The Xeikon vision has always been to offer printers and converters a clear and viable pathway to digital transformation. With its comprehensive portfolio and raft of new and...
Global Graphics scoops Pinnacle InterTech Award
Global Graphics has now won three times in four years Global Graphics Software has scooped a 2021 Pinnacle InterTech Award for its Direct software. This is the third time in four years that the company has been recognised at the awards, which are organised by the...
Matti launches inkjet test platform
The Matti Inkjet Test Platform can be used to test printheads, dryers, inks, substrates, print quality, and to produce customer samples or for proofing print applications prior to production printing Matti Technology has introduced Inkjet Test Platform, a system...
Labelisten brings digital pouches to Germany
German print service provider Labelisten has expanded its range of services and invested in an HP Indigo 25K Digital Pouch Factory at its headquarters in Pfaffenreuth. Founded in 2003 and based in Marktredwitz, Germany, Labelisten is a digital label printing company...
Flint to focus further on digital
Flint Group is to strategically focus and invest further in its packaging inks and digital printing businesses, following the sale of its XSYS division to a private equity firm. XSYS has been sold to an affiliate of global private equity firm Lone Star Funds. This...
Meteor on growth trajectory
Global Graphics chairman Guido van der Schueren (left) and CEO Mike Rottenborn (middle) cut the ribbon to open Meteor Inkjet's expanded premises on 2 September, 2021 Meteor Inkjet has expanded its facilities in order to meet growing demand for its products and...
Xaar and Meteor Inkjet partner with Dyndrite on integrated industrial inkjet solutions for binderjet additive manufacturing
Delivers integrated, optimized 3D CAD-to-inkjet printhead development environment empowering OEMs to quickly invent new, more innovative raster inkjet machinesSimplifies the machine development process by providing easy-to-implement system elements that are optimized...
We Cannot Close Ourselves off to the Digital Transformation
Since last November, Muller Martini has been a Premium Partner at the Printing Expo Virtual Exhibition, the graphic arts industry's first 24-hour virtual exhibition, with its own online showroom. "For me, the showroom is another excellent tool to use in contact with...
Will print go back to business as usual?
Covid restrictions may have been eased but many of the changes of the past 18 months will be retained longer term. On 19 July, on what had been dubbed ‘Freedom Day’, most legal Covid restrictions were lifted in England, and many measures have since also been loosened...
Livonia Print: Two New Backups for Peak Times
Livonia Print: Two New Backups for Peak Times Just a few weeks after moving into its new production facility (which you can see in this video) in the Latvian capital of Riga, Livonia Print, which specializes in book production for publishing customers...
Four-part Blog Series: Four Steps to the Smart Factory – Example 2: the Production Cell Manager
In the first blog of our four-part series on the topic of "Smart Factory" on 15 June 2021, I introduced you to a Muller Martini customer that has large-scale plants for (partially individualized) and fully networked volume production and fully integrates the...
Close Brothers Asset Finance funds state-of-the-art flexographic printing press
Close Brothers Asset Finance has funded a state-of-the art Evo XD8 flexographic printing press and finishing equipment for D&M Packaging in a CBILS (Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme) Hire Purchase agreement worth over £1m. Mark Peplinski, Co- Founder...
Regional OEM Viewpoints on Inkjet Sales Strategy
By Jean Lloyd / Published: July 14, 2021 Inkjet printing is a major disruptor, not simply because it competes with a number of other forms of printing, but because none of the old, accepted norms apply to inkjet. Inkjet is fast, it is adaptive, it is variable, but the...
Neil Davies talks through the challenges posed by the pandemic
Neil Davies, Commercial CEO, talks through the challenges posed by the pandemic, the role of data and what has impressed him over the past year… What stood out for you in 2020? By any standards, it was an incredibly tough year, but there have also been some...
HP PageWide Industrial raises the bar with the Harlequin RIP®
HP PageWide Industrial raises the bar with the Harlequin RIP®: a global leader in the manufacture of inkjet presses, HP constantly pushes the boundaries and sets new standards to offer its customers the highest level of quality and performance, and the Harlequin RIP...
The Advantage of Being Customer #1
By: Elizabeth Gooding, President at Inkjet Insight The pace of inkjet R & D has accelerated over the past few years with new technology conquering more substrates, entering new markets and driving quality to new heights. For each of these releases there is a first...
Using the Mako Core SDK to modify documents in Microsoft’s Universal Print
Over the past year, Microsoft has been working hard to bring its new Cloud printing service, Universal Print, to general availability. As a part of Universal Print, developers get access to a set of Graph APIs that allows analysis and modification of print job...
How to Turn Your Analogue Printing Plant Into a Digital One
Many of our customers today are faced with the task of making their conventionally run businesses fit for the digital world. As a workflow specialist, I have gained experience in many exciting projects. Using an example, I'll explain to you in this blog how digital...
Testimonial from HP Indigo
The virtual world of events is without doubt suffering from digital fatigue. When the world shuts down and the only shop window becomes a PC monitor, it is inevitable that genuine focus is going to wane. In most cases virtual events have been our saviour, they have...
Xeikon adds brand new CX50 press to its Wall Decoration Suite
ECO-FRIENDLY, COST-EFFECTIVE The Xeikon Wall Deco Suite is an all-in-one streamlined solution including inline finishing – all developed to cost effectively produce creative wall decorations including custom illustrations and photomurals in short runs. Meeting today’s...
Treat Your Best and Most Experienced Operators to Müller Martini’s MM Improve Training
Your equipment operators can make all the difference to your business, its overall performance, safety, and efficiency. Supporting and developing your operators at every skill level is therefore essential to increasing the productivity achieved throughout the...
Muller Martini expands Printing Expo showroom ready for Virtual.drupa
Muller Martini has introduced five new machines and is set to showcase them at Printing Expo ready for Virtual.drupa. The company has designed a large 2 storey showroom to accommodate its state-of-the-art equipment plus a hospitality suite where visitors can discover...
Decorate the walls: Digitally Printed Wallpaper
Technavio, a global technology research and advisory company, published a report in July 2019 stating that the global digitally printed wallpaper market is expected to post a compound annual growth rate of over 20 percent during the period from 2019 to 2023. TECHNAVIO...
Meteor adds support for Epson I3200 PrecisionCore printheads
Meteor Inkjet Ltd, leading supplier of electronics, software, tools and services for industrial inkjet, further expands its product portfolio with the introduction of a set of products for Epson’s I3200 range of PrecisionCore...
Close Brothers Asset Finance funds cutting-edge printing press for Richline Graphics
Close Brothers Asset Finance has funded a cutting edge XL75-5+L Heidelberg press for long-standing customer, Richline Graphics, under the CBILS (Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme) scheme. Established in 1993, Richline Graphics is a...
We’re transferring the digital world into a print form
"Video Killed The Radio Star", sang The Buggles in 1980 – but radio is still popular four decades later. "Digital brings print under pressure," is the lament in many quarters of the graphic arts industry – but this is not invariably the case. A typical example of how...
The world’s first Prinova, so that Rapidocolor Printing does not go checkmate..
After the world's first start-up of a new Prinova saddle stitcher from Muller Martini coming February, Rapidocolor Printing in Bucharest aims to become the Romanian market leader for technical manuals" Saddle stitching is our main business and our most important...
Self-isolation and COVID-19 create rise in absenteeism
42% of companies have staff who had to self-isolate during the pandemic27% have staff who tested positive for COVID-1918% of SME company bosses have tested positive for COVID-19 The full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the UK’s SMEs is becoming clear as Close...
How to Get to Rid of the Spine Build up
Is the spine build up of the book blocks that occurs during thread sewing also a thorn in your side? We can now remedy this well-known problem. The new VFN 700 spine nipping press from Muller Martini presses each bookblock in the spine area, thereby significantly...
The Year of the Decision
At the end of the year, the Future Report of the Frankfurt Future Institute is one of my must-reads. The experts around Matthias Horx see 2021 as "the year of decision" in which a new (dis)order is supposed to emerge. The Corona crisis will most certainly go down in...
Global Graphics to acquire Hybrid Software
Global Graphics is set to acquire Hybrid Software Group from Congra Software. Rottenborn: "It brings us a global network of trained technical people" The Cambridge-based software developer has entered into a binding conditional agreement with Luxembourg-based holdings...
Shutterfly in record HP Indigo deal
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Print Week, you can read the original article first published here. Richard Stuart-Turner US personalised products retailer Shutterfly has invested in more than 60 new HP Indigo digital presses – the largest single...
Publica PRO – A Good Perfect Binder Gets Even Better
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Muller Martini, you can read the original article first published here. Even though softcover products are no longer printed in runs of hundreds of thousands, even millions of copies as they were a decade ago,...
Exel supply Wilmot-Budgen with a Heidelberg CX 102
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Exel Printing Machinery, you can read the original article first published here. Back in February this year, prior to lockdown, Peter Burford, Steve Williams and Richard Budgen from Wilmot-Budgen travelled with Ian...
Funding a new Komori GL29 press for RAP Spiderweb utilising CBILS
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Close Brothers Asset Finance, you can read the original article first published here. Close Brothers Asset Finance has funded the purchase of a new Komori GL29 press for RAP Spiderweb - one of Greater Manchester's...
Printing Expo goes global
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Digital Labels & Packaging, you can read the original article first published here. Printing Expo, the virtual print industry exhibition, is welcoming 1000 visitors a day to its online show floor, with attendees from...
Mimaki creates new, improved RIP “Rasterlink™7” with Harlequin
Information supplied by Global Graphics - visit their stand at Printing Expo. Cambridge, UK, 4 November, 2020: Global Graphics® Software has licensed the Harlequin RIP to Mimaki Engineering, a leading manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers, cutting plotters, and...
Printing Expo virtual Exhibition goes live
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Indian Printer and Publisher, you can read the original article first published here. Virtual event to be available 365 days a year Resolve Business Management (RBM), organisers of the Printing Expo virtual Exhibition...
Muller Martini to highlight its latest technology at the Printing Expo Virtual Exhibition November 30
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Graphic Arts Magazine, you can read the original article first published here. Global print finishing and binding OEM Muller Martini will be represented at The Printing Expo Virtual Exhibition as a Premium Partner with a...
Printing Expo opens virtual doors
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Print Week, you can read the original article first published here. Online exhibition Printing Expo has gone live with its first tranche of exhibitors. The event, billed as “the world’s most interactive online print...
Printing Expo opens its virtual doors
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Print Business Magazine, you can read the original article first published here. The latest attempt to engage printers with online presentations and shows begins today as the online printing exhibition gets underwas at...
Global Graphics participate in first Printing Expo online
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Large Format Review, you can read the original article first published here. Global Graphics companies, Meteor Inkjet, Xitron and Global Graphics Software, are among the first wave of exhibitors at Printing Expo online,...
Global Graphics Software launches new virtual stand
Global Graphics Software have launched their new virtual stand at the Printing Expo Virtual Exhibition, the world’s most realistic online print show! Global Graphics Software is a leading developer of platforms for digital printing, including the Harlequin RIP®, a key...
Xitron launches new virtual stand
Xitron have launched their new virtual stand at the Printing Expo Virtual Exhibition, the world’s most realistic online print show! Xitron is a member of the Global Graphics group of companies that develops flexible workflow systems and interfaces to drive the...
Meteor launches new virtual stand
Meteor have launched their new virtual stand at the Printing Expo Virtual Exhibition, the world’s most realistic online print show! Meteor, a proud member of the Global Graphics group of companies, develops and supplies electronics and software to drive industrial...
Digital Pouch Factory to open at Printing Expo
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Whitmar Publications, you can read the original article first published here in the March/April issue of Digital Labels & Packaging HP will be demonstrating its digital pouch manufacturing capabilities through a...
Visit the Virtual Muller Martini Showroom Without Having to Travel!
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Muller Martini, you can read the original article here on Muller Martini. Muller Martini will be represented as a Premium Partner with a virtual showroom at the Printing Expo Virtual Exhibition, the first virtual...
Virtually guaranteed success?
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Image Reports, you can read the original article here on Image Reports. In June the Printing Expo Virtual Exhibition opened up online. So, with travel restrictions still a key consideration, is this the way of the future...
Matbaa & Teknik August
Pandemi süreci ile aslında çok uzun yıllardır bildiğimiz ama aklımızın raflarına kaldırdığımız sanal fuar konusu gündeme geldi. Teknoloji üreticileri bu yolu kullandılar ve müstakil fuarlarını yaptılar. Bu etkinlikler bir webinar ya da online tanıtımı aşan fuara...
Muller signs up for virtual expo
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Print Week, you can read the original article here on Print Week. Online trade show Printing Expo has signed up Muller Martini as a Premier Partner, with a huge virtual showroom in the works. Printing Expo was launched...
Printing Expo Online names first exhibitor as Printing United goes virtual too
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Digital Printer, you can read the original article here on Digital Prrinter. Following the trend towards in-person events being replaced by online alternatives, Printing Expo Online has revealed that Müller Martini will...
My Digital Journey: RBM
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Digital Labels & Packaging, you can read the original article here on Digital Labels & Packaging. Wayne Beckett is joint managing director at Resolve Business Management (RBM), and event sales director for...
Printing Expo launches as a fully virtual exhibition
This text is reproduced with kind permission of Sign Media, you can read the original article here on Sign Media. Resolve Business Management (RBM) recently announced the launch of Printing Expo—the world’s first virtual exhibition and conference facility for the...
Virtual events aim to plug ‘real’ gap
Two virtual print industry events, both led by seasoned print expo pros, are aiming to partially plug the gap left by the rescheduling of Drupa, Fespa and a number of industry conferences. Global PrintExpo is the brainchild of Wayne Beckett and Chris Watson, joint...
Анонсирована Printing Expo – первая в мире виртуальная полиграфическая выставка
Компания Resolve Business Management объявила о запуске Printing Expo – первой в мире полностью вирутальной выставки и конференции для полиграфической индустрии. Разрабатывая креативную концепцию мероприятия, его директора – Уэйн Беккет (Wayne Beckett) и Крис Ватсон...
Printing Expo launches as a fully virtual exhibition
Resolve Business Management has today announced the launch of Printing Expo - the world’s first Virtual Exhibition and conference facility for the printing industry. In developing this creative and innovative concept, Show Directors Wayne Beckett and Chris Watson of...
Virtual print expo goes live in June
Resolve Business Management (RBM) has launched the world’s first virtual exhibition and conference for the printing industry, which will come online in June. Printing Expo is claimed to work in the same way as a live exhibition, with ‘attendees’ able to ‘walk’ the...
Printing Expo launches fully virtual exhibition
Resolve Business Management (RBM) has launched Printing Expo, which it is calling ‘the world’s first virtual exhibition and conference for the printing industry.’ The event, set to open in June 2020, will work in the same way that a live exhibition does, except that...
Click right up for the newest print show on Earth
With all physical events closed for the foreseeable future, RBM believes there is room for a virtual print exhibition. A new print exhibition will open in June if all goes well. The 10,000m2 show is not located in Dusseldorf, or Birmingham nor any other location...
Printing Expo launches as a fully virtual exhibition
Resolve Business Management (RBM) is excited to announce the launch of Printing Expo - the world’s first Virtual Exhibition and conference for the printing industry. The Printing Expo Virtual Exhibition will work in the same way that a live exhibition does, except...
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