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Tomorrow's industry will rely on efficient facilities, highly automated equipment, real-time communications, and well-trained people. The ideal printing plant of the future-what will it look like? For this special supplement [...]

The paper rolls are so big (60" reel diameters, 72" wide) and heavy (five tons each) that only four fit on an 18-wheeler. Yet the press whizzes through single rolls […]

Rochester, NY-based label and packaging printer Hammer Lithograph is no stranger to 'firsts.' The company installed a Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102, an 8-color, 40-in. offset press with both aqueousand UV-coating [...]

New-age folding machines are becoming the glue--literally--that holds together print and bind jobs and helps make them more profitable. Not that there aren't interesting developments in more conventional folding technology. [...]

The quest for more stability and less cost drags on like a lecture on supply-side economics. Is a breakthrough in sight? Water. We can't live without it. And the way [...]

There's a portfolio of add-ons to keep up with and to enhance the performance of today's high-speed webs. Here are a few. What if an innovative new product could drastically [...]

By Mark Vruno Now redesigned: the BlueBook industry source for specialty and printing services. A keyword search under the Graphic Arts BlueBook website 'Specialty' category shows more than 500 firms: [...]

By Mark Vruno Was this run offset, or was it digital? (The answer is not in print.) Was your front cover printed offset or was it run digitally? Half of [...]

Mark Vruno Despite years of availability, very few have registered for do-not-mail services. Is it true that 89% of Americans support a Do Not Mail Registry? That's the claim made [...]

By Mark Vruno The industry's source for everything from specialty services to new and used equipment. A keyword search for 'trade printers' in the Graphic Arts BlueBook online directory finds [...]

By Mark Vruno Sakurai Oliver 66SD series 26´´ sheetfed presses are available in 4-, 5- (shown) and 6-color configurations. SPC feature changes plates accurately and quickly thanks to a pinned [...]

By Mark Vruno Beer pouring is sometimes taken quite seriously in European quarters. For bartenders, the Belgian pour ritual involves no less than nine steps to achieve malt-liquor perfection, according [...]

By Mark Vruno PIA Premier Print 'Best of Show' winner draws inspiration from a light-giving source. Photography has been defined as 'painting with light,' so a photograph of a lamp [...]

By Mark Vruno First, pre-washed, faded and torn blue jeans. Now, publications printed to look old. Esopus magazine is a cultural compendium published twice a year by NYC's non-profit Esopus [...]

By Mark Vruno, Executive Editor Komori 29´´ and Indigo technology enhance print firm's Presstek DI strategy. Seven months ago, commercial printer Anstadt installed a 6-color, Lithrone SX29 press with coating [...]

By Mark Vruno Visit more than 70 exhibitors in Graph Expo's 38,900-sq.ft. Mailing & Fulfillment Center. The strength of the print-mail bond is clear at Graph Expo this year. From [...]

By Mark Vruno Esquire's dramatic October cover features e-ink technology--with batteries included. Vibrantly alive with flashing, back-lit text and graphics, a pair of 2x4.75´´ windows on the outside and inside [...]

By Mark Vruno A remarkable self-promotion by Classic Color used eight inter-station curing units. A design by renowned graphic artist Rick Valicenti is light on text and heavy on envisioning [...]

By Mark Vruno Benny awards go to Hemlock, despite perceived absence of color in LensWork journal. To printers, black and white with refined grayscale is beautiful. And a good (or [...]

By Mark Vruno, Executive Editor Houston-based printer caps $47 million, two-year spend with 36 HP Indigos. The Consolidated Graphics international printing network made a major move into expanding its digital [...]

By Mark Vruno Peak UV P3 third-generation system met the global market at drupa. 'Our goal is to increase the ease and availability of UV production-and at the same time [...]

By Mark Vruno manroland's jumbo, 5x6 panel, fold-out poster is the product of some big inspiration. Polybagged with select issues of GAM is a five-by-six-panel poster that, when completely unfolded, [...]

By Mark Vruno, Executive Editor Ensuring that mail with personal data gets delivered to the correct recipient. More printers realize adding services that are logical extensions of their print offering, [...]

By Mark Vruno, Executive Editor Boutique shop uses prepress tools to boost pressroom quality, productivity. Can a strategy of postponing capital investment work effectively? The over-achieving story of Avante, Llc. [...]

By Mark Vruno MetalFX comes to heatset webs, differentiating publications with eye-catching shine. Graphic Arts Monthly this month showcases its second MetalFX (MFX) cover: this one printed heatset web offset. [...]

By Mark Vruno, Executive Editor Common platforms led RR Donnelley to insert Pro Line into its portfolio. Perhaps no printing company knows better than RR Donnelley that there's money to [...]

By Mark Vruno The cover tip-on is as green as it gets: biodegradable and compostable bioplastic. The tipped-on plastic substrate for this month's front cover was provided by Pace Industries [...]

By Mark Vruno 58th annual recipient lauded this month for 35-year career dedicated to graphic arts. William Bachman, the 58th recipient of the annual Lewis Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award, was [...]

By Mark Vruno Fulfillment and green certifications, plus Xplor/On Demand and drupa previews. We've all heard about printers who've added mailing and fulfillment services, but here's a twist: a fulfillment [...]

By Mark Vruno Pressroom products address real plant issues, help to offset ink better. Do your press operators complain about gauge loss and/or short blanket life? What about easily damaged [...]

By Mark Vruno A new NexPress S3000 demonstrates its heavy-duty versatility on our front cover. Matching apricot, peach and other orangish colors poses frequent problems for many printers. Consider one [...]

By Mark Vruno Executive Editor On the border, a leading Canadian printer to the trade exports one of every four jobs to the U.S. It has added new presses, too, [...]

By Mark Vruno Printing on recycled, uncoated stock can have a dramatic visual and tactile effect-and be eco-friendly-as evidenced by our front cover. The 65-lb. Mohawk Options premium cover-weight sheet [...]

By Mark Vruno Executive Editor Versatile Chicago firm adds two new sheetfed presses, color digital and FSC certification, closing out 2007 with 20% growth-again. You name it, Schiele Group probably [...]

By Mark Vruno The PrintCity alliance, with its wide range of growing news and activities across the printing, packaging and publishing sectors, will again be a major attraction at drupa, [...]

By Mark Vruno Executive Editor Mid-size shop in the Midwest prints conventional sheetfed, wide-format digital and, now, direct imaging dry offset for high-quality short runs on demand. Jerry Keller had [...]

By Mark Vruno Thousands of attendees at Graph Expo received the Official Show Daily outside their hotel rooms each morning during the September show in Chicago. Thousands more grabbed copies [...]

By Mark Vruno Executive Editor No job is too big for this South Florida grand-format printer, which is carving a new niche-graphically wrapping vehicles. Freedom of expression is more mobile [...]

By Mark Vruno The sixth annual PIXI-Printing Innovation with Xerox Imaging- awards were presented at a gala dinner during Graph Expo last month. Judges selected nine first-place winners from 500 [...]

By Mark Vruno Color experts at Toyo have seen their fair share of prime printing over the ink manufacturer's 100 years. But perhaps none is as dynamic as the high-end [...]

By Mark Vruno Executive Editor Two trade binderies come together under one branding umbrella, making it a win-win for printers. When trade bindery Spiral of Ohio acquired Action Bindery, located [...]

By Mark Vruno Metallic ink can add sizzle to otherwise typical 4-color jobs. Special metal effects used to be costly for the average customer. If they did splurge, most wouldn't [...]

By Mark Vruno Executive Editor A wide perfector, the first of its kind with roll-to-sheet capability, helps reallydifferentiate this leading Texas printer. Branch-Smith Printing rang in 2007 by commencing with [...]

By Mark Vruno & Rachael Young More than 190 print lovers-including owners, managers, sales representatives and significant others from 41 U.S. and Canadian printing companies-congregated in early June for Sappi [...]

By Mark Vruno Printing for luxury automotive clients has its advantages: usually generous budgets, for one. The 2007 Cadillac Escalade Launch Catalog is a no-holds-barred example of the print medium [...]

By Mark Vruno Executive Editor Is pumping ink from centralized supply reservoirs on your sheetfed radar? It's a more viable option than ever before. Press add-on systems delivering ink to [...]

By Mark Vruno Printing on magnetized substrates poses a challenging proposition. Charging and static issues are just the tip of the horseshoe (magnet), so to speak. Yet, as marketers strive [...]

By Mark Vruno Executive Editor This year's Boston expo demonstrated that, even in the digital world, a print job isn't truly finished until it's, well ... finished! Integrated finishing systems [...]

By Mark Vruno The latest generation of polyester-based digital plates is suitable for most printed products-even fine halftones, screen tints and heavy coverage. As the front cover's apples-and-oranges comparison shows, [...]

By Mark Vruno, Executive Editor Computer-to-conventional UV platesetter technology drives 4-color production-at 40 plates per hour. If, as U.S. printing patriarch Ben Franklin said, a penny saved is a penny [...]