Agfa Graphics has informed employees at its printing plate factory in Manerbio, Italy, as well as the trade unions, that it intends to close down the factory impacting 123 employee positions. A redundancy plan will be developed for the employees that currently work in Manerbio.
The News-Register, published by Oregon Lithoprint, has implemented Agfa Graphics' :Arkitex Eversify, an automated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for collecting and distributing mobile content. Oregon Lithoprint/The News-Register is reported to be the first newspaper and printer in the United States to use this platform from Agfa.
With its plate manufacturing plants in Germany and the United Kingdom already certified according to the ISO50001 standard by LRQA (Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance), Agfa Graphics is one of the first companies worldwide to adopt this new energy management standard.
The Vatican has completed the installation of a Meteor DP8700 XL digital press within its in-plant production house (known as Tipografia Vaticana). The in-plant print's everything from magazines to brochures and all of the Vatican’s stationary and envelopes, as well as the weekly newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.
FRANKLIN PARK, IL—Marketing services production company Tukaiz LLC closed 2012 with 12 distinguished accomplishments that supported the company’s continued growth. The focus in 2012 included the launch of a new subsidiary, extensive capital expansion, new product offerings and business partnerships that meet current and future customer requirements.
Here's a look at some of the latest computer-to-plate technology available to in-plants from companies like Fujifilm, Glunz & Jensen, Heidelberg, Kodak, Presstek, Xanté and more.
Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ February 2013 edition, featuring Meredith-Webb Printing and Conquest Bindery.
At the World Bank, we certainly needed to do some major adapting if we were to continue successfully serving our customers. Our main concern was the large distance between our operational groups. To address this new reality, we decided to embrace the challenge of overhauling our workflow. As a result, we have implemented a good number of systems and technological tools that will help us take our operation into the future.
At Graph Expo, digital press vendors highlighted their workflow and digital front end capabilities, enabling everything from transpromotional and variable data printing to ganging of smaller jobs into longer production runs. The emphasis was on automation, personalization and run-length optimization.
Fujifilm will show the J Press 720 inkjet press. Heidelberg will present Prinect Digital Workflow Integration. New features for the Kodak NexPress platform will be shown.
