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Its Not Technological Change, Its How The Message is Presented and Financed

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

I read Frank Romano’s interesting opinion article last Friday concerning both Heidelberg and Komori deciding not to exhibit at Graph Expo this year. Frank puts the reasons for this down to the changing industry and timelines for different technologies. While in most cases Frank and I sing from the same ...

New Fuji Xerox Presses Indicate the Future

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Last week there was an interesting announcement from Fuji Xerox of two new digital presses that are being introduced into the Fuji Xerox markets. The new printers are the Color 1000 Press and Color 800 Press. These two presses are very interesting, as they appear to be moving the Fuji ...

HP Open House at O’Neil Data Systems

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

HP’s Inkjet High Performance Printing Solutions division yesterday, May 5, ran an Open House at O’Neil Data Systems in Los Angeles, the first installation of the HP Inkjet Web Press. The Open House yesterday was for press and analysts, and it continues on May 6 and 7 for both O’Neil ...

Does Printing Exist as an Industry?

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

This week Fortune magazine announced its annual analysis of the World’s Most Admired Companies. This showed that for the second year running Apple topped the list of firms with the best reputations. I found it interesting to look into the list of the top 50 companies and the breakdown by ...

Hunkeler innovationdays – Where Were the Offset Vendors?

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

The Hunkeler innovationdays show the flexibility and scope of the vendors working in the digital print finishing market. In this the majority of these companies specialize in digital and they only work in limited areas of the offset markets. There are some vendors that do offer some products mainly for ...

New Products from Hunkeler innovationdays

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Hunkeler – Hunkeler is a 20 year old medium sized family owned Swiss company employing 250 staff with a turnover of €40 million. It specializes in paper finishing systems predominantly for digital printing systems. It showed its full range of finishing products working with a range of different digital printing ...

What Type of Trade Show?

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

In today’s economic climate many industry suppliers are rethinking their approaches to which and what type of trade shows to attend. The plans of many of these companies are going through serious evaluation at present as the economics of how and where to exhibit are discussed. A number of future ...