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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 ...

Kodak and Ricoh Partnership

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Last week we had the fuss about the Wall Street Journal and their misunderstanding of the messages they were given in a briefing by Kodak Chairman and CEO Antonio Perez. In that the WSJ incorrectly reported that Kodak planned to divest itself of its Nexpress and Digimaster digital printing operations, ...

Is Screen to Introduce a Violet Technology Newspaper CtP Unit?

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

At risk of muddying the water in the eternal CtP debate about thermal and violet technologies, I would like to quote from an interview recently given by Kyohei Fujisawa, the President of Media and Precision Technology of Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Company. This quote is from an interview given to the ...

Kodak Must Look to the Long-Term

Monday, December 29th, 2008

As my next Tribute's Tuesday column is not until mid January I am putting this subject on the blog as I feel there are points to be made now. The majority of suppliers today are having a hard time and few are meeting the market projections they made around the ...

drupa Innovation Parc

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

This is my final blog entry covering drupa 2008 that finished just under one week ago. One of the most interesting areas at drupa was in Hall 7 and it was the drupa Innovation Parc (dip). This hall differed from every other hall at drupa in that it was one where ...

New Presses from Xerox

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

At drupa Xerox made a number of new product announcements but there were two of particular significance. These were the Xerox iGen4 press and the Xerox 700 Digital Color Press. I am writing about the new Xerox iGen4 as I feel that in announcing this product Xerox failed to really ...