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Tribune prospers with Kodak At GRAPH EXPO, Tribune Co. sub-
sidiary Tribune Direct, Northlake, IL, became the first direct marketing firm to buy the Kodak PROSPER 5000XL inkjet web press. President/GM Lou Tazioli, Operations Director Tim Street and Sales/Client Relations VP Tim Klunder fought crowds to have their picture taken in front of the device on Monday. “We researched available technolo-
gies,” Tazioli says, “and were drawn to the Prosper because it runs multiple substrates. We’re going to offer its speed [650 linear fpm] to marketers who have an interest in self-mailers and postcards,” he notes, adding that transpromo is not Tribune Direct’s primary market. “We installed a NexPress about a
year ago,” points out Street, “and our net volume is up 100 percent now. It runs 20 hours a day, seven days a week.” The company may use the new press to sup- port short-run, niche publications with larger signatures, Tazioli adds. “It moves a lot of paper. We’re looking at the economics and timing for our TribLocal product’s custom advertising, for exam- ple.” Their projections show Prosper producing at 50% to 60% capacity within five years. “Utilization depends on managing schedules and customer turnaround requirements,” says Klunder.
A second Goss Sunday press “We’ve decided that now is the time to expand our product and service
The SpringDot team with their Graphco dealer (second from left).
Aditya Chinai (second from left), Man- aging Director of King Printing.
offerings,” says Michael Murphy, pres- ident of Japs-Olson, which sealed the deal on Sunday for its second gapless Sunday press from Goss International. Scheduled for mid-2011 installa- tion in the printer’s St. Louis Park, MN facility, the specialized, eight- unit system, featuring Autoplate and Automatic Transfer for on-the-fly job changeovers, will be configured for highly automated direct-mail applica- tions. The new press will interface with an inline finishing system. Goss says it also will supply a Contiweb splicer, Ecocool dryer and Omnicom control system. “This new press is a world’s first, and we are excited to be in position to use its new technology and capabili- ties,” Murphy adds. Japs-Olson’s first
producing print quality and durability that surpasses other machines we’ve tested,” says Mike Stafford, Technical Operations Manager of Digital Reprographics Solutions, a Doyleston, PA print firm focused on CAD drawings, fine art and trade show displays. “With the speed and quality of the 2050, we will outperform our competition in every way.” Also, the
Kankakee (IL) Daily
Journal is moving to Agfa Graphics’ :Advantage N-SL CtP platesetter and :N92-VCF (violet chemistry-free) plates.
Huge in-plant goes with EFI EFI announced a government con- tract with DLA Document Services, part of the U.S. Department of Defense and the Defense Logistics Agency, for its Digital StoreFront (DSF) as the Web-to- Print platform for DLA’s more than 150 global locations. The deal for the first year is worth $2.4 million.
DLA Document Services is modern-
izing its home-grown custom solution, which has been in use for 11 years. Print and e-commerce industry
consultant
Jennifer Matt was a key partner on the project, and she is expected to be integral to the deployment phase, says EFI.
eight-unit Sunday press was installed three years ago.
Growing with Standard With sales up 40 percent over the
past three years, SpringDot in Cincinnati draws annual revenues of $11 million. The commercial sheetfed shop added 20 people since PRINT 09, now employing a total of 70. But 20-year-old bindery equipment isn’t conducive to the firm’s fast growth. On Monday its management team bought an automated Horizon AFC- 746F folder from Ohio dealer Graphco. With its auto set-up features, the upgrad- ed folder will improve productivity by producing more unique jobs during the course of a day, says Standard Finishing. “It also means we can keep more work in house,” notes SpringDot president/CEO Josh Deutsch. “We’re going over to the HP booth to look at the Indigo 5500,” Deutsch says.
A first for Agfa, too Agfa Graphics sold its first high- speed, six-color plus white, UV-curable inkjet printer in North America yesterday here at GRAPH EXPO. “The :Anapurna M 2050 showcases extreme versatility
Official Show Daily • Cygnus Graphics Media
A Magnet For Industry Organizations
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have the chance to stay on a day or two to see what’s new at GRAPH EXPO. In recent years they also have been able to take advantage of the free Sunday edu- cational session dedicated to quick and small commercial printers.” The Association of Independent Mailing Equipment Dealers (AIMED) also held their fall conference imme- diately prior to GRAPH EXPO—and spent the show manning their booth in the Mailing & Fulfillment Pavilion. “Our members in the mailing indus- try have a tremendous crossover with the printing industry,” says Executive Director Barbara Price. “That makes GRAPH EXPO 2010 a natural fit for co-location. Our conference drew solid attendance but the difference this year is that people stayed the whole day and didn’t trickle out after lunch. Our theme was ‘Growing Your Business’ and our members stayed on to take advantage of the growth opportunities being high- lighted at the show.” With the News Print Pavilion mak- ing its debut, GRAPH EXPO 2010 attracted the International Newspaper Group and users’ associations for such companies as Muller Martini and man- roland. Muller Martini users group president said “With GRAPH EXPO 2010 featuring such a large emphasis on the newspaper market, it makes for a particularly appropriate venue for our users’ group to meet.” Also co-locating were organizations such as IDEAlliance’s G7 Summit. According
to IDEAlliance VP of
Marketing Steve Bonoff, locating the G7 summit at GRAPH EXPO was an ideal opportunity to bring industry education and exhibitors together.” Creatives, pub- lishers, and commercial printers all need
Kodak’s GUA Board met during GRAPH EXPO 2010.
manroland User Group
to find ways to integrate their digital workflow for efficient production and GRAPH EXPO 2010 offers them the chance to learn about the tools to do so.” EFI Connect and Hewlett Packard’s Dscoop are two other users groups which are co-locating events with GRAPH EXPO 2010. EFI’s Director of Product Marketing Dan Crnarich says that co- locating ensures that “CONNECT will remain as relevant to their business success as it has been in the past 11 years.” According to Dscoop Chairman Larry Vaughn, “Providing educational and networking events year-round aligns with our mission and provides an added incentive to our members who were already planning on attending this indus- try event in Chicago.” In the final analysis, GRAPH EXPO 2010 has provided a great incentive for many of the top industry associations and organizations to be actively involved in “The Next Generation of Print.”
GRAPH EXPO 2010 CO-LOCATED EVENTS • NAQP Owners Conference • International Association of Diecutting and Diemaking Annual Meeting • The International Newspaper Group (ING) • The Association of Independent Mailing Equipment Dealers • The Imaging Network Group Annual Fall Workshop • Muller Martini Users Group • NAPL’s Walter E. Soderstrom Society Dinner • G7 Summit 2010 • In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association • manroland Users Group • Printing Industries of America Premier Print Awards Banquet • Agfa :Apogee Users Group Meeting • Graphic Users Group Association • KBA Web Offset Users Group • Printing Impressions, Publishing Executive, and Book Business Gold Ink Awards and Hall of Fame Gala
• Dscoop • EFI Connect Users Group • EDSF Scholarship Night • National Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers Annual Meeting • Xplor International Document University
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