4 ■ October 6, 2010 • GRAPH EXPO
Official Show Daily • Cygnus Graphics Media Quad/Graphics Orders Two 2010 Must See 'ems
New Goss Sunday Presses Specialized Sunday 2000i web presses with digital inking will be installed for insert applications
uad/Graphics announced today, at the GRAPH EXPO tradeshow in Chicago, that it will install two new Goss Sunday web presses with DigiRail digi- tal inking specifically designed for the production of retail inserts. The com- pany also tapped Goss International (booth 1237) for enhancements for several Sunday presses and folders at facilities in the U.S., including installa- tion of award-winning Goss Zero-Slip Nip technology.
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Celebrating the Quad/Graphics purchase of two new Goss presses, are (from left) Andy Thomas, Goss Sales Manger; Tim Sands, Vice President of Operations, Quad/Graphics; and, Graham Trevett, Goss Sales VP.
The presses will be installed in 2011. Goss International will equip both 2,500-feet-per-minute press systems with Contiweb FD pasters, Ecocool dryers, QPL automated plate changing technology and Omnicon controls.
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“This investment in an advanced press platform, including gapless blan- ket technology and digital inking, demonstrates an ongoing commitment to providing our customers in the free- standing insert sector with the highest level of print quality, speed and effi- ciency,” according to Tim Sands, vice President of Press Operations at Quad/ Graphics. “We are also taking advantage of Goss Lifetime Support enhancements to guarantee that even presses installed just a few years ago have the most up-to-date capabilities available,” Sands adds. Goss enhancements ordered along with the new presses will include the Zero-Slip Nip tech- nology for multiple existing fold- ers at Quad/Graphics facilities. Goss International earned the PIA/ GATF InterTech Award for the innovative folder development that includes proprietary microcellu- lar nip rollers that automatically accommodate changes in paper thickness and ribbon count. Zero-Slip Nip technology eliminates the need to adjust nip roller settings, reducing job change times and waste and allowing higher productivity.
Quad/Graphics currently operates more than 40 wide-format Goss Sunday presses at web offset production facili- ties throughout the United States. The company has also installed more than 150 Goss Pacesetter and Universalbinder finishing systems since 1980.
Cygnus Graphics Media and Quad/Graphics Produce the GRAPH EXPO Show Daily
By Karen Lowery Hall, Managing Editor, Quick Printing T
he transition from producing monthly publications to generat- ing a daily printed product is a new challenge for the Cygnus
Graphics Media staff. Luckily, the Quad/ Graphics’ team in Sussex, WI, which is printing the GRAPH EXPO Show Daily, is used to quick turn production. “We are taking our many years of experience producing weekly magazines under tight deadlines and applying it to an even tight- er overnight deadline,” says Gary Gramz, CSR for Quad/Graphics. “For the first time in history, the Show
Daily is available in a digital edition, which will go live on the Cygnus websites and
graphexpo.com the same day the print version is finished,” says Kelley Holmes,
publisher of Quick Printing, Wide-Format Imaging, and Printing News, which make up the Cygnus Graphics Media group. “In addition, the headlines and links to the articles in each digital edition are pushed out to the Twitter subscribers and LinkedIn discussion groups for all three Cygnus publications,” Holmes points out.
he Must See ‘ems technology and product recognition awards is sponsored by the Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC) and conducted independently by the PrintCom Consulting Group.
Must See ‘ems and their companion
Worth-a-Look products were selected from the more than 2,000 individual products being shown at GRAPH EXPO by just over 500 exhibitors. A product or technol- ogy achieves Must See ‘ems recognition as deemed compelling by a panel of industry experts for a large number of exhibition attendees. Products identified as compel- ling, but of importance to a more limited audience are recognized as Worth-a-Looks. Visit:
www.mustseeems.com for Must See ‘ems and Worth-a-LOOKs.
Offset Printing Plates Agfa Graphics (Booth 844) :Amigo TS Eastman Kodak (Booth 1227) Trillian SP Thermal Plate
Epson America, Inc. (Booth 617) Stylus Pro 7900CtP System
Digital Presses Production Color - Sheetfed
Fujifilm NA Corp. (Booth 627) Digital Inkjet J Press 720 Hewlett-Packard (Booth 1200) Indigo 7500 Toner Digital Press
Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Booth 2244) Bizhub Toner Press C8000
Xerox Corporation (Booth 400, 600) Color 1000 Toner Press
Production Color - Inkjet Rollfed Eastman Kodak (Booth 1227) Prosper 5000XL Press
Screen (USA) (Booth 1637) Truepress Jet520ZZ
Production Technologies: Software
Agfa Graphics (Booth 844) :Apogee Impose
Color-Logic (Booth 155) Process Metallic Color System
EskoArtwork (Booth 217) i-cut Suite (digital pre-production) interlinkONE (Booth 969) QReate and Track
Pitney Bowes (Booth 3601) TransPromo Portal
Presses: Offset Products Direct Imaging (DI) Press Presstek, Inc. (Booth 2600) 75DI direct imaging press
Offset-Digital Imprinter Eastman Kodak (Booth 1227) Prosper S10 Imprinting System
To streamline the workflow, a portion of the information in the Show Daily was sent to Quad Graphics three days prior to the show's opening. In addition to this content, live coverage at the show is turned around in hours. On-site staff makes certain that attendees have the information they need about every aspect of GRAPH EXPO. “Once editorial and production have
“The links are also being distributed in daily e-blasts to everyone who has sub- scribed to the e-newsletters for each of the Cygnus publications as well as GRAPH EXPO attendees and show ‘alumni.’ This has never happened before.”
finished with each day’s articles, they are sent on to the printing pros at Quad/Graphics. The careful matching of pages is critical. “For each day, there are five signatures: three 16s and two 8s,” explains John Van Lare, Quad/ Graphics finishing production manager. The three 16-page signatures were pre- printed for each day of GRAPH EXPO at the same time the full Sunday edition was printed. For the rest of the show, the two eight-page “live” signatures are printed and married with the pre-printed content for each day.
Wide-format
Agfa Graphics (Booth 844) :Jeti 1224 HDC FTR EFI (Booth 2000) VUTEk GS3200 Hewlett-Packard (Booth 1200) Scitex LX800 Printer
Postpress
Muller Martini Corp. (Booth 637) Sigma Line Digital Finishing
Encore Selections MGI Digital Graphic Technology (Booth 3217) JETvarnish UV coater Océ North America (Booth 1217) JetStream 1000 Digital Press Pitney Bowes (Booth 3601)
Print Messenger + Color Ink JetSystem
Xerox Corporation (Booth 400, 600) Nuvera 288EA Perfecting System
The live signatures are delivered into Quad/Graphics’ PDF-based workflow each evening by 5:00 p.m. “Someone can send in a page file and we can have it available for online proofing within 10 minutes,” Gramz notes. “We can plate the job within minutes after final approval is received.”
By 7:00 p.m., the pages go to a Harris M1000 web press equipped with QuadTech’s closed-loop Color Control System, and printed on NewPage Orion 60-pound coated gloss paper. The pre- printed signatures are then married to the live pages during the binding process on a Goss SP855 saddle stitcher. The pro- cess is completed when the sticky note is applied to the front cover with a Label- Aire 3115 applicator.
By 1:00 a.m., the publication is packed into cartons and whisked from Sussex 100 miles south to Chicago to be delivered to McCormick Place and your hotel room.
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