4 ■ October 4, 2010 • GRAPH EXPO 2010 Must See 'ems T
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. A technology achieves Must See ‘ems recognition as selected by an indus- try panel of experts and deemed compel- ling for a large number of exhibition attendees. Visit:
www.mustseeems.com for Must See ‘ems and Worth-a-LOOKs.
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
Wide-format
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
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
Epson Stylus Pro 7900CtP 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
Agfa Graphics (Booth 844) Jeti 1224 HDC FTR EFI (Booth 2000) VUTEk GS3200 Hewlett-Packard (Booth 1200) Scitex LX800 Printer
Official Show Daily • Cygnus Graphics Media
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. “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.” 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 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. 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 on-line 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.
HIFLEX Demonstrates New FSC Workfl ow
HIFLEX (Booth 463) is demon- strating its new FSC and Sustainability Initiative workflow. In addition to its own booth, HIFLEX is also exhibit- ing with partner vendors KBA (Booth 1255), Standard Horizon (Booth 1244) and Agfa (Booth 844), demonstrating integration and automation workflow, in conjunction with HIFLEX MIS. HIFLEX management information
system provides a workflow for print- ers that helps them track all FSC and other Sustainability Initiative orders. Users are able to define the type of jobs being entered at the beginning stage of order entry. The HIFLEX MIS quote letter, order confirmation, job ticket, purchase order, skid tag, delivery note and invoice are all well marked and identified as FSC jobs with all required
FSC details clearly marked. Included on all documents is the FSC Chain of Custody number, instructions to the supplier on the PO and notification to all plant personnel on the job ticket, specifying that the order must be pro- cessed according to FSC procedures and guidelines.
Thrilled with benefits “HIFLEX MIS users are thrilled with the benefits of this innovative new workflow, stating that it saves them countless hours of preparing for their annual FSC Audit,” comments Gary E. Marron, president and CEO of HIFLEX Corporation for North America. “Our workflow was designed so that when FSC Audits are performed, all inven- tories are easily distinguishable and all
of the information required by auditors is easily accessible at the push of a button, making the process simple, fast and painless.”
Damian McDonald, VP of Ampersand Printing in Guelph, Ontario says, “All of the statistics that are required are readily available to the FSC auditor upon request in the HIFLEX MIS Reporting, including all production documents, supplier bills of lading, and standard FSC reports with usage statistics of FSC mixed or recycled stocks used for a specific customer on any arbitrary job the audi- tor wishes to check. During our last audit, the FSC auditor was pleasantly surprised and commented, ‘This was the fastest FSC Audit that we have ever done.’ We are very pleased with
the HIFLEX FSC workflow and what’s better is that we can add other sustain- ability products to the HIFLEX drop- down menu ourselves and without needing HIFLEX as these initiatives continue to grow and expand.” Gordon
Gizowski, Manufacturing, All Out, VP Inc.
of in
Woodridge, IL, notes, “With the HIFLEX FSC Workflow, we will save hundreds of hours of time and thousands of dollars of costs that we used to expend manag- ing the FSC chain of custody and record keeping normally done weeks and days before an audit. The piece of mind of knowing that we are proactively track- ing our inventory and statistics about our FSC customer’s jobs alone has tremen- dous value for us. We are very pleased with this HIFLEX workflow innovation.”
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