Product Spotlight Multi-Media Press Xante’s (Booth 2217) Impressia Digital Multi-Media Press, is revolutionizing the envelope printing market with the ability to produce full-color envelopes on-demand with rapid print speeds (up to 78 full-color envelopes per minute), enhanced color quality (up to 2400 dpi), and the industry’s lowest cost per print (less than one cent per envelope). This no-click charge system is the most affordable way to go digital and delivers fast, full-color results on a wide variety of media, including letterhead, cards, envelopes, forms, brochures, mailers, labels, banners, and more. Online Document Editor CHILI publish (Booth 2266) is showcasing the next generation of its online document editor. CHILI publisher 5.0 includes a completely updated user experience, enhanced output options, and new design effects. Its new UX accommodates the wide range of applications in which users choose to edit—on phones, tablets, or computers. The new features in CHILI publisher provide wide-format printers with a powerful tool for process automation. Print MIS Avanti (Booth 1879) unveils its latest version of Avanti Slingshot, the only JDF-certifi ed, cloud-based Print MIS in the market today and the industry’s fi rst Print MIS to provide seamless integration with HP PrintOS. Avanti Slingshot’s new Point-of-Sale module enables users to spend more time servicing their customers and less time reconciling transactions with fast order entry, invoice generation, and real-time, point-of-sale reporting. Digital Printer Feeder Straight Shooter Equipment Company (Booth 968) is unveiling its new DF330 digital printer feeder. The DF330 features a new hopper design for easier loading and consistent feeding. A new timeout feature stops the feed on an envelope out condition to avoid mishaps and miss feeds. This newly engineered system has a precision fi t with the printer for unsurpassed print registration. The DF330 has a simplifi ed setup that makes for rapid job changeovers from size to size, and job to job. The new Secure Latch system secures the feeder for printer perfect alignment. It’s revolutionary on board jogging system agitates the envelope stack for hands free running down to the last piece, no need to “jostle” hard to feed envelopes. Innovative full length Flex Belt technology has been designed and incorporated into the DF330 to minimize skew and ensure positive envelope delivery from start to fi nish. All this is bundled in a modern design to fi t in any environment. Document Processing Compart (Booth 2073) will be showcasing its Compart DocBridge suite. Regulatory compliance is driving organizations to convert print fi les to PDF/ua for universal accessibility and HTML5 to render the information in other media, such as mobile phones, tablets, and Web browsers. Compart DocBridge transforms print streams to pure information that allows the device used by the consumer to decide how it should look. Integrated Print Production Platform PrintOS from HP (Booth 1825), a GRAPH EXPO 16 MUST SEE ‘EMS Award winner, is a cloud-based operating system for use with HP Indigo, PageWide Web Press, Scitex, and Latex digital printing technology. It offers an open, secure, and integrated platform for print production management. Featuring a suite of Web-based and mobile applications, PrintOS helps simplify and automate print production, enabling customers to start printing jobs faster and get more out of their HP presses and printers. Additionally, cloud connectivity allows customers to monitor print status remotely as well as track and improve production performance over time. 3D Film GPA (Booth 2940) is showcasing Azuna 3D Film, a translucent fi lm with a three-dimensional bubble pattern that provides a realistic illusion of depth. Exclusively available through GPA, the company is reintroducing this product to the North American market. Azuna 3D Film turns any application into a mesmerizing experience. This material meets FDA requirements for food contact applications. It offers the lightweight durability expected from a synthetic material, with the added bonus of being a #5 recyclable plastic. The sheets are compatible with most common fi nishing methods, including scoring, folding, die cutting, gluing, and foil stamping. Quality Control System EFI (Booth 1349) Auto-Count 4D is the next generation in quality data collection and packaging process improvement. Also available in the newest EFI Packaging Suite 4.0, AC4D is designed and built for customers to use touch screens and tablets at the workstation for hot spot navigation and real-time data analysis, resulting in quicker informed decision-making that will improve the profi tability of their business. AC4D integrates with the EFI Radius ERP solution and EFI PrintFlow Dynamic Scheduling solution, providing an end-to-end automated workfl ow solution. The total system delivers valuable process including: real-time run lists, based on up-to-the-minute business intelligence with descriptions, confi gurations, production counts and predicted fi nish times based on current throughput data. Workfl ow Integration System AccurioPro Conductor from Konica Minolta (Booth 1801) is a workfl ow integration system that provides comprehensive centralized management of multiple printers that facilitates effi cient workfl ow. The system will automate multiple print jobs; each with unique specifi cations and requirements to maximize productivity. AccurioPro Conductor is able to disperse printing processes across production print devices, allowing print service providers to effi ciently handle high-volume printing jobs. It will route jobs to the optimum printer in the optimal order with connectivity to prepress and post press systems in order to maximize throughput and reduce errors. Envelope Converter W+D North America (Booth 1271)–responding to the need to compress the C total work fl ow to speed-up the time to market, reduce waste and complexity, as well as give direct mail envelopes new and more creative fi nishing options–is introducing a new approach for commercial printers, envelope converters, and mailing houses to quickly and simply convert offset or digital printed rectangular sheets or webs into fi nished direct mail envelopes. Capable of producing 30,000 fi nished 10-pound envelopes per hour, the W+D 410 can do a compete job changeover in less than 30 minutes, and be run by one operator with no previous special envelope converting skills. Water-Based Ink AquaEndure is a water-based ink engineered by EFI (Booth 1349) with the versatility to help customers expand application offerings at a lower cost to manufacture. It combines the eco-friendliness of water-based inks with the ability to adhere to wide range of media. It is a CMYK ink set with a litho-like pile ideal for applications such as wall coverings, printing on synthetics, and products with food or skin contact. It offers lower costs compared with UV ink sets. The inks are versatile for roll-to-print applications currently produced using UV, latex, or solvent inks. The initial printer using AquaEndure inks will be commercially available in the fi rst quarter of 2017. Workfl ow Software Xerox (Booth 1625) FreeFlow Core 5.0–a 2016 MUST SEE ’EMS award winner–is an intelligent automation platform that streamlines prepress activities to increase productivity and reduce costs. The solution automates print operations by allowing you to easily build workfl ows that eliminate costly fi le preparation touch points. A recently announced new cloud confi guration for FreeFlow Core means it is now available in two cloud confi gurations: base cloud and advanced cloud. The base cloud confi guration includes prefl ight, image enhancement, imposition, and printing, while advanced cloud confi guration includes FreeFlow Core base software, an advanced prepress module, and advanced automation module. 46 | September 25, 2016 | GRAPH EXPO 16 Offi cial Show Daily | PrintingNews.com
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