Category: Graphics Printing

  • JITF part 1: Building a community

    JITF part 1: Building a community

    Recently I returned to Japan to cover the second outing of the Japan Inkjet Technology Fair, having written about last year’s inaugural event. It’s a small, tightly focussed show that offers a unique perspective on the Japanese inkjet industry, as well as a chance to catch up with old friends.

  • Ricoh introduces VC80000

    Ricoh introduces VC80000

    Ricoh has announced a new continuous feed single pass inkjet printer, the Pro VC80000, which is targeted at the commercial print, direct mail and books markets. 

  • Kodak sells first P7000 and releases Q3 figures

    Kodak sells first P7000 and releases Q3 figures

    Kodak has revealed Mercury Print Productions, based in Rochester in New York, USA, as the first customer for its Prosper 7000 single pass inkjet press. This is currently the fastest inkjet press, running at up to 410mpm and producing up to 239 million A4 pages in a month. 

  • Label Expo part 4: from Flexo to finishing

    Label Expo part 4: from Flexo to finishing

    It’s easy to forget that a decade ago journalists like myself would have mainly gone to Label Expo to see the latest flexo presses. In the years since the focus has shifted more and more to the digital presses, where the technical improvements have moved at a faster pace. However, there were still plenty of…

  • Koenig and Bauer launch new flexo press

    Koenig and Bauer launch new flexo press

    Koenig and Bauer has announced a new wide web central impression flexo press, the XD Pro, which will eventually replace the existing XD press. 

  • Label Expo part 3: How wide is narrow?

    Label Expo part 3: How wide is narrow?

    Most of the different segments that make up the print industry have seen growth in packaging and this also applies to the labelling market, with a lot of packaging applications on show at Label Expo. 

  • Label Expo part 2: the sweet spot for inkjet presses

    Label Expo part 2: the sweet spot for inkjet presses

    In the first part of this story we looked at some of the hybrid label solutions. These also happened to be amongst the fastest, leading to the obvious question of what is the sweet spot in terms of speed and resolution. So for this story I’m going to look at some of the other inkjet…

  • Canon teases aqueous label and production presses

    Canon teases aqueous label and production presses

    Canon is planning to use its upcoming Canon Expo in Yokohama, Japan this month to show off two new inkjet presses: a new label press, the LabelStream LS2000; and a production printer, the VarioPrint iX1700.

  • Gallus gambles on inkjet

    Gallus gambles on inkjet

    I took the opportunity at last month’s European Label Expo to catch up with Gallus, having not met anyone from Gallus since before the pandemic. In previous years Gallus would have had a large stand and shown off several of its flexo presses but for this show Gallus opted to just bring the one press,…

  • Ricoh announces C7500 production printer

    Ricoh announces C7500 production printer

    Hard on the heels of the Pro C9500, Ricoh has announced its new mid-volume production printer, the Pro C7500, which is also more of an evolution with broadly similar specifications to the outgoing C7200/x models. 

  • New letterpress plate from Xsys

    New letterpress plate from Xsys

    Xsys has announced a new letterpress plate, the Nyloprint WS Pro Digital, a water-washable, steel-based plate that’s aimed at applications such as printing plastic tubes and cups, as well as metal cans and aerosols.

  • Look back at…September 2023

    Look back at…September 2023

    Britain is quite literally crumbling, thanks to the liberal use of Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete or RaaC in many public buildings such as schools, courts and hospitals.