By Roberto Mercati
Meet José Antonio Larroy, owner of GraficaZ, a family-owned company specializing in printing self-adhesive and shrink labels in Zaragoza, Spain, and his daughter Jessica who with two assistant engineers from the Italian company Lombardi Ltd. in Brescia are carrying out the final inspection on the 8-color flexographic rotary Synchroline before shipment.
In November, together with its Saudi Arabian representation Alkhorayef Printing Solutions, MBO organized a special event in Riyadh. Around 50 invited guests, all of them executives, decision makers or owners of large print shops and binderies from across the country were invited to the famous Hotel Rosewood for the presentation of MBO's current product range followed by a gala dinner. Frank Eckert, CEO MBO group, and Sheikh Bandar Alkhorayef, owner of the eponymous MBO representation in Saudi Arabia, guided the honoured guests through the evening.
The latest digital colour press by Fuji Xerox also had one signing on the first day of the Asian tradeshow. Christel Lee from Print World Asia reports.
Ramallah Modern Press also invested in a Polar cutting machine
Ramallah Modern Press (RMP) in West Bank recently invested in an all new two colour Heidelberg Speedmaster 52 from Heidelberg plus a Polar cutting machine. The company behind the deal is Heidelberg Jordan Printing Development Co.
By Sabine A. Slaughter
Just a few days ago, a diploma project from a Japanese student, Yugi Mamamoto came to our attention: An inkjet printer that instead of transporting paper from one side to the other "eats" itself through a pile of paper, simply being called "stack".
By Frazer Chesterman
Innovative ink enables outstanding and eyecatching packaging
I recently travelled to the southern Germany to visit a couple of clients for Inprint 2014 and to attend the LopeC Organic and Printed Electronics event in Munich. I was particularly inspired by a couple of very interesting Industrial Ink initiatives which 'caught my eye' and I wanted to share them with you.
Not a lot seems to be written about it in terms of excitement about screen printing. And that's a shame, because the sector is brimming with exciting developments.
Six-figure-quantity direct mailers seem unwise. Junia Phua, Managing Director of award-winning Generic Print based in Singapore, shares with Christel Lee of Print World Asia how to focus on achieving a higher hit rate with a lesser print run.
The L Series 801 print solution features industry-leading cost of ownership and a high-impact, full-color output at 60ft./miute, 8.5″ width, and 1600 dpi resolution. The L-801 printer is an industrial web-fed inkjet solution, which is ideal for short to mid-run inventory and product identificatoin applications. The L-Series is ideally suited for bringing high-resolution, vibrant, full-color label printing to product identification applications at an ultra-low cost-of-ownership. The L-Series has an integrated un-winder, holds 1.25 liters of ink to support large runs and has easy access doors for fast, simple media and ink replacement.
Label printers all around the world are looking for cost-effective short run production of labels. One of the most compelling solutions is the Jetrion 4900 ML label press from EFI.
At the most recent Asian Print Awards, Harsha Paruchuri, Director of Pragati Offset, had his neck strung with multiple medals, plus a crystal trophy from CGS in his hands. He shares his 'royal success' with Christel Lee of Print World Asia.
