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FFEI unveils Graphium narrow web digital press

Posted by Print Week News on Aug 2, 2013 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on FFEI unveils Graphium narrow web digital press

The Graphium, which will cost less than £500,000 and be commercially available from October, is to be unveiled next month at Print13 in Chicago and, later in September, Labelexpo in Brussels. The device would “transform” productivity, profitability and the ability for printers and converters to respond to product and market changes, said managing director Andy Cook. The key, he said, was high-opacity white ink and flexibility. “Graphium represents a new generation of digital inkjet press aimed at the narrow-web market – low capital investment, high-quality print, unparalleled productivity and the most versatile range of applications. “Bring all of these factors together and you have a ‘cost-in-use’ that defines Graphium as the most productive, high-opacity digital white press on the market,” he added. The Graphium is targeted at the label, packaging and signage markets, Cook said, and works on virtually all substrates from highly absorbent papers to plastics. It has a maximum print width of 410mm and operates at up to 1,230sqm per hour. It uses Uvijet Graphium UV-curing inks developed by Fujifilm Speciality Ink Systems, with Xaar 1001 printhead technology. Cook added: “The biggest player in the market is HP with the Indigo, but that’s toner based. This is not trying to take them on, it is offering a broader application in terms of what you can print on, how you can print it and what you can do.” Cook explained that the Graphium was based on similar technology to the Caslon, launched by FFEI in partnership with Nilpeter at Drupa five years ago, and still commercially available. But while the Caslon was an add-on to the Nilpeter FA-Line flexo kit, the Graphium was a standalone machine, he said....

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IPIA event to focus on innovation

Posted by Print Week News on Aug 2, 2013 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on IPIA event to focus on innovation

The IPIA said around 80 print buyers and 50 suppliers would attend the ‘Meet the trade buyer, meet the trade supplier’ day at St George’s Park in Burton-upon-Trent on 3 October. The annual event aims to help trade suppliers and buyers establish new business relationships and encourage dialogue. IPIA chief executive Andrew Pearce said suppliers would range from 3D printers and cross-media specialists to paper merchants, traditional printers, direct mail providers and equipment suppliers. “The emphasis is on innovations in print, media and marketing. From a supplier perspective how many days in the year can you make one journey and meet over 12 key prospects? “From a buyer perspective it is an excellent way of spending a day focused on meeting new suppliers and catching up with the latest innovations,” he added. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge officially opened St George’s Park in October 2012. Last year’s event at Leicester Tigers Rugby Club attracted over 50 buyers and 30 trade suppliers. To register email info@ipia.org.uk...

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IPIA event to focus on innovation

Posted by Print Week News on Aug 2, 2013 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on IPIA event to focus on innovation

The IPIA said around 80 print buyers and 50 suppliers would attend the ‘Meet the trade buyer, meet the trade supplier’ day at St George’s Park in Burton-upon-Trent on 3 October. The annual event aims to help trade suppliers and buyers establish new business relationships and encourage dialogue. IPIA chief executive Andrew Pearce said suppliers would range from 3D printers and cross-media specialists to paper merchants, traditional printers, direct mail providers and equipment suppliers. “The emphasis is on innovations in print, media and marketing. From a supplier perspective how many days in the year can you make one journey and meet over 12 key prospects? “From a buyer perspective it is an excellent way of spending a day focused on meeting new suppliers and catching up with the latest innovations,” he added. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge officially opened St George’s Park in October 2012. Last year’s event at Leicester Tigers Rugby Club attracted over 50 buyers and 30 trade suppliers. To register email info@ipia.org.uk...

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York Mailing ‘poised to buy web offset printer’

Posted by Print Week News on Aug 1, 2013 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on York Mailing ‘poised to buy web offset printer’

The York-headquartered business has been linked with a bid for Leicester’s Artisan Press, the family-owned web offset printer. York gained a £10m war chest through the recent deal with the Business Growth Fund, with the money earmarked for expansion at the £75m group. At the time chief executive Chris Ingram said he was looking at “one or two acquisitions.’ Regarding this week’s Artisan speculation, Ingram told PrintWeek he had “no comment to make at this time.” Artisan directors Jonathan Sankey and Stephen Denbigh were also unavailable for comment. Industry sources have suggested that a deal has been agreed between the two parties. Artisan runs six web offset presses and has significant binding capacity with four large Muller Martini Corona lines. The firm is known for its production of high-quality catalogues. The £37.4m company made a loss of £395k last year. York Mailing moved into the high-end catalogue space when it acquired Pindar’s Scarborough web offset business out of administration in 2011. “From a customer’s perspective if you wanted a high-quality catalogue you would be likely to place it at Pindar or Artisan. York could establish a market-leading position in that quality niche,” commented a source in the web offset sector. York has also been linked with a potential bid for Lettershop Group in Leeds....

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York Mailing ‘poised to buy web offset printer’

Posted by Print Week News on Aug 1, 2013 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on York Mailing ‘poised to buy web offset printer’

The York-headquartered business has been linked with a bid for Leicester’s Artisan Press, the family-owned web offset printer. York gained a £10m war chest through the recent deal with the Business Growth Fund, with the money earmarked for expansion at the £75m group. At the time chief executive Chris Ingram said he was looking at “one or two acquisitions.’ Regarding this week’s Artisan speculation, Ingram told PrintWeek he had “no comment to make at this time.” Artisan directors Jonathan Sankey and Stephen Denbigh were also unavailable for comment. Industry sources have suggested that a deal has been agreed between the two parties. Artisan runs six web offset presses and has significant binding capacity with four large Muller Martini Corona lines. The firm is known for its production of high-quality catalogues. The £37.4m company made a loss of £395k last year. York Mailing moved into the high-end catalogue space when it acquired Pindar’s Scarborough web offset business out of administration in 2011. “From a customer’s perspective if you wanted a high-quality catalogue you would be likely to place it at Pindar or Artisan. York could establish a market-leading position in that quality niche,” commented a source in the web offset sector. York has also been linked with a potential bid for Lettershop Group in Leeds....

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York Mailing ‘poised to buy web offset printer’

Posted by Print Week News on Aug 1, 2013 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on York Mailing ‘poised to buy web offset printer’

The York-headquartered business has been linked with a bid for Leicester’s Artisan Press, the family-owned web offset printer. York gained a £10m war chest through the recent deal with the Business Growth Fund, with the money earmarked for expansion at the £75m group. At the time chief executive Chris Ingram said he was looking at “one or two acquisitions.’ Regarding this week’s Artisan speculation, Ingram told PrintWeek he had “no comment to make at this time.” Artisan directors Jonathan Sankey and Stephen Denbigh were also unavailable for comment. Industry sources have suggested that a deal has been agreed between the two parties. Artisan runs six web offset presses and has significant binding capacity with four large Muller Martini Corona lines. The firm is known for its production of high-quality catalogues. The £37.4m company made a loss of £395k last year. York Mailing moved into the high-end catalogue space when it acquired Pindar’s Scarborough web offset business out of administration in 2011. “From a customer’s perspective if you wanted a high-quality catalogue you would be likely to place it at Pindar or Artisan. York could establish a market-leading position in that quality niche,” commented a source in the web offset sector. York has also been linked with a potential bid for Lettershop Group in Leeds....

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Buoyant Communisis makes profitable progress

Posted by Print Week News on Aug 1, 2013 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Buoyant Communisis makes profitable progress

Sales in the six months to 30 June rose 8% to £121.2m. The group’s share price hit a new 52-week high of 68p just prior to the announcement. At the beginning of the year Communisis won a nine-year deal with Nationwide, and three weeks ago the company announced a huge ten-year outsourcing deal with Lloyds Banking Group for transactional print. Communisis has also revealed that it has extended its outsourcing contract with FMCG giant P&G to a further ten countries across Europe, taking it to 15 in total. Chief executive Andy Blundell said: “It’s been a successful period for us with the new contract wins, and we are further ahead in terms of overseas expansion than envisaged.” Overseas sales currently account for 13% of turnover, up from 5% last year. Blundell said the group was likely to better its target of increasing that to 20% by 2015. “We could well do it sooner than that. It’s not a cap, it’s a target.” He highlighted a “flight to scale” by some clients: “If companies are considering outsourcing of mission-critical services they are going to do it with a company of scale, like Communisis, that has the resources, processes and standards in place to handle it,” Blundell said. “You have to be credible to take on this scale of work.” The group raised its interim divided by 9% to 0.6p. “That’s a key investor point and important when investors are looking at SmallCap stocks like us,” Blundell added. There was further good news from the group as analysts upgraded their profit forecasts for 2014 and 2015. Communisis has also agreed a new £60m banking facility, adding RBS to its existing banking syndicate of Barclays, Lloyds TSB and HSBC. “Favourable market conditions led us to renegotiate our facilities early, and we had strong interest from new banks, which shows a lot of confidence in our strategy,” said finance director Nigel Howes. “The new facility runs to March 2018 on better terms, with easier covenants. It’s very positive and we’ve very pleased to put that into place. It means we can take advantage of growth opportunities,” Howes added. Blundell said Communisis remained acquisitive, with “a strong pipeline” of potential opportunities. The operating profit figure was prior to £2.1m of exceptional costs, including costs associated with relocating its cheque printing operations from Manchester to Leeds, and rationalising the direct mail facility at Leeds. A further £1.4m costs associated with the restructuring is expected in H2. The bottom line post-tax profit was £1m (2012: £1.5m), after exceptionals and costs associated with its recent £20m rights issue. Communisis has also changed the way it reports its operations, to “better align with the group’s strategic direction”. Instead of intelligence driven communications (IDC) and specialist production and sourcing SPS it has now adopted three operational segments: design, produce and deploy. Communisis shares had slipped to 64p in trading this morning. The 52-week low was 29.19p....

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Buoyant Communisis makes profitable progress

Posted by Print Week News on Aug 1, 2013 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Buoyant Communisis makes profitable progress

Sales in the six months to 30 June rose 8% to £121.2m. The group’s share price hit a new 52-week high of 68p just prior to the announcement. At the beginning of the year Communisis won a nine-year deal with Nationwide, and three weeks ago the company announced a huge ten-year outsourcing deal with Lloyds Banking Group for transactional print. Communisis has also revealed that it has extended its outsourcing contract with FMCG giant P&G to a further ten countries across Europe, taking it to 15 in total. Chief executive Andy Blundell said: “It’s been a successful period for us with the new contract wins, and we are further ahead in terms of overseas expansion than envisaged.” Overseas sales currently account for 13% of turnover, up from 5% last year. Blundell said the group was likely to better its target of increasing that to 20% by 2015. “We could well do it sooner than that. It’s not a cap, it’s a target.” He highlighted a “flight to scale” by some clients: “If companies are considering outsourcing of mission-critical services they are going to do it with a company of scale, like Communisis, that has the resources, processes and standards in place to handle it,” Blundell said. “You have to be credible to take on this scale of work.” The group raised its interim divided by 9% to 0.6p. “That’s a key investor point and important when investors are looking at SmallCap stocks like us,” Blundell added. There was further good news from the group as analysts upgraded their profit forecasts for 2014 and 2015. Communisis has also agreed a new £60m banking facility, adding RBS to its existing banking syndicate of Barclays, Lloyds TSB and HSBC. “Favourable market conditions led us to renegotiate our facilities early, and we had strong interest from new banks, which shows a lot of confidence in our strategy,” said finance director Nigel Howes. “The new facility runs to March 2018 on better terms, with easier covenants. It’s very positive and we’ve very pleased to put that into place. It means we can take advantage of growth opportunities,” Howes added. Blundell said Communisis remained acquisitive, with “a strong pipeline” of potential opportunities. The operating profit figure was prior to £2.1m of exceptional costs, including costs associated with relocating its cheque printing operations from Manchester to Leeds, and rationalising the direct mail facility at Leeds. A further £1.4m costs associated with the restructuring is expected in H2. The bottom line post-tax profit was £1m (2012: £1.5m), after exceptionals and costs associated with its recent £20m rights issue. Communisis has also changed the way it reports its operations, to “better align with the group’s strategic direction”. Instead of intelligence driven communications (IDC) and specialist production and sourcing SPS it has now adopted three operational segments: design, produce and deploy. Communisis shares had slipped to 64p in trading this morning. The 52-week low was 29.19p....

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Global Graphics unveils Host Renderer 4

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Version 4 of its Harlequin RIP, designed for high-speed digital printers, has added colour tools including calibration support and Harlequin SetGold, which pre-sets the grey balance and ink limiting ahead of colour profiling, reducing variation that occurs over time and between presses. According to the developer, Version 4 is able to produce pre-compressed, unscreened output in 10- and 12-bit depths, minimising artefacts when final calibration is carried out post-RIP. Additionally calibration information can now be installed by providing data in a range of measurement systems; press vendors no longer need to pre-compute compensation curves. Global Graphics chief technical officer Martin Bailey said: “Version 4 drives down Digital Front End costs because it boosts the performance the processors can achieve. It also extends the infrastructure around high-quality colour management within the RIP to make it even easier to meet your requirements for colour-matching and maximising gamut while limiting ink usage.” He added: “This takes quite a chunk of work and cost out of integration for the press vendors. And in many cases for the end-user it is going to make the calibration easier for them too, with more accurate results. “We try to respond to both our direct OEMs and our end-users. We are continually told that the two key areas for digital production, where some of our competitors come up short, are around repeatability and screening. These upgrades are seeding in to those spaces.” The upgrade has been shipped to OEMs with release dependent on individual vendors. The company said that speed tests last year showed that Harlequin Host Renderer delivered pages “far in excess” of the industry’s highest performing digital presses. The RIP includes Harlequin Varidata, which accelerates the processing time of PDF/VT files as well as regular PDF files containing variable data. Digital presses currently driven by Harlequin Host Renderer include HP’s Indigo range and T-series high-speed web presses, as well as presses from SIS, TKS and Miyakoshi....

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The Sun goes cross media with huge hybrid inkjet install

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The installation involves 22 Kodak Prosper S30 heads, which will be used to print unique numeric codes and QR codes in the newspaper. This will allow purchasers of the printed newspaper to access the same exclusive online, mobile and tablet content available to those who pay a £2 a week online subscription fee for the new Sun+ packages. News UK (formerly News International) said loyal Sun readers would enjoy Sun+ benefits thanks to the new technology, and described the move as “unlocking this new world of digital entertainment for both our print and digital customers”. The implementation from conception to go live has taken place in a compressed timeframe of just three months. Newsprinters Broxbourne operations director Steve Whitehead told PrintWeek it was an “outstanding collaboration”. “Our own local engineering and operations teams, fabrication suppliers, Kodak, editorial, production planning and technology department have all worked together on this,” he said. “Coordinating such a project on such a scale in the timeframe has been very exciting. It is another clear sign of our commitment to print and digital.” The Prosper S30 heads have been fitted to the 19 Manroland presses at Newsprinters’ three print sites at Broxbourne, Eurocentral and Knowsley. A further three heads have been installed on the presses at contract print partners the Belfast Telegraph in Northern Ireland and Kells in the Republic of Ireland. The total spend on the project has not been disclosed. The monochrome heads have been fitted onto adjustable rails, giving Newsprinters flexibility about where the variable content can appear on-page. They have a 600x200dpi resolution and 10.6cm print width, and can produce codes and mono halftones at 900 metres per minute matching Newsprinters’ full press speed of 86,000 copies per hour. Around 2.3m copies of The Sun are sold Monday to Saturday, and 1.9m on Sundays according to the latest ABC circulation figures. “We’ve created a number of templates where the code position can change, so we have various options in terms of paginations and impositions,” Whitehead added. Philip Cullimore, Kodak managing director of consumer and commercial businesses in EAMER, described the application as “variable data printing at its very best”. The Sun officially launched the packages with a special cover wrap on the newspaper today (1 August). Codes will first appear in The Sun on Sunday this weekend, and then every day onwards. Following an initial promotion period, readers who collect 20 codes each month will receive ongoing access to The Sun‘s digital content and perks package. A key aspect of the digital entertainment package is Sun+Goals, with ‘near live’ video clips of Barclays Premier League goals, ready for the new season. Germany’s Axel Springer has already implemented a similar hybrid printing system using Kodak heads across its print sites....

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