Mondi Coatings and Xeikon teamed up to create a transfer paper solution for Xeikon´s “Digital Decorating System”, providing some flexibility in terms of production runs and graphic designs when combined with Mondi Transferpaper XEIKON 62.
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Mondi will be present at this year’s IPEX fair as a paper sponsor for some of the printing industry’s most recommended OEMs. This year, Mondi has sponsored Xeikon, Konica Minolta, Xerox, and Canon with supplies of Color Copy — the first colour laser paper in the world to be specifically designed for colour laser systems. In addition to Color Copy, Xeikon will also receive IQ premium in 80 gsm — an ideal paper for text and graphics due to its high whiteness. Mondi’s new HP Indigo certified products will also be available for viewing in the paper sample swatch book at the HP stand.
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GMG, a colour management solutions provider, and Roland DG, a lprovider of large format inkjet printers and printer/cutters for professional large format graphics, claim that they now have a global partnership, enabling certain packaging applications such as the production of colour-accurate mockups on original substrates as well as proofing applications.
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KEE consultants are encouraging national federations and the graphic industry as a whole to adopt ISO 12647 standards.
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The Graphic Users Association (GUA) European Conference 2009 is set to provide the perfect tonic to the economic climate by helping print service providers improve efficiency and boost profitability. This year’s event, which is sponsored by Kodak and managed by the GUA Board, will focus on helping businesses streamline their operations to improve their profit margins. The conference is being held in Budapest, Hungary, between September 30 and October 3, 2009. All attendees will have ample opportunity to meet senior Kodak management and technical experts, offering a chance to exchange ideas and influence the KODAK Product road map.
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People tend to think in images rather than in formulas. So it is only logical for the user interface on modern top-class packaging machines to incorporate the type of graphical symbols we are familiar with from our home PC or from photocopiers, for example. Multivac is now implementing this type of graphical design, starting with the new generation of traysealers.
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EskoArtwork is proud to announce that EskoArtwork Neo is the recipient of a 2008 Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF) InterTech™ Technology Award. This is the third year in a row that EskoArtwork products have been recognized: last year Esko DeskPack 3-dX received an InterTech Award, while in 2006 Esko WebCenter received a similar distinction. PIA/GATF sponsors the InterTech Technology Awards as a service to the industry in order to spotlight the wide range of technologies that contribute to the advancement of techniques and processes used in the graphic arts.
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