Exhibitors Provide PRINT 09 Sneak Peek

Roughly 50 trade journalists, consultants and analysts converged on Chicago's Sheraton Hotel & Towers Tuesday and Wednesday for PRINT 09 Media Days, a preshow glimpse of the technologies that will be on exhibit at PRINT 09. The Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC), which manages the event, was among 14 exhibitors that provided presentations in advance of PRINT 09, which kicks off Sept. 11 at McCormick Place and runs through Sept. 16.

The participating exhibitors were Kodak, Presstek, Ricoh, EFI, The Print Council, MGI, Dims!, GASC, Xerox, Henkel, Riso, Lake Image Systems, Konica Minolta and manroland. Among the new products to be unveiled at PRINT 09 were a new digital offset press with an integrated aqueous coater from Presstek, Riso's ComColor series of full-color ink-jet printer/MFPs, and Kodak's new NexPress SE3600 Digital Production Color Press, printing 120 ppm.