Digital Printing-Toner - Cut Sheet (Color)

IPG recently visited Canon's impressive 18,000-square-foot Customer Experience Center, in Boca Raton, Fla. for a tour of the facility and a peek at Canon's new monochrome mid-production digital press, the Océ VarioPrint DP 135.

Before adding a digital color press in 2010, Donna Cooper Horbelt says her in-plant at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) was not nearly as busy as she wanted it to be. "I was losing color copy business to everybody in town," recalls the director of Auxiliary Enterprises, Printing and Media Services. "Our quality just wasn't good enough."

Last month, Hewlett-Packard brought more than 100 graphic arts journalists from all over the world to Israel, home of its Indigo and Scitex divisions. Against this fascinating backdrop of history and diversity, HP unveiled 10 new digital systems, hoping to make some history of its own.

Next month, drupa 2012 will take over Düsseldorf, Germany. IPG asks industry observers David Zwang, Jim Hamilton, Noel Ward and Bill Lamparter what they expect to see there.

MGI Digital Graphic Technology will present a prototype of its new B2 (20x29") sheetfed UV inkjet press, the Alphajet, at drupa 2012. Commercial release of the six-color plus spot or flood UV coating machine is planned for 2013.

Hundreds of graphic arts journalists from all over the world converged on Tel Aviv, Israel, in mid March, to attend HP's Pre-drupa 2012 event. HP announced 10 new systems that it will introduce at drupa in May, including one that is reportedly the first offset-quality digital press in a B2 size format (29.5x20.9˝), the HP Indigo 10000.

IPG Editor Bob Neubauer visited the 18,000-square-foot Océ Customer Experience Center to see some of the newest Océ and Canon digital hardware and software systems.

When the Admissions department at Rochester Institute of Technology—the biggest customer of RIT's Print and Postal Hub—turned to Director John Meyer for help with increasing enrollment, he gave the project his full attention. Admissions had set a goal to increase enrollment by 10 percent a year for the next 10 years.

Once their digital color presses are up and running, in-plants often discover a few things they wish they had known ahead of time. We asked four managers to tell us what they learned—and what they wish they had known ahead of time.

Introduced at Graph Expo, the new four-color Meteor DP8700 multi-substrate digital press from MGI Digital Graphic Technology, supports up to a 13x40˝ sheet (13x47˝ with manual bypass) and prints up to 71 ppm (letter-size) with a maximum 3,600 dpi resolution.