Digital Printing-Wide Format - Flatbed

Xanté will launch a new 48″ roll-fed attachment and multi-use cutter for its X-55 and X-98 UV flatbed printers, allowing Xanté customers without UV roll systems to gain that flexibility.

Technology developers throughout the wide-format value chain have signed on as sponsors of the third annual Wide-format Summit, being held July 24-26 at the PGA National Resort in West Palm Beach, Florida.

It's been a busy spring. After returning from Switzerland for Hunkeler Innovationdays, I traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska, for my 26th Associa­tion of College and University Printers conference where I spent four days catching up with old and new in-plant friends.

Roland DGA has launched its new VersaOBJECT CO Series inkjet printers which include advanced flatbed and belt-driven UV printers. The new presses, which are the first in an innovative line of UV-LED devices, print directly on a vast array of substrates and three-dimensional items.

Mesa Public Schools Printing & Design recently upgraded its operation with Canon imagePRESS C10010VP and C910 digital color presses, a Canon VarioPRINT 130, and flatbed and roll-fed wide-format printers. Supervisor Joseph Barz discusses the benefits of this new technology. 

When Joseph Barz stepped into his new job as supervisor of Printing & Design at Mesa Public Schools 15 months ago, he took a close look at the work being produced by the seven-employee in-plant, noted the dwindling demand for some of it, and decided to revamp.

Fayetteville State University’s in-plant has done it again. A year after giving a graphics facelift to the university’s library, the three-employee in-plant has decorated the bland cinderblock walls of the school’s aquatic center in FSU colors and logos.

For bluemedia, the return of Super Bowl 57 to Phoenix, Arizona was something of a homecoming. Not only is the company based in the city, but their first Super Bowl was 49 — also held in Phoenix. The return to their home town brought both benefits, and a host of new challenges.

Wide-format printing has taken off at the University of New Hampshire and now accounts for more than a quarter of the in-plant’s revenue.

Success in the market now depends on delivering a value proposition to customers that is more meaningful than just owning a wide-format printing device.