Digital Printing-Wide Format - Roll to Roll

Signs By Tomorrow of Plainfield (IL) has produced and installed a 65-foot-long, full-color graphics wrap for Mira, one of the largest and fastest supercomputers in the world. "Signs By Tomorrow has completed highly specialized projects before but this job reflects the pinnacle of technology for our industry, as well as our client's," said Signs By Tomorrow of Plainfield Owner James Murray.

In February, a dozen members of the In-Plant Printing & Mailing Association's Harrisburg chapter got together for a lunch meeting. IPG Editor Bob Neubauer joined them, and talked with managers from The Hershey Co., Messiah College, Wellspan Health and the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.

IPG attends the In-Plant Printing & Mailing Association's Harrisburg chapter meeting, then tours Hershey Printing Services.

Established 90 years ago to fill the educational mission of faculty, staff and students, Iowa State University Printing & Copy Services is constantly breathing new life into its products and services.

Since installing a new 61˝ HP Designjet L26500 wide-format printer in July, Tiger Graphic Services, at the University of Memphis, has more than doubled its growth. While the 11-employee in-plant is still using its nine-year-old HP 5500PSUV printer, Manager Penni Istre says that the new device was necessary to produce the shop’s oversized and corrugated signage work, which makes up about 35 percent of its business.

Agfa Graphics will be hosting a free “Wide-Format Open House” event at its distribution center in Plano, TX, on Sept. 18-20, 2012, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Wide-format inkjet is a fast-growing segment in the printing industry and is helping many printers differentiate themselves by offering new and exciting products and services to their customers that previously were unattainable for most commercial printers.”

The 2011-2012 college basketball season was an exciting time on the campus of Murray State University, in Murray, Ky. The Murray State Racers were the last undefeated Division I team in the nation, and people were beginning to take notice.

Wide format printing has become a big money-maker for Fred Meyer Stores Corporate Print Services, in Portland, Ore. It’s not only allowing the 19-employee in-plant to produce a wider array of signage for the retail supermarket chain, but it has opened doors to business with divisions of the company that did not previously use the in-plant.

A year and a half ago, Shana Farrell, Printing Services and Distance Learning Manager at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wis., organized a recognition event for her staff of six. She invited not only her boss but the college president. There, each employee received individual recognition for his or her hard work and dedication. Afterward, Farrell says, she noticed everyone was working harder and enjoying their jobs more.

Fletcher’s New F-60 is like no other, featuring its unique plastic knife cartridge allowing for quick and safe blade change, its lock down pressure clamp for tightly securing material and its “lock and cut” feature, ideal for any in-house shop for any industry. Cutting a variety of semi-rigid and flexible substrates, the F-60 unit can…