Finishing - Digital

With one of the largest displays of feeding and finishing equipment at PRITING United Expo, Standard Finishing Systems will host live demonstrations of die cutting, perfect binding and trimming, slitting and creasing, folding, saddle-stitching, and roll-fed print solutions.

Standard recently held its annual Finishing 360 open house showcasing the latest finishing technology for digital, inkjet, and offset applications. Taking place June 21-22, the company welcomed more than 150 attendees eager to tour the facility, view presses up-close, and talk one-on-one with the Standard team.

Sometimes it’s difficult to get noticed, but as a print service provider, offering finishing services will not only allow you to stand out from the rest, but will make your customers stand out too.

Across the industry, automated contour cutting systems are saving in-plants time and enabling them to produce new types of products.

The Starbook Plowfolder combines unwinding, plowfolding, dynamic cutting, and starwheel book delivery into a solution that produces glued book blocks from four-, six-, or eight-page signatures.

Standard Finishing Systems has announced the dates and location for Finishing 360, an annual event for customers. The event brings print service providers to Standard’s state-of-the-art demonstration center to showcase a comprehensive lineup of the latest Horizon and Hunkeler solutions.

Eliminating bottlenecks in the digital finishing department is a challenge every printer will need to address sooner rather than later. By making the decisions around finishing just as critical as the digital print technologies, half the battle will already be won.

I just returned from Lucerne, Switzerland, where I attended Hunkeler Innovationdays. The international trade show focuses on digital printing and finishing technologies – but the inkjet presses stole the show.

Scodix will showcase its Ultra 6000 press powered by Smart High Definition for the first time in Europe at Hunkeler Innovationdays.

Roland DGA announced the newest addition to Roland DG’s VersaSTUDIO series of desktop devices – the compact and powerful GS2-24 vinyl cutter.