The BIG Show

This year’s “Refresh” themed Graph Expo 16 offers a thrilling show-going experience, covering the lands of print, online, and mobile for equipment, products, and services for 12 key market segments, including wide-format inkjet printing, package printing and converting, commercial printing, mailing and fulfillment, corporate/education/government printing centers/in-plant, manufacturing/industrial printing, transactional printing, quick/small commercial printing, book printing/publishing, newspaper printing/publishing, photo imaging, and marketing/creative services/media/print buying.

Educational Opportunities

Graph Expo’s extensive educational program will begin before the show even starts with the Executive Outlook Conference “Finding New Markets” from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon on Sunday, September 25. The fast-paced annual technology and marketing trends update event blends up-to-the-minute economic and marketing information, technological reports, plus print trends and forecasts, giving show visitors new insight and perspective before attending the show.

For those looking for new business building strategies, the four-hour conference will feature the keynote presentation “Winning the Omni-Channel Challenge: Inside Westamerica’s Journey” with Doug Grant, president of Westamerica Communications. It will also include the announcement of the 2016 MUST SEE ‘EMS “Best of Category” recipients for the most fascinating exhibits and products on the show floor. Also, the 2016 Positively Print Award will be announced for the top promotional campaign that most creatively promotes the effectiveness, sustainability, and enduring power of print in their communications.

Furthermore, Expo attendees will have the chance to explore more than 40 seminars, lab sessions, and workshops where they will learn from experts in the industry and gain knowledge that can be put to use immediately. These seminars, created by industry experts, will provide the market forecasts and practical information on key technologies, essential business strategies, and the action-oriented solutions needed to become more profitable.

The seminars are broken down into four key focus areas. In How to Increase Your Sales, attendees will hear about winning strategies from seasoned industry sales professionals, real case studies, and new solutions for sales growth in seminars like “Print Selling Savvy: Game-Changer Ways to ADAPT and WIN”,   “Secrets to Social Media Generated Sales”, and “Next Level Sales Success: Traditional Print + Digital Marketing Solutions.” During Adapting Your Business to the Newest Technology and Trends, attendees will learn the latest industry trends, forecasts, technology, and how to stay competitive now, in seminar sessions like “Curtain Up: Intro to the NEW Print Industry”, “ Emerging Technology: Inkjet 2016 Style”, and “Drupa Insight: New Trends for Printers as Manufacturers”. Within the Growth Strategies and New Business Opportunities segment, those present will hear about ways to acquire and implement new business growth strategies and how to stay relevant through real world examples, in seminar sessions like “What’s Your Uber? Secrets to Breakout Company Success in Today’s Evolving Print Industry”, “How We Profitably Grew Our Commercial Printing Business by Adding Wide Format Printing & Finishing Capabilities”, and “The A to Z Guide for Starting Your 3D Printing Operation”.  And, finally, within Managing Costs & Improving Efficiencies, attendees will learn new keys to success—from millennial management, lean methodology, building a skilled staff, to succession planning—and valuation tactics for buying or selling a print business, in seminar sessions like “Printing By-The-Numbers: Lean/Six Sigma Methodology & Metrics”, “Today's Print Shop: How Millennial Management is UP-ing the Game”, and “SUPERCHARGE Your Old Press: How to Gain LESS Make Ready and MORE Quality/Speed”.

For seminar descriptions, pricing, and sessions by track visit: http://graphexpo.com/SessionsEvents/SeminarProgram.aspx

The Printerverse

Print Media Centr will bring back the Printerverse at Graph Expo 16, where attendees will discover a unique show floor experience designed to help them connect to the hot topics, latest trends, and people who are driving the print and marketing industries forward. Located in Booth 701, this year’s Printerverse will offer attendees an eclectic mix of learning opportunities including panel discussions, case study presentations, and daily morning briefings from the Intergalactic Alliance on the industry and their offerings at the show.

Programming in the Printerverse will showcase a range of topics that are relevant to attendees and viewers of daily livestream broadcasts. The Printerverse provides an open forum for attendees to engage in the conversations about the future of the industry.

A highlight of show week, the Printerverse will also host the 5th Annual National Girls Who Print (GWP) Day on Tuesday, September 27, with GWP luminary Mary Beth Smith. The festivities will kick off at 12:00 noon with the presentation of the 3rd Annual Girlie Award and be immediately followed by the Mentorship Panel.

Show Stoppers

The massive show floor of 400-plus exhibitors at Graph Expo 16 will be overflowing with thousands of the most cutting-edge and groundbreaking products for all aspects of the graphic communications industry, allowing attendees to see, touch and experience these products live. Use this guide to help you plan your time, which highlights just a sampling of what you can expect to see at the Orange County Convention Center September 23 – 28 in Orlando, FL.

Xerox—Booth 570
To make production inkjet presses more accessible and affordable, Xerox’s new Brenva HD Production Inkjet Press combines the cost effectiveness of inkjet with the flexibilities of a cut-sheet platform for print providers in light direct mail, transactional, and book markets. Incorporating many of the proven paper-path components of the Xerox iGen, the Xerox Brenva HD offers best-in-class automation and reliability to maximize press productivity. Advanced features include an inline spectrophotometer to assist with calibration and automated profiling, object-oriented color management to distinguish text, graphics, and images that optimize the quality of each accordingly, and a K-only mode for cost effective monochrome printing.

Solimar GE—Booth 841
Chemistry, Solimar’s Customer Communications Management Platform, provides a customizable web dashboard and enterprise workflow tools that blend Solimar technologies with third party applications, enabling organizations to achieve visibility, accessibility, and mobility into their all operations. Need to know exactly what is happening on the production floor? Are you ready for a real-time view of all your jobs and operations? The Chemistry Enterprise production web dashboard is customizable, modular, and integrates all Solimar solutions and many industry-leading technologies providing workflow visibility and a centralized view that increases productivity while lowering IT costs.

Bell and Howell LLC—Booth 849
Bell and Howell will feature its Producer Series inserting solution configured for direct mail applications. Designed for operational simplicity, high performance, and reliability, it combines high-speed inserting with flexible support for flats and folded pieces.
Features include both rotary and friction feeders for variable insert accommodation, camera-based matching and tracking for mail piece accuracy, bulk envelope loader for operator convenience, dynamically read and print addresses and personalized messages, and high-capacity output conveyor with easy mail tray loading.

Magnum Magnetics—Booth 919
Magnum Magnetics is showcasing its DigiMaxx superwide printable magnetic media. It is designed for super-wide signage and graphics applications. DigiMaxx is made in the USA, meaning excellent lead times, outstanding product quality, and unparalleled customer service. Available in stock 25-foot and 50-foot long rolls in widths of 400 inches and 48 inches. Custom material made to order is delivered in days, not months.

Pineberry Manufacturing, Inc.—Booth 969
Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. will feature its Pineberry CA 10000 Affixing System, which has a placement tolerance of 0.1 millimeter. Integrated with Pineberry Friction Feeders and a vacuum conveyor line, automated affixing systems will stick, glue, or attach product to a carrier. Applications such as gluing gift cards, magnets, coupons, and pharmaceutical onserts/inserts for complex full mailing and fulfillment solutions can be done utilizing this system. It is custom designed with options including inkjet and thermal printing, in-line card/carrier personalization, camera matching and inspection, plow folding/buckle folding/document opening, security sealing, weighing and tracking, magnetic stripe encoding, and much more.

Oki Data Americas, Inc.—Booth 1001
The OKI C942 delivers five-color printing capabilities at a fraction of the price of competing devices. With output speeds up to 50 pages per minute, the C942 applies crisp white and full color-on-color print to a range of media in a single pass. Intrinsic in its design is the small footprint, ease of use, and ability to quickly and easily carry out maintenance tasks to ensure only the most consistent high quality image prints are produced.

Challenge Machinery—Booth 1025
The Challenge Machinery Company is introducing the new CMT 330TC Three-Knife Book Trimmer, capable of trimming landscape formatted perfect bound books such as photo albums. Its large color touch screen interface, integrated bar code reader, and integrated in-line and off-line book feeding components, make the CMT 330TC trimmer the perfect fully automatic book trimmer.

Baumer hhs—Booth 1026
Baumer hhs will highlight its new Xtend3 system, which launched at drupa 2016. The latest evolution of its Xtend series of controllers, the Xtend3 features multi-touch technology for the most modern and user-friendly interface available in the market. It automatically detects and communicates with the components connected to it, greatly simplifying setup. A comprehensive range of statistics is collected for analysis, and networking the system allows remote troubleshooting. With its intuitive functions and embedded help videos, the system enables an operator to master it with ease.

Scodix—Booth 1037
Scodix Foil Station is an optional module that runs in line with the Scodix Ultra Pro Digital Press, delivering unmatched foil enhancement capabilities, including high gloss, embossed, and a variety of densities for short to medium runs, using a highly-advanced, highly-efficient digital process. Scodix Foil is ideal for commercial printers, coping with short to medium runs. Scodix Foil deploys a wide range of hot and cold industry standard foil films, coupled with a variety of substrates, including offset, digital, plastics, laminated/non-laminated, and coated/without coating applications, including business/greeting cards, folders, book covers, brochures, labels, packaging, and more.

Profold—Booth 1078
The Profold Hurricane Feeder/Selective Accumulator Folder surpasses any previous or current predecessors, with its ease of setup and no adjustment needed for feeding of one-12 sheets in letter fold, and one-20 sheets in half fold. The intelligent reading capabilities of the popular intelligent codes, OMR, 3 of 9, 2D, 128 and more. Profold is offering VIP tours of its Sebastian Fl facility Saturday, September 24, to see the Hurricane ramping up the IQ of a Bell and Howell Mailstar 400 VIP, along with most of its other American-made product line.

KIP America—Booth 1137
The KIP 860 is a two-roll color print system with integrated CIS scanner that is ideal for environments that require convenient multi-function productivity with a single footprint space-saving design. KIP 860 systems provide extraordinary print quality and performance for wide-format printing of technical and business graphics at 600x2400 dpi print resolution with consistent productivity of 2,880 sqft, in either color or black and white. System workflow provides print control for production environments from a range of print submission applications, cloud printing, scan and copy, variable data printing and full- integrated stacking and folding.

Lake Image—Booth 1169
Discovery Roll Inspector from Lake Image is a new in-line, 100 percent print quality inspection system, ideally suited for laser and inkjet web printing systems. Discovery Roll Inspector ensures that all print meets the highest quality and accuracy standards required by demanding clients. Roll Inspector performs complex inspection analysis for applications with no set, recurring, or predictable formats and using conditional processing, multiple jobs can be run continuously, one after another, without stopping the printer or any operator interactions, significantly increasing productivity. Discovery Roll Inspector includes a self-contained module with a PC controller, monitors, cameras, and lighting – all within a footprint of about four feet.

Peachtree Data, Inc.—Booth 1176
Since 1994, Peachtree Data has grown to become a leader in the data processing sector of the direct marketing industry. The company specializes in mailing list cleaning and appending. Services include NCOALink, PCOA, LACS, DSF2, AEC, deceased coding, merge/purge, postal presort, telephone appending, demographic appending, email appending, and much more.

CustomUSB—Booth 1178
CustomUSB.com Direct Mail Solutions are an engagement tool that features an integrated tear-off USB drive that your prospects can plug into their computer allowing you to deliver marketing and promotional files, launch webpages, and drive interaction. Choose our Smart Business Cards if you want to share content with prospective clients. Select Smart Postcards for an effective method of mailing printed and digital data to anyone anywhere. Our Smart Flyers are ideal for companies who value the importance of technology and actual customer engagement. Need to deliver digital information along with your retail product? Then Smart Packaging could be the answer.

Riso—Booth 1248
The Riso ComColor GD Series high-speed, full-color inkjet printer delivers up to 160 pages per minute A3/Ledger with 600 dpi resolution for black and 300 dpi for color. The machine comes with an embedded GDI, or an optional production RIP equipped with a Fiery digital front end developed by EFI, to deliver high-speed data processing to large-volume, complex document data. Newly-formulated ink offers high density black and vibrant colors.

Thiele Technologies—Booth 1261
Thiele Technologies will be introducing the all-new AT-72 Card Attacher from its Sure-Feed Product Line. Attach products such as embossed cards, business cards, magnets, and more at speeds up to 20,000 mail pieces per hour with precision within +/- 1/8-inch of tolerance area. AT systems featuring FeedMax “S” High-Capacity Feeders, are quick to set up and run and easy to operate. An operator friendly user interface, the integrated Nordson Hot Glue System, and application changeover in 15 minutes or less lets you sustain a competitive advantage when offering your customers new services.

W+D North America—Booth 1271
Responding to the need to compress the total work flow to speed-up the time to market, reduce waste and complexity, as well as give direct mail envelopes new and more creative finishing options, W+D North America will introduce a revolutionary new approach for commercial printers, envelope converters, and mailing houses, to quickly and simply convert offset or digital printed rectangular sheets or webs into finished direct mail envelopes. Capable of producing 30,000 finished 10-pound envelopes per hour, the W+D 410 can do a compete job changeover in less than 30 minutes and be run by one operator with no previous special envelope converting skills.

Standard Finishing Systems—Booth 1548
The Standard Horizon SmartSlitter is an all-in-one smart sheet processing system that can slit, gutter cut, edge trim, cross-cut, perforate, and crease all in one pass. The skip perforation feature can produce T and L perfs ideal for coupons, tickets, and business reply cards. The system is also capable of both matrix and rotary creasing, and for accordion fold applications or perfect bound books, up and down creasing can be performed in one pass. Print mark registration adjusts for image shift from sheet to sheet. The color touchscreen features a simple user interface for easy operation, including job setup via barcode.

XMPie—Booth 1625
XMPie’s Campaigns-on-Demand makes multichannel campaigns easily accessible for customization, personalization, use and reuse through self-service, ecommerce storefronts. The new feature gives franchisees or branches the ability to create and deliver innovative, multichannel campaigns that would be difficult for them to create from scratch. They can now offer branded multichannel campaign flow patterns that include touch-points of various media and build campaigns using web, email or mobile development. The end user can select, customize, order, execute, and track each campaign directly from the web-to-print storefront. Users can view real-time campaign analytics and download up-to-date customer data, all in a self-serve manner.

Kirk-Rudy, Inc.—Booth 1771
The KolorJet is Kirk-Rudy’s premier high-speed color inkjet printing system. It is engineered to print envelopes, direct mail, and transactional pieces with outstanding four-color quality at incredible speeds. A box of 10-pound envelopes can be printed in one minute at 600 dpi. Kirk-Rudy’s XJet user interface software makes the KolorJet easy to use and operate with the flexibility to add new features. Auto-servicing print heads minimize down time and ensure consistent, reliable operation.

HP—Booth 1825
The 29-inch, seven-color HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press provides general commercial printers a new benchmark in print quality and compatibility with synthetic materials as well as canvas, metalized, and colored substrates that extend unique, high-value B2-format application opportunities. Printing at speeds up to 4,600 B2-color sheets per hour, the HP Indigo 12000 also features increased automation and productivity, allowing users to process thousands of jobs per day.

Document Data Solutions, LLC—Booth 1861
Document Data Solutions presents the iDataPrint Family of Hybrid Inkjet Printers for cut-sheet and roll-fed/web applications featuring the DDS Universal Controller, which is capable of interfacing with numerous printhead technologies. These systems are capable of producing ultra-high quality variable monochrome and CMYK color print at speeds up to 800fpm with very competitive running costs. The space-saving design incorporates the print server, user interface, bulk ink supply, as well as power and network connections, into one compact, easy to maneuver cabinet.

Avanti—Booth 1879
Avanti unveils its latest version of Avanti Slingshot, the only JDF-certified, cloud-based Print MIS in the market today and the industry’s first Print MIS to provide seamless integration with HP PrintOS. Avanti Slingshot’s new Point-of-Sale module enables users to spend more time servicing their customers and less time reconciling transactions with fast order entry, invoice generation, and real-time, point-of-sale reporting.

Ricoh—Booth 2035
Ricoh America’s Corp. is showcasing the Ricoh Pro C7110X high speed, five-color production class digital printer that prints at speeds up to 90 ppm based upon A4 and at 1200x4800dpi, delivering VCSEL image quality on a broad range of media. It has the ability to add either clear or white as a fifth color option, allowing for near offset image quality on oversized media, window clings, VDP, POP displays, and custom materials, opening up new market and revenue opportunities for small and mid-sized printers.

Rochester Software Associates—Booth 2067
Rochester Software Associates will be showing its ReadyPrint 2.0 universal prepress suite. ReadyPrint offers prepress functionality for every production digital device in an in-plant or commercial print shop, regardless of brand. The suite includes make ready, prepress automation, a multiple document assembly tool, and simple PDF submission with job ticketing. Benefits include improved workflow productivity, standardization on one application for all device¬¬s, simplified job ticketing, increased flexibility, accelerated turnaround, and improved web to print and job management workflows with seamless integration with RSA’s WebCRD and QDirect.

Compart—Booth 2073
Compart will be showcasing its Compart DocBridge suite. Regulatory compliance is driving organizations to convert print files to PDF/ua for universal accessibility and HTML5 to render the information in other media, such as mobile phones, tablets, and web browsers. Compart DocBridge transforms print streams to pure information that allows the device used by the consumer to decide how it should look.

ProImage America, Inc.—Booth 2173
NewsWay-X is ProImage’s scalable production workflow solution. It supports latest operating systems and because it’s based on HTML5, it supports all mainstream browsers. The Java-free browser client provides full access to the system and the integrated interface enables all departments to track and manage production. The users, based on privileges, can view production progress, workflow steps, pages, plates, and perform a variety of operations needed to manage production. The system provides integrated production planning and imposition tools. With its new easy-to-use interface, staff does not require lengthy training sessions to learn the software.

Techkon USA—Booth 2175
SpectroDENS is a handheld and scanning spectral densitometer that gives press operators a fast and convenient way to control print color and density. It features a unique, patented design, making it the most ergonomic and rugged handheld available for pressroom use. The spectral color engine delivers unbeatable measurement accuracy and consistency over time.

Ultimate TechnoGraphics Inc.—Booth 2179
Impostrip Automation v.10 brings new optimization capability for true shape nesting in a fully-automated mode for just-in-time print production. Easily connecting to a cloud or onsite workflow or store-front, AutoNesting streamlines the intelligent placement of shapes on a sheet or a roll. Its template-less approach allows for greater flexibility and productivity.

Pivotal Z—Booth 2187
Prestige Scheduler powered by Pivotal Z acts as a supercharged version of the traditional planning board. With numerous options for customization, the ability to support multiple schedulers and plants, and unlimited capacity for jobs, activities, and users, Prestige Scheduler also offers flexibility, power, and scalability as user’s businesses grow.

GMC Software—Booth 2193
GMC Inspire Mobile Advantage is a solution that makes it possible to create a responsive, interactive, and regulatory-compliant mobile experience with little reliance upon IT or external support. It is for PSPs seeking to improve their competitive position by delivering a full digital customer experience. It enables the creation and delivery of personalized omnichannel communications from one platform, extending the power of GMC Software’s customer communications management solution, GMC Inspire, by integrating with existing core systems to pull data from anywhere and transform existing documents into fully-featured mobile experiences in just hours.

Racad Tech—Booth 2197
Web To Print Shop (W2P Shop) by Racad Tech is a combination of every type of web-to-print solution PSPs could possibly need. Mix and match any web-to-print component to create a fully-customized solution that can either stand alone or complement an existing web-to-print system. Among the many components offered are B2B/B2C websites and portals, storefront and e-commerce portals, FTP and driver solutions, variable data printing, in-browser graphic design, web-to-print plug-ins, and more. Other features include multi-level permissions, multi-language, multiple product template methods—HTML5, PDF, InDesign, XMPie, etc.—and 60-plus payment and shipping gateways.

Spiral—Booth 2201
Spiral will be featuring its new James Burn DocuPunch MINI. With the ability to automatically punch up to 10,800 sheets per hour, this automatic punch system offers labor savings with a quick return on investment. Designed with the "Print On-Demand" market in mind, setup is simple and is done in less than a minute. Die changes only take seconds. Just load the paper, push the start button, and walk away. The hands-free operation allows your operator to perform other tasks while the punch does the work.

Rhin-O-Tuff—Booth 2201
Rhin-O-Tuff will be showcasing the Tornado Autopunch EX, the world’s first automated collating punch system The system uses BDT Print Media’s advanced media handling technology to automatically feed, collate, punch, and deliver offset book stacks ready for binding in a single platform. Developed in partnership with BDT Print Media GmbH, this new system will save punch and bind service providers up to 40 percent in process efficiency, while reducing overall costs.

BÖWE SYSTEC North America Inc.—Booth 2207
BÖWE SYSTEC’s Fusion Cross inserting system processes 10-pound and 6x9-inch envelopes at up to 22,000 per hour and converts to process flats envelopes at up to 16,000 per hour with an automated changeover of less than five minutes. The recently-introduced EPOD II full-color envelope printer can further streamline operations by printing dynamic messages, logos, and addresses on the outer envelopes using a unique Piezoelectric print technology that eliminates the need for background pattern misting.

Xante—Booth 2217
See live demonstrations of Xante’s Impressia Digital Multi-Media Press, which is revolutionizing the envelope printing market with the ability to produce full-color envelopes on-demand with rapid print speeds (up to 78 full-color envelopes per minute), enhanced color quality (up to 2400 dpi), and the industry's lowest cost per print (less than one cent per envelope). This no-click charge system is the most affordable way to go digital and delivers fast, full-color results on a wide variety of media, including letterhead, cards, envelopes, forms, brochures, mailers, labels, banners, and more.

Farheap Solutions Inc.—Booth 2225
InkRouter is a bi-directional API technology that manages print orders between print sellers and trade printers and essentially cuts out the middleman. When using InkRouter, print resellers receive the lowest landed cost. Additionally, InkRouter finds the best printing options in the most convenient locations. Print resellers also have the opportunity to manage prices, set production times, and push orders at no charge. InkRouter is adaptable with popular MIS systems and website platforms. Using an algorithmic adaptive intelligence, the technology matches orders based on JDF/CIP4 compatible XML definitions.

CHILI publish—Booth 2266
The PDF standard format is intended to retain the creator’s accuracy of reproduction and context; but apart from some desktop applications, none of the PDF readers on the market follow that standard completely. This means that PDFs don’t always display the way the creator intended, especially in a mobile world. This results in delays, mistakes, and inefficiencies. CHILI rendro changes this paradigm. Thanks to strict compliance with ISO standards, CHILI rendro gives the most meticulous rendering, streaming, and 3D-viewing of PDF onto any platform that supports the HTML5 canvas.

GTI Graphic Technology, Inc.—Booth 2273
GTI and Remote Director have teamed-up to offer four soft proofing packages. Each includes a perpetual license for two concurrent remote director seats and a GTI iQ enabled ISO 3664:2009 compliant viewing system. Remote Director allows users to create projects, calibrate, and verify the monitor, organize proofs, report of status, invite reviewers to annotate and approve, and more. A USB instrument for monitor calibrating is also included. Packages are available for the SOFV-1xiQ Desktop Viewer, 24 x19.5-inch viewing area, and three EVS/iQ viewing stations with viewing areas range from 24x40-inch to 35x52-inch.

Profectus Inc.—Booth 2291
CostRatesAdvisor.com calculates the minimum hourly cost rate users must charge for equipment and services in order to break-even or recover out-of-pocket costs. The cloud-based software uses industry best practices and formulas to calculate manufacturing and administrative cost rates based on your expenses, wages, assets, and production environment. Rates can be computed for any equipment or service. CostRatesAdvisor.com will help usersconfidently and profitability estimate, price, and cost jobs.

Pixopa—Booth 2296
Pixopa will be showcasing its HTML5 Online Design Tool with features such as design tool color/theme configuration, 400-plus built-in fonts, mobile/tablet friendly, Instagram style image filters, multi-facet based refinement of ready-to-use designs, speech recognition, form-based quick personalization without using design tool, and many more. End-users are able to configure and visualize personalized products, such as paper print products, textiles, and direct-to-shape. High-quality templates can be created in advance for customers without graphic design skills to use to create their products. Pixopa’s form-based quick personalization makes customizing complex premium templates easy for users with no graphic designing background.

Printers and Duplicator Service—Booth 2360
PDS Equipment will have the Mimaki JFX 200-2513 on display. The Mimaki JFX 200 is a 4x8-foot landscape-oriented format printer, which can be configured with CMYK plus clear plus primer plus white. This configuration allows users to offer products their competition can’t offer.

Aleyant—Booth 2372
The new Aleyant PrintJobManager is a quickly-implemented, cloud-based pricing, estimating, job management, and raw material tracking solution. It sets a new direction for those tired of the limitations of using Excel, databases, or calculators to manage pricing. It is MIS/ERP simplified. Ready-to-use—but customizable—libraries of materials, equipment, and production steps are convenient for a wide range of markets including small-format, wide-format, digital, and conventional production, sheet stock and roll stock, automated and manual processes. Whether fabric, metal, paper, or plastic, the system can be tailored to the items you sell.

PrintPoint, Inc.—Booth 2378
PrintPoint 7 MIS cross-platform software for digital, offset, mailing, and large-format print shops. It features estimating, production, fulfillment, web-to-print, job costing, etc. The new estimate and job GUI is versatile to accommodate every job. Paired with a customizable web-to-print site, entering a job has never been easier. The new job and estimating screens are intuitive and detailed. In addition, to increase ease of use, the software has enhanced features, such as templates, drop and drag, duplication, and autofill options.

Silicon Publishing—Booth 2383
Silicon Publishing’s new Silicon Designer, a web-to-print online editor, boasts unparalleled customization. It brings standards-based modularity to another level, merging the power of Adobe InDesign Server with HTML5Designer now supports more than 1,000 web-to-print document types ranging from personalized greeting cards, door hangers, and photo books, to marketing collateral, large-format signage, and dimensional products. With Silicon Designer, InDesign templates blossom into fully-customizable online document design tools delivering superb printed output with the power of Adobe InDesign Server.

PressWise by SmartSoft—Booth 2384
PressWise by SmartSoft will be showing the latest enhancements to its all-in-one web-to-print, MIS, and workflow automation platform. These include all-new Kitting functionality, new purchasing capabilities, including the creation of POs, single sign-on capabilities for in-plant print shops, and a number of other new features.

Prinova—Booth 2390
Messagepoint is a hybrid cloud-based content management platform serving the customer communications management needs of large enterprise customers. It provides an intuitive and secure environment for business users to directly own and control touchpoint messaging content and business rules driving the pace of change for customer-facing print and digital communications.

Mohawk—Booth 2413
Mohawk will highlight specialty digital substrates, including an expanded collection of 16 new specialty digital items designed for dry toner digital presses. New products span four different categories, delivering exciting new applications to PSPs. Mohawk’s featured new product is a Dimensional Wrist Band 8-up available in three colors: white, bright yellow, and bright orange. It is waterproof and tear resistant, making the product ideal for indoor and outdoor events, as well as horticulture, hunting, gaming, and other applications.

MBM Corporation—Booth 2419
MBM will be showcasing its newest product, the Aerocut Velocity. This air feed slitter/cutter/creaser/optional perforator is the refined model of the Aerocut Classic, featuring speeds twice as fast as the Classic model with more adjustments. This machine includes the new tri-suction feeding mechanism to drastically reduce the risk of double feeds and misfeeds, while easily feeding coated, digital, gloss, and other stocks up to 400 grams per square meter. Includes the Lytrod VisionDirect software for setting up and transferring jobs from a PC to the Velocity.

Rollem International—Booth 2459
The new Insignia5 is a sheet-fed flexo-magnetic rotary die-cutter capable of die-cutting, kiss-cutting, perforating, scoring, and hole punching card stocks, plastics, laminates, and films up to 24pt. thickness. Key features include run speeds up to 5,000 sheets per hour, ease of operation, and quick changeover. Handles sheet sizes 20x15 inches. Larger IS7 model handles 30x24-inch sheets. Made in the USA.

Mutoh America, Inc.—Booth 2475 & Inkjet Candy Store Booth 2367
The ValueJet 1638UH 64-inch hybrid printer provides real production based UV-LED performance at an affordable price. Its staggered dual print head design provides high-print speeds and the dual UV lamps, on either side of the print heads, provide exceptional cure times, allowing for higher-production capacity. Print on material up to a half inch thick and save valuable floor space with its dual function and multiple application design. The CMYK plus white and varnish ink options are ideal for printing packaging prototypes, POP displays, and indoor signage.

Verso Corporation—Booth 2506
Verso’s Futura Performance is known for optimal performance on dry and liquid toner printers, color, and black and white laser printers, and digital offset technologies. It is guaranteed for digital offset and production laser equipment. Futura Performance shows off the product’s smooth 96 bright surface and gloss, dull, and matte covers. Today’s newest digital equipment can accommodate larger sheet sizes and Futura can meet those needs.

Masterpiece Graphix—Booth 2512
Masterpiece Graphix Silver Board offers improved printability, low static, and is compatible with dry and wet toner digital printing presses. Applications include packaging, mailers, tickets, signage, business cards, hang tags, bookmarks, invitations, covers, and event passes.

Wexler Packaging Products Inc.—Booth 2517
Wexler Packaging Products Inc. will feature the ATS US-2000 FSB-A Ultra-Sonic Banding System. Integrated with a Rontech Feed Counter, the ATS US-2000 FSB-A automatically counts, stacks, and bands printed product in one step. Capable of processing up to 100,000 products per hour, or 25 bands per minute for sizes of 3x5 to 8.5x11 inches (additional custom sizes available). Options include a lift unit for small product, double counter/length control, and double-page control. Highlights include touch screen programming, continuous feed, adjustable stack settings, and film, paper, and printed materials available.

Appvion—Booth 2610
Triumph treated and coated high-speed inkjet papers are designed for the new generation of high-speed inkjet presses and are available for both dye and pigment based inks, giving customers more choices from one supplier. Triumph high-speed inkjet papers offer excellent runnability and post processing for trouble-free operations and are qualified on major OEM presses. All Triumph products are manufactured in the USA and are backed by Appvion’s 100 percent satisfaction guarantee.

Technifold USA—Booth 2611
Technifold USA, Inc., will be showcasing its Tri-Creaser. Tens of thousands of printing companies are using this tool to increase profits and get a lasting competitive edge, and they do it with bindery equipment that is already on their shop floor. If your post-press department is struggling with rejected or re-worked jobs, lost customers, customer complaints, or timely delivery, make it a point to stop and talk with the staff at Technifold USA.

Spiel Associates Inc.—Booth 2617
The Sterling Digibinder Plus offered by Spiel Associates is a fully-automated, perfect binder. The pneumatic clamp and the nipper adjust automatically. The unique roughing blade roughs and notches the entire backbone of the book, allowing for the binding of coated and oil infused stocks. Twin glue rollers ensure an even glue application and side glues. The machine produces pads or book blocks for hard-cover binding. It also has automatic vacuum removal, a safety cover, and comes with its own stand. Bind up to 360 books per hour up to 2.25 inches thick. Good for runs of three, 300, or 3,000, one touch perfect binding is here.

Eagle Systems—Booth 2625
Eagle Systems is highlighting its new wide-format VLFM, a 56-inch cold foil that was recently installed on a KBA 145. Eagle Systems is known for manufacturing custom hot and cold foiling machines and this cold foil machine is now running in Barcelona at Saica. The machines can be made for all size offset presses.

Colter & Peterson—Booth 2639
Colter & Peterson will be showcasing its new Prism 28-inch 73E paper cutter. The durable Prism P80 has been a hit in the marketplace for many reasons, including its design features, Microcut color touch screen computer, and reliable performance. The 73E comes equipped with a Mitsubishi computer control package and electro mechanical clamp/knife drives.

Hop Industries Corporation—Booth 2730
Hop-Syn XT is a 100-percent waterproof, tear resistant, bright white, high-opacity synthetic paper designed for printing durable POP displays for both indoor and outdoor applications. It can withstand extreme temperatures from minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit up to 220 degrees Fahrenheit and will not discolor or distort under harsh weather conditions. It is available in .003 through .010 gauge thicknesses in both rolls and sheets. Hop-Syn XT is an environmentally-friendly plastic made from a mixture of polypropylene and calcium carbonate filler.

Presstek—Booth 2731
Presstek 52DI ECO-UV is a four-color high-speed digital offset press with the all new low energy ECO-UV curing system. All Presstek digital ink presses incorporate on-press chemistry-free thermal laser imaging and convenient built-in automation for easy use and low maintenance. The 52DI landscape model accommodates sheet sizes up to 14.76x20.47 inches with optional inline aqueous coating or ECO-UV, an integrated low-energy UV curing system that delivers instantly dried traditional and non-absorptive substrates. With ECO-UV overall job production is faster and a printer can expand their print portfolio from just traditional paper and board to include vinyl and plastics, as well.

FASTSIGNS International Inc.—Booth 2757
As a current business owner, you know how challenging it can be to establish brand recognition and serve your local market. By joining an established brand with a proven business model and support system, you can successfully meet the needs of your business community.

Diversified Nano Solutions Corp.—Booth 2838
Diversified Nano Solutions Corp. specializes in developing and manufacturing digital inks and will showcase invisible color ink printing and security solutions with its line of x-nano Invisible UV Fluorescent Inks. Create stunning visual e¬ffects using UV invisible fluorescent inks in both desktop and wide-format inkjet printing systems. x-nano Invisible UV Fluorescent Inks are ideal for printing invisible color marks, barcodes, images, and text on documents, photos, labels, certificates, wall papers, and posters. Systems include TransChrome, an invisible color image generator to transform CMYK into UV fluorescent RGB output, and more.

Intec Printing Solutions—Booth 2863
Intec CP3300XF Production Print Machine, is a production print machine that produces the color and quality expected from higher-cost digital production print machines. The Intec CP3300XF comes complete with a Fiery XF RIP and a booklet finisher for under $20,000. It prints up to 450 grams per square meter and uses conventional paper.

Precision AirConvey Corporation—Booth 2935
Precision AirConvey Corporation's TrimPAC EZ is an ideal solution for companies that need an affordable and portable trim waste handling solution, fast. As a pre-engineered solution, it allows quick delivery, arriving ready to install and operate. TrimPAC EZ can handle paper, die cuts, knock outs, and continuous trim on its own. An optional cutter enhancement allows it to cut and capture film and sheet, and non-wovens.

GPA—Booth 2940
GPA will debut its new collection of Ultra Digital specialty papers engineered for toner digital presses. This new range of specialty fine papers is exclusively available in North America from GPA. This offering includes pearlescent shimmers, opulent textures, and translucent options to help PSPs with toner digital press equipment create applications that truly stand out. This collection is perfect for applications including stationery, photo prints, photo books, direct mail, marketing collateral, and more.

Swab-its—Booth 3053
Proper maintenance of printers will ensure that you are receiving the highest quality print on paper, garments, and thermal labels without having to constantly repair or replace printer components. Swab-its foam swabs are a critical part of proper printer maintenance. Made with lint-free foam and sturdy plastic handles, Swab-its foam swabs are available in a range of sizes for cleaning printers, DTG printers, scanners, toner, and applying edge sealer for wraps, and graphics. Made in the USA, foam swabs can be used with isopropyl alcohol or dry to remove unwanted buildup on print heads and rollers.

Hamamatsu—Booth 8324
Designed for printers, Hamamatsu’s LC-L5G series of UV-LED light sources features high-intensity UV emission to quickly dry UV inks. Compared to metal halide lamps that are conventionally used to dry UV inks, our LED-based light sources offer many advantages including compact size, low power consumption, and easy maintenance. We offer a variety of sizes to fit inkjet printers, screen printers, flexographic printers, offset printers, and other types of printers.