Rob van den Braak
The range continues to grow, offering customers high quality, consistent, European-manufactured materials, with coatings suitable for all the current ink jet printing technologies.
At the Folex booth (Hall 1, J51) the company will show a new UV ink compatible Roll Up PET film with its classic premium look silverback, light block finish. SI 564 offers a highly stable solution for displays that will create a truly professional impact, with a coating that offers very good ink adhesion to the substrate, when using UV inks.
The Tack family expands with a new clear PET film version in Tack S CL for solvent and Tack UV CL for UV inks. The product has a ultra-removable adhesive and can be applied and repositioned on many smooth different surfaces. Perfect for window graphics, point of sale and signage. This joins the existing PP white product which is produced in a water based or solvent version.
Among the new products which will be demonstrated is the ‘ReproJet’ series for pigment and eco-solvent inks, which offer the necessary resolution and high density for the most demanding screen, flexo and pad applications and the range is today the most extensive in the industry.
The company will also display materials with improved adhesion qualities, for use with UV inks. Membrane switch films and coated films for digital presses will also be on show.
Last year at FESPA’s biggest show in Cologne, Folex launched a range of new materials for high-speed inkjet printing, with a key focus being on users of Memjet printhead technology.
The firm said its newly developed nanoporous coating can be applied to a number of different substrate types, including PET, PP and vinyl.
Among the new products, which were being demonstrated on an RTI Vortex 4200 printer, were water resistant white glossy permanent self-adhesive vinyl SIVN and window graphic film SIGUV, which can be used with UV inks.
Folex Print On product manager Simon Warren said: “The feedback of the performance of the new materials has been extremely positive at FESPA.”
FESPA Digital 2016 will this year play host to a number of companies involved in the inkjet printing sector, each as keen as the other to show off their new products and demonstrate to visitors the various benefits of investing in their kits.
To find out more about the different companies exhibiting at the show and to view the full seminar programme for this year’s event, visit www.fespadigital.com. For FREE entry don’t forget to use code: ADOZ0108.
Sun Chemical’s digital inkjet businesses will be presenting its portfolios of inks, solutions and ink chemistry platforms developed specifically for the digital wide and super wide format markets at FESPA Digital 2016, which will be held in Amsterdam from 8 to 11 March.
Stand highlights will include the global launch of SunTex, the company’s new range of inkjet inks designed specially for textile and soft signage applications. Sun Chemical will also be showcasing its Streamline range of printer-compatible alternative solvent-based inks.
Two SunTex ink ranges will be demonstrated at the show. The first is a dye-sublimation ink for transfer print applications, which combines bright strong colours, dense black and a tough highly resistant ink film.
The second range shown will be a direct print dispersed dye ink for flag and banner applications, which the manufacturer said provides “excellent show-through” for double-sided output including flag printing, where the image is viewed from either side, and vibrant, strong colour and dense black reproduction, which is crucial for high visual impact soft signage.
Both inks should be printed onto polyester and polyester-rich textiles and materials.
Central to the SunJet offering will be the presentation of Aquacure, its next generation functional aqueous inkjet ink. This ink chemistry delivers performance and production benefits and provides an all-new development platform upon which new inks can be introduced to meet the future needs of the expanding wide format graphics sector.
Also new at FESPA Digital, Sun Chemical’s specialist global inkjet division SunJet will present the new AquacureT functional aqueous inkjet ink. This ink chemistry delivers performance and production benefits and provides an all-new development platform upon which new inks can be introduced to meet the future needs of the expanding wide format graphics sector.
Finally, Sun Chemical’s Streamline range of solvent-based alternative inkjet inks, designed for wide and superwide-format printers including Epson, Vutek, Roland, Mutoh and Mimaki, will also be on show at FESPA.
This will include the Streamline ESL2 low odour eco-solvent ink, which combines high print quality output with ultra-low odor properties, developed for Roland Pro 4 printers using Roland Ecosol Max 2 inks. These inks are particularly suited to enclosed print shop environments where low odor is essential.
Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to the super wide format solvent print market, Sun Chemical will feature Streamline TBJ, designed for the HP TurboJet. Streamline TBJ offers significantly reduced energy consumption through improved drying performance, improved overall ink consumption and reduced overspray.
The stand will also feature the Streamline SGX eco solvent, low odor inks series, developed to work with the high performance thin film piezo printheads for the Epson SureColor 70600 printer.
SunJet will highlight the capabilities of its joint development projects with OEM partners, system integrators and printhead manufacturers in a broad range of market sectors, including graphics, décor, textile, industrial and packaging.
Visitors will be able to learn more about the benefits of Aquacure, SunJet’s all-new approach to ink development based on aqueous chemistry combining the best of water-based and UV curing technology.
Come and see the latest technologies and products in action and pick up some samples during FESPA Digital 2016, from 8-11 March at Rai Amsterdam.
To register for FREE to visit the show please use the promo code ADOZ0109. Your ticket will include access to FESPA Digital, European Sign Expo, FESPA Textile and Printeriors 2016. Online registration will close on the 7th of March and tickets on the door will be charged at €40.
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CES 2016 delivered some unique product introductions. For example Skreens, an AV switch with multi window possibilities. Contrary to standard audio/video switches, Skreen offers the possibility to connect 2 – Skreen Plus2 – or 4 – Skreen Plus4 – HDMI ports to a television. Skreens will become available in the second quarter of this year. We don´t have any information yet about cost.
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CES 2016 leverde een aantal bijzondere productie introducties op, zo was er de Skreens, een AV switch met multi window mogelijkheden. In tegenstelling tot de standaard audio/video switchen biedt Skreens de mogelijkheid om de input van 2, de Skreens Plus2, of 4, de Skreens Plus4, (spel)computers met HDMI output hun eigen ruimte op je TV scherm te geven. Skreens komt beschikbaar in het tweede kwartaal van dit jaar, prijzen zijn nog niet bekend.
Xerox gaat DRUPA gebruiken om de complete oplossingen voor alle deelgebieden waar de printergigant actief is te demonstreren. Onder het moto Just Let the Work Flow, zullen oplossingen voor Print Production, Direct Mail, Marketing Service Providers, Packaging, de Photo Market en Transactional Marketing getoond worden. Dat zijn niet toevallig allemaal groeimarkten (>20% per jaar), het zijn markten waar Xerox zijn workflow- en printoplossingen al succesvol verkoopt en die baat hebben bij geautomatiseerde en geïntegreerde systemen. Extra aandacht zal Xerox geven aan hoe grafische bedrijven deze groeimogelijkheden kunnen benutten. Het bedrijf heeft ook al aangekondigd met een aantal spectaculaire nieuwe ontwikkelingen op het gebied van inkjet en verpakkingen te komen. Blokboek.com zal via de speciale DRUPA pagina deze ontwikkelingen voor zijn lezers nauwlettend volgen.
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Xerox gaat DRUPA gebruiken om de complete oplossingen voor alle deelgebieden waar de printergigant actief is te demonstreren. Onder het moto Just Let the Work Flow, zullen oplossingen voor Print Production, Direct Mail, Marketing Service Providers, Packaging, de Photo Market en Transactional Marketing getoond worden. Dat zijn niet toevallig allemaal groeimarkten (>20% per jaar), het zijn markten waar Xerox zijn workflow- en printoplossingen al succesvol verkoopt en die baat hebben bij geautomatiseerde en geïntegreerde systemen. Extra aandacht zal Xerox geven aan hoe grafische bedrijven deze groeimogelijkheden kunnen benutten. Het bedrijf heeft ook al aangekondigd met een aantal spectaculaire nieuwe ontwikkelingen op het gebied van inkjet en verpakkingen te komen. Blokboek.com zal via de speciale DRUPA pagina deze ontwikkelingen voor zijn lezers nauwlettend volgen.
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Xerox will use DRUPA to show their complete solutions for all segments in which they are active. Just Let The Work Flow is the name for their Print Production, Direct Mail, Marketing Service Providers, packaging, Photo market and Transactional Marketing solutions. Coincidentally all growth markets (>20% annually), but also markets where Xerox successfully has been selling its workflow and print solutions for several years now and which profit from the automated and integrated systems. Xerox will pay special attention to explaining how printing companies can optimise these growth opportunities.
Xerox has also announced they will introduce a few spectecular new inkjet and packaging developments.
Blokboek.com will closely follow all developments on their special DRUPA page that will go live next week.
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The current environmental laws are complex and are becoming stricter, also for the print industry. On her Verdrigris blog Laurel writes about a 43 page document meant for 7,000 printing companies and the reasons why this is over the top and how this will stall profitability and employment of thousands of printing companies.
Read about her thoughts on alternatives on her blog on our article page.
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We recently received a 43 page document outlining environmental legislation that applies to printing companies. It was for one single country with around 7,000 printing companies! Reading through this lengthy document it becomes clear that legislators are working hard to protect us all from pollution and related nastiness. The law is working hard to keep the world a safe and pleasant place, a place with a future. But the law also seems to be working hard to slow business down and make it less productive, by clogging up the wheels of commerce with red tape. It distracts us from paying attention to our customers and from the daily grind of generating revenue, of producing goods and providing services.
This may be one of the reasons why productivity is down in so many developed markets. Business owners have to spend many hours a week keeping up with their various responsibilities. Legal compliance is just one small part of all the other non revenue generating activities we have to face. When it comes to environmental protection this is a very good thing, however lawmakers should be working to make implementation simple, not onerous. This won’t be easy because civil servants have a culture of their own, one that’s not even vaguely entrepreneurial. In fact initiative and imagination are positive anathema to them, so they cannot appreciate how time-consuming compliance with environmental legislation has become.
Graphic arts professionals can only comply. This makes it even more annoying to have to plough through umpteen pages of rules and regulations that get updated pretty much every month. Worse still it is deeply tedious to design business procedures that ensure compliance and yet are sufficiently flexible to change along with new rules or revocation of old ones.
We have no choice, but our industry associations could be doing much more to make it easier for members. There are plenty of ways to communicate regulatory changes, but the most obvious is to post the relevant laws online, along with a short explanation. This could explain the purpose of the legislation, how it applies and what counts as exempt. Updates can also be included in member communications.
When it comes to the environment, this problem of awareness and understanding is only going to get more complex. Print and publishing industry associations can do much to improve members’ knowledge levels and to promote best practise. If we had had a bit more vim and vigour from our associations in the first place, perhaps the inundation of regulations might not seem so very overwhelming. So come on all of you, and you know who you are, get with it. Make your environmental guidance more than just lip service and give your members the support they need!
Laurel Brunner
This blog has been made possible by: Agfa Graphics (www.agfa.com), Digital Dots (http://digitaldots.org), drupa (www.drupa.com), EFI (www.efi.com), Fespa (www.fespa.com), Heidelberg (www.uk.heidelberg.com), Kodak (www.kodak.com/go/sustainability), Mondi (www.mondigroup.com/products), Pragati Offset (www.pragati.com), Ricoh (www.ricoh.com), Shimizu Printing (www.shzpp.co.jp), Splash PR (www.splashpr.co.uk), Unity Publishing (http://unity-publishing.co.uk) and Xeikon (www.xeikon.com).
Blokboek.com is the Dutch media partner of Verdrigris, a non-profit initiative which aims to realistically chart the real footprint of printing and which helps companies and organisations to lower that footprint. More information about Verdrigris can be found via this link.
Printpack from Atlanta (USA), specialises in flexible packaging for cheese, diary and snacks. Especially for this market they developed a light sensitive ink with the goal to improve customer contact. The ligh sensitive ink is not visible on the packaging until it comes into contact with sunlight. The ink adds to the products the flexible packing industry has to offer, especially for brand owners who want to differentiate with their packaging. The ink can be used on any type of food or drink packaging.
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Waiting for the bus, tram or train is no longer boring with Asphalt Art floor foils. Floor stickers are becoming common ground in advertising, in bus shelters, train stations and events. Asphalt Art shows the possibilities of attracting attention with its floor foils both indoors and outdoors. Asphalt Art is highly slip resistant which makes it suitable even for stairs. It is not only environmentally friendly, but also 100% recyclable.
Asphalt Art can be found on Fespa Digital, 8 to 11 March in Amsterdam, Hall 7, Stand R30.
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At the beginning of 2016 a million chocolate bars with unique wrappers found their way to Israeli supermarkets. Every, traditionally red, wrapper, had a unique graphic. The coloured illustrations in a wide range of shapes and designs were created by HP SmartStream Mosaic, based on 17 models. All wrappers were printed by local printers on the HP Indigo 10000, in cyan, magenta and yellow. An origami expert created a folded shape especially for this campaign. The back of the wrapper has lines to help the consumer fold the animal.
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