Canon impressed PRINT 13
visitors with its imagePRESS
line of digital presses.
Digital Production Color
Shows Off at PRINT 13
The latest crop of color digital presses has a
new breed of bells and whistles. By Bob Hall
RINT 13 was not your father's print expo by any
stretch of the imagination. There was a plethora of
digital color production presses, a variety of wideformat inkjet offerings, and only two signifcant
offset installations—and one of them was a hybrid.
In the annual Must See 'Ems competition, the only winning
"press" in the "Pressroom: Analog Presses" category was a
fexo label/ticket/tag press. Meanwhile in the "Pressroom:
Digital Presses" category there were fve digital output winners, including that fascinating hybrid I just mentioned.
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HP Indigo celebrated its 20th anniversary with a demonstration
of its fourth generation, the HP Indigo 10000.
The KM-1/IS92 is a digital inkjet sheetfed UV printing system
co-developed by Komori and Konica Minolta.
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The Must See 'Ems judges chose
Allen Datagraph Systems' AXXIS
Digital Label System, a digital
tabletop unit to print and finish labels as one category winner.
Another winner chosen was Xanté's Impressia Digital Multi-Media
Press, which the company says can
produce full color envelopes at up
to 80 color envelopes per minute
plus business cards, letterhead, bro-
chures, mailers, labels, and banners
(up to 12x49 inches).
The other three category winners
included one toner-based digital
production color press, one inkjet
digital production color press, and
one inkjet/offset hybrid digital production color press.
The inkjet/offset hybrid Must
See 'Ems winner was the KM-1/
IS92 and it was on the PRINT 13
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