Production Print

In the latest episode of Fridays with Frank, Frank G. Cannata shares insights from the interviews he conducted with three dealers—EO Johnson, Edwards Business Systems/Virginia Business Systems, and Visual Edge IT–about their challenges and triumphs in the production print space.

Production print, inkjet printing, and industrial and commercial printing opportunities for office technology dealers, and EO Johnson, Edwards Business Systems/Virginia Business Systems share production print challenges and triumphs.

Canon’s financial results for the first half of 2023 (January–June) showed a 6.1% increase in sales to 1.99 trillion yen compared to the same period the previous year.

There’s still a future in the print industry if you change wisely and speedily.

Dustin Graupman, senior director of Kyocera’s new Ink Jet Division, aims to raise the company’s inkjet profile.

Since last June, Frank has been interviewing dealers about their production print initiatives, focusing on how they got started, their production print partners, and how they’ve become successful in this segment.

The higher end the machine, the more specialized knowledge is required to sell it.

Frank Mallozzi contends that it’s time for dealers to reexamine their preconceptions about the viability of these higher-end product segments.

Sharp has announced that it will be showing its new digital press technologies at the Printing United Expo, in Atlanta, Georgia from October 18 – 20, 2023.

Komori America announced that Quantum Graphics invested in its fourth Komori press, an eight-color Lithrone G40 advance perfector (GL840P advance) with LED-UV and an MBO T800.

Ricoh USA, Inc. announced the RICOH Pro C7500, the latest addition in Ricoh’s next generation lineup of digital color sheetfed presses.

PRINTING United Alliance applauds the formation of the inaugural Congressional Printing Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In this week’s episode of Fridays with Frank, Frank G. Cannata discusses the hiring crisis in the commercial printing industry and what that means to dealers and OEMs who sell production print equipment to those organizations.

Konica Minolta announced the first installation of its AccurioWide 250 hybrid UV LED wide format inkjet printer at GAM Graphics and Marketing.

Sterling Packaging acquired a Landa S10 Nanographic Printing Press for its GFSI-compliant packaging facility.

BookBaby, a renowned print service provider located in Pennsauken, NJ, has achieved G7 Master Qualification, awarded by Idealliance, a not-for-profit industry group dedicated to guiding print production best practices, specifications, and standards worldwide.

When Mountain View Printing’s label printing business started to outgrow the current label printing solution, it turned to the Epson SurePress L-6534VW UV digital label press.

In this week’s episode of Fridays with Frank, Frank G. Cannata responds to a question from Sean Fleming of Distribution Management, who wants to know what the office technology industry will look like 10 years from now.

Sappi, the world’s leading manufacturer of flexible packaging papers with integrated barriers and heat-seal capability, has joined forces with digital printing pioneer Xeikon in a developmental partnership.

Rochester Software Associates (RSA), provider of production print workflow software solutions for in-plant print centers, commercial printers, and PSPs announces the latest version of QDirect output management software.