Digital Domain - November 2011

McCoy Printing Invests in Wide-Format Inkjet

VALHALLA, N.Y.—FUJIFILM North America Corp., Graphic Systems Division announced that McCoy Printing of Torrington, Conn. has installed an Inca Onset S40 wide-format UV inkjet printer to boost efficiencies, increase output quality, speed up job turnaround, and lower costs for its customers. McCoy, a family-owned business since 1998, specializes in screen, offset, and wide-format digital printing, producing demanding POP and outdoor campaigns.

"We believe in employing the latest technology to improve quality, consistency, and efficiency in the printing process," said Andy Riberdy, president of McCoy, Ltd. "We looked at our existing equipment and decided that new digital inkjet technologies could increase our print quality and speed up turnaround times. We felt that we needed to make new investments to enable us to offer our customers more value and effectively compete for new business."

McCoy considered a number of wide-format inkjet printing platforms, eventually narrowing its focus to the Inca Onset S40. The print quality of the Inca Onset S40 was a good match for McCoy's demanding requirements. "The S40's high quality gave us the edge we were looking for," Riberdy said. "A good portion of our clients do fashion work where flesh tones are critical along with color and gloss. We're producing near-offset quality on the S40, and our customers have been very impressed."

Digital Finishing System

DERRY, N.H.—At Labelexpo Europe, Allen Datagraph Systems Inc. (ADSI) launched its new iTech CENTRA HS Digital Finishing System—up to four times faster than the original CENTRA system, and introduced its iTech AXXIS SR Digital Label System for proofing and prototyping of labels to the European market.

"When companies digitally print short runs of labels, they still have another step—the need to finish the labels. No one wants to pay for the cost of a die nor wait for the delay of manufacturing the die," explains Mark Vanover, VP sales and marketing at ADSI. "The CENTRA HS Digital Finishing System, shown for the first time at Labelexpo Europe, is fast enough to finish labels from any digital press."

The iTech CENTRA HS is a high-speed, roll-to-roll digital converting system that allows users to laminate, die-less cut, strip the waste matrix, and slit custom labels in one production pass. It can diecut any custom shape right from Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw using the same vector file that would normally be sent out for die manufacture. It can convert printed materials from any digital or analog print platform, including inkjet and thermal printers or a conventional flexo press in roll lengths up to 1,250 feet (381 m) and up to 14 inches wide (356 mm). The computer-driven technology can also cut multiple depths within the same cut file, allowing for perforations or multi-layer applications.