ONLINEPRINTERS GmbH has signed another contract for a second HP Indigo 100K. The print shop is consequently further modernizing its digital printing capacities. The new digital press will be installed at the production site in Neustadt an der Aisch in August and will replace two HP Indigo 10000 presses. ONLINEPRINTERS had received the first HP Indigo 100K in beta last autumn and was one of the first customers of the new HP Indigo 100K worldwide.

Graphics Customers Driving Market Volume in Digital Inkjet Printing
HP Inc. announced today its inkjet production printing solution, PageWide Web Press, has reached a milestone of 500 billion printed pages, as the print platform continues to expand its page capacity driven by global HP print service providers (PSPs).

Amid this global crisis, many market sectors and the businesses operating in them are facing significant challenges. The print industry has not escaped this downturn but, where possible, its resilient and resourceful members are looking for ways to remain productive and profitable. One of the ways in which print service providers are continuing to operate during this turbulent time is to diversify their product portfolio, offering new applications within market sectors that have been impacted to a lesser degree, or many even be seeing or expecting growth this year.

EFI Cretaprint Hybrid Digital Printing Takes Centre Stage Among Leading Ceramic Tile Manufacturers

Champion Tile and Marco Polo 1st in Asia to adopt new digital tile technologies
As the Chinese ceramic tile industry begins to rebound, leading manufacturers are showing increased interest in EFI™ Cretaprint® Hybrid technology from Electronics For Imaging, Inc. for on-demand manufacturing of digitally printed ceramic tiles, using either eco-solvent or eco-friendly, water-based inks and glazes. Hybrid printers and other EFI Cretaprint solutions generated significant interest among attendees at the Uniceramic tradeshow last month in Foshan, China, where EFI completed nine orders for systems from leading manufacturers, including Champion Tile and Marco Polo.

HERRMANN Druck+Media GmbH in Sonnenbühl, Swabia, has been relying on printing systems from MGI Digital Technology since 2010. As exclusive MGI partner in Germany and Austria, Konica Minolta has now installed the next generation for the customer: With MGI Meteor Unlimited Colors Se+, the experts for professional special prints can further expand their range of products and now also offer finishing options with digital metallic foil application.

Customer communications management technology leader's expansion into continuous-feed inkjet, production workflow management accommodates growing demand
Ricoh USA, Inc. today announced that Nordis Technologies, an innovator and leader in offering technology solutions to solve communications and payment challenges, has chosen Ricoh to help enhance its exciting business growth. Nordis sought a partner that could help address its needs for higher throughput, more efficiencies and shortened turn times, further enhanced by its game-changing, patent-pending Expresso® application, used for streamlining and managing communications and payments. Nordis found its answer with the RICOH Pro VC40000, Ricoh's InfoPrint 5000 and RICOH ProcessDirector technologies that help drive consistency and efficiency across communication channels and devices with tailored, automated, intelligent workflows.

Canon and its subsidiary NT-ware, today announce the upcoming support for Microsoft's Universal Print. This continues the companies' commitment to cloud-based solutions. Native support will be integrated into the firmware of Canon's imageRUNNER ADVANCE multifunctional printer series. Those who use these office solutions will not only benefit from Universal Print, but also from Canon's free integrated cloud software solution uniFLOW Online Express. Additional functions are made possible by the optionally bookable software uniFLOW Online.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe (Konica Minolta) is pleased to announce the successful use of a prototype of its new remote visual support tool, AIRe Link. As with many other manufacturing organisations, Konica Minolta’s service and support was heavily affected by travel restrictions over the past four months due to COVID-19. The situation accelerated the development and pilot testing of a tool for remote visual support being developed by the Konica Minolta Business Innovation Centre as part of intelligent connected workplace solutions.

The third UTECO Sapphire EVO M Press for the production of flexible packaging began its journey to the customer a few days after passing the factory acceptance test. This inkjet web press is destined for a company in North America, where it will be used for applications requiring large quantities of short run jobs. Other Sapphire EVO M Presses are already up and running very successfully at flexible packaging printers in Italy and Japan.

Enables enterprises and SMBs to be future-ready for rapidly changing work environments

Introduces new global Managed Print Cloud Services offering
Announces support for Universal Print, a Microsoft 365 cloud print solution
Enhanced online portal allows remote workers to easily acquire printers and supplies
Enables companies to accelerate transition to cloud

Enables HP Amplify Partners to Capitalize on Emerging Trends and Deliver Future-Ready, Value-Added Solutions
Helps partners modernize infrastructures and accelerate transition to cloud
Delivers adaptable solutions to help distributed workforces perform in the office and at home
Enables workers to stay productive and effective no matter where they work

Market launch plans include first beta site for new B1 VariJET press
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