Since it was founded in 1969 in Verona by Giulio Storace, through a combination of vision and innovation, Fotolito Veneta has grown to become one of the leading packaging businesses in Italy – though it counts Europe as its domestic market and is able to guarantee next day delivery of its flexo plates to countries such as Britain, Poland, Greece and Spain.

Chongolove, a new company offering a free app enabling users to make and deliver custom videos, chose Color-Logic metallic embellishments to enhance their product. Chongolove buyers, after downloading the Chongolove app, scan a Chongolove sticker with their smartphone and use the app to record a video targeted at a specific friend or relative. The Chongolove sticker then may be attached to a greeting card, postcard, or gift. Upon receipt, the sticker recipient can scan the sticker and view the custom video. Chongolove stickers are sold on the Amazon website in sets of three for less than US$7; the app is free.

GMG, is pleased to announce that GMG ColorCard has received the prestigious 2020 InterTech Technology Award. Overseen by the Printing United Alliance, the InterTech Technology Awards have honored, since 1978, the development of technologies predicted to have a major impact on the graphic communications and related industries.

New certified integration automates tax compliance for improved accuracy, efficiency and customer experience

Apex International is pleased to announce its presence at the Virtual Exhibit at FTA’s Virtual Fall Conference 2020 from October 5 -14.
At the fully virtual event, Apex International’s technical experts will be standing by to video conference one-on-one with attendees, and present customized solutions to printing companies, including our entire portfolio of innovative engraving options, and our HD anilox sleeve technologies.

Unique graphical interface revolutionizes the estimate – production process

Esko has scooped a 2020 InterTech Technology Award from PRINTING United Alliance, after developing a new prepress tool to make trapping jobs up to 70 per cent faster and unerringly accurate.

The PDF Association has established a new working group. The "PDF Reuse Technical Working Group (TWG)" is dedicated to the research of new technologies and processes that enable reliable reuse of document content and semantics on different devices and a wide range of applications. The board of directors has appointed Matthew Hardy, senior engineering manager, document cloud at Adobe, as its first chairman.

A chance to discuss key market and technology trends, communicate new insights from the packaging industry, facilitate an exchange of expertise among prepress specialists, flexo printers and buyers at brand owners – these were the goals U. Günther GmbH of Hamburg had in mind when the Flexo Breakfast Events series kicked off last year. And so far, these goals have been achieved. In fact, the event has proven so successful that the event organizers at U. Günther are planning a repeat of the virtual Flexo Breakfast on the same subject for the beginning of October 2020.

Flexible pricing alternative offers significantly lower upfront cost
Ricoh Europe today announced that RICOH ProcessDirector, an award-winning, scalable workflow automation solution, will be offered via a subscription pricing option as of October 1, 2020. With multi-year subscriptions available, this new pricing option significantly decreases upfront costs for clients looking to streamline operations, improve process integrity, reduce errors, and drive efficiencies with RICOH ProcessDirector. This approach enables access to the powerful software for those preferring to pay for their investmentsas an operational expense rather than a capital expenditure.

Solimar Systems’ ReadyPDF Reduces Test File Size Nearly 14 x and Processes PDFs 24 x Faster

Canadian printer, Gilmore Doculink, uses ReadyPDF and reduces processing time from 24 hours to 1 hour

Keypoint Intelligence reports complex 13GB catalog file shrinks to 1GB with ReadyPDF

Reduce file sizes significantly through image referencing
Automated creation of hemstitches
Use of file properties for dynamic workflow routing and Variable Data Printing