Partner Listing

As a leading manufacturer of pressure-sensitive roll label films, acpo ltd. has launched their dart on the bull’s-eye of the label printing and flexible packaging industries for more than two decades. Specializing in producing self-wound polyester and polypropylene overlaminates, acpo ltd. recently added to their extensive product line by launching PSA roll label films specifically designed for the digital printing market. These self-wound overlaminates are engineered with a proprietary adhesive technology for high compatibility with digital printing equipment and perform extremely well, offering durability, protection and attractiveness to the label. Available in clear and matte finish and standard and premium UV screening, this PSA material is sold by the roll and master.

Located in Oak Harbor, Ohio, the acpo ltd. facility is home to a hardworking, knowledgeable work force that operates the latest coating and slitting technology for producing overlaminates while practicing lean manufacturing principles. acpo ltd. is ISO 9001:2008 certified.

Avanti provides Print MIS and Web-to-print solutions that help print shops automate all facets of their business. In business for more than 25 years, Avanti is a certified member of HP’s Graphic Solutions Partner Program. Avanti’s software is completely integrated with HP’s SmartStream Director, SmartStream Production Pro and Production Plus DFEs, and is ideal for customers with HP Indigo digital press technology. Avanti’s Print MIS and HP’s SmartStream systems are based on open standards for interoperability and are JDF-certified, enabling customers to streamline their operation through a zero-touch workflow.

Avery Dennison Corporation is a leading global producer of innovative brand identification and product decoration solutions for businesses and consumers. Its products include pressure-sensitive label materials; non-adhesive tags and labels; flexible packaging; graphics imaging media; retail apparel ticketing and branding systems; RFID inlays and tags; office products; specialty tapes; and a variety of specialized labels for automotive, industrial and durable goods applications. Avery Dennison holds HP Indigo Preferred Partner status. Its Fasson® brand portfolio of pre-optimized, digital labeling materials enables brand owners to fully leverage speed-to-market strategies and late-stage packaging decoration changes as real competitive advantages. Based in Pasadena, Calif., Avery Dennison had sales of $6.7 billion in 2008.

Convertible Solutions’ pre-converted templates are perfect for on-demand digital printers’ needs, including variable data printing. Standard pre-converted templates are designed and ready to ship, or they can design templates to your specifications. RIT certified for HP© Indigo presses. Benefits are realized immediately. Make complex short runs feasible, keep your jobs in-house and eliminate post press outsourcing, reduce production time needed to finish the order (shortened to days instead of weeks), reduce waste with fewer finishing steps, and provide your customers with a valuable unique solution. Register at www.ConvertibleSolutions.com to order your FREE 25-Pack today!

Corotec Corporation designs and manufactures a complete line of corona discharge surface treating equipment and accessories used to improve the adhesion and wet-out of primers, laminates, top coats, and printing inks on a wide variety of substrates and materials. Products include our Uni-Dyne® Series of fully self-contained treating systems that are ready to run out of the box, Nozone® ozone destruction systems, and Plasma-Jet® 3D treating systems. Corotec offers a “try before you buy” program for customers who are interested in evaluating a corona discharge treating system in their plant and on their products.

CTI Paper USA offers an exquisite collection of the world’s finest specialty printing papers, including translucent, cast coated, metallic and pearlescent finishes. CTI is committed to engineering these unique papers for superior performance on HP Indigo presses. HP Indigo papers certified by RIT include ASPIRE Petallics® Digital metallic/pearlescent paper, Glama Natural® Digital translucent paper (FSC certified) and Currency® Digital metallic paper (SFI certified). Glama Natural Digital utilizes a proprietary feeding strip designed for a seamless printing experience on HP Indigo. CTI’s papers and matching envelopes are readily available through paper merchants and online.

The market for photo press products is a highly profitable market that is growing by leaps and bounds. DigiLabs software makes it easy for you to enter this market and grow your photo printing business. With DigiLabs solutions, your customers can easily create and order customized photo books, cards, calendars and other photo products in an efficient and high quality manner.

DigiLabs private labels and customizes its software to licensees for online submission, as well as in-store and home-to-store deployment. Their compelling solutions and business models make it highly efficient to optimize an automated workflow and grow your bottom-line. Their innovative solutions are implemented quickly and with minimum impact to your existing infrastructure.

DigiLabs is the photo partner of HP Indigo, and is:
• The trusted partner to 200 licensees and printers worldwide
• The provider of photo solutions to more than 40,000 retail stores worldwide
• The choice of millions of users worldwide

DirectSmile is the inventor of image personalization and one of the leading suppliers of software for variable data printing and cross-media marketing. Award-winning DirectSmile solutions allow users to implement sophisticated personalization tasks with ease, efficiency and smooth workflows, and leverage the power of one-to-one-communications across all media. DirectSmile solutions are designed for true mass-personalization, allowing million-volume database-driven communications both in printed and digital media with the ability to track detailed campaign feedback.

The Domtar Distribution Group brings together under one roof five of the paper industry’s most trusted names in distribution. It operates in the U.S as RIS the paper house and in Canada as Buntin Reid the paper house, JBR La Maison du Papier, and The Paper House. This network serves numerous segments of the commercial printing, digital printing, publishing, retail, wholesale, catalog and industrial markets. Domtar Distribution Group offers the widest selection of HP Indigo certified products, including Chorus Art Digital which is FSC Certified and contains 30% pcw. This paper provides an outstanding environmental solution to HP Indigo users. All of their facilities are FSC, SFI and PEFC Chain of Custody Certified.

A leader in digital color finishing, Duplo is the only manufacturer dedicated to the production of a complete line of on-demand solutions. Duplo maintains its commitment to providing the finest off-line, near-line, and in-line digital print finishing systems, as well as an assortment of high-quality tabletop office equipment. Its wide range of digital color finishing products include the DC-645 & DC-615 Slitter/Cutter/Creasers, DC-445 Creaser, Integrated Folding System (incorporating an in-line knife folder with a DC-645/615/445) creating an all-in-one finishing solution, the Ultra 205A UV Coater, DFS-3500 Full-Bleed Bookletmaking System, Near-Line Sheet Feeding and Bookletmaking Systems, and the DPB-500 PUR Perfect Binder.

Ecological Fibers is a leading manufacturer of specialty covering materials and endsheets for the on-demand book publishing, specialty packaging, stationary and photobook markets. They are committed to providing their customers with a large selection of environmentally friendly materials, including FSC-certified papers and stocks utilizing post-consumer recycled content. Ecological Fibers has been recognized by the U.S. government as an innovator in the manufacture of environmentally friendly materials. Let them help you enhance the appearance of your products through the hundreds of beautiful papers and cloths they provide.

EFI™ is a leader in digital print. Offering value-added combinations of hardware, software and consumables, the company is driving the print industry’s transformation from analog to digital color. EFI’s robust product portfolio includes Fiery® digital color print servers; VUTEk® superwide digital inkjet printers, UV and solvent inks; Rastek™ UV wide-format inkjet printers; Jetrion® industrial inkjet printing systems; print production workflow and management information software; and corporate printing solutions.

FLEXcon is a global leader in pressure-sensitive film solutions. Their solutions are customer driven, application specific and geared towards meeting your needs. FLEXcon’s flexible manufacturing capabilities combined with their vast line of unique substrates, primers, adhesives and liners allow them to offer you short-run custom products with small minimum quantity orders. Their DigiPRO® product line is specially engineered for use with HP Indigo digital presses and offers the highest level of digital printability, ensuring excellent ink receptivity for sharp, vibrant image quality on a variety of substrates. They place a high value on trust, teamwork and long-term relationships with our customers. They feel the best way to mutually succeed is to work together sharing expertise to create innovative applications. You will find FLEXcon’s products in diverse industries, including at-retail advertising, automotive, consumer goods and electronics.

Global Paper Solutions is a marketing and distribution paper company for Gold East Paper and Gold Huasheng Mill with a focus on coated and uncoated digital paper and inkjet paper.

GMC Software Technology offers end-to-end software solutions for designing, composing and producing personalized print and electronic customer communications. Their mission is to enable you to communicate more effectively, to more people, in a way that’s more responsive to your customers’ needs and to your bottom-line performance.

GMC serves thousands of users worldwide in direct mail, PSP and enterprise organizations in a wide range of industries including financial services, banking, insurance, telecommunications, utilities and health care. Many of our customers are producing in excess of 100 million personalized documents per month – including direct mail, bills, statements, correspondence, catalogs, invoices and combined transactional/marketing (transpromo) materials.

GMC is a global company, headquartered in Switzerland, with offices throughout Europe, the USA, Canada, Latin America and Asia.

GMG is a software company specializing in high-end color management for graphic arts applications. Founded in 1984 with headquarters in Tuebingen, Germany, GMG has worldwide offices, distribution and support with a U.S. office in Hingham, Mass. Graphic arts customers rely on GMG throughout their workflows, from creative and ad agencies, to prepress houses, and printers using digital, offset, flexographic, and gravure print processes.

GMG’s product range includes a full range of proofing, color conversion and pressroom products. Proofing products, including GMG ColorProof, GMG DotProof and GMG FlexoProof provide contract quality digital inkjet proofs for continuous tone, halftone and packaging proofing respectively. GMG ProofControl validates proofs to standards.

GMG ColorServer supports more efficient workflows with automatic color conversions between processes and systems. GMG InkOptimizer saves ink and improves print stability using chromatic color reductions.

GMG PrintControlPro and RapidCheck support achieving and maintaining standard printing conditions. GMG Media includes color-critical, high tolerance proofing-specific papers and films for inkjet printers.

Great Reach Communications provides area exclusive, turnkey customer communication programs to help digital printers grow and protect revenues. Client engagement and lead management are critical to developing and strengthening sales relationships. Their customizable 1:1 Market Builder programs and their high value content are an extremely effective way to consistently communicate with all of your leads (most salespeople give up after three contacts) and customers (who are hearing more often from your competitors). Their newsletters, postcards, bulletins and e-newsletters are customizable and area exclusive with no limits on distribution. They have several solutions to choose from (based on area availability).

The HP Exstream software platform provides companies with a single solution for design through delivery of any type of document across the enterprise, regardless of type, complexity, variability, or delivery channel— from fully customized high-volume statements and bills to on-demand marketing and self-service web applications for enrollment and account sign-up to personalized correspondence and proposals produced interactively by customer-facing employees.

Holmberg brings you FlexBind® technology. It’s not a cover or a binding system. The secret to making a lay-flat book is in the paper. A simple drop-in solution—no additional equipment required. This product is unique to the book-making printer and bindery. FlexBind® photo book products have a unique hinge that is integrated into quality HP Indigo-approved digital papers. This process produces a page product that is ready to print and bind. FlexBind® converting technology is utilized in private labeled brands and Holmberg’s own branded products. Holmberg is an innovator and manufacturer of other high quality specialty print media products. With more than 50 years of experience, Holmberg has gained a reputation for unique products with the highest quality standards.

HubCast is Cloud Print Service specializing in sales and marketing collateral. Their easy to use application enables professional marketers to order print from anywhere to anywhere in the world.

Iggesund Paperboard is making new inroads in the digital market. The new Invercote Creato is now certified for use in HP Indigo digital presses. The certification covers paperboard weights from 7.9 – 18.3 pt (200-350 gsm). The popularity of digital printing has created a strong demand for paper or paperboard that has not been pre-treated. In conjunction with the certification, Iggesund is releasing a sample pack with a set of 25 unprinted sheets of Invercote Creato in 18′ x 12′ format.

interlinkONE delivers an online, integrated multi-channel marketing software solution. It is designed for companies that want to build, manage, execute and measure all aspects of their marketing efforts in one solution. This may include personalized URL, variable data printing, email marketing, QR Codes, and more. The solution streamlines operations and reduces cost by unifying all marketing communications and initiatives. It brings together the people and processes involved to ensure a consistent message is delivered across all outbound and inbound marketing messages. The integrated marketing software solution provides a holistic view of your marketing efforts.

Kanzaki is widely recognized as a world leader in the manufacture of surface coated materials, including paper and film. Headquartered in Ware, Massachusetts, Kanzaki is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oji Paper Company and has a vast international network of 24 manufacturing sites and 7 research laboratories worldwide. Customers in retail, financial, medical, commercial, industrial and other markets, depend on Kanzaki for the finest direct thermal, thermal transfer and inkjet papers and films.

Kanzaki is introducing a wide array of HP Indigo certified paper and film substrates, including the patented “Dual Purpose” Direct Thermal media that is pre-printable by HP Indigo to create two layers of variable imaging. Also included in the product launch are silver, gold and holographic metalized papers as well as clear and opaque films.

Legion Paper is the largest worldwide distributor of fine art, museum board, decorative and digital art papers in North America, stocking more than 3,500 papers from more than 50 mills worldwide. Legion works closely with its suppliers to develop unique products and have assembled the finest collection of papers ever offered by one company. Legion remains steadfast in its commitment to customer service and the ability to stock its full range in both east and west coast warehouses.

M-Photo develops and sells production floor management systems for professional photo labs and print shops using digital printing technology, with an emphasis on valued-added prints, with a focus on photobooks for the next generation of digital photography. M-Photo’s product line includes a powerful backend system, which is a scalable solution (client/server architecture), and a variety of front end tools which the lab or the print shop custom create from the backend system and is allowed to distribute for free to its end customers. The M-Photo product line has already been adapted to 22 languages. The product is sold worldwide directly or via distributors.

MACtac is a leading global supplier of RIT-certified pressure-sensitive label stocks for web and sheet fed Indigo printing. MACtac INDIE™ and STARLINER® digital products offer proprietary top coats and adhesive constructions that are engineered for outstanding performance on your digital press. In addition, MACtac also offers IMAGin® wide-format digital media for water-based, solvent eco-solvent, and UV large-format printers. Dedicated to leading the industry through the development of innovative and revolutionary new products, services and technologies, MACtac is committed to providing superior quality to its customers worldwide. For more information, please visit www.MACtac.com or e-mail MACtac.Americas@bemis.com.

Masterpiece Graphix is a digital treatment center that provides the largest selection of digitally coated HP-certified as well as custom material solutions to HP Indigo users. With a full line of digital rolls and sheets, Masterpiece has coated more than 800 unique substrates, and in 2006 was named the first authorized Indigo treatment center in North America by HP. With the ability to make even the most stubborn and seemingly impossible materials Indigo-ready, Masterpiece serves customers with short lead times, an innovative R&D program, and a knowledgeable team of coating experts who have conquered the art of digital coating. Masterpiece Graphix also provides the option of eco-friendly materials under their MGX ENVision line, and was the first digital coater to source 100 percent of their electricity with renewable windpower. With more than 15 years of experience in the digital coating field, MGX can make the material you want HP-Indigo ready.

MCS is the leading provider of industrial inkjet solutions for the mailing and industrial markets. MCS’ printing software and hardware provides the integration cornerstone for high-speed mailing and hybrid inkjet printing. The software is unique in its ability to simultaneously control multiple imaging heads and allow powerful graphic layout features along with exclusive workflow features. In addition to printing systems, MCS leads the industry with camera matching and tracking systems for inserters to enable high integrity printing of closed-face envelopes as well as invisible ink matching. MCS incorporates the latest HP technology inkjet print heads.

MWV’s Commercial Printing Business offers its Tango Advantage C1S & C2S coated cover line to support many of the world’s most admired brands. By combining clean-white styling, high brightness, and outstanding tactile feel with proven print performance, Tango Advantage has become the cover grade of choice for printers, designers and brand owners. To learn more about why Tango Advantage is one of the fastest growing cover grades in America, please contact your local merchant representative or visit mwv.com/tangoadvantage.

When HP needed a partner to develop an environmentally friendly replacement for their Topaz primer, they turned to Michelman, the global leader in performance-enhancing coatings for paper and film. Designed for the HP Indigo ws4000 series presses, their versatile DigiPrime 4431 primer ensures excellent ink adhesion and superior blanket life across a wide variety of paper and film grades. For the finishing touch, they offer durable DigiGuard overprint varnishes. DigiPrime and DigiGuard by Michelman are distributed exclusively in the U.S. by Utopia Digital Technologies. Let Michelman and Utopia’s experts work for you.

Morgana is the number one company in digital print finishing and new product development and innovation is expected of them. Morgana will showcase three machines specifically designed to make the finishing of digitally printed jobs simpler, faster and more profitable. The DocuMaster, a complete finishing solution, was the first to be designed solely for the digital printer. Working with pre-collated sets of mixed stock weights, this versatile system makes stitched booklets with a perfect-bound appearance. It is JDF-ready and can easily produce variable data books. The DigiFold is the world-leader of creaser/folders. It has been refined and improved since its introduction in 2002, and the latest model will show how fast creasing and folding can be achieved without waste. Morgana’s distribution is worldwide.

For more than 100 years, Neenah Paper has been an innovative leader in the creation and manufacturing of premium and specialty papers. Neenah brings state-of-the-art technology to its signature brands, CLASSIC®, ENVIRONMENT®, STARWHITE®, NEENAH® and ESSE®, as well as a host of other fine paper products preferred by graphic designers and printers. Neenah’s award-winning and versatile digital papers round out its comprehensive portfolio. Neenah’s sustainability commitment is reflected through the Neenah Green initiative, which includes mill-based solutions for minimizing environmental impact. A proud consumer of green energy, Neenah Paper is also a U.S. EPA Green Power Partner, and manufactures many brands carrying the Green-e, Green Seal and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certifications (SW-COC-000885).

NetPrint is an alliance of regional, independent printing paper merchants that provide value-added services and printing paper, graphic design products and related supplies. In 2005, NetPrint formed a strategic alliance with the Igepa Group, a German-based leading European distributor of printing paper and related supplies. Combined, NetPrint and Igepa service the needs of the international printing and corporate community. Today, NetPrint consists of eight regional printing paper merchants. These merchants, combined with the Igepa group, have more than 111 locations that meet printers’ service and product needs.

Newton Falls Fine Paper Company, LLC, located in upstate New York, specializes in the manufacture of coated matte-finish papers. Indigo-certified Book Matte (86 brightness) is available from 58# to 78# and Indigo-certified Commercial Matte (90 brightness) is available from 58# to 124# (9 point). NFFP serves a wide range of printing markets including book publishing, commercial printing, direct mail, and 7pt and 9pt BRC. All grades can also be FSC-, SFI-, or PEFC-certified upon request. Contact them to set up your customized program today.

On Demand Machinery manufactures a complete line of on-demand hard cover binding machinery. The ODM Casemaking Line, consisting of the Spreader Topside Gluer, the Slider Case Gauge, Stomper Turning In Machine and the Squeezer Rotary Press when used with the Sticker single blade casing in machine and the Smasher Single Station Hydraulic building in machine make an ideal solution for manufacturing ultra short-run books and photo books. We also offer an automatic side sewer, called the Super Sewer, as well as our Super Smasher, which is a fully automatic, self-adjusting building in machine. The newest machine to the ODM line is the Separator that will die-cut a window for hard cover books.

PC Industries manufactures quality improvement equipment for the printing, packaging and converting industries. The Guardian PQV system provides 100 percent print quality inspection for labels, flexible packaging and cartons. This system can be installed on HP digital printing presses, flexo presses, inspection rewinders and die cutting machines. The defect images are saved in a roll map format for removal during the finishing process. Advanced features include PDF file comparison, variable data inspection, barcode grading verification and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance. The Guardian OLP allows printers to verify artwork accuracy to the approved customer proof. Other equipment includes digital web viewers and re-register controls for print and die stations.

Pixami’s Photo Site is a brandable, customizable Web-based solution for the sale of personalized photo products. The system includes a complete e-commerce platform and an extensive back-end that delivers RIP-ready files. Pixami customers can develop multiple sites for any market(s). Pixami’s team has led the industry with milestones, including the interface for the world’s first digital camera, the first online editor and the first photobook software. Pixami software has been deployed for leading online photo brands for years, driving high order volumes of books, cards and calendars. Pixami is located in the San Francisco Bay area and Rotterdam, Holland.

PolyPrime-Imperial is a leading U.S. manufacturer of printable polyethylene and polypropylene extruded sheet and roll stock. Our extruded materials are corona treated for use on all UV type printing presses. PolyPrime-Imperial also provides ExtrevaG3® our coated polyethylene exclusively for HP Indigo digital presses. Their ExtrevaG3® line of products not only gives you high image resolution and ink adhesion, ExtrevaG3® is made from 30% post-consumer waste (reclaimed milk jugs) giving you and your customers an earth-friendly alternative. PolyPrime-Imperial can provide you custom, short-runs in both coated and uncoated materials to fit your specific requirements. Let PolyPrime-Imperial be your source for printable plastics.

Printing has become more competitive than ever. Customers are demanding faster turnaround times and more online services. Profit margins are getting squeezed and the days of allowable waste are gone. PressWise, from SmartSoft, has addressed these challenges from the ground up, developing a single Web-based system that handles all of your business, including online orders, custom walk-ins or e-mail jobs that other systems fail to manage. Why spend $50,000 to $100,000 on a workflow solution or cobble together products from different manufacturers, only to face additional cost burdens to integrate and maintain them? See www.presswise.com for more information.

Printable is a leading provider of technologies for intelligent marketing for both print service providers and their end users. Built on open-architected technology, Printable offers powerful Web-to-print systems and leading personalization software. MarcomCentral is a Web-to-print system that provides a full range of services, including: job submission and tracking, development of customizable storefronts and template design, variable data publishing (VDP) functionality, campaign management, mailing list purchasing, digital asset management, DirectSmile image personalization, e-mail services, inventory control and integration with production workflow. Printable’s online solutions are easily integrated with a variety of third-party business applications. The FusionPro VDP product suite includes desktop and server products to produce ultra-targeted direct mail and customized marketing collateral.

Today, PrintNow offers the most flexible online editing technology for customizing print products via the internet. It automates orders on demand for all types of printed products, while ensuring that design integrity and brand identity standards are rigorously maintained. The result is maximum process efficiencies–for increased revenues, business opportunities and profitability–and customizable storefront portals to allow end-users to drive business over the internet. The three PrintNow models and their pricing structures allow any size business or organization to access this powerful Web-to-print tool. Print providers, advertising and creative agencies, corporate marketing departments and small businesses all have access to a complete Web-to-print solution appropriate for their environment and capabilities.

RedTie is a Web-to-print (W2P) software company with two applications, both of which are delivered as software as a service (SaaS). RedTie Template (RTT) is a customizable online ordering system that allows print providers to offer the ability to access, edit and order marketing and print collateral. RedTie avails itself for complete set-up support and its managed services include customer-branded web interface and fulfillment services. RedTie Quotation (RTQ) allows a printer’s customers to request instant quotes, submit jobs online and upload artwork. RedTie conducts business through a network of channel partners and resellers in the U.K., Australia and the U.S.

Don’t wait for business—make it come to you! RocketLife is the first complete Internet-to-print operating system for the imaging industry. Their award-winning software makes it easy for consumers to transform their mountains of digital photos into beautiful keepsakes for you to print. Production-ready artwork flows to you while we handle all the accounting, billing and customer service. As an Integrated Fulfillment Partner in the RocketLife Production Network, you’ll see your revenue take off as you expand your product offerings and customer base—using the equipment you already have. The result: an immediate turnkey business in the exploding photo publishing industry.

RotoMetrics, the world’s leading manufacturer of rotary tooling, is the exclusive provider of Multi-Score flexible dies, ideal for folding cartons converted on digital printing equipment. RotoMetrics also offers a complete range of flexible cutting dies, magnetic cylinders, solid dies, print cylinders, hot stamping/embossing cylinders, modular die stations and associated products. Strategically located international manufacturing, service and repair facilities include numerous sites throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Our convenient locations are designed to provide outstanding, consistent service and quality no matter where your converting business is located. RotoMetrics is certified to ISO 9001 standards.

Sappi Fine Paper North America (SFPNA) is a leading North American producer of coated fine paper used in premium magazines, catalogues, books and high-end print advertising. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., SFPNA is known for innovation and quality. Its brand names, including McCoy, Lustro Offset Environmental, Opus, and Somerset, are some of the industry’s most widely recognized and specified. SFPNA is a division of Sappi Limited, a global company headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, with manufacturing operations on four continents in nine countries, sales offices in 50 countries, and customers in more than 100 countries around the world. For the media kit and past press releases, visit the “About Us” section of the Web site.

Imagine being able to digitally emboss your print materials. Imagine being able to add exceptionally high quality and precise varnish or an embossed look and feel—thicker dimensions and texture—to either full images or to selected areas on the page, at the push of a button. Imagine doing so instantly, on-demand, free of set-up cost and time, with personalized/variable print capabilities, in-house and at an affordable price. Welcome to the wonder of digital print enhancement. Welcome to the wonder of Scodix! Scodix Ltd. is the leading developer of Digital Enhancement Presses. The company will unveil its revolutionary Digital Embossing Press, the Scodix1200™, for the first time at IPEX 2010.

Standard brings the power of automation to post-press feeding and finishing, with fully-automated Standard Horizon folders, binders, trimmers, saddlestitchers, cutters and more. HP customers worldwide use Standard Horizon BQ-series on-demand perfect binders, the Horizon StitchLiner saddlestitcher and AFC-series floor model folders to pull double duty, bringing equally professional results and document integrity to both digital and offset print applications. Standard Hunkeler unwinders, rewinders, cutters, stackers and fan folders provide best-in-class digital color paper handling expertise–with full-bleed trimming and integrated finishing–for HP continuous-feed printers. Standard’s nationwide team is ready to use their deep finishing applications knowledge to tailor a solution that meets your critical production requirements.

Sunbelt Sales is a WBENC-certified Women’s Business Enterprise. Founded in 1981, Sunbelt supplies the narrow web industry. Products include: FilmLOCTM self wound and linered laminations, the Silencer press attachment for running self wound lamination, and specialty synthetic label and tag stocks. Sunbelt also offers an extensive line of press room and shipping supplies, including tapes, Intelli-Plac placard labeling and re-labeling system, tape dispensers, packaging tools, stretch film and dispensers, and sealers.

Label Traxx™—from Tailored Solutions in Milwaukee, Wisc.—is the print business management software of choice for more than 300 digital and flexographic narrow web converters and printers around the world. Developed by label printers specifically for label printers, Label Traxx has evolved continuously since its introduction in 1993, guided by development requests from one of the most active user groups. Using Label Traxx, HP Indigo users can automatically apply digital parameters including speed, spoilage allowances, impression charges, and other variables to their estimates and costing. Label Traxx is designed for use on both Macintosh and Windows platforms.

TAOPIX™ Photobook software is a solution for the production of personalized photo albums, calendars, yearbooks and greetings cards. Our flexible technology platform allows printers, photo labs or print-for-pay outlets to develop multiple customized/branded business models.

With TAOPIX’s™ drag-and-drop software, your customers can create multiple page albums in minutes then upload to your print servers. Payment details may be taken pre or post upload, after which projects are automatically delivered and converted to be print ready with full production management.

TAOPIX™ software allows you to tailor products/templates to your press and finishing capabilities, making it easy to expand your business profitably.

TAP, World Leader in Photo Packaging™, is the premier source for on-demand book covers. Their photobook covers offer outstanding value and quality throughout, maximizing the profitability of your book machine. Available in a variety of designs and materials, TAP offers covers to meet every need and budget.

Tec Papers is a leading national distributor of papers and films for digital presses. Tec Papers offers a wide variety of printable substrates for all types of printing technologies. They are a national distributor of digital substrates, committed to providing the highest quality digital papers to the digital market.

Tekra brings you Dura-Go™, film substrates optimized for the HP Indigo® presses. Their proprietary coating technologies provide Dura-Go films exceptional print receptiveness, ink anchorage, and shelf life. The breadth of stock Dura-Go line offers HP Indigo users in both the industrial and commercial press environments a “one-stop-shop” to more than 90 pre-engineered solutions including polycarbonates, polyesters, label stocks, rigid vinyl, lenticular, static cling, synthetics and polystyrene to name a few. Tekra is also a 3M Authorized Converter and Distributor, Authorized Distributor of SABIC Innovative Plastic Films, and North American Authorized Distributor for DuPont Teijin Films™.

Transilwrap Company is an experienced plastic solutions provider of printable plastic film and sheet, coated films, and laminating films for the graphic arts industries. Applications include point-of-purchase, point-of-sale, gift and loyalty cards, in-store marketing tools, books, training and educational tools, and more. Transilwrap has optimized its plastic sheet and film products and laminating films for best performance with HP Indigo presses. Featured this year is our ValCard credit and gift card production system. The finished card looks, feels, and acts like a tradition platen laminated card. This on-demand system will provide game changing technology to produce on-demand cards fast.

Unibind, Inc. specializes in binding solutions that range from low volume retail lab and no equipment necessary to high volume production equipment with the ability to bind 400 books per hour. Products range from soft cover presentations to high end hardcovers. Unibind’s equipment is extremely easy to use, and takes minimal operating experience or time.

Founded in 1996, Virtual Systems is motivated by their customers’ need to solve operational and information based challenges in direct mail, fulfillment, and digital print. They find these industries to be increasingly dynamic and evolving every day. They are committed to true partnerships with their customers to improve their businesses and ultimately their bottom lines.

Wausau Coated Products, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of paper and film pressure sensitive products for both roll and sheet applications. Serving a wide variety of markets, Wausau Coated has become a one-stop resource for premium quality stocked products and custom engineered constructions to meet exact end use specifications.

Product offerings include a broad selection of pressure sensitive products engineered for HP Indigo presses. To ensure their products print flawlessly, they work closely with HP Indigo and RIT to obtain product certification. In addition, their technical staff has years of experience coating a variety of substrates to make them compatible for Indigo Presses. Flexibility, responsiveness, and technical know-how combine to make Wausau Coated the trusted source for pressure sensitive solutions.

X-Rite is the global leader in color science and technology. The company, which now includes color industry leader Pantone, develops, manufactures, markets and supports innovative color solutions through measurement systems, software, color standards and services. X-Rite’s expertise in inspiring, selecting, measuring, formulating, communicating and matching color helps users get color right the first time and every time, which translates to better quality and reduced costs. X-Rite serves a range of industries, including printing, packaging, photography, graphic design, video, automotive, paints, plastics, textiles, dental and medical.

For digital and offset, Xtreme Coated Cover® knows no boundaries. Rising to every occasion and application, it’s a dynamic, versatile and cost-effective solution for all of your printing, promotional and collateral needs. A workhorse paper with superior stiffness and a gloss coating on one side and premium silk on the other, Xtreme is HP Indigo-certified in 8, 10, 12 and 14pt. From variable data postcard applications to on-demand book publishing, its 93 brightness provides unparalleled color reproduction and its unique crack-free coating and flexible fiber structure respond remarkably well to the most demanding printing and finishing processes. Folding. Stamping. Embossing. There’s nothing this sheet can’t do. Prepare to print to the xtreme.

Yupo Corporation is the largest manufacturer of synthetic paper in the western hemisphere. Always innovating with new products, Yupo launched YUPO Blue to give Indigo printers the ability to use a YUPO product. YUPO Blue has the same waterproof, tear-resistance and superior print qualities of traditional YUPO but is certified at RIT for HP Indigo. YUPO Blue is currently available in 78# text, 58#, 74# and 86# cover and is sold in the standard 12”x18” sheet suitable for Indigo printers. And, like all other Yupo products, Yupo Blue is 100 percent free free!