Africa Print Journal January 2018 | Page 27

INTERNATIONAL NEWS of world-class products, software and services within our important growth markets.’ www.kmsa.com choice of fi nishing options such as booklet making, raises digital print to the next level. www.canon.co.za Canon Announces Over 900 Canon imagePress C850 Installations In One Year Industrial Inkjet Limited Provides Consultation At Heimtextil Ltd. (Canada), Druckerei Lokay (Germany), School Lane Colour Press (UK), Litotec (Ecuador), Cartocor S.A. (Argentina), Southern Colour Print (New Zealand), Colour King (South Africa), Zühal Ofset (Turkey), ASCON CO., LTD. (Japan), Hongbo Co., Ltd. (China), Golden Cup Printing Co., Ltd. (China), Changsung P&T Co., Ltd. (Korea), and Vivar Printing Sdn Bhd. (Malaysia). All of these printers use KODAK SONORA Process Free Plates, putting them at the leading edge in their respective markets by deploying a technology that reduces their environmental footprints. Consutants from Industrial Inkjet (IIJ) and major wallpaper manufacturers met at Heimtextil for an update on the IIJ development of a full speed industrial wallpaper-production capability using digital technology. Since its launch in 2016, over 900 devices from the Canon imagePRESS C850 series of production colour presses have been installed in EMEA. Combined with the imagePRESS C650 model, an extension of the imagePRESS C850 series launched in March 2017, the installed base in EMEA exceeds 1650 units. Following the launch of the imagePRESS C850 and C750 models in Autumn 2016, feedback from commercial print service providers (PSPs) and in- house printing departments highlights the devices’ unique capabilities including auto-duplex banner printing, semi-automated page registration, the ability to print on a variety of different substrates and extended fi nishing capabilities, all of which are helping customers to explore new possibilities with digital print. Developed in line with market demand for high quality colour output, excellent productivity and extended media fl exibility, the imagePRESS C850 series is helping PSPs and in-house print rooms to increase operational effi ciencies, enabling them to focus on other value-added activities and open up new business opportunities. The combination of colour stability from the imagePRESS C850 with its capability to support a range of different media, as well its extensive www.AfricaPrint.com After more than two years of painstaking research and testing with partner Konica Minolta on a solution that can compete with conventional printing methods on both productivity and cost- per roll, IIJ showed the results at the event. The IIJ team had sample rolls, printed on its demonstration digital system, to show how the landscape is dramatically changing in wallpaper production where ink performance and cost, print width and speed are all now within reach. The system prints a wide range of typical wallpaper media, including paper, PVC and non- woven (coated and uncoated), at high speed. The system is not restrained on image length and can print mural-wall images back-to-back without a gap. www.industrialij.com Kodak Selects Kodak S