One of Australia’s leading screen printing companies has just installed the country’s first Agfa M-Press Tiger, the new digital high speed inkjet solution. Wayne Robinson reports

In part 2 of AP’s analysis of the rapidly emerging high speed colour inkjet printing sector we look at the major solutions that have been revealed so far, giving an insight into what printers can expect to see at Ipex next May

ISO standards such as PDF/X for the files, and ISO 12647 for print, should be understood and used to a much greater extent than at present, and it’s not that difficult or expensive to obtain the knowledge, technology or software needed to apply it, says Paul Lindstrom from the Digital Dots consultancy

Riding 3,500 kilometres across the Australian outback on a motorbike gave Jason Monopoli, owner of print company Orange Dog, a chance to reflect on how far he had come when he started with one printer in his living room

Müller Martini develops and manufactures a range of print finishing systems and variable web offset printing solutions

At the forefront of technologies addressing solutions for web offset production, finishing and newspaper mailroom specialist Ferag recently introduced its StreamFold quarterfold system and its Polystream line

Consistency is the watchword for DIC, with a non-stop 60 years in business and a range of web offset inks designed to provide consistent predictability

Rolling change in the media industry has been driving a need for intelligent alliances, and at this year’s Ifra Expo in Vienna KBA was a good example

Goss is leading the charge into wider web widths, with one printer installing a 2.86m wide machine

Both commercial and newspaper web offset printers are being wowed with a series of press developments as manufacturers look to provide more to printers