We at Unisource wish to congratulate all of this year’s winners and entrants that made the 2014 Uvu Design and Print Excellence Awards a year to remember.
Visit Unisourcedesign.ca/en/uvu to view this year’s winners catalogue, and be sure to choose Unisource papers to qualify for Uvu 2015.
9th annual Canadian Printing awards
Celebrating PrintAction’s 2014 Industry Achievement Award winners, including Carl Pauptit, Peter Cober, Don Gain and Nikos Kallas 12
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Photographer Neil Ta provides a pictorial report on the industry’s annual gala event designed to recognize the best of Canadian printing
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Detailing the intricate printing processes behind 25 Gold Award winning projects as determined by an independent 16-member judging panel 16 18
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ViCtoria Gaitskell evolution of the 700 Manroland Sheetfed, led by its UK owner Langley Holdings, unveils its first new press in four years, the Roland 700 Evolution, to a crowd of 450 people at its factory in Offenbach, Germany
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One-off Rembrandts
On the morning of judging day for the Canadian Printing Awards program, as most of the judges prepare for the tough work ahead with caffeine and muffins, the first order of business for Al Kershaw is to look for the best electrical outlet location to plug in his loop. This has been Kershaw’s routine for the past eight years of his involvement with our 9-year-old program.
Kershaw is one of Canada’s most highly respected experts on print production. Before beginning his own business, appropriately named The Print Wizard, he spent more than 20 years with Heidelberg Canada, which at the time dominated the country’s printing landscape. As the press maker’s Manager of Print Technology, Kershaw was in charge of providing field instruction for printers, who themselves were often hands-on experts of lithography during 1980s and 1990s.
On judging day it is always interesting to hear Kershaw discuss with other judges, typically with his charged-up loop positioned over a selection of dots, why a problem on press created a printing defect. A day with the judges is the best way to learn about the true complexities behind print manufacturing, streaking and banding, internal registration, fit, reverse-out type, plugging and tailing, foil leafing, hanging chads.
Kershaw’s participation has instituted a high technical standard for the Canadian Printing Awards, which we believe to be unrivaled among other such North American programs. Our submission requirement of providing three samples of a project seems simple enough, for example, but it is difficult to properly evaluate print without looking for repeatability in either accomplishments or defects. Judges are also asked to consider issues like printing process, run length and production challenges supplied by the entrants, because it is vital to understand as best possible how and why a project was produced.
The Canadian Printing Awards program will continue to be refined, but with Kershaw’s input over the past eight years, and the work of our entire 2014 judging panel, we are comfortable stating a Gold Award is a significant accomplishment in the world of print production. In this issue, we share many of the intricate production details describing these one-off Rembrandts – a term used by one of our judges.
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Consolidated Graphics Canada Ltd. of Oshawa, Ontario, which operates as General Printers, made a Notice of Intention to Make a Proposal filing under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. At press time, the company had until mid-November to meet cash flow obligations, overseen by bankruptcy trustee Harris&Partners. “Due to a downturn in business, the company was facing a cash crunch and was no longer able to meet its obligations as they became due,” wrote a Harris&Partners trustee overseeing the bankruptcy act filing. David Fors has served as President of General Printers since 1991. General Printers was established in 1951 and is described as an employee-owned company.
John Rogers, one of the founders of Canada’s pioneering digital printing company, Dots & Pixels, becomes the Global Executive Director of the Digital Solutions Cooperative for users of HP technology, better known as Dscoop, while Gary Peeling becomes the organization’s new Global Chairman. Rogers is regarded as one of Canada’s digital-printing visionaries through a career spanning more than 30 years. Rogers began his printing career at Moore Business Forms, before working with Dave Rogers to start Dots & Pixels in 1994. Gary Peeling is the Managing Director at Precision Printing Company Ltd. in the United Kingdom, which he has been helping to lead for the past 25 years. Precision Printing works with consumer brands in the photo, greeting card and self-publishing space, while also leveraging litho printing.
of Evans and Horner. The 60,000-squarefoot facility includes 29-foot-high ceilings and a second floor with 10,000 square feet of space. It will house C.J. Group’s large-format and fulfillment/distribution services, as well as the company’s Digital, Interactive, and Designedge magazine properties. Mandarino also plans to add a full mailing-house operation in the next four months. Moving will begin in late November and is expected to be complete by January. The C.J. Group of Companies now owns three facilities totaling more than 150,000 square feet.
Hostmann-Steinberg completed its rebrand to hubergroup Canada Ltd., taking on the name of its powerful parent company – one of the world’s largest ink producers and chemical companies. As part of its rebranding efforts, hubergroup Canada launched a new Website, hubergroup.ca, with a revamped product selection guide. In addition to inks, hubergroup produces and markets printing varnishes, coatings, dampening solutions, additives and printing auxiliaries. hubergroup is comprised of 40 companies, which amounts to 150 branch offices, sales offices, distributing warehouses and representatives worldwide. It has been a privately held company for over 240 years, with the founding family still involved. More than 3,600 employees contribute to hubergroup’s annual production capacity of more than 340,000 tonnes of products.
Sean Sawa becomes Director of Sales for Anderson & Vreeland Canada (AVC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ohio-based Anderson & Vreeland Inc., which distributes and manufactures flexographic prepress materials. “Sean is a widely respected and driven individual. His can-do attitude is infectious and we are extremely fortunate to now have him on our management team,” said Drew Elisius, Executive VP of Anderson & Vreeland. Sawa joined AVC as Regional Manager, focusing on Ontario and Western Canada, in mid-2013, with 18 years of flexography sales experience primarily gained at Williamson Printing Materials. He graduated from George Brown Technical College in Toronto with a Printing Technology degree.
Langley Holdings PLC of the United Kingdom moved to acquire DruckChemie, a German print chemicals group
that went into administration in September 2014. In its most-recent fiscal year, DruckChemie had annual revenues of €75 million and around 300 employees, with locations throughout Europe and also in Brazil. “We are delighted to have reached agreement to acquire DruckChemie, the company compliments our Manroland press business and further demonstrates our commitment to the sector,” stated a Langley Holdings spokesperson.
Vistaprint changed its name to Cimpress N.V. and announced plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars over the next five years to build what it calls a shared mass customization platform. The new platform will bring the company’s growing portfolio of purchased assets under the same fold, including well-known Web-to-print names like Vistaprint, Drukwerkdeal, AlbelliOpens and Pixartprinting. Over the past decade, the company states it has invested more than $1.3 billion in business development efforts.
Winston Packaging of North Carolina was recognized by KBA for what the German press maker describes as a “world job production record,” celebrated by Winston’s (left to right) James Gordon, President; Clifford Bullin, Press Operator; Kevin Southern, Pressroom Superintendent; David Nelson, Press Operator; and Vic Tedder, Plant Manager. Running on a 41-inch, six-colour KBA Rapida 106 press, the company reached average speeds of 18,964 impressions per hour on 127,625 sheets (29.5 x 41.5-inch paperboard) in less than seven hours. The KBA Rapida was installed in late 2012. Winston is a fourth-generation family-owned company founded in 1911 in downtown Winston-Salem.
Graphics Canada announced Xerox and Scodix as two of the newest exhibitors to commit to its April 2015 tradeshow, taking place at the Toronto International Centre. Show Director Dan Mustata earlier announced the 3-day event would include exhibitors Canon, Konica Minolta, Fujifilm, Ricoh, Epson, GBC, Heidelberg, Riso, Primera, Neopost, Grimco, KIP, Mutoh and Sydney Stone. Mustata also confirmed an update to the educational program with IDEAlliance planning to run a G7 Canadian Summit in conjunction with Graphics Canada.
Rory Marsoun becomes VP of Flexo Business Development for Esko North America and will determine the direction of the flexo business in North America. Most recently, Marsoun was Director, Software Training Deployment, Americas, managing the team of experts that installs Esko software and flexo products, and trains new users. Previously, he was Manager, Flexo Services, Americas, during the company’s introductions of HD Flexo and Full HD Flexo, Esko Digital Flexo Systems, and CDI imaging systems. Headquartered in Gent, Belgium, Esko employs around 1,300 people worldwide and states its solutions are used in some way in the production of nine out of 10 retail packages.
EFI acquired Intellectual Property assets relating to the inkjet printing of thermoformed products from Kansas City-based Polymeric Imaging, a specialist provider of UV and LED inks. Polymeric Imaging’s R&D focuses on inkjet inks that address curing, adhesion, density and durability issues for industrial and graphic arts applications. EFI also hired what it describes as key Polymeric Imaging employees responsible for technical and market development of digital ink and coating products.
Jay Mandarino, President and founder of the C.J. Group of Companies, finalized the purchase of a building at 249 Evans Avenue, which is in Toronto’s Mimico neighbourhood on the southwest corner
Colour Innovations Launches RE:flex
Colour Innovations welcomed more than 150 people to its launch event for the inaugural issue of RE:flex, a large-format magazine highlighting the use of specialty printing techniques for high-end design and photography.
This inaugural issue of RE:flex centres around applying Colour Innovations’ CIX MetalFX print technology to the digital collages of designer, artist and
illustrator Louis Fishauf, who has won more than 60 Gold and Silver ADCC (Advertising & Design Club of Canada) Awards, Gold and Silver National Magazine Awards, and the ADCC Les Usherwood Award.
Fishauf was the co-founder and Creative Director of Reactor Art & Design; served as Editorial Art Director for Chatelaine, City Woman, The City, Saturday Night and Toronto Life magazines; was the Senior Design Consultant for Sympatico Internet Service; and is an Apple Computer Applemaster. He currently serves as a Sessional Instructor at OCAD University.
Over the past few years, Fishauf has been creating digital collages using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. He is recognized around the design world as an early adopter and enthusiastic proponent of digital imaging. Colour Innovations describes his work is an ideal medium for the application of CIX MetalFX technology.
The CIX MetalFX process uses Photoshop channels and proprietary software to combine a gold, silver or bronze base with the 4-colour CMYK process to create thousands of metallic shades and hues from only five colours. The process perfectly fit Fishauf’s approach of creating digital collages using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
“I took the opportunity to not only experiment with retrofitting my existing pieces, but also to create a number of new collages and the facing pattern pages, with the metallic ink process specifically in mind,” said
Printable Electronics Association Begins in Canada
A new association focused on printable electronics has started operations out of Ottawa, Ontario. The new group called the Canadian Printable Electronics Industry Association (CPEIA) is to be led by Executive Director Peter Kallai.
The CPEIA states its mandate is to bring together key Canadian and international players in industry, academia and government to build a strong domestic printable electronics (PE) sector. The association plans to facilitate growth through networking, stimulate R&D and investment, build a strong PE supply chain and drive the broad adoption of PE by end customers.
CPEIA states close to 50 Canadian companies have expressed a business interest in printable electronics, following an effort that began three years ago by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), which created a PE research program. It also led the creation of the PE Consortium with 14 industry partners.
The CPEIA recently joined a delegation of Canadian companies with the
Fishauf, describing his work in RE:flex. “This required developing a workflow in Adobe Photoshop which attempted to approximate on my computer monitor how the metallic colours would appear in print.” RE:flex’ inaugural issue is a large-format 24-page publication printed on Sappi HannoArt gloss cover and text, provided by Ariva, with Metalstar Pantone silver ink, provided by Eckart Effect Pigments.
NRC that were exhibiting at Printed Electronics USA 2014. This conference, the largest of its kind dedicated to PE, ran November 19 and 20, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California.
“A few years ago, many PE applications would have been considered science fiction,” said Kallai, who is billed as a former senior high-tech executive and management consultant who has worked with more than 100 government organizations and growth-stage companies across Canada. “But not anymore. Government organizations, startups, OEMs and systems integrators around the world are investing billions of dollars in R&D to revolutionize existing products and create new ones with PE.”
According to research firm IDTechEx, the global market for printed and potentially printable electronics will rise from around $24 billion in 2014 to $340 billion by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate of 40 percent.
Matthew Alexander describes Colour Innovations’ CIX MetalFX process in the large-format RE:flex magazine (Photos by Roberto Vazquez, robertovazquez.ca).
Artist Louis Fishauf is designated as an Apple Computer Applemaster.
More than 150 people attended the RE:flex magazine launch at The Spoke Club in Toronto.
Matthew Alexander of Colour Innovations, artist Louis Fishauf, and Howard Oliver of What If What Next.
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Ellis Continues Press Investment with North American First
The Ellis Group, one of North America’s largest independent packaging operations, has invested in two Komori presses over the past several weeks. The moves began in October with the installation of a new 8-colour, 40-inch Komori GL press with coater in its Ellis Paper Box location in Mississauga.
Purchased through Komori distributor K-North Services, Ellis Paper Box’ new press, which joins a 7-colour, 29-inch Komori press installed a couple of years ago, is equipped to run low-energy UV and conventional UV inks.
The Ellis Group operates Ontario production facilities in Pickering, Mississauga and Guelph. The company’s Mississauga plant specializes in pharmaceutical work, as well as OTC folding cartons. At the beginning of November, the Ellis Packaging operation in Pickering purchased a new 8-colour Komori GLX press with tower coater through K-North Services.
The installation of the Komori GLX press will be
Category 5 Adds Kongsberg Table
the first of its kind in North America. Released in the summer of 2014, the Komori GLX press is rated to run at 18,000 sheets per hour. It will be equipped with a dual UV system and includes fully automatic non-stop feeder and delivery with an integrated conveyor system, as well as the Komori PQA-S and PDC-SX systems for colour control and inline inspection.
“Inline inspection was a key component to our acquisition and further solidifies our commitment to quality production throughout our process,” stated Cathie Ellis, President of Ellis Packaging. “We are excited about our leap to the 18,000 [sheet per hour] league which should propel our throughput while eliminating waste throughout the process with the quality features.”
K-North Services states the Komori GLX press installed by Ellis will also be the first press in North America running food-grade lubricants, as opposed to petroleum-based products.
Category 5 Imaging has installed an Esko Kongsberg i-XP24 cutting table into its 20,000-square-foot facility in Burlington, Ontario.
Founded in 2006, Category 5 was one of Canada’s first large-format-printing operations based entirely on inkjet production. The company currently has 28 employees focused on the operation of five inkjet systems, as well as in-house creative, prepress and fulfillment services. Category 5 previously used thirdparty services when customers required custom die-cut pieces, which has now been addressed by the Kongsberg installation.
“We decided to add more people in prepress and build
more efficient internal rules and procedures to help feed the presses,” said Greg Priede, Category 5’s General Manager. “But our primary problem was finishing jobs. We were at a point in time where our workload was too much for one shift, but would not keep two shifts busy. Our straight-line roll cutting device helped, but we needed a new table to help get jobs out the door faster.”
The Kongsberg i-XP24 is primarily designed for finishing short-run POP/POS displays. With a maximum working area of 66 x 126 inches and a top rated speed of 66 inches per second, the i-XP cutting system can convert a range of board, sheet and roll materials.
AIIM Acquires Ricoh Document’s Aurora Facility
Avant Imaging & Information Management Inc. of Aurora, Ontario, has acquired the assets of the Aurora print facility of Ricoh Document Management.
The purchase of the Ricoh Document Management (RDM) facility will expand the existing capabilities of Avant Imaging & Information Management (AIIM) in document management and direct-mail services. “The combination of this facility with our current services will widen our offering to our clients enabling us to provide new services and strengthen those that we currently deliver,” said Mario Giorgio, CEO of AIIM. “We look forward to bringing together the two operations to deliver the most comprehensive suite of document management services available.”
Frank Giorgio, President of AIIM, also known as The AIIM Group, explains the acquisition will result in greater efficiencies and significantly increase AIIM’s market share in direct-mail services. The company states it has developed 10 service lines based on the enterprise output chain. Over the past decade, AIIM has also focused on developing branded product offerings like the Web‐to‐print AIIM ConnX application, AIIM ViciMap for geo mapping, and VERUS for Augmented Reality. The AIIM Group operates within an 80,000-square-foot facility with 90 full-time employees. In addition to its data services, the company’s print production blend includes litho, high-speed inkjet and toner printing.
Dave Ellis, President of Ellis Paper Box in Mississauga.
Category 5’s Greg Priede (left) and Joel Upham with the new Kongsberg i-XP24
PRINT MARKET
RP Graphics Installs 40-inch Komori
RP Graphics Group of Mississauga, Ontario, has installed a second 6-colour, 40-inch Komori GL press into its 60,000-square-foot facility, which earlier this year received a new production floor layout plan.
The 40-inch Komori GL, sold by K-North Services, includes a coating unit and is integrated with UV energy curing technology. The company’s first 6-colour Komori GL 40, now with 60 million impressions, was installed a couple of years ago.
It has been a busy year for RP Graphics, which in September 2014 acquired Rhino Print Solutions’ Toronto operations in what the two companies described as a “strategic alliance designed to deliver coast to coast print solutions.” Rhino’s Toronto facility, formerly Marcam Cross Media, is focused on print-on-demand and multichannel communications.
In February 2014, RP Graphics completed the installation of an Agfa M-Press Leopard, which is a fourcolour industrial flatbed inkjet press that runs at 295 square metres per hour in what Agfa classifies as high-quality mode and 171 square metres per hour in fine-art mode.
The installation of the M-Press Leopard began in the second week of January, as RP Graphics was in the midst of creating a new production layout for its 60,000-square-foot facility. A year earlier, RP Graphics stepped deeper into large-format printing with the
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RP Graphics also began a beta-site agreement with Agfa Canada at the beginning of 2014. Agfa Canada builds large-format inkjet systems in a Mississauga plant directly across the street from RP Graphics.
In late-November 2013, PrintAction magazine named George Mazzaferro, Chief Executive Officer of RP Graphics, as the 2013 Printing Leader of the Year in the 8th annual Canadian Printing Awards program (featured in PrintAction’s February 2014 issue).
Cober Installs Canada’s First HP Indigo 7800
Cober Evolving Solutions of Kitchener, Ontario, continues along its path of investment by becoming Canada’s first company to install HP’s new generation Indigo 7800 press.
In late-2013, Cober became Canada’s first operation to run HP’s B2-size Indigo 10000 press, which must be considered as one of the biggest evolutions in digital press technology since the process became mainstream in the late-1990s. HP’s Indigo 10000 series – comprising three models (10000 aimed at commercial, 20000 for flexible packaging materials, and the 30000 for folding-carton) – broke the conventional wisdom that electrophotography would not expand from its traditional sub-20-inch format to a 29-inch format.
The Indigo 7800 press model, first introduced in the summer of 2014, builds on HP’s former flagship Indigo 7000 model with new capabilities for direct printing on synthetic substrates and plastic cards. This is largely possible through HP’s branded One Shot Color technology. The 7800 also holds a new colour management approach with inline spectrophotometry.
The HP Indigo 7800 reaches speeds of 120 fourcolour A4 pages per minute (two-up), 160 A4 colour pages per minute in HP’s Enhanced Productivity Mode (EPM), by knocking out the black channel, and 240 two-colour or monochrome A4 pages per minute (two-up). The Indigo 10000, meanwhile, is rated for a monthly duty cycle of up to 2.2 million sheets, hitting 3,450 sheets per hour or 4,600 sheets per hour in EPM mode.
The Indigo 7800 supports HP Indigo ElectroInk
Digital Matte for spot coating effects on glossy substrates in addition to other special inks, including HP Indigo ElectroInk Invisible Red and Light Black. The press allows for creating special effects like raised print, textured effects and digital watermarks.
In February 2014, Cober purchased Kempenfelt Group and Kempenfelt Wideformat, which resides in nearby Barrie, Ontario. In January 2014, Cober purchased CuteGecko Inc., a design agency based Kitchener, with significant expertise in social media. In 2012, Cober, employing over 120 people, expanded into an 86,000-square-foot facility.
In November 2014, PrintAction magazine presented Peter Cober, President of Cober Evolving Solutions, with the Printing Leader of the Year Award at the 9th annual Canadian Printing Awards gala in Toronto (see page 12).
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Debra Swift, HP Canadian Strategic Account Executive; Martin Anderson, Digital Print Technician, Cober Evolving Solutions; and Dmitry Libin, HP Field Service Engineer with Canada’s first Indigo 7800.
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The PDI Group Enters Wide Format Sector With Trans-optique Acquisition
The PDI Group of Kirkland, Quebec, commits to a new printing sector by acquiring one of the province’s best-known wide-format printing operations, TransOptique based in Montreal’s area of Pointe-Claire.
The sale of Trans-Optique comes as its President, Joe Taddeo, is transitioning into retirement. In addition to producing traditional large-format work, Trans-Optique is recognized for its work in the field of super-large-format printing, such as building wraps, as well as product installation, which further enables PDI to diversify and expand its services.
PDI states the addition of super-wide-format printing is a natural complement to its existing prepress, offset and digital printing, direct mail, as well as fulfillment and distribution services.
“PDI’s customer-centric corporate culture aims to help our clients get their message to market with high quality and consistent visuals,” said Jamie Barbieri,
President of PDI. “With our new oversize wide-format capability, we are adding yet another key component to our service offering, further demonstrating our commitment to providing customers with truly integrated print solutions.”
PDI’s purchase of Trans-Optique comes just a few months after the company picked up assets of Datamark Systems, a 35-year-old documentproduction facility which shut down in March 2014. This move allowed PDI to expand its already substantial presence in data-driven printing. A year earlier, PDI became the first printing operation in Eastern Canada to install the new Kodak NexPress SX3300, with dimensional and metallic printing capabilities.
Trans-Optique positions itself as a one-stop shop for large-format work with services like production on silkscreen, offset, digital, paint jet, inkjet and
Howard Graphic to Collaborate with Versatech
Howard Graphic Equipment entered into a new business collaboration with Versatech Press Electronic Service in relation to Komori press technology.
As part of the new deal, Versatech acquires Howard Graphic Equipment’s (HGE) Komori spare parts inventory, which the companies state to hold a value of more than $350,000.
“I have known John Simons for 25 years,” said Nick Howard. “During that time, we have enjoyed working together on various projects and I find, as do many, John’s excellent knowledge of the Komori platform amazing.” HGE and Versatech also announced the two long-
standing companies have agreed to utilize Versatech’s services in relation to servicing Komori presses in Canada. HGE, currently in its 47th year of operation, is based in Mississauga, Ontario, and focused on the sale and refurbishment of printing machinery, which primarily relates to sheetfed offset presses.
“I’m looking forward to being able to continue offering, not only exceptionally priced spare parts, but also to work with HGE on installations and repairs of Komori machinery,” stated John Simons, whose company is based in Stratford, Ontario, just outside of the Greater Toronto Area.
self-adhesive lettering. PDI describes itself as the largest independent sheetfed printing company in Quebec, providing premedia, offset and digital print production, Web-to-print, as well as fulfillment, warehousing and direct-mail services to clients in Quebec, across the rest of Canada, and in the United States.
“I have been working in this industry for 35 years, and with the Trans-Optique employees since 1988 to build this company into the market leader that it is today,” said Joe Taddeo. “As I will be retiring, it was important to me to ensure that Trans-Optique and its employees were in good hands, to continue both to serve our clientele and to grow the business. I am confident that the PDI team is up to the task.”
Broadmoore Stationers Installs
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Broadmoore Stationers & Copy Center of Sherwood Park, Alberta, has installed a new Xerox Versant 2100 press. Introduced in early 2014, the Versant 2100 is rated for a top production speed of 100 pages per minute (ppm) when running substrate weights from 52 to 300 GSM, as well weights of above 300 to 350 GSM at 80 ppm, which can include unique stocks like linen, polyester, vinyl magnet and specialties. The Versant 2100 prints with what Xerox labels as new Ultra HD Resolution, in which reproductions are rendered at 1,200 x 1,200 dpi at up to 10 bits. For registration, the Versant 2100 uses what Xerox brands as Production Accurate Registration and Full Width Array technology. The press is rated for an average monthly print volume of between 75,000 to 250,000 pages, with a duty cycle of 660,000 impressions.
Broadmoore provides a range of commercial print services, such as both colour and blackand-white printing, banners and stands, posters, signs (wide format), scanning, graphic design, binding and laminating.
John Simons of Versatech (left) and Nick Howard of Howard Graphic Equipment.
Broadmoore is located on the eastern edge of Edmonton.
Evolution of the 700
During the first week of November, Manroland Sheetfed proudly unveiled its new Roland 700 Evolution press to over 450 curious guests at its corporate headquarters in Offenbach, Germany. The machine is Manroland’s first new press in four years and follows the company’s 2012 acquisition in insolvency and restructuring by Langley Holdings PLC, a UK-based engineering group and global provider of highly diverse capital equipment.
The company reports that its new Evolution press is designed with a sleek, futuristic look and many new technological developments aimed to give printers unprecedented levels of efficiency, productivity, operation and quality. These improvements are consistent with the research-and-development targets Manroland Sheetfed CEO Rafael Penuela Torres outlined to PrintAction when describing his company’s restructuring (August 2014, The New Press Builder), including increased user-friendliness, maximum machine performance and maximum uptime for printers.
Specific new features highlighted through demonstrations at the Offenbach unveiling and in the company’s prospectus for the Evolution press include:
• Completely redesigned cylinder-roller bearings with separate bearings for radial and axial rotation to provide better absorption of vibrations, fewer doubling effects, longer bearing life, and improved print quality;
• A newly designed central console that replaces buttons with touchscreen panels, provides more detailed graphical information, and offers comfort adjustments for left- and right-handed users and operators of different body heights;
• A mobile app that allows printers to see the press’ production while they are on the move;
• A new feeder pile transport designed to provide a smooth upward motion of the pile-carrying plate and improved sheet travel from the feeder to delivery, resulting in fewer interruptions, less start-up waste, and reduced walking distances to the feeder;
• Solid fixing of the suction head to reduce vibration and wear, while ensuring safer sheet separation and higher average printing speeds;
• All-new dampening units for greater solidity and fewer roller vibrations during passing of the plate cylinder channel and fewer stripes;
• Software for practice-oriented roller washing cycles that reduces downtime with more precise dosage of the dampening solution over the entire width, reducing the possibility of skewing the dampening dosage roller;
• A new three-phase AC motor providing high power output with lower energy consumption;
• A new chambered doctor blade system for producing gloss effects. With additional options, this system provides higher solidity over the entire width of the doctor blade and a more even varnish application. It also provides improved absorption of vibrations of the Anilox roller and doctor blade, caused by passing the coating form cylinder, and results in fewer stripes, especially in combination with pigmented varnish; and
• Newly developed suction belt sheet brake technology provides higher printing speeds combined with improved sheet alignment and tail edge stabilization, resulting in a more even pile contour and reduced risk of misaligned sheets in the delivery pile.
Practical demonstrations of the Evolution press were provided in the company’s Print Technology Center in German, with simultaneous translation available in half a dozen languages via ear sets for guests from all over Europe and Russia, as well as Canada. A further highlight was a tour of the company’s impressive press-building facilities, where the workers’ high skill levels were obvious. Hans Hassold, Head of Regional Sales, explained how Germany’s apprenticeship system helps ensure that Manroland Sheetfed’s foundry and factory workers are well qualified both in terms of their skill sets and their understanding of the practical requirements of industry. He said over half of German students aged about 16 to 18 opt into what is called a dual education system because it splits training between the classroom and the workplace. These students apply for training contracts with employers and, if accepted, spend two to four years training with a company while also receiving a taxpayer-subsidized education designed to meet industry needs.
In fact, most dual-system students are hired upon completion of their training,
contributing to a youth unemployment rate in Germany of eight percent (versus 14 percent in Canada.) The dual system requires employers to work co-operatively rather than adversarially with government and unions and to effect a certain amount of compromise with these third parties in their operations. In exchange, they receive a consistent supply of new workers who are equipped with precisely the skills and knowledge their companies need.
Although the German apprenticeship system is not perfect and is under review, it is cited as a factor in the success of Germany’s economy being able to keep its manufacturing base, instead of relying on just providing services, and at retaining its manufacturing jobs for nationals instead of farming them out to workers in foreign countries with lower labour costs like China. Thus the apprenticeship system has also been credited with contributing to Germany’s unemployment rate of 5.2 percent, less than half that of Europe as a whole.
By contrast, Canada’s unemployment rate is 7.2 percent, and studies indicate that only about half of the more than 400,000 registered Canadian apprentices actually complete their programs for reasons ranging from the high cost of classroom training for students who are not being paid to concerns about job prospects when they graduate. And although it is becoming increasingly difficult for Canadian employers to find enough skilled workers, only about 20 percent of Canadian skilled-trade employers are actually hiring and training apprentices, while investment in employee training among Canadian companies has fallen nearly 40 percent since 1993.
The Roland 700 Evolution unveiling also included a video testimonial from Samson Druck GmbH, a general commercial printer in Austria and the first Evolution press owner. Samson Druck has invested in Manroland press technology for 22 years and currently has four presses with a total of 34 printing units. Founded in 1978 by Erich Aichhorn, the family company is also one of the largest employers in the area with 100 staff members.
The Roland 700 Evolution press, among a raft of new developments, features redesigned cylinder-roller bearings.
Manroland Sheetfed CEO Rafael Penuela (right) announced Samson Druck GmbH, represented by Managing Director Gerhard Aichhorn, as the first 700 Evolution owner.
Tony Langley, Chairman and CEO of Langley Holdings, was present to provide a closing summary to guests. Langley first established his engineering group in 1975. Today, Langley Holdings comprises five principal operating divisions located in Germany, France, and the UK; more than 70 subsidiaries in the Americas, Europe, The Far East, and Australasia; and over 4,000 employees worldwide.
Langley Holdings’ products run an extremely wide gamut from food-packaging equipment to electrical systems for data centres, machinery for cement plants, automotive welding equipment, and house construction. The group operates free of debt with substantial cash reserves, typically grows by acquiring under-performing businesses, and takes pride in never having sold a company it acquired. In 2013 it posted a profit before tax of €91 million.
The fact that Langley maintains a relatively low profile contrasts with his colourful presence. He is 6 feet 5 inches tall, largely self-taught in engineering, and pilots his own airplane, helicopter and racing yacht, Gladiator. (In this fall’s Les Voiles de St Tropez regatta, Gladiator came in second to the Enfant Terrible helmed by HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark.)
Accompanying Langley to Offenbach was his eldest son, Bernard Langley, who joined Langley Holdings in 2012 to become the fifth generation of the family to come into the engineering business.
The same week as the unveiling, Langley Holdings entered into an agreement to acquire the German print chemicals group DruckChemie, which had gone into administration for insolvency in September. DruckChemie is one of Europe’s leading producers of print chemicals, accessories, and waste reprocessing and recycling services, with sites throughout Europe, as well as in Brazil, Dubai and Mexico.
Michael Mugavero, Managing Director and CEO of Manroland North America, commented in an e-mail, after the 700 Evolution unveiling: “Integral in what we hope visitors come to identify with while touring our home in Germany, is the competency Manroland has to develop and deliver tangible value for our customers.”
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The Flexo industry is evolving. Do you have the right partners to take your business into the future?
Packaging and great printing influence consumers when purchasing products. At Anderson & Vreeland, we understand this process and apply our experience, knowledge and best-in-class products to create custom solutions for flexographers. Our sales and technology consultants focus on understanding printer’s individual needs so your shop has the right technology for your
specific business, including CTP, color matching, digital printing on demand and more.
The flexo market is rapidly changing to meet increasing demands of the consumer package goods market. Finding the right partners today is key to building a print shop that’ll meet demands of the future.
The Roland 700 Evolution was built in Manroland’s factory in Offenbach, Germany.
Much of the precision found in Manroland’s sheetfed presses is driven by specialized metal-working machinery like the M 100 Millturn.
The 9Th AnnuAl CAnAdiAn PrinTing AwArds
Celebrating world-class production, environmental leadership and four inspiring leaders
PrintAction’s 9th annual Canadian Printing Awards program is designed to celebrate the best of this country’s dynamic printing community, including four leaders who received Industry Achievement Awards: Printing Leader of the Year, Emerging Leader of the Year, Community Leader of the Year, and the John A. Young Lifetime Achievement Award. The four winners were recognized during a gala event held in early November in Greater Toronto. More than 225 entries also vied for Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards in the program’s
Industry Achievement Award winners
Carl Pauptit, Peter Cober, Don Gain and Nikos Kallas
Quality Printing categories, as determined by a 16-member judging panel that spent a full day evaluating the projects in a blind scoring system. Production details of the Gold Award winning projects are shared here to highlight how Canadian companies continue to push the value of craftsmanship into their finely tuned manufacturing platforms. The Canadian Printing Awards program also continued to celebrate its roots by recognizing the world-leading environmental initiatives of three Canadian companies in the category of Most Environmentally Progressive Printing Company.
Photos by: Neil Ta, Neilta.ca
Carl Pauptit Founder, Flash Reproductions
John A. Young lifeTime AChievemenT AwArd
Presented to an individual who has made significant, pioneering contributions to the printing industry over their career.
In 2009, Flash Reproductions celebrated its 40th anniversary, which also marked the retirement of its founder, Carl Pauptit, who drove commercial-printing excellence into the Toronto market, as the industry made huge transformations from letterpress to offset litho to digital prepress.
Above all, Pauptit is well known for developing client relationships and ultimately Flash’s brand in the creative community, which remains at the heart of today’s Flash Reproductions. Whether using offset, UV screen or digital processes, Flash’s expertise draws in a range of clients from small design firms to large companies looking for modern printing craftsmanship.
Attention to the craft at Flash continues to be seen through its dedicated letterpress department, which Carl’s son Rich remembers first learning from his father nearly 20 years ago. Rich Pauptit became President of Flash in 2009 after Carl’s retirement and continues to push this mainstay of Toronto’s printing landscape into the future.
PrinTing leAder of The YeAr
Presented to an inspiring leader in Canada’s printing industry who has an excellent track record in business and demonstrates innovation.
Founded in 1916, Cober Evolving Solutions is a fourth-generation printing company with deep roots in sheetfed lithography. Over its history, Cober Evolving Solutions has had many Canadian printing industry firsts.
Most recently, this has focused on the development of digital printing with the installation of Canada’s first HP Indigo 10000 press, and just a few of weeks ago, the country’s first Indigo 7800. Upwards of 90 percent of work reaching the company’s Indigos is driven through Web-to-print portals.
In 2012, Cober Evolving Solutions, after a branding transition away from its historic Cober Printing name, moved into a new 86,000-square-foot facility in Kitchener, home to more than 120 employees. In February 2014, Cober continued its expansion with the purchase of Kempenfelt Graphics. In January 2014, Cober acquired a five-year-old design agency called CuteGecko primarily because of its expertise in social-media. Through Peter’s leadership, Cober Evolving Solutions is engaging clients in all facets of graphic communications and adapting to the realities of today’s market.
emerging leAder of The YeAr
Presented to an inspiring young leader in Canada’s printing industry under the age of 35, who demonstrates a strong vision for the future.
Nikos Kallas became President of MET in January 2011, succeeding his father George who became Chairman of the company. MET was founded in 1977 and remains as one of North America’s mostinspiring companies continually pushing the boundaries of printing innovation in terms of technology and strategy.
Kallas, who graduated from The University of Western with a Bachelor degree in Economics, brings a pragmatic business approach to MET, as well as an understanding of today’s changing communications market. He served as MET’s Business Development Manager since 2006, but, like many of today’s emerging industry leaders, has an intimate understanding of the printing business after spending hours after school and summer holidays in the shop.
Today, at age 34, Kallas has led key new initiatives like MET Resources, to push beyond world-class lithography, as well as MET FX research and development. Kallas has a passion for the sales side of printing, inspired by one of the Canadian printing industry’s most knowledge and creative teams. He remains committed to MET’s carbon-neutral production and works closely with BCIT’s printing program.
The T imes They Ar
CommuniTY leAder of The YeAr
Presented to an individual whose community development has a positive and lasting effect on the printing industry.
Effective December 1st
Harmony Printing of Toronto is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Gain purchased Harmony from its founders 26 years ago. He has been on the board of CPISTF for 12 years and served as its Chair for the last nine years. In its most recent year, CPISTF awarded $52,500 in scholarships across Canada to post-secondary students, who are pursuing graphic communications education. CPISTF was initiated in 1971 and has
Gain has also been very active with printing industry associations. Over a 20-year period, he has served on and chaired the Government Affairs Committee and the Board of Directors for both the Canadian Printing Industries Association and Ontario Printing
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He was also instrumental in establishing the dedicated building for Ryerson University’s Graphic Communications Management (GCM) program. Last year, GCM had 570 full-time students, making it North America’s largest such undergraduate program. Gain both served on the GCM Building’s Fundraising Committee and contributed to the project. He continues to serve on GCM’s Advisory Board.
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CAnAdiAn PrinTing AwArds gAlA
Gold, Silver and Bronze Award winners in the 9th annual Canadian Printing Awards
A sold-out crowd of 245 people attended PrintAction’s 9th annual Canadian Printing Awards gala held on November 6 at the Hilton Garden Inn’s Toscana Conference Centre in Vaughan, Ontario. The evening was hosted by Heather Hiscox of CBC News and featured the presentation of more than 80 awards.
Tina and Bob Staz of Annex Business Media with John Story of Spicers Canada.
Rob Tucci of Friesens, Matthew Alexander of Colour Innovations, and Nikos Kallas of MET Fine Printers.
Dirk Ottevangers of Hemlock Printers.
Patrick Coyne of Lowe-Martin and Louise Kralka of The PDI Group celebrate their cross-media programs.
Mickey and Don Gain of Harmony Printing with PrintAction Publisher, Sara Young.
HP Canada’s Harold Leete, Sonia Grobanopoulos and Danny Ionescu.
Hemlock’s Dirk Ottevangers, Veritiv’s Stéphane Dagenais, Symcor’s Raymond Low and Patrick Coyne of Lowe-Martin.
Canadian Printing Awards gala host, Heather Hiscox. Ingersoll Paperbox’ Jessica Caldeira and Sarah Skinner with Masterwork USA’s Carol Jiang.
Mirjana Suric of Polytainers, Rob Tucci of Friesens with Michael Renaud of Lowe-Martin.
Chris Johnston (right) of Jones Packaging.
Sera Biancucci of Manroland Canada looks over some of the 225 entries.
Tony Karg of Ricoh Canada.
Ray Kapoor of Spectrol, Randy Ford of Deco Labels and James Li of Jones Packaging.
Amyleigh Wood of Lowe-Martin, David Allen of Rhino Print, and Scott Willock of Somerset Graphics.
KBA’s Walter Churma and Mark Norlock with Graham Douglas of Fujifilm Canada.
Jessica Meneguzzi of Mi5 Print, Dave Adams of C.J. Graphics and Peter Madliger of Hemlock.
Rachel Deirolf of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and Charles David Mathieu-Poulin of Transcontinental.
Veritiv’s Lindsay Ireland and Avi Sehgal.
The Lowe-Martin team celebrates its impressive night, including Best of Show.
Greg Running of Kodak Canada and David Allen of Rhino Print.
Heather Hiscox and Carl Pauptit of Flash Reproductions.
Samantha Tully of Ryerson GCM is recognized for receiving CPISTF’s 2014 Warren Wilkins Scholarship.
George Mazzaferro of RP Graphics.
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More than 225 entries vied for Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards in the 9th annual Canadian Printing Awards program, which involved 25 categories divided into quality printing and environmentally progressive printing.
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The Lowe-Martin Group, ottawa, Haunted Canada Stamp Booklet
Production:
This project for Canada Post Corporation involved producing 400,000 booklets, plus 24,000 die-cut stripes of five stamps from the booklet. It was printed at 10-micron stochastic on a Heidelberg CD 102 as a 6-colour job, including 4-colour process, a special and Taggant. Finishing processes involved holographic foiling, kiss-cutting, cutting and folding.
1 Most Environmentally Progressive Printing Company
GoLd: HEMLoCk PRINTERS, BuRNABy, BC
Within the award program’s period of eligibility alone, Hemlock’s environmental initiatives included participation in the GLOBE 2014 Supply Chain Map Development conference; Burnaby Board of Trade Environmental Pledge Program, as a founding sponsor; and the Canadian Business for Social Responsibility transformational business event. Hemlock conducted its ninth Waste Audit (Dumpster Dive), where nine employees sorted two days worth (27.75 pounds) of landfill bound waste. Two additional staff members completed the Climate Smart training program. Hemlock launched its Coronado100 program to sell the first paper in the North America as a fully carbon-neutral product and introduced Step Forward Paper to the Vancouver marketplace. Its Sustainability Committee organized a Byrne Creek Clean-up event.
Silver: The Lowe-Martin Group, Ottawa, ON Bronze: Symcor ISS, Mississauga, ON
2 Brochures & Booklets, offset (1 to 3 colours)
GoLd: C.J. GRAPHICS, CENTRIC MINING SySTEMS
Production: This 1,500-piece stochastic project ran on a Heidelberg XL 105 press. It is produced with SupremeSi FSC 115-lb paper and Hostmann-Steinberg inks, including OA AQ coating on two sides, as well as soft-touch coating.
Silver: Priority Printing, The Famous Five Bronze: Priority Printing, Canadian Business Leader Dinner Program 2
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Stationery
GoLd: MET FINE PRINTERS, RATIo STATIoNERy PACkAGE
Production: This 1,000-piece ran at 240-lpi on a MAN Roland 700 UV press, using an additional Match UV Grey, Match UV Orange and black for the booklet, which also included a seal varnish coating. It was printed on Mohawk Superfine Eggshell cover and text. Finishing involved kiss cutting the 4-up labels, as well as a die-cut notch in letterhead and business cards. MET edge painted all items to match. It includes a painted letterhead footer, while the stitched booklet includes a radius corner with critical crossovers.
Silver: Rhino Print Solutions, Intact Financial Silver: The Lowe-Martin Group, TIFF Invitation Bronze: Somerset Graphics, Fuse Cards and Promotions
4 Self Promotion, printing company
GoLd: RHINo PRINT SoLuTIoNS, dISCovER THE PoSSIBILITIES
Production: This 1,000-run project involves a complex design where every image, every page is printed with a unique technique involving touch plates, different papers, spot masking, gloss or matte varnishes. It was produced with multiple press passes and a range of digital presses in Rhino’s Vancouver and Calgary locations. The job’s substrate range included 120-lb Navajo cover, 78-lb Topkote Gloss cover, 100-lb pacesetter Silk Cover, 130-lb Topkote Gloss cover, 100-lb Topkote Gloss text, 100-lb Lunx cover, 30-lb UV ultra Clearfold, and 110-lb Mohawk Options i-Tone Smooth cover Discover the Possibilities was printed using a 6-colour Heidelberg CD 102, HP Indigo, Kodak NexPress 2100 and Ricoh Pro C901. Hostmann-Steinberg inks were used in a CMYK process, in addition to as many as 10 Pantone colours, plus dry trap gloss varnish and dry trap satin varnish. It is finished with multi-dimensional die-cutting, silver-foil stamping, clear-foil stamping, red-foil stamping, emboss, deboss, staggered scoring and side sewn.
Silver: Hemlock Printers, UV Sales Kit
Bronze: Cover and Pages, Cover and Pages Presentation Box
5 Business Cards
GoLd: SoMERSET GRAPHICS, y CREATIvE CARd
Production: : This 250-piece run on a waterless KBA Genius UV press is produced at a 200 line-screen in two colours, plus Pantone silver, Rhubine Red and soft-touch aqueous coating. It was printed on Cougar Opaque Smooth 100-lb cover, duplexed. Somerset explains its primary challenge was to ensure accurate registration of the job’s three foil colours, including Clear, Silver and Pink.
Production: This 1,300-piece run printed on an HP Indigo 7500 features an invitation, using 84-lb Classic Linen cover and a sleeve, using Silver Foil board C15 16-pt. The invitation features a sapphire coating, while the sleeve was laser cut.
Hemlock explains a foil board was chosen that was not certified for digital printing. To use the specified substrate, Hemlock applied a surface treatment, followed by HP ink and laser die-cutting. The pearlescent inside text required surface treatment followed by 4-colour process.
Silver: C.J. Graphics, Bua Thai Menu Bronze: C.J. Graphics, Rotman, A New Way to Think Brochure
7 Brochures & Booklets, offset (4 or more colours)
GoLd: PdI, LovE SouvENIR PRoGRAMME
Production: This 2,000-piece run was printed stochastically 4/4 on a Heidelberg XL 105 press, using Supreme Silk 93-lb cover and Hostmann-Steinberg inks, as well as Satin aqueous coating and spot UV for the cover. Finishing included die-cut and glue sleeve and perfect binding. There was a knockout aqueous coating applied to the inside of the cover’s spin, as well as lap areas.
8 GoLd: HEMLoCk PRINTERS, CITTI BRoCHuRE
Production: This 1,500-piece run on a six-colour Heidelberg XL 106 was printed 5/5 with HostmannSteinberg inks, as well as gloss UV coating, drip-off matte, and UV varnish spot. It was printed on 95-lb Topkote Gloss cover and 80-lb Topkote Gloss text and finished with embossing, die-cutting and saddlestitching.
Hemlock explains this project’s main challenge is the critical reproduction of the PMS orange, while applying both gloss and matte treatments, die-cutting and embossing. The project’s heavy coverage and specialty treatment presented risks in the bindery, explains Hemlock, so it was important to focus on the creasing profiles to avoid cracking on the folds.
Silver: Hemlock, Station Square
Silver: Wellington Printworks, Village Park Executive Townhomes
Silver: Colour Innovations, Lexus RCF
Bronze: C.J. Graphics, Infiniti 2014 QX60
Bronze: Somerset, FWD Condominiums
Bronze: MET Fine Printers, Trump Vancouver Book & Envelope
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Books, offset, softcover
THE LowE-MARTIN GRouP, dR. SoANES’ oddIToRIuM oF woNdERS
Production: This 700-piece run was printed in a stochastic 4-colour process on a 10-colour MAN Roland press. It uses Classic Crest 100-lb, HannoArt Silk 115-lb and Flint Arrowstar inks. The job features a foil stamped cover and is perfect bound. Lowe-Martin explains it had to work with the designer to refine the cover artwork, such as increasing the thickness of some lines and moving some elements a bit further apart, to ensure the foil stamping would work well.
Silver: C.J. Graphics, Mildred’s Temple Kitchen Cookbook, Out to Brunch
Bronze: Veritiv, Digital Papers Swatch Book
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Books, offset, hardcover
GoLd: FRIESENS, uP NoRTH
Production: This 4,000-piece run on a MAN Roland press was printed at 200-lpi on 100-lb Sterling Premium paper. It was printed in a 4-colour process with spot coating.
Silver: Colour Innovations, Lexus Coffee Table Book
Silver: Friesens, Oldest Living Things
Bronze: Friesens, Salon Pore
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Finishing, offset
GoLd: SoMERSET, Fwd CoNdoMINIuMS
Production: This 5,000-piece run, using an FM screen, is printed on a KBA Rapida 105 with Invercoat Creato cover 13.6-pt and Utopia 2 Matte 65-lb, both with Pantone applied to each side, using Flint inks. The perfect-bound project features gloss and matte line UV varnishes throughout. The cover is laser cut and black-foil stamped. Somerset explains its biggest
challenge was ensuring accurate registration across multiple bindery operations.
Silver: MET Fine Printers, Nike 5 Principals GOLD Book
Bronze: Somerset, University of Toronto, Research & Innovation
12 Business & Annual Reports
GoLd: HEMLoCk PRINTERS, TECk ANNuAL REPoRT
Production: This 16,000-piece run was produced – in a first-time process – at 20-micron on a 6-colour Heidelberg XL106, 6-colour SM102 and 8-colour SM102. It uses 100-lb McCoy Silk cover, 100-lb McCoy Silk text and 50-lb Enviro 100 text for a second text portion produced 2/2. PUR perfect bound, the cover and main text were printed at 5/5 using HostmannSteinberg and Heidelberg Saphira inks. It includes gloss UV coating, soft touch UV coating, drip off matte, and UV varnish.
Hemlock explains it needed to accomplish the front cover treatment without taking any time for postpress processes, which meant the company avoided clear foil or silkscreen, and completed all processes in the pressroom by glossing the cover with UV touch coating. Hemlock then used a spot flexo plate to apply a thick layer of gloss UV coating.
Silver: Lowe-Martin, Gravitas Prospectus Bronze: Somerset Graphics, Guardian Capital Group 2013
13 direct Mail
GoLd: C.J. GRAPHICS, oNE wINdERMERE, doN’T BE BEIGE
Production: This 2,000-piece run was printed stochastically 4/4 on a Heidelberg XL 105 press, using Supreme Silk 93-lb cover and Hostmann-Steinberg inks, as well as Satin aqueous coating and spot UV for the cover. Finishing included die-cut and glue sleeve and perfect binding. There was a knockout aqueous coating applied to the inside of the cover’s spin, as well as lap areas.
GoLd: ST. JoSEPH, PRINT GRouP, kELSEy’S: doN’T woRRy, EAT HAPPy
Production: This 80,400-piece run was printed at 175lpi 4/4 (both flyer and card) on a 12-unit Heidelberg Speedmaster press, using Gusto Gloss 80-lb cover and Tango 220-lb C2S 18-pt stock – both of which are FSC certified – and Hostmann-Steinberg inks, as well as gloss aqueous coating on the gift card.
St. Joseph explains this project required many finishing processes and the added challenge of having a gift card fugitive glued to a carrier processed through Canada post. Finishing processes included die-crease, fold to size, clip seal (clear with perf), and data processing for Canada Post.
Silver: Colour Innovations, Legacy Estates, Skylaw Direct Mail
Bronze: C.J. Graphics, Open House Invitation
14 Finishing, digital
GoLd: MET FINE PRINTERS, NIkE RuNNING JouRNAL
Production: This 400-piece run used Mohawk Superfine Eggshell 80-lb text and a classic crest Epic Black bellyband. Finishing of the Smythe Sewn project, with exposed edges, involved 17 unique laser die-cut pages with images or content, laid out in a fashion where the laser release works with gold pages and the clean side with black pages for optimal effect. The laser die-cut elements on 80-lb text weight stock, explains MET, created havoc with sheet integrity, folding in parallel eights, critical lineups and crossovers required hand gather prior to signature sewing. The smallest detail, such as the signature spin colour, had to be tested for continuity. Multiple rounds of testing for the optimal laser die-cut details on a group of historic Nike footwear created a peekaboo effect for maximum impact.
Silver: Cover and Pages, Cover and Pages Presentation Box
Bronze: C.J. Graphics, Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games Certificate Book & Envelope
Production: This 50,000-piece run (quarterly magazine) was printed 10-micron stochastic on a 40-inch Heidelberg Speedmaster using Supreme Gloss 14-pt cover and Flo Matte 80-lb text. The PUR perfect-bound magazine, also uses Hostmann-Steinberg inks in a 4/4 process and is finished with cover OPP gloss lamination.
Silver: Colour Innovations, Polo & More Barbados 2014
Silver: Mi5 Print & Digital Communications, Applied Arts, September/October 2014
Bronze: C.J. Graphics, Designedge Canada
Calendars
GoLd: FRIESENS, FRIESENS ENGAGEMENT CALENdAR
Production: This 6,800-piece run was printed at 200-lpi on an 8-colour Heidelberg press. It was printed 5/5 plus gloss varnish for text.
Silver: Mi5 Print, Mi5 Promotion
Silver: Friesens, Ultimate Sailing 2014
Bronze: C.J. Graphics, Toronto Parks & Trees Foundation
Catalogues
GoLd: HEMLoCk PRINTERS, douGLAS CoLLEGE INTERNATIoNAL vIEwBook
Production: This 7,000-piece run was printed 20-micron stochastic on a 6-colour Heidelberg XL106 with 120-lb McCoy Gloss cover and 100-lb McCoy Gloss text. Both portions were printed 4/4 using Hostmann-Steinberg inks, Gloss UV coating, soft-touch UV coating, drip off matte UV varnish. Finishing includes emboss, foil and PUR perfect binding.
The cover treatment needed to be tactile, which Hemlock accomplished with UV soft-touch coating emboss and gold foil. The inside needed high gloss on the imagery, Hemlock explains, but dull on the reverse text to make it easier on the eye. This was accomplished with a dull reticulated effect on the reserve text panels.
Silver: Mi5 Print, Heys Künstler-Serien Artist Series
Silver: Hemlock Printers, Fluxwerx
Bronze: C.J. Graphics, Grand Marnier, A simple guide to Grand Cocktails
web offset Printing
GoLd: ST. JoSEPH, PRINT GRouP, AudI MAGAzINE, FEBRuARy 2014
Production: This 130,177-piece run was printed 4/4 on three presses, including a 6-unit MAN Roland Rotoman S, 4-unit Rotoman S and Mitsubishi Diamond L1100. The perfect-bound project used Hostmann-Steinberg inks and featured
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Production: This 10,000-piece run was produced at 175-lpi HD on an Arsoma EM510S press, using PET substrates and Z&G inks. It uses a 10-colour approach. Spectrol explains its primary challenge was applying foil in the eyes (reversed web for doming compound). The company states the process used resulted in better print than what could have been accomplished with gravure.
Silver: Jones Packaging, Billy Bee Sleeve
Silver: Spectrol, Argan Oil Shampoo
Bronze: Deco Label, Heinz, Fall In-store Base Wrap
Rigid Packaging
30 Production Drive Scarborough, Ontario, Canada M1H 2X8 www.bdprint.com
GoLd: THE LowE-MARTIN GRouP, BuTTERFLIES oF CANAdA #2, REd SPoTTEd PuRPLE
Production: This 10,500-piece run was printed at 10-micron on a 10-colour Heidelberg CD 102, for the box, and a 6-colour CD 103 for the lenticular. The box uses Printkote C2S 20pt, while the 100-dpi lenticular piece includes foil in the eyes, reversed web for doming compound, both in a 4-colour process. Finishing involved a stamp-able gloss lamination, deboss, die-cut and glue to final. Lowe-Martin points to challenges like cutting the lenticular into small lifts, hand affixing the lenticular to the debossed square and matching the image crossovers from the lenticular to the box. The lenticular application was 17 frames of movement.
Silver: Friesens, Gillette Venus Snap
Silver: Polytainers, The Greek Gods Honey Salted Caramel Bronze: Polytainers, La Yogurt Banana
Labels, offset GoLd: THE Low MARTIN GRou HAuNTEd CANA STAMP Book
Production: See Best of Show, page 18
Silver: The Lowe-Martin Group, Honouring Canada’s NHL Teams, Mini Panes Bronze: C.J. Graphics, Crown Royal Labels
Labels, flexography or gravure
GoLd: ARTCRAFT
LABEL, REdSToNE CHARdoNNAy
Production: This 20,000-foot run is printed 150 lpi on a Nilpeter FB3300 press, including four colours plus three varnishes. It uses 70-lb Bright White Felt, 44-lb pk as well as Sun Chemical environmentally progressive ink, UV Matte varnish, UV gloss varnish, UV tactile varnish. Finishing involved inline embossing (plates provided by Trinity Graphics) and inline die-cutting with Rotometrics
The challenge of this label, according to Artcraft, was to combine different finishes, gloss, matte and tactile effects. The customer wanted a rough tactile finish for the Red Stone, area but found a screen tactile varnish too intense. Artcraft explains it experimented with raised varnish and added various screen to the varnish plate to create the rough texture without a glossy finish. The shovel and bricks are embossed to create a different tactile feel and the shovel is varnished in a gloss to illuminate it under shelf lighting.
GoLd: JoNES
PACkAGING, FoRTy CREEk CoPPER PoT FACE LABEL
Production: This 180,000-piece run is printed at 150-lpi (2,400-dpi) seven colours on a Galius EM280, using Raflatac Cast Gloss, 1.2-mil PET liner. It also used Sun Chemical SunCure UV Flexo inks, UV coating, inline hot stamping, inline embossing and inline die-cutting.
Jones explains the label was a conversion from litho to flexo. The attempt to achieve a metallic copper look, while having a subtle “40” image in the background involved the use of silver metallic ink overprinted by two different bases of beige. The label is also embossed but, rather than using expensive solid dies, Jones used hard durometer letterpress printing plates where a male/female plate combination is mounted to the cylinders on the press.
Silver: Spectrol, Oliver Wines, Birds
Bronze: Hood Packaging, Metro Brands, Irresistibles Min
Specialty Project
GoLd: MET FINE PRINTERS, vANCouvER HouSE
Production: This 2,000-piece run on a MAN Roland 700 UV press, using Topkote Dull cover and Cougar Smooth text papers, featured CMYK plus Match Copper, Match Grey and Match fluorescent. For finishing, the cover sheet includes sculpted multi-level emboss, register cooper and black foils. Text pages were signature sewn, gathered, end leaves tipped on. Cover board was mounted to end leaves, leaving release on spine so lay-flat functionality is intact. It was three knife trimmed to create clean edges. MET explains the primary challenge was creating the lay-flat functionality with no hinge score on covers, retaining incredibly deep multilevel sculpted emboss/foils on cover with clean face trims revealing white board cover material.
Silver: Colour Innovations, CPC NHL 2013 Series 1 Collector’s Album
Silver: Friesens, Oldest Living Things
Bronze: Colour Innovations, CPC Empress of Ireland, 100th Anniversary Collection
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Production: This 2,350-piece run consisted of three components: The Art of Magazine cover was printed on 100-lb satin text, text pages on 70-lb stock, and guitar insert printed on 80-lb silk cover, while the lenticular guitar was printed on 40-lpi lens. The magazine was printed 20-micron, while the guitar insert was printed 600- dpi and the lenticular guitar was printed 601.183 dpi. The magazine was printed on a Harris heatset (double web) with Sun Chemical SunLit Triumph Series Inks, and the text was printed on the 4-colour MAN Roland Rotoman heatset single web. The guitar insert was printed on a NexPress S2500 using Kodak Dry Inks and the lenticular guitar on the Acuity Advance using Fuji Uvijet inks.
The project was used at the Art of Marketing Conference in Toronto. LoweMartin placed an ad in the magazine that was handed out to all attendees. On the ad page, they attached the guitar insert, which advertised five draws for book bundles. The inset also contained a QR code which attendees could scan in order to enter the draw. They also had the option to go to a PURL site to enter or bring the insert to the booth.
Silver: PDI, 13+1 essential Ingredients
Specialty Effects
GoLd: MET FINE PRINTERS, CoNCoRd PREMIuM ESTATES & ESTATE SuITES BookS
Production: The 2,500-piece run is printed at 250 lpi on a MAN Roland 700 full UV. Its text pages applied CMYK, Match Copper, spot reticulated matte and overall UV ultra-gloss coating. The cover features a double hit metallic, laminate with 1.5-mil soft-touch film and offline raised UV gloss ink. Finishing involved offline raise UV gloss, foil stamp, emboss and die-cut collate, then perfect bound.
MET explains the client requested both soft-touch finish and a striking raised gloss designed details, as well as register copper foil and embossing on the cover. MET tested various substrates and settled on an offline spot gloss UV in combination with soft-touch film laminate.
Most Environmentally Progressive Printing Project GoLd: C.J. GRAPHICS, uNTIL THE LAST CHILd
Production: This 50-piece run, primarily printed on a Heidelberg GTO, involved a box with black linen on the outside and charcoal grey linen on the inside, while the prints were on 80-lb, colophon on 100-lb, letter on 100-lb, book on 100-lb and translucent sheet on 36-lb stock. The Colophon and letter were printed at 10and 20-micron, using Van Son’s Sona Dry inks, without any coatings.
Silver: The Lowe-Martin Group,
BINdERy oPERAToR
Full-time bindery operator wanted. We will train the right candidate, although some background in print production a definite asset. Moveable has a reputation for being quality-conscious, client-focused, and bringing attention to detail to every job. These are the qualities we look for in potential hires. Downtown West location (Liberty Village). Apply: info@moveable.com
- Challenge 5 hole hydraulic Paper drill $3595.00
- GBC PF 3200 Perfect Binding machine $ 2500.00
- Baum Folder Bell & Howell pile feed 17.5” X 22.5” $ 1500.00
- Heidelberg wind mill 10 X 15 red ball $2500.00
- Heidelberg wind mill 10 X 15 red ball $2500.00
- Heidelberg wind mill 10 X 15 red ball with foil stamp$3750.00
- Original Heidelberg Cylinder die cutter SGB 22 X 30.25” $ 19,000.00
- Canon image runner 7095 black / white $ 3900.00
- Canon image runner 7095 black / white $ 3900.00
- Klug with foil stamp double wheels $ 6500.00
- Dock plate / Pump truck / Tools etc. All machines are under power and can be tested – we must sell moving in smaller place – all reasonable offers will be accepted.
- Dick Moll Folder gluer straight line & presentation folder attachment $ 23,000.00 - Baum System 310 booklet maker $ 2900.00 - Konica Minolta 6500 colour $ 9,900.00 - Konica Minolta 1050 Pro fully loaded $ 12,000.00
Please call at anytime at 416-6057214 (Peter) or emailprestigeprintfinishers@yahoo.ca
Heidelberg: K-Line/S-Line/ Speedmaster/GTO/MO
Komori: 1,2,4 or 5 colours & an Adast : 714/715/724/725
Mitsubishi: Any model Ryobi: : 2800CD/3200CD Itek: 960/975/985
Hamada: 500/600/700/800
Polar: 72/82/90/92/107/115 CM
Horizon-BQ: 220/240/260/440/460
December 1974
Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins becomes the 6th NHLer to score 500 goals; NFL’s Seattle Seahawks forms; Popular Electronics displays the Altair 8800 computer; Monty Python’s Flying Circus final episode airs on BBC; Beatles are legally disbanded; and The Godfather Part II, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, is released.
New Company sells koenig & Bauer Presses in U.s.a., s. r. stone in Canada
A new company, Koenig & Bauer USA Inc., has been formed to sell and service Koenig & Bauer printing presses and related equipment in the United States. Based in Richmond, VA, it is a join venture of Koenig & Bauer of Wurzburg, West Germany, and Media General Inc., the latter of which will own 80 percent of the new enterprise. Branch offices will be established in New York, Chicago and Atlanta.
In Canada, Koenig & Bauer equipment will be sold exclusively by Sydney R. Stone Ltd. Well known in Canada and the USA, Peter Biebrach, VP of Koenig & Bauer Canada Ltd., is retained as the company’s North American consultant.
The latest Koenig & Bauer development is the Super-Rapida Series, an offset press that prints at 16,000 impressions per hour. The new 2-colour Koebeau-Rapdia model SRO (20 x 28 1/2-inches) offset press is capable of producing 16,000 saleable sheets per hour – 50 percent faster than any other make of sheetfed press that is currently available, it is claimed. The unusually high press speed of 16,000 sheets per hour is achieved because of the double-size impression cylinder, which has two gripper systems so that two sheets are printed with every revolution.
rolland Calendar wins awards
Displaying the latest award taken by Roland Paper’s 1974 “visual pun” calendar are members of the wining design and production team. The 14-page, full-colour calendar, which features fruits and vegetables in humourous photo art situations, was produced by Rolland to demonstrate the excellent colour reproduction capabilities of its surface-treated printing papers.
From left to right are: Richard Mallette, designer, studio 2 2, Montreal; Nicole Rochefort, print production supervisor, Roland Paper Company, Montreal; and John Rayson, sales manager of the printers, McLaren Morris & Todd, Mississauga.
Canadian Named President of Plate Manufacturers association
Leo A. Thibault, President of Commercial Litho Plate Graining Ltd., leading manufacturers of Eezy-Kote offset printing plates and chemicals, has been elected President of the National Association of Grain Plate Manufacturers, Washington, DC. The association is the voice of North American offset plate manufacturers. It is the first time a Canadian has been named to this important position.
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We at Unisource wish to congratulate all of this year’s winners and entrants that made the 2014 Uvu Design and Print Excellence Awards a year to remember.
Visit Unisourcedesign.ca/en/uvu to view this year’s winners catalogue, and be sure to choose Unisource papers to qualify for Uvu 2015.
