Energy December 2016

A MAGAZINE OF NEW IDEAS, DEVELOPMENTS AND SOLUTIONS

CUSTOMER SUCCESS

QUAD PRINTING AND THEIR J PRESS 720S

VOL. 6, ISSUE 4

THE ONE INK SOLUTION

PRINTING PRO 3.0

THE FUTURE OF TODAY’S CREATIVE RESOURCE

VOL. 6, ISSUE 4 • WINTER 2016

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Quad printing and their J Press 720S

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Generational shift

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The future of today’s creative resource

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Fujifilm’s 300 series UV/LED inks work with multiple systems to create harmony William Rongey Editor-in-Chief > wrongey@fujifilm.com

A letter from Todd Zimmerman

Fujifilm’s Acuity Select 26 UV inkjet flatbed press attracts new clients

Fujifilm exhibits at high-profile industry trade shows

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Fujifilm Superia aligns with printers to create a more affordable offset process

Facts and trends to help you engage the next generation of workers

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A LETTER FROM TODD ZIMMERMAN

Making the Cut

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ith the start of a new year, many start thinking about New Year’s resolutions. And, as we all know, keeping those resolutions requires a high level of resolve. Having resolve means you’re willing to firmly decide on a course of action. It means dedicating yourself to a direction, strategy or idea, and sticking with it.

But resolve goes well beyond determination. We must decide to take action.

In Latin, the root meaning of the word “decide” means to cut. In other words, when you decide on something, you cut off all other paths. And while the strategies or tactics it takes to reach a goal can vary, when you decide on a direction, you must fully commit to that direction. Many times that means eliminating the alternatives.

At Fujifilm, we resolve to always have your best interests at heart, and to work hard to constantly bring you new, innovative and cost effective products. That resolve allows us to focus intently on a few highly important goals, and to achieve a greater degree of success than we otherwise would.

We decided long ago to stay focused on key projects to help our customers, and the industry, advance the world of print. That decision honed our attention and focus, and directed us toward new innovations in print to help make you more successful.

In 2017, we passionately resolve to support our industry and our individual clients. We will support the market with remarkable innovation and thoughtful content. Take our cover story in this issue, “Resolutions,” where we highlight the top changes that many of you will resolve to make in the new year. Or, take a look at our second feature, “Printing Pro 3.0,” which discusses the future of the graphic arts professional.

At Fujifilm, we resolve to always have your best interests at heart, and to work hard to constantly bring you new, innovative, and cost effective products.

We know the landscape of the economy and the industry is in rapid change, and that today’s print professionals will need to work very hard to grow. Let’s resolve that each of us stay focused on what’s important, make the right decisions, and that we not only ‘make the cut,’ but also define the future of our industry.

Thanks for reading Energy.

Wishing you the best in 2017,

Todd Zimmerman Division President, FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division Corporate Vice President, FUJIFILM Global Graphic Systems

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Andrew Paparozzi, chief economist and senior VP at Epicomm, says that should be among the questions every printer asks themselves heading into 2017. The others on the list should include: What are we doing better today than we did six months ago? What are we going to do better in six months than we are today?

During what Paparozzi calls the third great economic revolution, you either get better or you go away – period. “Resolve to remember that our industry (and every other industry) is being transformed by [this revolution],” he says. “Call it the digital revolution, information revolution or anything else you want. But it is every bit as disruptive as the Industrial Revolution and Agricultural Revolution it follows, and it is moving faster than either. It exempts no one.”

In terms of the commercial printing industry’s overall business environment, 2017 is likely to look much like 2016, with conditions neither improving significantly nor deteriorating significantly, according to Idealliance’s “State of the Industry Report, 14th Edition.” Growth is likely to remain choppy and slow, pricing power limited and the squeeze on profitability tight.

Idealliance expects the industry’s total sales (all sources) to grow 1.5 percent to 3.0 percent next year, after growing 1.0 percent to 1.5 percent in 2016. That would lift sales to more than $84.0 billion, up 9.9 percent from the 2011 low of $77.0 billion, but still 14.0 percent below the 2007 preGreat Recession level of $98.3 billion.

Paparozzi expects results to continue to vary dramatically from company to company, with some companies far outperforming the industry and others far underperforming. Who outperforms and who underperforms will not be 4

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a matter of company size, ownership structure or equipment configuration, but of superior market intelligence, agility, execution and discipline.

Participants in Idealliance’s “State of the Industry” research identified more than 20 concerns heading into 2017. The most frequently cited included creating and maintaining revenue growth; the economy; rising costs of healthcare benefits; maintaining profitability; uncertainty about the industry, the economy, the elections; taxes and regulations; and anything else that may increase business costs in markets that still are very resistant to price increases.

Heading into a year of uncertainty all of the aforementioned fronts, there still are scores of things that printers can and should have on their to-do lists.

The Idealliance report provided a formal, rigorous analysis of opportunities, through tools such as the “Opportunity Evaluation Matrix” and “Real vs. Ideal Analysis.”

“The challenge in our industry is not a lack of opportunity, it’s deciding what really is an opportunity given my company’s unique resources, capabilities and goals,” Paparozzi says. “We can’t rely on gut feelings or informal polls of clients and peers to tell us anymore – our margin for error has gotten far too thin for that.”

Idealliance has seen many companies fail not because they lacked opportunity, but because they followed the crowd into some hot service or market that wasn’t a good fit.

Paparozzi says printers can do themselves a favor by asking some key, pointed questions, including: • Does it address a major problem customers need to solve? Or is it nice but not essential?

• Who, exactly, will our customers be? How much revenue can we expect from them? Do we know? Or are we taking a “build-it-and-they-will-come” approach?

• What are the up-front costs? How much will we have to invest just to get in the game?

• What will the competition look like? Along with the companies we currently compete with, will there be a new breed of competitors to contend with? Or will they be a new breed of competitors with whom we have little experience?

• What skills are required? Do we have the expertise – technical, sales, marketing, leadership, etc. – necessary to make the option work? If not, how will we acquire it?

In the end, success and/or failure comes down to some of the basic tenants of preparation. In the planning for 2017, Paparozzi offers the following resolutions for every printer to put on that vaunted to-do list: Resolve to remember that during an economic revolution both the returns of making good decisions and the costs of making wrong ones rise rapidly. Superior decisions are rooted in the intimate knowledge of what’s happening inside and outside of our companies, why it’s occurring and what actions to take. We have to capture that knowledge and translate it quickly and efficiently into action.

Resolve to be aware that we must create urgency and discipline around the priorities we set for our companies. Talking about priorities isn’t enough. We must hold each other accountable, internalize our objectives and set deadlines.

Reinforce company-wide that they are not options, fillers for the strategic plan or nice things to do if we ever get the time.

They are necessities that must be addressed now.

Cultivate the discipline throughout the company to avoid distraction or sloppiness in our execution.

“Nothing suggests the performance of either our industry or the economy will change significantly, for better or worse, over the next 18 months,” Paparozzi says. “[Remember] it is another stop in our stop-and-go upturn. And we are in an upturn.”

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NEW HORIZONS hese are exciting times for Quad/Graphics. That’s the first thing Brian Badillo will tell you. Driven by a passion for innovation and one of the most advanced platforms in the industry, Quad/Graphics’ collaborative “can-do” team continues to challenge the status quo, creating groundbreaking solutions that push the boundaries of communications.

How Fujifilm’s J Press 720S is helping Quad/Graphics transcend its traditional offset roots

As one of the print industry’s leading innovators over the past 45 years, Quad/Graphics continues to provide a wide range of cutting-edge offerings that not only connect and engage with targeted audiences, but also across all channels for maximum distribution, impact and response. The Dallas location is Quad/ Graphics’ Commercial & Specialty facility, specializing in shortrun and print-on-demand catalogs, case-bound books, direct mail, kit packaging, fulfillment, annual reports, manuals and marketing brochures.

“Our Dallas plant is undergoing a transformation with the help of Fujifilm’s J Press 720S press,” says Tim Ohnmacht, Quad/ Graphics President of Marketing Solutions. “This location, formerly known as the Williamson Printing Company, earned a stellar reputation as a traditional offset, sheetfed and web print

Brian Badillo, Regional Vice President of Sales, Quad/Graphics, reviews J Press 720S print samples at the Dallas, Texas, plant.

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provider, historically focused on serving the needs of creatives and agencies. With the addition of the J Press 720S and complete digital bindery capabilities, we are extending our reach as a totalsolutions provider and positioned to serve the broader needs of today’s marketing organizations.”

With a 29.6-inch x 20.9 inch sheet and an output of 2,700 sheets per hour, Fujifilm’s second generation sheetfed J Press 720S is an ideal solution for printers like Quad/Graphics who are looking for a product that features the quality and robustness of an offset press, and the versatility to handle even the shortest of press runs.

“The most defining feature of the J Press 720S is the quality,” says George Forge, Quad/Graphics Executive Director of Digital Print. “The J Press 720S delivers the closest thing to offset-like quality digital output I’ve seen, with impressive flesh tones and high definition images that pop on a wide variety of stocks, including uncoated and heavier stocks. We produce a lot of variable and color critical pieces for high-end retailers, automotive manufacturers, private universities and resorts that are difficult to produce on other digital assets; the J Press 720S truly delivers, providing a competitive advantage.”

“It’s an exciting time for us,” says Brian Badillo, Quad/Graphics Regional Vice President of Sales, who noted the J Press 720S is unique to the Dallas area. “Now we are having entirely new marketing conversations about the J Press 720S which includes different perspectives regarding its innovations, and now we have the proficiency to show our clients new capabilities, discuss output applications, and make an outstanding impact for our clients.

This technology is a differentiator for us.”

“The most defining feature of the J Press 720S is the quality, with impressive flesh tones on a wide variety of stocks, including uncoated and heavier stocks.”

— George Forge, Quad/Graphics Executive Director of Digital Print Trophy cases line the main hallways of Quad/Graphics’ 120,000-square-foot Dallas facility, proudly displaying years of industry accolades achieved by their nearly 100 onsite employees.

“We have a reputation for quality, and with the J Press 720S we will be able to continue our value proposition into the future, and always,” says Badillo, adding that his relationship with Fujifilm is great and the organization is top-notch. “The J Press 720S product support is fantastic. They’ve shared market research, which has helped us from a sales perspective, educating a team that has traditionally sold offset sheetfed jobs, to be successful in a new market with new technology.”

“Fujifilm has lined us up for success,” concludes Badillo.

As a result, new opportunities and markets are opening up for Quad/Graphics.

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The future of today's creative resource ack when Seattle’s most notable influences on the world were grunge and coffee, Terry Marks used to say, “You can’t throw a brick without hitting an expresso cart and two graphic designers.”

My how times have changed. Today, smack dab in the middle of the technological explosion; design thinking and design-centric jobs are in the double digits. One study cited more than 150,000 open UX design jobs in the United States alone.

And a recent study by the Design Management Institute showed that companies that invest in design to differentiate (think Apple, Herman Miller, Starbucks, and the like) outperform the S & P by more than 220 percent.

Digital technology has impacted, but not ended, the demand for graphic artists.

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So, what does Terry Marks think today? “Design isn’t just pretty or interesting, design understands what a business needs and how it directly affects the bottom line,” he says. “Design has never been about itself. That’s why terms like ‘commercial art’ used to exist. It was there for a reason – to accomplish a goal.

Since tools are digital, people don’t have to be great at inking and keeping type level in a paste-up. It’s not a craft nor craftsmanship the way it once was. And so, the ability to champion messages and the big picture is even greater.”

While there is no denying creating something that excites and engages is a thrill, creative thought leaders like Marks, and scores of his colleagues, agree that there has to be a payoff.

“I believe you have to capture attention and then reward it,” says Marks, founder of tmarks in Seattle. “Then, you can make an emotional (or cognitive) connection. But design for it’s own sake is actually something else and, if you believe old wives tales, can lead to blindness. If those in the world of design and graphics don’t apprehend and champion missions and the true purpose of what a client or company exists for, then we have failed. Worse, an opportunity to affect the world at large is squandered.”

“Design isn’t just pretty or interesting, design understands what a business needs and how it directly affects the bottom line.”

— Terry Marks, Founder, tmarks There was a time, not too long ago, that too many people sat in front of their computers, immersed in cyber space – Facebooking, tweeting and Instagraming away the world with their fingertips – and thought print was declining. And professions like graphic designs, well, hello and goodbye.

But take a walk in any city in the world and what do you see? Signs. Billboards. Magazines. Newspapers. Bus stop ads.

There are countless other real and physical objects that must be designed and printed – all of which represent meaningful and thoughtful work by the creative types of the world.

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Ron Davis, senior VP and chief economist for the Printing Industries of America (PIA), believes that printers, working closer with the creative arts world, have scores of opportunities in front of them. He says today’s printers can create their own positive future by understanding and taking advantage of the emerging changes – pivots that are shaping the printing industry of today and tomorrow.

Davis, Ph.D., author of “Competing for Print’s Thriving Future,” breaks down print products and services into three different categories: • Print intended to inform or communicate factual and editorial information such as magazines, newspapers, books and reports • Print intended to market, promote or sell various products, services, political candidates, positions or ideas – marketing and promotional print such as catalogs, direct mail and brochures • Print intended to provide product logistics to manufactured products – packaging, labels, wrappers and product user manuals Print’s “inform or communicate” function is subject to the highest risk of substitution from digital media. As a marketing, promotion and sales media, print also has been impacted by digital media. But print logistics is not subject to competition and substitution by digital media, and is a segment of the industry that’s continuing to grow and has an ongoing need for graphic designers.

Going all digital

Digital technology has impacted, but not ended, the demand for graphic artists, and, in some ways, the rise of digital communications has buoyed the graphic arts industry.

Creative thought leaders like Justin Ahrens believes that digital technology has raised the perception and the value of design across the board.

“I feel design is having one of it’s great high points culturally, larger in part to the digital realities of the profession,” says Ahrens, principal and creative director at Rule29 in Geneva, Ill. “This has pushed the need for creatives at all levels to have multiple skill sets and to understand the impact the digital landscape can have for clients.”

In today’s vividly vision world, a single, very cool design can be used across a number of different mediums (print, web, social, etc.) to create a lasting impression of your brand. “It’s incredibly impactful when creating a campaign to strategically think through all it’s touch points and desired outcomes for each,” Ahrens says. “It’s made design in some ways so much more exciting to create and also challenging to work on mastering all its forms. The great thing is no matter what ‘new thing’ comes out, concept and story are still king.”

“I feel design is having one of its great high points culturally, large in part to the digital realities of the profession.”

— Justin Ahrens, Principal & Creative Director, Rule29 The growing relationship of print and digital is transforming today’s graphic artists into big-picture oriented, client-centric thinkers. “This is the essence of design thinking and the primary way we can show value and help our clients business be successful,” Ahrens says. “A more solutions-based approach versus trying to solve just a specific problem. It has allowed a larger number of creatives more access to content, film, video, app and social experiences that we couldn’t have dreamed about just 10 years ago.”

Marks says being able to understand and guide the multiple needs and touch points for an entity greatly helps increase the impact and effectiveness of the core work. “Technology is key to that because there are more and better tools that can more easily propel ideas to reality in a manner that is precisely in step with goals and brand. It allows for greater consistency, but also deeper authenticity. In fact, that’s a must. More iterations of a bad idea don’t make it more true or effective.”

In his international bestselling book, “A Whole New Mind,” Daniel Pink asserts that right brain qualities – skills that can’t be easily taught or outsourced to India or China – are essential to thrive in the emerging Conceptual Age. Pink writes: “The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people – artists, inventors, designers, story tellers, caregivers, consolers, big-picture thinkers – will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”

Design is a classic, whole-minded aptitude – one that requires acuity in both sides of the brain, and reflects a combination of utility and significance. “A graphic designer must whip up a brochure that is easy to read,” Pink writes. “That’s utility. But at its most effective, her brochure must also transmit ideas or emotions that the words themselves cannot convey. That’s significant.”

As Charles Darwin said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, or the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

It’s that kind of thinking that Marks says creative types and printers must recite each and every day. “Today, if you’re not conversant in online, UX/UI, print, textile, environmental and some form of motion, then there’s a problem,” he says. “My firm has always channeled some form of ADHD into being multi-disciplinary. We get to design packaging, collateral, craft marketing plans, write, help focus corporate mission, vision, values, craft video, design environmental elements, collaborate on space design and more.”

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A wide array Fujifilm’s Acuity Select 26 UV inkjet flatbed press attracts new clients His research was impeccable. When Image360 was looking to upgrade its portfolio’s print quality and production speed, Simon Nussbaum conducted a thorough and exhaustive search. The owner and GM of the South Elgin, Ill.-based print services provider spends a lot of time evaluating the ins and outs of each product on the market.

The decision was an important one for the company he purchased in 2009 – an existing Signs Now franchise. Over the past seven years, with equal parts hard work and grace, he grew the business to several times the original size. The next phase of development included changing the brand to Image360, which better reflects the services and products it offers to its clients.

That’s where the new equipment purchase comes into play.

When the need for additional creative printing capabilities had become apparent, Nussbaum began his search. The Acuity Select 26 was the culmination of his efforts.

As one of the first North American installs, Image360 is getting the benefits of the ultimate platform for printing on rigid and flexible media. Today, it is able to deliver near-photographic quality images across a diverse range of creative print applications. The flexible production system was mission critical to meet his company’s continually expanding needs.

“I am conservative when it comes to financial decisions,” Nussbaum says. “My expectations for the Acuity Select 26 were high. And it really helped us become much more efficient; this press has helped us decrease our labor expenses substantially. We are printing 4 x 8s in five minutes, or about 10 boards off in one hour, with little effort. We’ve used practically every substrate on our Acuity Select 26. This is important in marketing to our clients. We’ve had success with everything from glass to wood, to doors to more traditional substrates and metals; and even leather.”

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“We are adding 20 percent revenue just by having the available workforce, and we are able to now reach new markets. It has been a great addition to our business.”

Referred to as “the all-in-one” mid-range flatbed, the Acuity Select Series offers streamlined operation and numerous configurations that give printers like Image360 a wide range of options to meet their specific needs.

Simon Nussbaum, Owner & General Manager, Image360

“The features of the Acuity Select 26 that really come through in my production environment are the speed, the quality, white ink and the ease of use,” Nussbaum says. “It has been easy to get multiple operators on the machine. It’s a very user-friendly operating system.”

The process started with the installation process, which Nussbaum says was seamless. And with consideration to the compact footprint of the Acuity Select 26, built specifically to fit in limited production areas, the install at Image360 was no exception. “The installers were very professional, and able to fit into our tight production space, on schedule, and the (install) process was very simple and very fast,” Nussbaum says.

A printer’s best friend With the pneumatic registration pin system, all five pins on the Acuity Select 26 can be controlled both automatically and manually, which provide quick and precise media set-up. And thanks to the excellent adhesion of Fujifilm’s Uvijet KN ink to a broad range of materials, Image360 is producing an amazing variety of printed products for its ever-growing roster of clients.

Ask Nussbaum, and he’ll tell you that the Acuity Select 26 continues to positively impact Image360’s bottom line, while opening its doors to new business. “We are adding 20 percent revenue just by having the available workforce, and we are able to now reach new markets,” he says. “It has been a great addition to our business.”

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The one ink solution Fujifilm’s 300 series works with multiple systems to create harmony

ot too long ago, flexo printers interested in taking advantage of LED curing technology faced an expensive overhaul of their shop floors through the addition of new hardware and additional ink lines.

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Not anymore.

Enter Fujifilm’s 300 Series single LED cure flexo ink system, which performs equally well under LED curing or conventional UV-Arc curing, with no modification.

Offering the ability to cure under either traditional UV or LED lights with the same ink The 300 Series is proven to deliver excellent adhesion to all of the film and paper substrates you currently run and, get this, is even usable for shrink applications without adding chill rollers to your press. The full ink line includes process colors, line colors and matching colors, shrink White and Clear, and even Fujifilm’s acclaimed Supernova White and varnishes.

And if that isn’t enough, it’s all at a price that’s competitive with the conventional UV ink you’re currently using – running at UV ink speeds or even faster.

How LED drives down your operating costs LED curing is an instant on/off process, dramatically lowering energy consumption and stress on lamp bulbs experienced in conventional “continually-on” UV-Arc curing. Combine these savings with the elimination of costly air make up and exhaust fans and annual shop savings can be reduced by more than 90 percent for utilities, parts and maintenance.

When you use Fujifilm’s 300 Series UV/LED inks, you get: • Flexo inks designed for use with all common flexo substrates – ones that offer the ability to cure under either traditional UV or LED lights with the same ink • Superb dot reproduction, the ability to maintain crisp print definition, sharp copy and clean reverses without the gain typical of water or solvent based flexo inks • Good flow and leveling properties and a high gloss level with excellent intercoat adhesion, trapping properties and balanced cure rates • Very low odor compared to traditional UV-Arc inks In addition, the 300 Series’ Last Down White and Last Down Clear are designed to have optimal coefficient of friction for seaming and container application processes in shrink applications. The Series has been designed to shrink to the maximum percentages of films available on the market today.

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Printers see the power of Fujifilm’s innovation during show stops From Las Vegas to Rosemont, Ill., the FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division team unleashed the full power of its innovation. During the Labelexpo Americas 2016 in Rosemont, printers received an up close and personal look at innovative solutions in flexo, digital and hybrid printing.

On the docket were live presentations and demonstrations of the Graphium, a UV digital hybrid inkjet press, designed specifically for the narrow web market. The modular hybrid UV inkjet press provides the flexibility and productivity to print any number of complex projects requiring a wide gamut of colors on virtually any substrate.

Graphium makes converting short to medium print jobs more profitable, as the press streamlines workflow, requires less setup material, and generates less running waste.

And during the 2016 SGIA Expo in Las Vegas, attendees were able to get a peek of the new Acuity Select HS 30 series, a high speed addition to the popular Acuity Select series. Capable of printing at impressive print speeds of up to 620 square feet per hour, nearly double the speed of the Acuity Select 20 series – the new HS 30 offers all the benefits of this hugely popular and successful Acuity UV flatbed printer series, including superb versatility, near-photographic image quality, excellent ease of use, and the ability to produce a wide variety of applications on a range of substrates up to two inches thick.

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Fujifilm sponsored the recent Color Conference, held Dec. 3-6 in Phoenix. Attendees heard from a wealth of industry professionals, including Fujifilm’s own Peter Pretzer, ColorPath Solutions Development Manager. ColorPath is an award-winning suite of cloudbased color management tools for conventional, digital, large format and ink jet printing.

Color management is essential in any successful print operation whether conventional, digital, or a combination of both.

ColorPath SYNC is a high-quality cloud-based color management solution, which enables even novice users to become color experts. ColorPath SYNC can be used with many existing workflows or fully integrated with Fujifilm’s XMF Workflow.

ColorPath SYNC is built on an easy-to-use web platform, utilizing a step-by-step interface. The user interface provides one location to manage color for multiple output devices, media, and workflows.

“Being highly successful in color management is a team effort,” Pretzer says, “and we have an excellent group of folks that contribute tremendous efforts on a daily basis.”

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Fujifilm Superia aligns with printers to create a more affordable offset process In the daily battle to achieve first-class sustainability, efficiency and profitability, today’s printers are always looking for the right partners and products to stay one step ahead of the game.

Thanks to its resource saving innovations, Fujifilm’s Superia offset plate making system helps reduce consumption of materials, labor, water, energy and emissions.

It’s a win-win kind of partnership that Fujifilm thrives on building. With the reduced costs normally associated with conventional platemaking systems, printers can turn them into profits.

These five comprehensive resource saving benefits include:

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THERMAL 1 PROCESSLESS CTP SYSTEM

Processes such as alkali development and gumming can be completely eliminated.

THERMAL 2 PROCESSED CTP SYSTEM

Fujifilm’s thermal CTP plates are consistent from batch to batch and remain stable over time. The processor, which requires infrequent refilling, produces low volumes of waste, and achieves consistent processing stability resulting in greatly reduced maintenance procedures and man-hours.

SOLUTION/PROCESSING 3 FOUNTAIN CHEMICALS FOR PRINTING

Optimum developing chemicals from a wide-ranging product lineup achieves both superior results, and helps solve various issues associated with the printing process, significantly reducing the incidence of printing problems such as ink feedback, grazing and blanket piling.

With the reduced costs normally associated with conventional platemaking systems, printers can turn them into profits.

WORKFLOW/ 4 SOFTWARE SYSTEM SCREENING

Fujifilm’s XMF Workflow contributes to greater efficiency throughout the entire printing process. In combination with Fujifilm’s proprietary screening technology, the system results in clear benefits, including a reduction in ink usage.

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A comprehensive consulting solution diagnoses the entire printing process in order to achieve more stable product quality, improved productivity and cost reductions.

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Generational Shift We’re in the midst of a major generational shift in the workforce. Check out these interesting facts and trends as you engage, hire and retain the next generation of workers:

Baby Boomers 1946-1964

29% of the workforce

21% – Increase since 1979 Fact – 18.8% of Americans 65+ are still working.

What do they want?

Health and retirement benefits Flexible work hours

Gen Xers 1965-1980

34% of the workforce

20.94% – Increase since 1979 Fact – Gen Xers have the largest and most valuable array of technical skills.

What do they want?

Stable base pay and job security Advancement opportunities

Millennials 1981-1998

34% of the workforce

4.08% – Increase since 1979 Fact – Millennials now are the largest generational group in the U.S. workforce.

What do they want?

Educational opportunities in fun work environments Socially responsible employers

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Material savings

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Making offset printing more profitable The Fujifilm Superia integrated plate making and processing solution is proven to dramatically reduce the consumption of materials, labor, energy, environmental emissions and water.

The result is higher profits for you, job after job.

To learn more about how our new Superia system is achieving cost saving results for commercial and packaging printers worldwide, visit www.fujifilm-superia.com.