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Grafenia’s Expoganza Event For Graphic Professionals

An event for graphic professionals, Expoganza, will be organized by Grafenia this year.

The event is to be organized on 17th of November at Manchester Production hub, where more than 500 graphic designers will participate. Earlier the similar event was organized in the January the recent year. The participants appraised the event and showed their intent to have similar type of events in future. There are workshops organized in this event which are very helpful to professionals. Likewise, ‘Creating stickier relationships with clients’, ‘Google’s micro-moments’, ‘How winning web means print spend follows, ‘How automating your studio can help you grow’, and ‘Some (just some mind) of our marketing secrets. There would be E-Web Studio, E-Fabric Gallery, E-Web Studio, E-business lounge, E-Print Boutique, E-Web Studio, E-Tech Hub and E-Display Sales counters in this event.

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Grafenia’s Expoganza Event For Graphic Professionals

Peter Gunning the chief executive of Grafenia commented: “Visitors told us it wasn’t like any trade event they’d been to before; the feedback we got was so positive that we promised ourselves there and then that we’d run more.”

Also Gunning added: “We want to help partners show it off to their own clients and are happy to lend demo equipment”.

“It’s amazing what you can achieve with fabric and we want people to be blown away with how fricking cool it looks!”

Visitors will have the opportunity to take part in a number of workshops, such as ‘Creating stickier relationships with clients’, ‘How winning web means print spend follows’, and ‘How to diversify into fabric’.

Fabric art is one of the most momentous features of this event. Generally fabric art is not much trendy in such exhibitions and by promoting this stuff, company is getting great value and is attracting a lot of visitors.  People belonging to different areas can participate and enhance their knowledge about new trends in the market.

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Woodland Trust is Further Supported By Premier Paper Group

The Premier Paper Group has made its mark to become more environmentally responsible. For that the merchant is organizing a planting day in which it will plant 1000 trees each year with their five years associations with The Woodland Trust. This has been a great notion that a paper manufacturing company is participating in planting activities.

The latest planting day is in progress in Heartwood Forest for the 3rd consecutive year.

Premier Paper Group Planting Day

Premier Paper Group Planting Day

Premier Paper Group marketing director, Dave Jones, says: “Our Carbon Capture programme has gone from strength-to-strength over the last five years with over 380 customers now fully engaged with the scheme, with 100 percent of the revenue raised from the Carbon Capture programme going directly to the Woodland Trust, making a real contribution to the creation of new native woodland across the UK.
“The success of Carbon Capture is that it is a great way for organizations to demonstrate their environmental values to their stakeholders.

“The programme provides support with marketing communication material, certificates from the Woodland Trust detailing the amount of CO2 captured and the opportunity for organizations to invite their customers and stakeholders to come and take part in tree planting days.

“Woodland creation in the UK not only locks up CO2 but creates important habitats for wildlife and green spaces for local communities.”

The companies which are working in association with Woodland Trust are contributing a great deal to the society. Planting activities are very much helpful for environment sustainability. Within printing industry and paper manufacturing, planting activities have even more importance.

Woodland Trust promotes such activities in order to provide safeguard to natural environment. Moreover, such activities propel other manufacturers to take part in planting activities and also help create awareness in public. Plants do capture carbon dioxide and minimize its intensity in the environment.

 

 

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Sustainable Advantages Promoted by PEFC

Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) is showing great focus on sustainability within printing industry and will promote the benefits of sustainable sourcing at the recent year’s packing innovations.

Sustainability has been hot discussion within print industry and that is what printing companies are looking to achieve. Sustainable practices have a great impact on environment, if these practices are adopted they can provide safeguard to natural environment and habitats. PEFC is promoting concept of purchasing products from well-managed forests. Through social awareness programs, people are becoming more aware about sustainable practices.

Ross Bradshaw, PEFC UK chairman said  “PEFC’s last global consumer survey found that more than 80% of respondents wanted to see companies sourcing materials from well-managed forests, to use a label on product to provide them with assurances of responsible sourcing,”

The event will take place from September 14 to 15 at London’s Olympia and at D8 PEFC will stand.  PEFC, SFI and AB Group Packaging will take part in this event. All of these companies work in association to improve the concept of sustainability and purchase products from well-managed forests.

AB Group Packaging is supposed to provide services with flexible packaging. The company is a renowned manufacturer of high volume paper packaging and flexible bags and providing services to almost every industry.

Its manufacturing of paper and flexible packaging is hundred percents recyclable. Its manufacturing processes are approved by PEFC and FSC.

PEFC provides an interface through which manufacturers can purchase raw materials from forests which are well-managed. People are more concerned about purchasing products from responsible sources.  This could help manufacturers in their advertising campaigns as through public awareness programs, people are more conscious about such things.

If forests are not well-managed, they could harm habitats and natural environment. With increase in productions, the trees will become lesser.

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Agfa And EFI Integration

Agfa Graphics and Electronics For Imaging (EFI) has an integration on Agfa’s latest Apogee 10 system and EFI Fiery digital front ends.

Both Afga Graphics and EFI are renowned companies in digital printing. Their integration is good news for customers as both the companies’ masters in their specified areas. Customers can benefit from both companies now with this integration. The integration provides the most advanced hybrid print workflows all over the commercial market.  The below diagram shows the work flow of data between the technologies;

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Agfa And EFI Integration

Apogee is working as a hybrid production hub having connections with CTP and EFI’s Fiery DFE platforms.

Andy Grant, head of software at Agfa said “With this integration, existing Agfa Apogee users, including users of the latest Apogee 10 system, will be able to take advantage of hybrid offset/digital workflows”.

He further added He continues: “Through certified, industry standard JDF connectivity, Apogee users can select from the wide choice of Fiery Driven digital presses to establish easy and quick ways to direct jobs to the most appropriate print devices for the best production scenario.”

One company already taking advantage of the Fiery/Apogee integration is Hakan Walhed, general manager of Malmö at Sweden-based printing company Skånetryck, saying: “We save up to two hours on busy days.

“Plus, the consistent prepress workflow between offset and digital presses with Apogee and Fiery integration helps Skånetryck’s operators achieve a close match in colour quality with minimum training.”

“Within Agfa’s large Apogee installed base, there are also a large number of Fiery Driven digital presses from all of the leading digital press manufacturers,” said Toby Weiss, senior vice president and general manager, EFI Fiery. “This integration will enable those organizations to streamline their workflow even more, taking time and touches out of the process for a more cost-efficient operation, critical in today’s fast-paced and highly competitive printing environment.”

 

8 years ago

Denmaur To Become A Carbon-Balance Company

Denmaur a paper merchant company is taking steps in association with CarbonCo to become a carbon-balance company.

CarbonCo is working with World Land Trust (WLT) to make this world carbon-free. Under this scheme all of Denmaur’s carbon emissions will be calculated and strategies are devised to protect habitats which are suffering. CarbonCo promotes carbon balance print procedures, carbon balanced papers, logos for carbon balanced print and end users WLT carbon certificates.

Peter Sommerville, the marketing director of Denmaur expressed “This is probably something we were considering for a while. We can carbon balance any product we sell so we thought if we are promoting the service it is slightly disingenuous if we are not seeking to do the same thing with our business.

“Danny Doogan (Denmaur group sustainability manager) looked into it and I was happy to endorse it and submit it to the board for a decision.

“I think it will be commonplace soon and most companies will end up taking this sort of action.”

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Denmaur To Become A Carbon-Balance Company

It has been a great progress to make this world carbon-free. In the manufacturing of papers and papers related stuff, there is a huge cutting down of trees. CarbonCo is promoting those products and materials which could cause lesser cutting-down of trees.

Denmaur is procuring 12 energy-efficient Scania trucks in order to further minimize its carbon emissions. Such carbon emissions are very dangerous for  natural environment and effects human life, animal life and wild life badly.

There have been considerable steps taken by World Land Trust and CarbonCo on the awareness of carbon emissions. More of the companies are attracted towards this concept. It has been a good notion that paper manufacturing companies are adopting solutions which are more environment-friendly. More awareness programs would help brining more understanding in companies and people about hazardous carbon emissions.

8 years ago

Xerox’s New Offerings At Print Show Event

Xerox is the biggest technology distributor throughout the UK. Xeretec, the strategic partner of Xerox production technology announced before the trade show event that it would show how the kit from the manufacturer could be used for the efficient production in the personalized print industry.

What is new in Xerox kit for web-to-print and personalised variable data printing, the world has come to know.  Such trends in the large format printing industry have a greater demand. Xeretec’s managing director, Steve Hawkins said in an interview, “The Print Show is one of the most important events in the industry’s calendar; that’s why we have committed so much energy and investment in it.”

At print show event Xerox Versant 80, Xerox Versant 2100 digital colour printer and KIP 860 wide were at the Xeretec’s stand. They are meant for large format business and technical black and white and colour printings.

 

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Xerox Versant 80

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Xerox Versant 2100 digital colour printer

 

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Xerox strategic partner also presented Infigo’s Web-2-Print solution personalised and customisable Software. Also EFI’s Digital Front End Workflow Technology were showed off.

Also, Hawkins commented “We are also using the show to explain how our new partnership with Infigo will benefit our customers and why they fit so well with Xeretec’s ethos.

 

“It is very important to us when we choose a partner, that it has a synergy with our goals and aspirations and our desire to provide excellence in service delivery to our clients.

 

“With its shared mindset and UK support team, we believe that Infigo ticks all the boxes. Come and experience this chemistry at our stand at The Print Show.”

From 11th October to 13th October, Print Show was organised at NEC in Birmingham. The print show event remained very successful and there was a lot of appreciation for Xerox and Xeretec’s offerings. A lot of printing businesses and technology distributors may opt these offerings.

 

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