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May | 2015

Inspiring excellence in digital print

The Monthly Corporate Newsletter of Intec Print Solutions

Stealing the Show!

Intec made a big impression at the ‘Gulf Print and Pack’ show…

Held at the Dubai World Trade Centre between 13-16 April, the Altech stand continued to draw huge crowds to the Intec range, on each of the show’s four days.

Intec making a big impression in Dubai - well, if you can believe our cheeky art department!

The print industry continues to evolve and grow in the Middle East and Africa.

Advances in print machinery and materials are creating opportunities for business growth.

With the success of the Sign and Graphic exhibition in this region only 2 months ago (January), and unprecedented growth in demand for Intec products, Intec Printing Solutions chose to support Gulf Print and Pack 2015. The Gulf Print and Pack show runs every 2 years and is regarded as the leading event for commercial and package printers in the Middle East and North Africa.

from over 100 countries, Gulf Print and Pack 2015 proved the ideal place for Intec to meet key decision makers and help dealers in the local areas to generate new business leads and expand further into global markets.

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Covering four-days this exhibition featured the latest digital presses, package printing technology, and web-to-print software solutions for printing professionals, buyers, and design agencies, and so was obviously the right place for Intec to show off its new range of 5 color digital print solutions, and the Intec LP215 label printer, with the companion label cutter – the ultimate combination for perfect short-run digital labels.

Attendance going up!

Attendance was significantly up compared to 2013’s (last Gulf Print) show. With well over 10,000 visitors

Gulf Print & Pack is always a great show for Intec, our business is consistently growing in the Middle East and Africa.

Mark Baker-Homes Intec

The UAE print industry turned out in good numbers

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Gulf Print & Pack …Continued Intec in partnership with Altech International and Premier Graphics, showcased the: • ColorSplash 5000 range, running and demonstrating both white and clear additional colors • Intec High Volume Envelope Feeder • Intec LP215 Label Printer and Intec LCF215, Label Cutter and Finisher for digital label finishing In addition Aldana (Intec’s Dubai partner for the CP3000 range) showcased the Intec CP3000.

During the show, the full range of products that can be printed from Intec printers, were imaged and handed out.

High speed envelope printing was demonstrated using a multitude of different colored premium envelopes, with white print.

Delegates were often queuing several deep to get a first-hand look at the Intec equipment!

Clear toner was used to over-print samples - ideal for highlighting high quality print products.

This just shows how exciting the new ColorSplash solutions are for all manner of print including 1,200mm long banners, for use in Point-of-Sale applications were displayed with the POD, display stand (pictured opposite).

Customer sample files for a range of labels, were produced live on the stand. The labels were cut and finished onto smaller rolls, and even some laminated for that premium gloss finish - most impressive stuff!

Hard to see the Intec equipment as we were three-deep all the time - and the most popular stand

Next Show: See us in Mexico City!

12-15 de Mayo

La exhibición de Artes Gráficas más completa y de mayor trascendencia en el foro mundial de habla hispana.

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A presentation by Our 2015 Charity As previously published, Intec Printing Solutions is supporting the charity, ‘International Needs’ in their quest to build a maternity hospital in Burkina Faso, west Africa. On 22nd April, the charity’s top brass came to our UK headquarters to present an overview of their work to our workforce.

Keep updated here: http://www.intecprinters.com/aboutintec/making-a-difference/ James Townsend and Danny Morris of ‘International Needs’, being greeted by Ian Melville

Charity and sponsors, both doing well…

Following significant commitment from Intec, the future prospects of the proposed Maternity Hospital project are looking very rosy.

International Needs’ National Manager, Danny Morris, said; “Your support has been really encouraging.

We should be in the position to start laying bricks by the end of 2015.”

A few facts:

• Burkina Faso is a land-locked, arid country with average temp 35°C • Population 17 million • 45% population under 14 yrs • High infant mortality - 77 out of every 1000 babies die • 35% of under 5’s malnourished • Only 1 doctor every 10,000 people Ian Melville and the entire Intec UK team found the presentation very informative and thought-provoking.

“We are delighted that a percentage of every Intec consumable purchased provides funding directly to this worthy cause. We recently received a most heartening update from the charity, which is now available to view on our website” said Ian.

Danny Morris presenting an overview of the charity’s work, to the UK Intec workforce

Our target is the construction of a 7 bed maternity ward and natal care facility - costing circa £140k Danny Morris International Needs

Every Intec consumable purchased generates a donation towards the charity

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Master Class #3.1 Continuing our ‘Master Class’ series, to help you get the very best from your Intec equipment, this is part one of an in-depth three part series on ‘Advanced Color Control’.

Intec printers and the Fiery® RIP One of the key features which makes the Intec version of the Fiery RIP so very different from other RIPs, is that it comes pre-loaded with 64 profiles - developed to help you achieve great results.

Grasp the fundamentals of advanced color management and take full control of your digital print output!

Advanced Color Control is an elaborate subject, which we feel is essential for serious print professionals to master.

This complex subject is best broken down into a number of bite-sized pieces - so to help unpack the principles and benefits, we’ll spread these topics across the next few issues. Throughout the series, we will look at; • the key settings for optimising your system correctly for best color output • understanding how to use the RIP to translate specific desired outputs • dealing with spot colors and custom colors • the importance of calibration and profiling • using a color spectrophotomer and how the RIP can help us Plus, we have a few other tips and tricks to help you!

In this issue we’ll cover: 1 Importance of the Intec Fiery RIP

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The MasterClass series so far: • March creating step and repeat business cards – reducing time on your guillotine to save money • April automation of imposition and booklet imposition taking into account CREEP from paper fold

1: The Fiery XF for Intec RIP

As many know, Intec has partnered with EFi over recent years to develop an extremely sophisticated version of their industry-standard RIP. This now ships as standard with all Intec Fiery RIP purchases. Among its prime features, are the 64 preloaded profiles which are specifically developed to meet a wide range of artwork/media/output requirements, coupled with numerous other options, features and controls, this RIP is very powerful and is the key to total control of your digital print workflow.

2: M atching your system equipment to the RIP

Today’s graphics applications are quite advanced, with many color controls.

Your settings correspond to a specific standard printing condition which we often refer to as ‘the industry standard for color’. Data sets are provided by industry associations and based on experience of printing inks, papers and presses in their market; ‘FOGRA39 ISOcoated_v2_300_eci’ is widely used in Europe – but in North America, either the ‘GraCol2013_CRPC6’ or the ‘CGATS21-2-CRPC6’ might be more common.

Unfortunately, many users don’t change the default settings on their applications, but to ensure a fighting chance of great color coming out of your printer, you must ensure the settings in your graphic applications on your computers (fig 1) MATCH your Intec Fiery (also known as your Digital Front End (DFE)) color settings.

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2 Matching your equipment 3 Calibration 4 Profiling

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Master Class #3.1…Continued 3: Calibrate your printer for consistent output

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To get the best tonal range from your printed output, it is important to calibrate your printer. When doing this you are essentially setting it up for optimum toner/color distribution on paper. Calibration ensures linear progression of the ink tints from 100% to 1% without a tonal distortion. Calibration also ensures you are getting the best color saturation for vivid color prints.

NB: Because each paper accepts toner color differently, we advise that you create a separate calibration for each paper/media type you use.

Frequently the highlight dots need to be fine tuned to show highlight detail, and the shadow areas need to be addressed to expand the tonal range from your printer.

An example of what an uncalibrated scale can look like vs a calibrated one is shown to the right fig 2.

Changes in print settings, media thickness and even subtle variations in paper or the environment can also influence the color; i.e. 80gsm copier paper with optical brighteners, make yellow look different in densities compared to 350gsm ivory board.

In essence, calibration is a ‘hardware’ thing, where the printer controls are adjusted to get as close as possible to a desired linear output.

Bottom scale calibrated vs uncalibrated above

that describe the gamut (a three dimensional map of the printable colors – fig 3) from a specific printer’s paper and toner combination. Put more simply, profiling creates a lookup table which can be used to translate ‘what you asked for’ into what it needs, to give you ‘what you wanted in the first place’. So a profile can address any differences in how color is mixed or reproduced between different devices, such as those using dry toner versus an offset press using wet ink. fig 3 When created and used properly, a

4: Profiling

Profiling is different to calibrating, having calibrated our printer we can consistently produce the same output but it doesn’t mean that the color is accurate. RGB colors on a computer screen look different to CMYK colors on a printing press, wet ink from CMYK on a printing press looks different when mixed, compared to dry toner on a Xerographic device.

So, the same color percentages on each device can make color look different. The settings you started with, tell your RIP what device or standard (Forgra/ISO or GraCol) you want your colors to look like.

Printer profiles are small files

3D colormap

linearized printer with printer profiles can help you achieve far more accurate and consistent results.

Intec helps get you started

Most RIPs (even the standard Fiery offering) assumes the user will calibrate their system.

One of the key features which makes

the Intec version of the Fiery RIP very different from the other RIPs is that you don’t have to make your own profiles to get great results.

Intec understands, that color management, calibration and profiling is an advanced skill which can be confusing and many printers simply want to ‘hit the road running’ with the best possible output but don’t have the time or resources to individually profile or set up every paper type and every condition in their printing process.

The good news is, Intec have prebuilt over 64 different linearization and profile combinations based on a range of common paper types, thicknesses and even different printer settings/resolutions which are preinstalled and setup up in the Intec Fiery XF RIP station to give you a great head start!

The profiles included in the Intec RIP range include profiles for papers like 55gsm NCR stocks, super bright white papers such as Mondi Color Copy, the common business card stock Ivory Board, packaging boards like PromoBoard and even all the way up to heavy stocks including 450gsm TruCard.

Intec has spent a great deal of time testing a broad range of typical and speciality media types to establish the

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The reference table in fig 4 is now published and can be downloaded from here:

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Desperate to know more?

If you have any specific questions relating to color control or the Intec Fiery RIP, I’d be delighted to assist wherever I possibly can.

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Intec U.S. at Bindrite association Busy Bindrite Conference

We attended the BindRite Association Conference in Savannah Georgia between 19th 20th April.

Intec USA presented the CS5600 XF to the BindRite association - which gained a lot of interest as they are in need of a toner based solution to compliment their ink jet based solutions. Watch this space…

Intec’s Michael Sparbeck, fielding questions from interested attendees at the Conference

Busy in training at Intec U.S. Our Florida office is being kept busy with training

For example, we hosted training for a number of Intec Partners during early May: Graphco – Cleveland Ohio A.L.Larsen – New England United Litho - New Jersey & New York MES - Orlando Florida

Intec’s Todd Tedesco instructing during Dealer training

Intec invited to demonstrate at Greetings Live 2015 The only show for the UK’s greetings card industry!

‘Progressive Greeting Live’ will be open from 2nd to the 3rd June 2015 at Islington’s Business Design Centre, London.

Showing our game-changing CS5500, Intec will be positioned on the Iggesund PaperBoard AB stand - and will be using Invercote G and Incada boards.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see greetings cards and postcards being printed live at the show!

If you are interested in attending the show please contact Intec Marketing on +44 (0)1202 845 960

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Brand New printer for one of Britain’s oldest Brewers!

The Faversham Brewery, decided it was high-time for another - Intec printer, that is.

A new ColorSplash CS4200 being the order of the day.

Rachel Pointer, pleased with the operation of her new ColorSplash CS4200

When the Faversham Brewery decided to upgrade their Intec CP2020 printer - they said, “Same again, please!” and came direct to Intec for a state-of-the-art replacement unit.

Peter Swann, Intec’s UK Sales Manager, was delighted to yet again win the ongoing business of this historic brewery – who have been in existence since 1698!

“Even in these very early days with their new printer, the brewery is already reporting better print quality and quieter operation, along with lower cost of ownership,” said Peter.

Rachel Pointer, pictured with the CS4200, uses the printer for all manner of marketing items including food menus, flyers and posters as well as personalised point of sale items, for their established and growing pub network.

Examples of the Brewery’s well-known branding and items printed on the Intec CS4200

“I love the simple user-interface and easy access to consumables.”

Rachel POinter Faversham Brewery

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Every Intec consumable sold generates a donation to one of several charitable causes around the world.

Thank you for helping us make the world a better place.