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CONTENTS Volume 51, Number 12

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Products of the Year Thirty top developers and distributors of printing technologies name their Product of the Year in this third-annual feature, which helps describe the near-future focus for some of Canada’s leading suppliers

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NEWS Random House and Penguin publishing houses plan merger, Ryerson GCM christens the Esko Premedia Wing, and Peter Nitchos joins Mi5 in Markham

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CALENDAR January 2013 BCPIA holds part two of Lean Learn and Do, PAC presents Packaging Sales Best Practices, and EFI hosts Connect 2013 at the Wynn in Las Vegas

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SHOW Print World 2012 A pictorial report from the show floor of Print World in Toronto, which emphasized the entrepreneurial drive within Canada’s printing community

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EDUCATION Ryerson GCM Support Network Close to $100,000 in scholarships are presented to dozens of university students pursuing careers in graphic communications

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ZAC BOLAN Adobe Gets Back to Business with Acrobat XI Pro Canada’s prepress guru fires up his Macbook Air – with OS X and Windows – to test-drive the new engine of PDF production

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TRISH WITKOWSKI Does Your Holiday Greeting Stand Out or Blend In? The folding fanatic looks through her archives to find some of the best holiday cards produced by North American printing and finishing companies

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December 1987 Construction begins on the Chunnel, Gorbachev makes his first trip to the United States, and Toronto police print their own annual reports

Resources 21 Services to the Trade Cover photo: Clive Chan

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PERSPECTIVE

Celebrating Print rintAction would like to thank our judging panel for spending a full day to comb more than 200 entries into this year’s Canadian Printing Awards program – Ptheover 7th annual. Each entry was scrutinized on a point system that considered project effectiveness, printing defects, production challenge and overall quality. The judges also took into account important printing information like the process used, finishing and run length.

In responding to a printer’s inquiry about their submission, one of our more technical judges wrote, “Speaking for all the judges of the Canadian Printing Awards, I would have to say that the entries this year are the best we have ever seen. There were several entries that just stood out above the rest and had us all in awe and admiration for a job well done.

“During the judging process, each judge makes notes on jobs that they feel are outstanding and later share this with each other. Once we have found the cream of the crop the judges scrutinize them very carefully in their own area of expertise and then consult with each other to determine the very best.”

Congratulations to Rhino Print Solutions for winning the 2012 Best of Show award for its production of the monochrome book South Korea: Memories of the Heart. PrintAction also congratulates this year’s outstanding Industry Achievement winners, including: George Kallas, Founder of MET Fine Printers, who received the John A. Young Lifetime Achievement Award; Mike Meshkati, President of Sina Printing, who received the Emerging Leader of the Year Award; and Ward Griffin, President & CEO of The Lowe-Martin Group, who was named the 2012 Printing Leader of the Year.

Please be sure to check out our January issue for a detailed breakdown of the winning print pieces – covering a range of categories from books and brochures to direct mail and display graphics – and business-development initiatives. As much as the judges were vital in creating a successful 2012 program, this important celebration of Canadian printing would not be possible without the sponsorship of Unisource, Fujifilm, Hostmann-Steinberg, KBR Graphics, Kodak, manroland, Presstek, Sustainable Forest Initiative, Sun Chemical, Agfa, Domtar, Epson and Heidelberg.

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PRINT NEWS

PIERRE KARL PÉLADEAU, President and CEO of Sun Media, announced 500 jobs cuts which includes the closure of two printing plants. The corporation's Ottawa and Kingston printing presses will be silenced in part of an effort to shave off $45 million in costs per year. “This restructuring is regrettable but warranted by changes in our industry which force us to align our cost structure with the new reality,” said Péladeau, who is also CEO of Quebecor Inc., which owns Sun Media. Quebecor in November last year cut 400 jobs, some attributed to outsourcing of production to India. Sun Media is one of Canada's largest newspaper publishers with a circulation of over 15.1 million copies a week spanning 36 paid-circulation dailies and six free commuter papers. The Corporation also publishes 200 community newspapers, shopping guides and other publications.

WINGENBACK INC.’s Dennis Wingenbach, Executive Vice-President and Owner; Dean Wingenbach, Ontario Division Manager; Barry Emo, Vice President of Sales; and Wayne Wingenbach, President and owner welcomed customers to their annual appreciation event at the Hyatt Regency in Toronto. Founded in 1975, Wingenback – with locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, and Halifax – is a diversified company providing high-end industrial moving services; ATM-related products; and safes, vaults, and locksmith services.

TRANSCONTINENTAL is to close its printing plant at 7743 Bourdeau St. in LaSalle, Quebec, by December 20th. The closure will result in the elimination of 150 jobs in the Montreal suburb. Transcontinental acquired the LaSalle facility – a heatset web operation – from Quad/Graphics in June of 2011, along with five other facilities. Transcontinental announced closures of the Dartmouth and Rivière-desPrairies plants for April and June of this year respectively. Before Quad/Graphics' purchase in 2010, the plants were owned

by Worldcolor/Quebecor.

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BERTELSMANN SE & CO. KGAA, one of the world’s most powerful media companies, based in Hamburg, Germany, is rebranding its printing operations under the name of Be Printers. This printing division of Bertelsmann was formed a few months ago after the international media company merged most of its worldwide print operations. Now, 17 production sites in six countries on three continents will operate under the Be Printers umbrella. The Be Printers group does business in what Bertelsmann describes as key markets in the Americas (U.S. and Colombia) and Europe (Germany, UK, Italy, and Spain). Be Printers generates annual revenues of €1.2 billion and employs approximately 6,800 people, producing magazines, catalogs, brochures, books and calendars for their clients.

THOMAS RABE, Chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann, announced plans to merge the trade book publishing operations of Random House, owned by Bertelsmann, with Penguin, owned by Pearson. Pending regulatory approval, the Random House and Penguin brands, while retaining their distinct imprints, are to be combined in most of the world by the second half of 2013.

Bertelsmann will own 53 percent of the new entity while Pearson will take the remaining 47 percent. Bertelsmann is to retain control of Verlagsgruppe Random House, its Munich-based German-language publishing division. Bertelsmann has 100,000 employees worldwide through its media divisions and in 2011 earned over €15.3 billion in revenues. The company was founded in 1835 as a publishing house and print shop. London-based Pearson had revenues of £5,862 million in 2011 with over 37,000 employees.

R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS has been awarded a multiple-year print management agreement by Scotiabank, which is both a renewal and expansion of the relationship between the two companies.

Under the terms of the agreement, RR Donnelley is to provide a range of products and services described as digital printing, forms, kitting and fulfillment services, and regulatory communications.

The new agreement is to also employ RR Donnelley's (RRD) proprietary CustomPoint system, which provides a configured suite of online services. Previous initiatives like instituting electronic invoicing and print management strategies to consolidate documents, according to RRD, have helped Scotiabank reduce consumption by almost 30,000 pages annually.

CANADIAN PRINTING INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION confirmed its executives are working to join forces with the Canadian Printing Industry Sector Council. Led by Executive Director Marie Eveline, CPISC was established in 2006 as a non-profit organization – through the Sectoral Partnerships Initiative of Human Resources and Social Development Canada – to tackle human resource issues within the allied printing sector. The CPIA, based in Ottawa, was founded in 1939 to represent PARKER MACDONALD, a technology sales interests of its member firms for policy veteran of Canada’s printing industry, formation, regulation and legislation. joins Ernest Green & Son Ltd. (EGS) as the company’s Regional Sales Manager for Central Canada. Self-described as the largest independent distributor of graphic arts products and services in Canada, EGS, in business for over 55 years, distributes a range of technologies, from laminators and cutters to RIPs and liquid-coaters, while specializing in flexographic, offset printing, CTP, toner and inkjet wide-format products. “I am proud to join the EGS in this new role and I am looking forward to leading my sales team to drive our market share in PETER NITCHOS, with more than 30 years Ontario,” said MacDonald. of experience working within Toronto’s printing market, becomes President of Mi5 Print and Digital Communications, based in Markham, Ontario. Nitchos spent time with Matthews Ingham & Lake, Quebecor MIL, Grafikom, and RR Donnelley MIL. “I look forward to working closely with CEO and Founder Derek McGeachie and the entire Mi5 team,” stated Nitchos. “This is a can-do company and has had the growth year over year to prove it… Steve Tahk, our Vice President and General Manager, and his team have done an incredible job of stayJEFF EKSTEIN, owner and CEO of Willow ing ahead of the technology curve that Printing Group in Concord, Ontario, will keeps the sizzle alive in our print.” continue to play a significant role on the 2013 Board of Directors for Printing JAMES DOWNHAM, CEO of PAC, The Industries of America (PIA), which claims Packaging Association, announced a doto be the world’s largest graphic arts trade nation of $25,000 in scholarships to Ryassociation. In 2013, Ekstein is to serve as erson University’s School of Graphic the PIA’s First Vice Chairman. He previ- Communications Management (GCM) ously served as the association’s Second at Ryerson University. The funding plan Vice Chairman, as an Executive Commit- begins in GCM’s 2013-2014 academic tee Member, a Premier Print Awards year and is to be distributed over five judge, and from 2009 to 2011 as the years in the form of 20 scholarships. The PIA’s Education Committee Chairman. awards will go to students who successEkstein is also the current co-chair of fully complete the first year of the proCanadian Printing Industries Sector gram, with special emphasis on the Council (CPISC), and has been a director packaging curriculum. These students of the Canadian Printing Industries will also be members of PAC, which has Association (CPIA) for several years. been working closely with GCM for the past few years, particularly in relation to NIGEL WORME becomes Chairman of the its RyePack student initiative.

National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL), following the resignation CRAWFORD TECHNOLOGIES, which develops of Darren Loken, who made a career Enterprise Content Management tools out change and is no longer actively involved of Toronto, has been named as one of in the graphic communications industry. Canada’s fastest growing technology comWorme is the Chief Executive Officer of panies by the 15th annual Deloitte TechCOT Holdings Ltd. based in Christ nology Fast 50 awards, which recognizes Church, Barbados. The NAPL also ap- the country’s 50 fastest growing technology pointed Niels Winther, Managing Partner companies based on the percentage of revand Chairman at Think Patented, as As- enue growth over five years. In the past five sociation Vice Chairman, while Bill Gav- years, Crawford Technologies, led by Presigan, CFO at PDQ Print Center, joins the ident Ernie Crawford, reports a combined association’s Executive Committee as growth of 187 percent working with over 700 companies around the world.

Secretary/Treasurer.

MICHEL THERIAULT, Equipment Sales Specialist with Fujifilm, Patric Farand, owner of Infografilm, and Raymond Brideau, Account Manager with Fujifilm oversaw the installation of an Acuity Advance 2504 system, which uses UV piezoelectric variable-dot, grayscale heads to jet ink drops from six to 30 picoliters. This is Infografilm’s second Fujifilm Acuity Advance. The company’s VaudreuilSoulanges, Quebec, production facility focuses on providing graphic design, display graphics and finishing services.

ISYS LABEL of Calgary, Alberta, signed two international distribution agreements for its EDGE 850 & APEX 1290 printing technologies, including a deal with UK-based Impressions Technology Europe. The two manufacturers have paired up the EDGE 850 with Impressions’ Eclipse LF3 cutter, which iSys will now distribute in North America. Impresoras Digitales of Santiago, Chile, also became a new distributor in South America for the EDGE 850 & APEX 1290 label-printing technologies.

GLEN CHIASSON, former manager of the Graphics Canada trade show, died in mid-November following an automobile accident in Port Hope, Ontario. He was 43 years old. Chiasson was manager of the Graphics Canada trade show between 1999 and 2005 on behalf of DMG World Media. Since 2005, he had been working in the pharmaceutical market as Group Conference Director at Diversified Business Communications Canada.

BOB SZOKE of the Canadian Flexographic Training Committee (CFTC), Don Gain of the Canadian Printing Industries Scholarship Trust Fund (CPISTF), and Ron Schroder of the Canadian Flexographic Training Council celebrate a $17,500 donation made by CFTC. The funding is to be put towards one perpetual CPISTF Scholarship and two CPISTF Adopt a Student scholarships. “With the establishment of these scholarships, offered specifically to students with flexography in mind as their chosen career path, the industry is assured of obtaining many highly qualified future employees and potential customers,” stated Schroder, who also joins the CPISTF board of trustees.

JOHN MEYER becomes Vice President of Marketing for Presstek, after joining the Connecticut company in 2010 to help direct its CTP business. Meyer previously served in a number of sales and marketing roles at Fujifilm USA. In a related move, Presstek appointed Ralph Jenkins as Director of Sales, CTP and Indirect ChanMACMILLAN EDUCATION of Oxford, UK, nels. Jenkins joined Presstek in 2006 as stopped its production of printed dic- Director of Channel Distribution, after tionaries after the final edition rolled off spending 22 years at Agfa. The two apthe presses in November. Since 2009, the pointments were announced shortly after company started to transition users to its Presstek finalized its acquisition by MAI Macmillan Dictionary Online service. Holdings, an affiliate of American Indus“The traditional book format is very lim- trial Partners Capital Fund (AIP). iting for any kind of reference work,” said Editor-in-Chief Michael Rundell. “Books CLAUS BOLZA-SCHÜNEMANN, CEO of Gerare out of date as soon as they’re printed, man press maker KBA, was named as and the space constraints they impose Chairman of the 2016 drupa exposition. often compromise our goals of clarity Messe Düsseldorf, organizers of the and completeness. There is so much world’s largest print-centric trade show, more we can do for our users in digital drupa, plans to continue on its four-year media.” This news from Macmillan fol- schedule, despite some discussions about lows a March announcement from the going onto a three-year cycle. The next venerable Encyclopedia Britannica that, drupa, slated for May 2016, will be three after 244 years, it will no longer produce days shorter, however, spanning only 11 a print edition. days instead of the traditional 14.

GCM OPENS ESKO PREMEDIA WING Ryerson University’s dedicated Graphic Communications Management (GCM) building in Toronto opened its new Esko Premedia Wing in early November, following a large hardware-and-software donation from Esko North America, including packaging workflow tools for design, visualization, proofing and production, as well as a CDI flexo plate imaging system.

“Esko is very active in the Toronto packaging market and it’s seldom that we have a customer or client who isn’t connected to Ryerson University in some way,” stated Larry Moore, Esko’s Director of Software Services in North America. “Considering this, and the fact that Ryerson’s School of Graphic Communications Management is a leader in educating those in the packaging industry, donating this gift to Ryerson was a natural choice for us.”

The Esko technology is to be used by GCM students within related program courses, as well as by faculty engaged in packaging research projects. Ryerson states such research, while not yet determined, could involve areas like flexo plate quality, package design, and the printability of stochastic and other specialty Ian Baitz, Ryerson dot shape data.

GCM Chair (left to right), with Ron “This major Larry, Esko’s VP donation will of Software Busiallow our 500 ness DevelopGCM students ment, and Adam Kahan, Ryerson’s to learn Esko’s VP of University industry-leadAdvancement. ing packaging design and prepress systems,” stated Ian Baitz, Chair of the School of Graphic Communications Management. “We are thrilled to begin using Esko job management and automation modules, including tools such as DeskPack and ArtiosCAD. Our new Esko CDI Spark imagesetter will become a very important piece of equipment in our new prepress flexography workflow.”

A portion of the donation is earmarked for GCM's premedia platemaking lab for flexographic platemaking. The Esko CDI Spark flexo will help students to learn and practice platemaking processes using the Esko workflow system. All third-year GCM students will produce flexo plates on the new CDI. “We have focused on offset and digital printing for many years,” continued Baitz. “We added a flexo press three years ago, but our missing pieces were a packaging workflow and method to create plates. Cooperating companies in the Toronto area were kind enough to make plates for us, but we wanted students to see the workflow and platemaking process for themselves. Now we have access to the tools and students can evaluate their own plates for quality.”

Ryerson also intends to employ Esko-donated technologies within GCM’s robust extracurricular clubs, including the RyePack initiative.

RyeTAGA, an official student chapter of the TAGA organization, with over 60 members, will also use the new Esko equipment for research papers and the production of its annual TAGA student journal. RyeTAGA’s student journal has historically resulted in numerous awards for Canadian printing students when Larry Moore, Esko’s Director of Software Services North matched against America (left to right), with Esko’s Ron Larry, Sheldon others from around Levy, President and Vice Chancellor of Ryerson, and Marc Raad, Esko Account Manager, Canada. the world.

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PRINT CALENDAR

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The 2013 International CES will draw visitors worldwide to Las Vegas for the next generation of consumer electronics.

Over 140,000 industry members are expected to explore the four venues on the Vegas Strip.

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The deadline for the PAC Packaging Competition is on this date. The contest features new categories for corrugated containers, both graphic and structural enhanced, and in-store marketing, including display ready pallets and retail ready packaging.

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EFI hosts its annual worldwide Connect 2013 Users’ Conference at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. The event is an opportunity for users to network, educate themselves on the latest in MIS and Web-to-Print technologies and get previews of EFI’s offerings, both in software and wide format inkjet.

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The British Columbia Printing Association holds the second part of its Lean Learn and Do seminar, which will teach printers efficiency strategies.

The conference will briefly review the contents of the first part before branching off into new advice.

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London will play host to the FESPA Global Summit which brings together the leaders of wide format printing to address key challenges, opportunities and threats to the industry.

Presenters include some of the top international brands and agencies such as Samsung and Unilever. €645*

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The Canadian Marketing Association holds its 2013 Analytics Conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The conference aims to teach attendees the adoption of big data and some of the common pitfalls and how it can work to increase customer loyalty. $699*

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PODi presents the 2013 AppForum, aimed at new digital printing applications, at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. The event bills itself as a small, intimate conference presented by real users and not vendors.

The conference is split into five tracks ranging from business growth strategies to innovative packaging. $1,195

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PAC presents a seminar titled Packaging Sales Best Practices in Toronto, hosted by veteran trainer Brian Schiedel.

The course will teach how to identify key influencers, the selling process, tactical approaches, and new business development techniques. $695*

The “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign is one of the world’s most iconic pieces of signage. First erected in 1959 by Western Neon Company. The 25 foot sign, which cost $4,000 to install, is actually four miles south of Las Vegas city limits. In May 2009, the sign was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

The design, never copyrighted, has been replicated numerous times, including a version erected in 2002 to denote the actual downtown city limits.

Pricing listed at standard rates, with * denoting the availability of member of early bird discounts.

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PRINT SHOW

Print World 2012 he biannual Print World trade show in Toronto may have been missing some of the industry’s largest international suppliers, but this helped to create an atmosphere familiar to the Canadian printing industry, which is driven by entrepreneurial companies. The following pictorial report captures a part of this entrepreneurial spirit from three days on the Direct Energy Centre’s show floor.

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Jay Nazir and Ken Krieger of EZ Trade Signs.

Fara, Oscar and Mike Meshkati of Sina Printing.

Michael Steele and Dylan Westgate of Sydney Stone.

Peter Cober of Cober Evolving Solutions.

Members of the 4over team.

Team members from Duracut Machine Knife, United Precision and Master Machinery Movers.

Vladimir Kirjakov and Jim Patterson of Zund Canada.

Ward Griffin of Lowe-Martin with Ryerson’s Abhay Sharma.

Derek McGeachie, Sheryl Sauder and Steve Tahk of Spectracolor Trade Printing.

Ralph Pike and Bill Kidd (centre), of the IAPHC Toronto, with students from Ryerson’s RyePack initiative.

Jeff Smith and Andrew Patrick of Epson Canada.

Doreen Gyamera and Stephane Dagenais of Unisource.

Pal and Robbie Dhanju (centre) with the MPI Print team.

Jack Lafler, Chantelle Bani, Gail Bullen and Steve Antoni of Avanti.

Soren Larsen and Eric Frank of KBA North America with Mark Norlock and Wolfgang Guenther of KBA Canada.

David Ferguson of GBC Canada with Wilfred Tang of Canon Canada.

Esko’s Robert Racine, Oscar Buenros, Mark Raad, and Jean-Francois LaCombre.

Steve Thistle of Robert E. Thistle, Paul Attew of Watkiss Automation and Donald Schroeder of C.P. Bourg.

Ted Schaffer, Nigel Woods and Mike Priest of Williamson Printing Materials.

Len Rivett with Jeff Ekstein of Willow Printing Group.

Steve McClinton, Don Anderson and Bernard Hellen of Cascades Fine Papers.

Rachel Dierolf of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative discusses the paper supply chain.

George Shaw of Primera Technology.

Ken Lunn of EFI VUTEk with Jim Stalford from Océ-Canada.

Bob Millsa and Suzanne Wakefield of INsource.

Irena Kuznetsova, Adriana Berrocal, and Ivan Herbert of Accenta Display.

Severyn Wiciak of Opus in Poland with Jackie Kisiloski of Pressdown.

The KBR Graphics team.

John Gallagher of Sterling Toggle, Rick Grannary of NOR-AM Graphic Equipment, and Enrico Ruta of FME.

Tony Mastromatteo and John Hall of TreckHall Wide Format.

Paul Wooding, Director and Secretary of PEFC Canada.

Helen Lu and Laura Maclean of Anstey Book Binding.

Chris and Cled Desouza of All Graphic Supplies.

Bruno Di Claudio and Gord Leah of RISO Canada.

John Yu of Ricoh gives a demonstration.

PRINT EDUCATION

First year GCM students receive their scholarships from the CPISTF. Photo: Scott Millward, GCM Instructor

Ryerson GCM Support Network n the days after one of the largest turnouts to celebrate the achievements of students in Ryerson University’s Graphic Communications Management (GCM), who received close to $100,000 in scholarships and awards, the future of the program was bolstered by three more significant partnerships.

First, Esko North American established a GCM Esko Premedia Wing through a large technology donation to the 4-year degree program (see page 7). Then PAC, The Packaging Association, and the Canadian Flexographic Training Committee (CTFC) presented GCM with more funding. PAC made a donation of $25,000

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to be distributed over five years in the form of 20 scholarships, beginning in GCM’s 2013/2014 academic year. These students will also be members of PAC, which has been working closely with GCM for the past few years, particularly in relation to its RyePack student initiative.

CFTC then announced it would donate $17,500 in scholarships to the Canadian Printing Industries Scholarship Trust Fund, which directs a majority of its funding to GCM – Canada’s only 4-year degree program dedicated to graphic arts studies.

(Visit PrintAction.com for more on CPISTF’s complete scholarship funding in 2012.)

– Jon Robinson

Kempenfelt Group Award Olivia Parker

College & University Print Management Association of Canada Melissa Binsted

Foundation of Flexographic Technical Association Scholarship Elina Shafigullina

Hans Müller Sr. Award of Excellence in Graphic Arts Finishing Tabea Lemcke

FFTA/Rossini Flexographic Scholarship Andrew Wong

Best Bound Book Award Erik Long

The manroland Canada Accounting Award Tabea Lemcke

Francesco Giorgio Memorial Award Eileen Chiang, Jessica Chiu, Mary Tran

The William Somerville Memorial Award for Excellence Olivia Parker

Mary Black Leadership Award Andrew Wong

Schawk Canada Award Terence Lo

Gary Hanna Graphic Communications Award Donica Willis

C.J. Graphics Award Leanne Fitzgerald, Marcin Korbut, Lara Vanderheide George Hurley Award Mark Corrigan

Xplor Central Chapter Scholarship Nathan Plavnick

Electronic Document Systems Foundation Awards (with support from Symcor and OutputLinks) Christopher Ambedkar, Mark Corrigan, Emily Wong, Jonathan Wong, Sommer Johnson, Tabea Lemcke Chia Tse Award (Toronto Craftsmen Club) Olivia Parker

Lynda Mullen of C.J. Graphics presents the George Hurley Memorial Award to Mark Corrigan.

Photo: PrintAction

Professor Martin Habekost presents the Clifford Hawes Award to Faris Abu-Kwiek.

Professor Art Seto presents the Best Bound Book Award to Erik Long.

Photo: Scott Millward

Photo: Scott Millward

Jeff Watson Memorial Award Keri Scott RB Tom Atkins Scholarship Sommer Johnson GK Teamwear Award Melissa Binsted The Clifford Hawes Memorial Scholarship Award Faris Abu-Kweik GCM Student Representative Award Ahmed Alabbas

Professor Jason Lisi presents the William Sommerville Award to Olivia Parker.

Photo: Scott Millward

Family, friends and the printing industry cram into the Cascades lecture room for GCM awards night.

Photo: PrintAction

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ZAC BOLAN

Adobe Gets Back To Business with Acrobat XI Pro Software: Adobe Acrobat XI Pro System Requirements: Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows 7, 8, Windows Server Tested: 11-inch Macbook Air 2GHz Intel i7, 8gb RAM, 256gb SSD MSRP: US$449; upgrades from US$199 ortable Document Format! PDF! Every one of us interacts with this three-letter-acronym on a daily basis whether we realize it or not. Few file formats have reached this level of ubiquity – perhaps only MP3 or maybe DOC can rival its prevalence in the cloud. And since day one, Adobe Acrobat has been the pre-eminent tool for poking, prodding, prepping and fixing PDF files.

Acrobat over the years has evolved with each successive release enabling the PDF to grow in both capability and usefulness. Acrobat XI Pro represents Adobe’s latest effort to elevate the pervasive PDF into a new paradigm of productivity. But many wonder, will Adobe once again re-define the role of PDF or has this aging file format peaked once and for all?

To better understand the future of PDF, it is important to recognize its past as few really fathom the business origins of the PDF and how it evolved to affect the way we create, consume and, most importantly, exchange information.

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The Camelot Project

When Adobe founder John Warnock wrote his famous Camelot Project paper back in 1991, his altruistic goal was to confront what he saw as a major problem facing the business world of the day – the inability to communicate visual information between the dizzying array of hardware, software and operating systems defining the fledgling desktop computer. As Warnock saw it, although virtually every computer and software application could send information to a desktop printer, there was no universal way to view this information. And while Adobe’s powerful Postscript and Display Postscript seemed the logical development environment to create the digital Rosetta Stone, these powerful page description languages were far too complex for the job. They required significantly more processor and memory power than the average

Acrobat XI Pro’s subtle interface changes reveal powerful editing and productivity tools. q Custom tool bar sets can be created, saved and shared with other users. w New editing tools allow text to reflow within frames in addition to font attribute control. e By selecting frame corner-points and dragging with the SHIFT key depressed text can be automatically resized. r Acrobat XI Pro features Microsoft PPT export options. t New image editing tools allow users to rotate, resize, reflect, crop and edit images in Photoshop. y The Action Wizard steps users through common PDF workflow functions defined as defaults. Users can also create, save and share custom Action sets. u Acrobat XI Pro’s text frames don’t always break copy into logical blocks. This paragraph separates into four text frames when edited.

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home, education or business user could leverage at the time.

Warnock’s stated vision was “to provide a collection of utilities, applications, and system software so that a corporation can effectively capture documents from any application, send electronic versions of these documents anywhere, and view and print these documents on any machine.”

Then in 1993 the document world forever changed with Adobe’s publishing of the PDF 1.0 standard and the release of the first version of Adobe Acrobat. While other developers worked feverishly to produce a competing format, Adobe’s PDF quickly cemented the company’s position as the de facto digital document standard by releasing the specification to third-party developers alongside Acrobat Reader. Although freely available, the PDF specification remained Adobe’s proprietary technology until released as an open standard on July 1, 2008. The current PDF standard is published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO-32000-1:2008 and is available to anyone wishing utilize the technology.

Since 1993, Adobe has maintained a regular upgrade cycle for Acrobat, introducing new PDF handling features as the file standard evolved to meet the needs of the various adoptive niche markets such as the graphic arts, which was suffering through its own digital growing pains. The print world stabilized around the PDF, as it became the standard file format for transferring graphic information. In 2007, the PDF appeared to reach the end-of-the-line for new capabilities with PDF v1.7 and, subsequently, Acrobat 9 Pro (2008) became the last must-have upgrade for printers. It is still widely used in prepress today.

With Acrobat X (reviewed in PrintAction January 2011), Adobe completely revamped the user interface, as well as adding several collaboration, workflow and productivity enhancements. Ironically, while many of these new features proved useful to prepress, few were considered must-have improvements. Now Acrobat XI Pro takes up the mantle of leadership, proclaiming, “An easier way to work has arrived.” As a daily user of Acrobat X that statement enticed me into giving the latest version a shot – after all who couldn’t use an easier way to work?

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TRISH WITKOWSKI

Card Wars: Does Your Holiday Greeting Stand Out or Blend In? love the holidays, and I love holiday mail. There are so many fun ways to send a greeting, and being in the graphic arts industry I think we do it better than most. After all, we are the ones who make this stuff, so it’s a wonderful opportunity to show off our skills.

There are a lot of trends in creative cards, with dimension being the hottest. Everyone is trying to figure out how to send something flat that turns into a cool and dimensional greeting. Fortunately, most seem to succeed in their quest. I do not see a lot of “seasonal-weird” at the holidays, which is a good thing.

Another trend is shimmery paper, glittery coatings and metallics. The holidays offer a wonderful excuse to bring on the bling, so take an opportunity to wow your customers with some bells and whistles. Just bear in mind that printing is like fashion – overdo it and you’ll end up with a hot mess.

Die-cuts are always a staple. Interesting shapes, interlocking panels, windows, anything to break from the standard rectangular shape of a classic card. From a simple slit to an

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Diversified Global Graphics Group (DG3) of New Jersey created this fun and dimensional holiday tree card for themselves. It arrives flat, but is spring loaded with a rubber band that pops the piece into shape. Message reads: “May the season (and our mini tree) bring you happiness and joy.”

Structural Graphics, a marketing services company in Essex, Connecticut, produced a card for client Iggesund Paperboard, using their substrate, which arrives as a compact custom envelope that opens to reveal a lovely dimensional holiday cityscape. The selfstanding structure can be detached from the envelope or left in one piece.

Dix & Eaton of Cleveland designed a creative two-piece holiday card that is really fun to put together. It arrives in an opalescent envelope and looks like a mini notebook and card, but when you read the simple directions and flip the notebook inside out, a shimmery snowflake emerges and mounts onto a stand.

TBG Design of Stockbridge, Georgia, designed this petal fold format for America’s Capital Partners.

The folding style is closed with a snowflake seal and placed in an envelope. Petal folds are wonderful carriers, and this piece, when opened, reveals a biodegradable dove ornament that is embedded with Austrian Pine seeds, and an invitation to a holiday breakfast.

Heidelberg offered an exciting demonstration of its capabilities from start to finish for their dimensional holiday card. Credits say “100% Heidelberg”, detailing every step of the process from workflow software to CTP, plate, press, and finishing.

Printed on 100# Centura Gloss on a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL and finished on a Dymatrix 106 CSB and Diana Pro 114.

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PRODUCTS OF THE

YEAR

By PrintAction staff

Technology manufacturers, developers, and distributors to the Canadian printing marketplace were asked to name their Product of the Year, which must have been unveiled, commercially released or significantly updated during 2012.

Thirty leading providers describe why their chosen technology has a positive impact in the industry.

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KBA NORTH AMERICA: RAPIDA 145

STATUS: NEW GENERATION RELEASED MAY 2012

A 57-inch sheetfed press reaching 17,000 sph in straight mode, 15,000 perfecting

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Since its introduction, we’re seeing brisk global demand with over 30 new-generation presses with over 200 printing and coating units booked to be delivered to some 15 countries by the end of 2012.

The Rapida 145 was the largest sheetfed offset press on display at drupa. Its unique features make the Rapida 145 more efficient, enhance productivity, and have proven popular with commercial and packaging printers worldwide.

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Mark Hischar President & CEO, KBA North America

X-RITE: EXACT

STATUS: RELEASED NOVEMBER 2012

A family of spectrophotometers engineered to measure substrates with various optical brightening agents

“ Vic Stalam VP of Sales & Marketing, X-Rite

The eXact family of spectrophotometers is the first to offer customers in the printing industry a way to measure true daylight conditions by supporting all the M Standards, inclusive of the complete M1. It solves the problem that printing companies worldwide face when trying to match proofs printed on various substrates, such as those with different concentrations of optical brightening agents. This greatly improves colour agreement in every link of the supply chain.

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STATUS: NEW GENERATION RELEASED MARCH 2012

KODAK: SONORA XP

PRESSTEK: 75DI Enhancements made for drupa in this 29-inch press

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STATUS: RELEASED OCTOBER 2012

With the addition of options such as automatic convertible perfecting, inline inkjet personalization, UV curing and Virtuoso, and an inline quality management system, the Presstek 75DI now becomes a true hybrid press that is capable of producing the widest range of short run – 500 to 20,000 sheets – applications in the industry, including packaging applications.

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Process-free plate with a run length of up to 200,000

“ Todd Bigger Kodak’s Worldwide Product Management Director

SONORA XP Process Free Plates offer mainstream print capability by matching run lengths, imaging speeds and quality of processed plates, but without the burdens and expense of chemistry and processing.

Printers across Canada tell us that they want to do what’s right for the environment, but also need to do what’s right for their business.

SONORA plates deliver a solution that aligns a printer’s business goals and prepress needs while reducing their environmental impact.

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Joe Demharter VP of Sales, Presstek

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EFI: R3225

STATUS: RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2012

A wide-format UV inkjet system with true eight-level variable drop grayscale

“ Ken Hanulec VP, EFI Inkjet Solutions

The EFI R3225 brings wide-format print companies a very lowcost, versatile 3.2-metre roll-fed printer and is a reliable option for users moving from solvent-based to UV-curable production. It’s ideal for first-time purchasers as well for businesses that want a reliable, sturdy back-up machine. This solution is unique in that it combines a modest investment price with very high standards of output, precise colour accuracy, and benefits from EFI’s build quality and technical expertise.

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STATUS: RELEASED MAY 2012

C.P. BOURG: BSFEx Sheet feeder with dual-modes for inline/offline production

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STATUS: RELEASED OCTOBER 2012

The BSFEx maximizes production versatility and efficiencies by enabling inline finishers dedicated to a single digital print engine to also function offline, accepting ‘set secure’ output from multiple workflows and manufacturer’s presses.

By further capitalizing on this industry-first inline/offline capability, the Bourg BSFEx allows users to achieve maximum asset utilization and ROI.

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STATUS: UPDATE RELEASED MARCH 2012

DGM: FOILDEX An inline cold-foil system for packaging that can produce holographic images

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Foildex Cold Foil Technology provides savings up to 80 percent of overall cold foil waste per sheet…

[It] now allows the foil to be indexed in the running direction to apply foil only where it is needed on the sheet – reducing the amounts of foil significantly, bringing cold foil into the hot foil cost arena.

VP of Sales, C.P. Bourg

A single-pass, high-speed slitter / cutter / creaser with extensive modularity

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Recently named NAQP Product of the Year, the DC-745 Slitter/Cutter/Creaser has proven to be the perfect solution for high production printers. The DC-745’s ability to slit, cut, crease, score, perforate, slit-score, microperforate, fold, or soon, emboss – in a single pass – make it the ultimate all-in-one finishing solution for digital printers.

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DUPLO USA: DC-745

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STATUS: RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2012

VAN SON: VS SUPREME

STATUS: RELEASED MARCH 2012

Straight or perfecting ink meets GRACoL 7 tolerances

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VS Supreme has been meticulously engineered to support today’s stringent requirements for pressroom efficiency and colour management. VS Supreme seamlessly handles the broad Joe Bendowski spectrum of printing conditions and substrates commercial CEO, Van Son Holland printers face in a fast-paced production environment.

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STATUS: RELEASED NOVEMBER 2012

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AGFA: ANAPURNA M2540FB An entry-level, high-speed, flatbed, UV-curable inkjet system

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ESKO: WEBCENTER 12 Informing all packaging stakeholders from design to shelf

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WebCenter 12 responds to two distinct, important trends. The first is the proliferation of product variations driven by mass-customization and Mark Raad personalization. Each product variant differs in design, content, colour Esko Account and materials while the overall brand integrity needs to be maintained.

Manager, Canada The second is increased pressure on regulatory compliance.

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Deborah Hutcheson Director of Marketing, Agfa Graphics North America

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HP CANADA: INDIGO 10000

KBR GRAPHICS: MGI METEOR DP8700 S

HP’s first B2-format sheetfed press, including 20000 and 30000 models

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A dry toner press reaching up to 4,260 letter-size (A4) pages per hour

The HP Indigo 10000 digital press will help PSPs improve production, productivity and flexibility. It will allow PSPs to transition work from offset to digital to enhance efficiency, and will also provide additional print service offerings for customers while continuing to align with HP’s commitment to the environment.

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Danny Ionescu VP of Sales & Marketing, Graphic Arts, HP Canada

The MGI Meteor DP8700 S joins the Meteor DP8700 XL in MGI’s series of dry toner digital presses, and offers entry-level users the power of digital production for short runs and variable data/personalization, at an affordable price and with no click charge.

Its user-friendly operation, superior output quality, laser-safe and envelope printing capabilities makes the DP8700 S an easy choice for printers who want to differentiate themselves from their competition.

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Karl Belafi Jr.

HEIDELBERG: LINOPRINT C901

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STATUS: RELEASED MARCH 2012

A colour toner press (released along with the Linoprint C 751) with Prinect integration

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Dan Maurer VP Product Management Digital Print & Postpress, Heidelberg

[The Linoprint C 901] represents ground-breaking imaging technology and product design that provides numerous user benefits, including commercial print quality, consistency, a wide substrate range, productivity, and ease of maintenance. The Linoprint C 901 provides extensive finishing and workflow options in a cost-effective package that makes an ideal complement to offset presses for running any print quantity efficiently.

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STATUS: RELEASED MARCH 2012

STATUS: RELEASED MARCH 2012

DURST: RHO P10 250

DALIM: ES3 WITH DVL

A 98-inch UV inkjet system in the same family as the 126-inch P10 320R

Project management software with lifecycle accountability

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Rho P10 Series digital printers are designed primarily to output a variety of detailed eye-level materials – backlit signage, POP and commercial displays, packaging – cost-effectively and at production speeds. Their 10-picoliter Quadro Array print heads produce fine tone and smooth colour graduations, accurate colours and exceptionally sharp images. These are true industrial printers.

Christopher Howard Senior VP of Sales & Marketing, Durst Image Technology U.S.

STATUS: RELEASED MAY 2012

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HYBRID SOFTWARE: FACELIFT A Web-based job ticketing and automation application to link disparate software

ES3 combines technical aspects of production with the business project lifecycle workflow. Within ES3, DVL creates e-books from PDF files. DVL files, with dynamic content, can be displayed on Websites or as an App. Published as HTML5, rather than Flash, e-books operate on mobile devices and desktop systems without plug-ins.

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Graham Blanks

Facelift [provides] integration between otherwise disparate production workflow systems, MIS/ERP systems, third-party Websites, external databases and other digital data sources.

Facelift can quickly and seamlessly map data while providing a customizable interface for production operators. Templates can encompass every stage of the order’s lifecycle, regardless of the printing process.

Mike Rottenborn President & CEO, Hybrid Software

Dalim Software Director, Business Operations, North America

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STATUS: RELEASED JANUARY 2012

GMG AMERICAS: PRODUCTIONSUITE A single software solution for execution of prepress, printing and finishing

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One of GMG ProductionSuite’s primary advantages is GMG colour management.

You get consistent colour rendering using different machines, materials and printing modes, along with the perfect handling of spot colours. EcoSave technology yields roughly 20 percent ink savings and improves colour match Joe Varone over time – in many cases, paying for the entire system.

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VP of Sales, GMG Americas

USED EQUIPMENT STATUS: RELEASED MARCH 2012

K-NORTH: FINITO BLANKET UNDERPACKING

A new blanket design with high compression of the top surface to provide high smash resistance and print quality

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Finito replaces old under-packing blankets and calibrated papers with an exclusive innovative material, eliminating all the storage and handling problems of conventional under-packing. The exclusive concept of this new under-packing is to offer a readyuse sheet in the correct thickness recommended by the press manufacturer. It comes in both Steve Ranson an adhesive and non-adhesive type.

”

VP, K-North Inc.

STATUS: RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2012

INX INTERNATIONAL: NW140 U An inkjet narrow web press with inline laser cutting from Spartanics

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[The NW140 U] can achieve single pass printing at speeds up to 80 feet per minute on any label stock and print 140 mm wide while providing for easy separation of printed labels.

Besides the inline laser cutter, it has 14 innovative Xaar 1001 printheads, an air-cooled UV-LED pinning system and a watercooled UV-LED curing system.

”

Jim Lambert

VP & GM, INX International Ink Co.

STATUS: RELEASED MAY 2012

MGI: JETVARNISH 3D A new-generation inkjet spot coater with flat and 3D capability Giselle de la Moriniere Marketing & Communications Manager, MGI

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JETvarnish 3D is a true game-changer – the only digital inkjet spot UV coater to offer both flat spot UV coating and 3D raised effects up to 100 microns, adding a new dimension of visual and tactile appeal to digital or offset prints. The 100 percent digital process requires no plates or screens and is ideal for runs from one to tens of thousands.

”

STATUS: RELEASED MARCH 2012

MUTOH: VALUEJET 1638 An eco-solvent printer described

by Mutoh as the fastest in its class

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With staggered dual-heads, the 1638 prints up to a blazing 1,012 square feet per hour. It includes innovative features such as Intelligent Interweave banding eliminating print technique, ValueJet Status Monitor for remote printer monitoring, SpectroVue VM-10 on board spectrophotometer for easy profile making and ColorVerify process control systems.

Michelle Johnson Marketing Coordinator, Mutoh

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DIGITAL EQUIPMENT

STATUS: RELEASED IN CANADA NOVEMBER 2012

SYDNEY STONE: MATRIX 370 Single-sided laminator with a max sheet width of 16.5 inches

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The Matrix 370 meets that delicate balance between price and performance and will open up capacity and efficiency in any finishing department.

Michael Steele

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Director of Sales, Sydney Stone

STATUS: RELEASED OCTOBER 2012

AVANTI: ADVANCED FULFILLMENT V12.4 A unique module of Avanti’s MIS suite to automate the complexities of fulfillment

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Many of our customers are looking for ways to expand their business and are moving beyond print to adding new revenue streams to their business such as fulfillment. Traditional MIS systems were not built to handle the complex requirements of fulfillment, such as managing customer contracts or finished goods inventory, including how the goods are ordered, stocked – by the unit/package/box/skid level detail – tracked, packed and billed. Avanti’s Advanced Fulfillment module has simplified and automated this process. Great to see this module win the Must See Em Award Stephen McWilliam at Graph Expo this year.

”

Executive VP, Avanti

STATUS: RELEASED MAY 2012

KOMORI AMERICA: GX40 LETTERPRESS & FINISHING

A 41-inch offset press designed for the folding carton market with double or triple deliveries

“

Some of the new features on the GLX 40 include PDC-SX close-looped colour and register control, new super fast APC plate changers that change six plates in two minutes, mark free skeleton transfer Kosh Miyao good to 40-point board and a press that President & COO, comes raised from the factory.

Komori America

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STATUS: RELEASED MARCH 2012

GLOBAL GRAPHICS: HARLEQUIN HOST RENDERER V3.0 Robust RIP for handling live transparency and large VDP demands

Martin Bailey

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Return on investment is a key target for print shops when buying equipment. If they have Harlequin RIPs driving their digital presses, they’ll keep them running at full speed, because it’s optimized for today’s demanding print jobs using live PDF transparency and rich personalization. Extensive multi-threading, highly tuned code and innovative features like Harlequin VariData maximize the RIP speed for PDF and PDF/VT files.

”

TRADE PRINTING STATUS: RELEASED APRIL 2012

CANON CANADA: OCÉ VARIOPRINT DP135 Monochrome 600 x 2,400 dpi on a range of substrates

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The VarioPrint DP line combines new Océ DirectPress technology and the Océ PRISMAsync controller with Canon’s production grade in-line Mark Phillips finishing, truly representing the Senior Manager, marriage of not only technologies Imaging Systems Group, between the companies, but the Marketing and Training, companies themselves.

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“ Dave Kisiloski President, Pressdown

The Rapid X1 provides a profitable niche in the printing market, allowing small- to mid-size printers to get into the digital short run label market for an affordable price, to achieve greater customer potential and profits.

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STATUS: RELEASED AUGUST 2012

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Witkowski Continued from page 15

A favourite in my holiday collection, this sample

by GLS Companies in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, is a reverse locking gate format that arrives flat and gives simple instructions for assembly. The recipient bends the piece backwards until it bows and then the snowflakes lock together to form a dimensional snowflake that is framed by the oval die-cut.

Digitally printed on an HP Indigo 7500 (CMYK plus 2x opaque white) on 10pt C1S Transfer Metalized (Hazen Paper), it’s a fabulous example creativity and technology.

Produced by ColorCraft of Virginia for Washington Speakers Bureau, this holiday card uses a very unique die-cut combined with accordion folding and opalescent paper for a memorable effect.

elaborate laser die, you can hardly go wrong with a smartly designed die-cut.

Holiday assembly projects are popping up more often as well.

A word of caution: this is the one category where I commonly see failure. The idea sounds great – engage people in a little project where they can build something, reveal something, fold something, et cetra.

It starts with the best of intentions, but oftentimes the project is poorly explained, or too complex to complete and the result is a half-done effort hitting the trash bin.

Project cards can be awesome if they’re done right, but test them first to make sure enough people succeed with the assembly.

I’ve also noticed that fewer companies are sending out calendars these days. To be truthful, I can’t remember the last time I had a flip calendar on my desk. So many of us are married to our Google calendars and other scheduling systems on our smartphones and desktops and I think the humble holiday calendar is a casualty of this cultural change.

No matter how you choose to reach out to your customers and colleagues at the holidays, there are many ways to leave a great impression. The preceeding cards are an assortment of my holiday favourites from the foldfactory library. I hope these inspire you to do new things with your holiday greetings this year.

Trish Witkowski is Chief Folding Fanatic at the online community foldfactory.com.

An educator, author, speaker and awardwinning designer, Trish has a specialized expertise in folding and is the creator of the FOLDRite system, and host of the popular weekly e-video, “60-second Super-cool FOLD of the WEEK.” Contact Trish at trish@foldfactory.com With all of the snowflakes, trees, doves and wreaths that dominate holiday greetings, it’s fun to see a company break the mold and do something a little humorous. Printer PCA created this pumpkin-pie-themed pop-up holiday card with a cover stating “Compliments of the House.”

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At first glance, anyone familiar with Acrobat X would be hard-pressed to see any interface changes in Acrobat Pro XI. Instead of mixing things up, Adobe wisely concentrated on some long overdue editing and usability enhancements overlaid by minor interface tweaks.

Working with a font-embedded PDF file, Acrobat users have been able to muddle their way through text edits for a while now. In Acrobat X Pro edits could be made on a character-by-character basis with each line of type behaving as an independent entity. That meant no text reflow when edits changed line endings, which often made for a great deal of additional work for anyone enacting wide-ranging edits.

Acrobat XI Pro brings text frames to the PDF enabling users to make more complicated text changes, including frame resize and scaling an entire frame of text by holding SHIFT-OPTION and dragging out a corner – much in the same way as with Adobe Illustrator or InDesign. While content is being edited, the remaining type within the frame automatically reflows to accommodate the changes.

Additionally, Acrobat XI Pro introduces enhanced image handling capabilities going well beyond the “Edit Image” and “Delete” functions offered in Acrobat X Pro. Users are now able to resize, rotate, flip, crop or replace an image through a single right-click. And for the first time, Acrobat XI Pro lets users add new images to a PDF document.

I know what the prepress guys out there are thinking: ‘So do I need the Enfocus Pitstop plug-in anymore?’ That’s a good question. In my testing, I found the PDF editing very capable as long as I was working with standard business documents – something created in Microsoft Word, for example. But even then, Acrobat XI Pro sees every ‘return’ as defining the end of a text frame. This is not bad for continuous paragraphed editorial content, but can be problematic if the PDF content consists of itemized or bul-

leted text. For this reason, the advantage of text reflow diminishes exponentially with the increased number of text frames on a page.

PDF files created within publishing applications such as InDesign or QuarkXPress are less predictable when edited in Acrobat XI Pro. Linked text running between InDesign frames no longer links and widowed lines, as well as orphaned words, become independent elements in the editing mode of Acrobat XI. Once again, this negates much of the advantage that reflowing text might bring to the editing process. Instead of undertaking major edits in Acrobat XI Pro, prepress professionals will be wanting to return to the native documents for changes as they do now. For most business users, however, the editing capabilities provided with this new version of Acrobat will be a welcome addition to the enterprise document workflow.

Another new editing aspect introduced in XI is the ability to change font attributes such as style, size, weight, alignment, super and subscript, line spacing, horizontal scaling, character spacing and stroke width. While these editing parameters are still rudimentary compared to the typographic control InDesign avails, they should be more than enough for most users. Again, making documentwide changes of this nature can be timeconsuming, as each text frame would need to be edited individually. Similarly, the newly introduced search and replace function forces users to find, then change each instance of an edit as there is no document-wide ‘Replace All’ function.

With each new version of Acrobat, Adobe seems intent on improving relations with Microsoft Office. The imminent MS Word 2013 release will have the ability to Open, Edit and Save PDF files without having to go through Acrobat, indicating the once impenetrable PDF fortress is opening its doors. So this begs the question… If Microsoft can enable Word to Open, Edit and Save PDF files, why can’t Adobe introduce this capability to InDesign? Seems like a no brainer to me!

So, while Acrobat XI Pro’s new editing features are a welcome addition to this venerable PDF manipulator, their rudimentary nature is certain to limit use in a production environment.

In another nod to the business user, Acrobat XI Pro introduces enhanced document protection through the ‘Restrict Editing’ function added to the ‘Protection’ toolset, which enables the author to apply an editing password independent of any document password.

If Adobe wanted to take PDF editing security a step further, they could offer another option to allow edits with an audit trail so the creator knows what has been changed and by whom.

I finally get to the (Power)point!

Acrobat X Pro introduced export to MS Word and now, as if to reiterate the closeness of the relationship between the two companies, XI Pro ups the ante with PowerPoint export. Have you ever received a PDF of a really good PPT slide deck that you wanted to crib a couple of slides for your own presentation? Well, now you can! Acrobat XI Pro sports new ‘Save As Other…’ options under the file menu, including PowerPoint and HTML output. Within seconds I was able export a fully editable PPT document from a PDF copy of a presentation. All hyperlinks were intact, every image movable

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As Adobe’s mantra for Acrobat XI Pro is “New solutions to conquer document exchange in a multi-device world,” it is no surprise that the balance of new features focus on improving the user’s ability to do more with their PDF. Starting with ‘Guided Actions,’ users can be led through multi-step procedures selected from either default PDF workflows like ‘Prepare for Distribution’ or custom action sets created by the user incorporating any Acrobat function or procedure. Once these bespoke workflows are created they can be shared with other Acrobat XI Pro users, ensuring consistent enterprise-wide document processing.

Acrobat users with routine requirements can take workflow customization a step further through the creation of custom tool sets tailored to specific production needs. This ability to customize the Acrobat XI Pro interface, and then export the toolset for enterprise-wide deployment could prove to be a significant benefit in a production environment – provided both workflow consistency and reduced training times for new users.

Recognizing that mobile is the fastest growing segment of the online world, Adobe introduced collaboration tools in the latest mobile version of Adobe Reader XI (iOS, Android and Windows 8) designed to allow users on the go to work

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Individual pages or elements can also be exported to PPT or HTML format by right clicking the selection and choosing ‘Export Selection As…’ or the entire document through the ‘Content Editing.’

Acrobat XI Pro features enhanced file merge capabilities enabling drag-anddrop file selection and rearrangement with the merge window. Virtually any current file type can be merged, including MS Office formats, images, audio, video and forms, but some users report problems merging older formats such as Mac Office 2004. Apparently Acrobat XI Pro requires Office to be installed in order to convert the documents to PDF. This could be problematic for users who have not upgraded to the latest versions.

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Why one would need the Forms Central desktop application over the online version is not clear, except perhaps to build forms while offline for uploading to the Forms Central servers at a later date. Suffice it to say that using either app or online Forms The Forms Central desktop application bundled with Central greatly reduces Acrobat XI Pro is identical to Adobe’s online service. the need to produce paper-based forms. a Windows version, another likely nod to As if Forms Central was not damaging the heavily Microsoft-oriented business enough to tangible paperwork, Adobe and enterprise markets. Acrobat XI EchoSign technology has now been in- Pro and Reader are available for both corporated into Acrobat XI Pro. Users Windows and Mac users. need only select the ‘Sign’ tool set in AcOn the prepress side of the fence, Adobe robat, choose ‘I Need to Sign,’ then add appears to be less concerned about expandtext, checkmark and/or signature to pro- ing Acrobat’s feature set, instead choosing ceed. The signature options include the to continue its reliance on plug-in developplacing of initials; a pre-existing signa- ers such as Enfocus to fill the gap. On the ture image or the user can use a track- other hand, high-volume prepress users pad or mouse to awkwardly scrawl their might benefit from Acrobat XI Pro’s more chop. When ‘Send Signed Document’ is robust editing functions for quick file fixes. clicked, the user is redirected to the After all Acrobat XI Pro upgrades start at EchoSign online service after saving a US$199 whereas a new seat of Enfocus Pitlocal copy of the signed PDF. In a rela- stop Pro sells for nearly four times that tively painless process, new EchoSign (and still requires Acrobat) – light editing users can quickly register (not automatic for light $$$ might be an appealing with Adobe user ID) and claim one of upgrade proposition for those watching the their five free signatures a month. bottom line.

While EchoSign and Forms Central Also, as printers look for new revenue desktop integration with Acrobat XI Pro models in digital media, staying current is convenient, anyone can leverage these with the evolving and increasingly ubiquiWeb services through their online portals tous PDF file might not be a bad idea! without shelling out for the latest version Zac Bolan’s blog: blog.softcircus.com of Acrobat.

Go XI Pro or status quo?

It must be difficult working on Adobe Acrobat’s development team! I mean, really, there is only so much a PDF can do… carry words and pictures, prepress information, rich media and encryption amongst other things. And Acrobat has always kept pace with the evolving demands of the market. Adobe is clearly getting back to its business roots with Acrobat XI Pro – but what does the company add to a product for printers who thought Acrobat complete two versions ago? While Acrobat XI Pro represents a major revision, professional print users still face the same question: Do I really need to upgrade?

Whether or not to upgrade really depends on your own unique PDF usage environment and production needs. This latest iteration offers some fine-tuning for printers, but major perks for business and enterprise with most of the new features dealing with file sharing, mobility, Web forms and collaboration. Acrobat XI also comes in a pared-down standard version lacking some key features like PPT export, redaction tools, guided actions, custom tool sets and merge tools – giving it roughly the same functionality as today’s Acrobat X Pro. Interestingly, Acrobat XI Standard is only available in 28 • PRINTACTION • DECEMBER 2012

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Graph Expo showcases a revolution: Electronic publishing systems Printing industry sales have been going through dramatic swings in the past few months, according to figures released by the National Association of Printers and Lithographers (NAPL).

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For the first time, the American graphic communications industry’s premier trade show devoted special emphasis to electronic publishing – and in the process, provided a showcase for a technology revolution some experts say will completely transform printed communications in the remainder of this century.

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Even without the parking tickets, the shop does a huge volume of work. “There’s a form for every legal thing that happens,” says Cross, pointing out that every time something is reported to the police a standard form must be filled out.

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Cross said the in-house demand for four-colour printing rose with the police department’s increased commitment to community awareness programs. “There is a mandate by the department to produce highly visible colour brochures for the public. Our greatest volume is for public awareness pamphlets about scrutiny, drug prevention, and Neighbourhood Watch.”

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