By Digital Output Staff
It’s a drupa year! Looking to experience a bit of European culture with a side of print? Visit the Düsseldorf Fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany from May 28 to June 7, 2024. The event is spread across 17 halls as well as outdoor space with 1,426 exhibitors from 50 countries. With a focus on sustainability and digitalization, the show promises to educate all attendees on the important topics in printing today.
We asked exhibiting wide format vendors to provide information on their plans for drupa.
Above: Alwan, hall 7A / E10, showcases Alwan ColorHub, Alwan ColorCloud, and Hydra Profiling/HydraFix.
Alwan, hall 7A, booth E10, co-exhibits with ColorConsulting. Learn about Alwan ColorHub—a PDF color server that allows for printing accurate colors while using less ink and reducing color maintenance time. Alwan ColorCloud is a cloud platform designed to make color management and process control available and affordable. It offers users free, as well as reasonably priced, subscription plans. Also demonstrated is Hydra Profiling/HydraFix. Hydra Profiling allows for the quick creation of three to seven color ICC output profiles by measuring a small number of printed patches.
DuPont, hall 8B, booth B13, exhibits its three brand offerings Artistri, Tyvek, and Cyrel. Pertaining to digital wide format, it’s Artistri digital water-based inkjet printing inks and dispersions deliver jetting reliability, durability, high color, and image quality across production runs and over time. Tyvek is a unique, nonwoven material made from high-density polyethylene fibers, combining the best properties of paper, film, and fabric. It resists tearing, puncturing, and moisture infiltration, making it suitable for applications that require high levels of protection, safety, and durability. Tyvek is a highly printable substrate that offers excellent ink adhesion and vibrant color reproduction.
Enfocus, hall 8B, booth A12 brings its flexible automation software, featuring the 24.03 update of Pitstop Pro for PDF proofing and Griffin, an automated nesting tool. The two solutions work together to present a unified wide format printng workflow. The collaboration between Enfocus and its co-exhibitors demonstrates how businesses can power up their operations with an integrated technology ecosystem that incorporates automation, cloud technology, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Esko, hall 8B, booth A12, unveils sCloud, a multi-tenant cloud-native platform that delivers on a new technological reality based on cloud computing, data sharing, and AI. All existing Esko applications—from ArtPro+, ArtiosCAD, and Phoenix through to Cape Pack and Automation Engine—will connect to the new platform, giving all stakeholders in the value chain 24/7 real-time access to live data and identical resources, wherever they reside. Esko sCloud is an open platform supporting connectivity with partners.
Fiery, hall 8B, booth B10, displays the latest digital front ends, color management, and workflow automation innovations. Showcased is Fiery’s newest AI-driven features, including an ink stock management application and a new job ticketing assistant. Explore Fiery Impress for label and packaging production and Digital Factory for direct to film printing. Unlock your superpowers using color management and automated job handling with Fiery FS600 Pro and Fiery XF 8.
GTI Graphic Technology, Inc., hall 5, booth E10, showcases a new D50 LED lamp that offers a high CRI solution for its Graphiclite portfolio of products. This new lamp combines the benefits of LED technology with a close match to D50 spectral specifications ensuring tight conformance to the ISO 3664:2009 viewing standard. GTI’s D50 LED lamps are EU and RoHS compliant, have a high-quality CRI of up to 97+, 10,000 hours of use, and are energy efficient. An in-house spectroradiometric laboratory and a 100 percent measurement and verification production process guarantee that precision and accuracy is built into all products. Also on display are color viewing systems like LED floor stand models CVX-3052/LED, VPI-52/LED, and EVS-2028/LED. LED desktop models include the PDV-3e/LED and the muti-source MiniMatcher-4e/LED.
INX International Ink Co., hall 3, booth E83, presents a range of inks, coatings, and color management solutions, and also demonstrates its commitment to sustainability, product innovation, and customer partnerships. Since introducing the Coloring a Safe and Sustainable Future model in 2020, INX assists brand owners and customers in making products easier to recycle and promotes the development of circular economies. This may include improving functional barriers to enable the use of mono material structures; the use of color fast washable inks such as the Genesis GS washable inks that are easily removed in the recycling process; sustainably sourced natural based inks; and inks and coatings that are designed to be highly robust for multiple re-use and returnable applications.
Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems, hall 8A, booth B43, debuts advanced robotics and next generation digital cutting technology. Not only is the Kongsberg Ultimate making its public debut at the global exhibition, but the company also previews the future of automation with the newest addition to its line—a seven-axis rail-mounted robot cell that allows customers to increase throughput utilizing multiple pallets and multiple cutting systems. drupa visitors also have the opportunity to see the flagship in the MultiCam range of advanced routing and CNC cutting systems, the Apex3R, as the company increases its distribution across EMEA and APAC.
Techkon, hall 9, booth A03, demonstrates its SpectroVision inline color measurement system for any flexographic, digital, and offset web printer. It allows for real-time color measurement at full speed, measuring an entire color bar in a single printed impression. This not only reduces make-ready times by 50 percent or more, but also features a predictive system alerting press operators when colors begin to drift, allowing them to act before they are out of tolerance and without having to stop the press.
Zünd, hall 9, booth B03, continues to expand its portfolio of digital cutting systems, software tools, and automation solutions. The goal is to offer productivity for all—for every customer, every requirement, every budget. For the first time, the complete Zünd Q-Line with BHS180 is on display. Zünd also exhibits the many ways advanced digital cutting technologies are making Zünd’s G3/S3 systems ever more efficient and cost effective. In the spotlight is the UNDERCAM registration system for G3, enabling efficient processing of boards from the reverse side; the completely re-engineered, touch-based Zünd Cut Center 4.0; and a range of automation features including the Robot PortaTable for fully automated picking and sorting.
Travel Abroad
Hurry and make plans to visit Düsseldorf, Germany between May 28 to June 7, 2024 today. The next drupa takes place in 2028.
May2024, Digital Output
