If you are doing In-House printing you can create exciting new opportunities using White Toner Technology with the OKI C942. Beyond Four Colour printing makes it easy to achieve levels that most short run printers cannot achieve.Produce exceptional White on colour and colour on colour using white toner under CMYK or alone on a wide range of media. Create new opportunities for your business, whether you are a print shop, design firm, invitation specialist or in retail. 

1. Colour on Colour Printing Creates Eye Catching Designs

Color-on-color can allow printing company's to easily and effectively attract new customers and upsell existing ones. With applications that deliver high-value output, you can increase revenue by better serving a wide range of sectors including retailers, restaurants, event and convention planning companies, hotels, organizations, universities, and schools.Today's advanced digital color printers produce spectacular results on a variety of media including polyester; metallic, heavyweight and colored stocks; magnets; banners; and more. With the capability to use white ink, as well as percentages of white under colored ink, you can custom print rich, vibrant colors that enhance any message. The result: exceptional value for customers that demand bold graphics. Done on the OKI C942

2. Vibrant Colours Produce Dazzling Signage

The demand for signage continues to rise, for event promotions, directions or warnings or other uses. Our new white technology can allow you to affordably print specific warning signs that meet our ever changing safety standards or to ensure the corporate and event logos conform to your customers branding guidelines. Also there have been huge advances in available stocks including weatherproof signage. Done on the OKI C942

3. High End Invitations Entice Upscale Customers

In a world of email, printing spectacular invitations and envelopes can help your customers stand out and help you increase profits. Superb texture and specialty finishes feels luxurious in the hand, all of which can boost your business through printing high end invitations for weddings and other life changing events as well as for corporate and philanthropic functions. By doing business with even a handful of event planners, you can gain a continuous supply of new orders and increase your monthly billings. Using the right digital printer allows you to offer vibrant and subtle colors. This broad range of capabilities can enable you to print nearly any imaginable invitation on a single piece of equipment, making it an excellent business opportunity.Done on the OKI 942

4. Promotional Door Hangers Deliver Quick Results

Door hangers create a cannot-miss marketing tool that can achieve huge results. This high volume business is used by local retailers, restaurants, and real estate brokers, as well as to lawn care providers and other contractors. In addition, hotels, hospitals, fund raisers, universities, and schools are also great contenders. That adds up to a sizable increase of new customers that rely on a constant need  of door hangers to increase new business. Today's digital printers can create door hangers on durable waterproof, tearproof stock, which does not require lamination, and in a wide assortment of colors. By adding door hanger capabilities to your business, you can increase your profits.Done on the OKI C942

5. High Impact Postcards Mean Business

Gain higher response rates than more expensive standard letters and envelopes. Lower cost/higher response rates mean your customers can afford to send more postcards to more prospects and customers as well as to send follow-up mailings to the same list of recipients. Many businesses can add postcards to their promotional and marketing campaigns, including local retailers, real estate brokers, and service providers, as well as eye doctors, dentists, schools, clubs, organizations, and others. With the proper digital equipment, you can efficiently print large and small runs on a variety of finish cardstocks and increase your earnings. Done on the OKI C942

6. Paper Posters Offer Practicality

With weatherproof, tear-proof paper you can deliver posters that can nearly match the strength of other stocks at a substantially lower price. Not every application needs costly cling film, fabric, boards or pressure sensitive vinyl. 

All the above produced on the OKI 942

Duplo continues to lead the way with their most popular all-in-one digital colour finishing solutions. The DC 646 Slitter/Cutter/Creaser's ability to finish full-bleed applications with precision makes them the ideal tool in all print shops. By utilizing technology, the learning curve for operation is lowered and helps less experienced operators get the job done. Controlled by a computer, the Duplo Slitter/Cutter/Creasers offer next generation features to centralize workflow and increase productivity. Continue reading to find out what these features are.

1. PROCESS APPLICATIONS WITH RAISED UV COATING

In today's market, specialty finishing is hot. Give life to your work as raised, textured, and spot UV coatings are being applied to printed products to make them really stand out. Raised UV, really raises the bar by highlighting areas such as windows on a building or drops in a glass, giving your product the extra edge. 
The Slitter/Cutter/Creasers boast a soft sponge roller system that can accurately process applications with raised UV coating up to 100 microns. The soft sponge rollers configure to the thickness of the coated stock and hold on to the paper as it proceeds through the finishing process.
Minimize scratches and damage as there is no clamp to put pressure on the paper and crush the raised UV or slippery metal rollers that can cause errors in finished products.

2. CREATE A TEMPLATED BARCODE WORKFLOW WITH EFI

Operators that have the EFI Command WorkStation and Fiery Impose can already boost an application into a multiple-up job. Operators can also utilize Duplo-based imposition templates on the Fiery as well as apply barcodes and registration marks that can be read by the internal scanner in the Slitter/Cutter/Creaser. By integrating these two Duplo features, printers can create barcode work flows that let the Slitter/Cutter/Creasers run automatically without the need for operator intervention.
The finishing templates provided by Duplo come pre-set with measurements for the margins and gutters as well as finished sizes, eliminating setup time immediately.
Using a barcode reduces errors as it prevents jobs from being run incorrectly. Simply load the paper and press start. Jobs can be done in any order, as the sheets are fed, the scanner will read the barcode and if it detects sheets for a different job, the Slitter/Cutter/Creaser will adjust to the job linked to that barcode and automatically adjust. Image shifting is an issue for most digital printers. Registration marks help ensure each sheet is finished accurately.  For example, when cutting business cards, consistency is vital to ensure you reduce waste. When it detects an image shift, it automatically adjusts in all four directions to accommodate for the change in the image position.

3. ADD IN-LINE FOLDING

Folding is common work across most print shops whether its tent cards, direct mail, or tri-fold brochures. Every touch point costs money. Printers that have a Slitter/Cutter/Creaser have the option to eliminate an extra setup by adding an in-line knife folder to their device with the Duplo Integrated Folding System (IFS). The ability to upgrade to in-line folding at any time doesn't limit your growth potential. By adding the IFS, operators can go from flat sheets to finished pieces that are cut in both directions, creased, perforated, and folded in one pass.

4. PRODUCE TINY CARDS

The Slitter/Cutter/Creasers capabilities continue to extend and provide versatile solutions. Duplo has introduced a new feature called "Process All" which allows the DC-746 and DC-646 to produce cards smaller than 2" in length. With this setting, operators can program and produce cards down to 1.25" x 2".

5. FINISH BANNERS

Many of the newer digital presses are now capable of printing long banners. The Slitter/Cutter/Creasers can be adjusted to process these long banners up to 39" in length while maintaining the same accuracy by utilizing the image shift compensation on the fly. Users can easily bleed trim these banners down to their finished size. Operators can also print more items on a sheet to further reduce the print costs of applications such as business cards and brochures. These banner sheets are loaded onto the feeder and are accurately slit, cut, creased, and perforated like traditional 12" x 18" sheets.

6. TOOLING STATIONS - INTERCHANGEABLE

Duplo's new Rotary Tool Modules (RTM) have interchangeable processing wheels which eliminate the need for multiple modules/cassettes to produce various types of finishes. Each RTM comes with a pair of the following tools: standard perf, micro-perf, rotary score, and slit-score. Operators can easily install the desired tools to run each application.
For example, take a simple LTR tri-fold piece with a reply card. This application is typically printed 2-up on a 12" x 18" sheet and requires a perf and score in the direction of the paper path. The operator can install the scoring and perforating wheels on the same RTM and produce both finishes along with bleed trimming in a single pass.
Not requiring separate rotary score and perf cassettes improves the efficiency of the job and helps keep equipment costs down.

With the Duplo Slitter/Cutter/Creasers print shops have the opportunity to frame their workflows. It's an opportunity to reduce labor costs and downtime while increasing productivity. The lower the touch points, the higher the profits!

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The OKI Data C942 digital colour production printer has a unique 5th tone for white to extend your printing abilities beyond traditional options. Users can print vivid white on dark media for a vibrant alternative. The OKI C942 can also print white under CMYK which allows colour printed on colour media in a single pass through. With the ability to expand beyond regular full colour printing on white paper, the C942 uses micro-fine toner for heightened colour saturation and density. Further, the C942 prints on non traditional substrates like metallic media and wood veneers to broaden printing horizons for business.

From coloured invitations, posters, envelopes and signage, the white element allows full control over the output colour. Media has expanded beyond typical white paper and the C942 sets the stage for vibrant, colourful marketing materials to allow bold colours printed on bold colours.

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PDS is heading for Print 2017 in Chicago

PRINT 17, bringing the world of  printing, publishing, in-plant, graphic communications and mailing/fulfillment communities in the Americas together, is being held in Chicago offering new opportunities to grow the industry. PRINT takes place September 10-14, 2017.

PRINT 17 will offer new, innovative education session formats this year that utilizes knowledge exchanges and allow attendees to obtain learning experience. More than 50 education sessions will delve into topics ranging from design/creative process, packaging, marketing, growth strategies and emerging technologies. Through analyzation, new methods will be learnt to increase ROI. 

"We know that the success of the entire printing and graphic communications industry hinges on staying profitable," said NPES President Thayer Long. "We are transforming PRINT 17 into an entirely new experience with more opportunities to connect and inspirational learning sessions to innovate the industry. PRINT 17 promises to deliver the venue for business networking and commerce within our community needed to grow this industry."

To make it easier to stay connected, free high-speed wireless internet service is being provided throughout the convention center. 

For more information about PRINT 17, visit www.Print2017.com.

Mutoh America launched the new ValueJet 626UF Flatbed Printer in April 2017 to provide an expanded widtha nd depth of print to their UV-LED printing line. This newly launched printer comes with an (optional) rotary attachment that allows printing on cylindrical shapes. This printer can take on anything "from promotional items, directional signage, wards, specialty, labels, and packaging prototypes" that will provide an increased production capacity and improved product offering for print shops.

Printing in CMYK or CMYK+white, varnish ink and the ability to print on non-white colors, this versatile unit comes at a competitive price for the performance and versatility it packs. It also includes a vacuum table and stand for easy handling.

Additional features on the ValueJet 626UF UV-LED Include:

• Stand: Included
• Vacuum Table: Standard Inclusion
• Rotary Attachment: Optional Addition
• Ink: 4 or 6 Colors (CMYK, CMYK+White, White & Varnish) using 220 mL UV-LED Ink
• Software: Mutoh Edition FlexiSign & Print
• Smart Print: Intelligent Interweave printing technique to eliminate banding
• Media Size: Max material size 19" x 23.3" x 5.9"
• Print Size: Max print size 18.6" x 23" x 5.9"
• DPI: 1440 DPI

Pricing and Availability

PDS is an authorized Mutoh reseller in Toronto offering the ValueJet 626UF for sale to the Canadian market. Please contact us for more information on pricing, availability, training and maintenance.