Founding partners Jon Webel and Paul Rogers launched Mailings Unlimited seven years ago in Portland, Maine with the goal of delivering a full suite of truly digital direct mail services to a national client base. They wanted to be a one stop shop for their clients’ printing and mailing needs.

Mailings Unlimited has taken its services to the next level with the addition of a Kodak NexPress 2500 Digital Production Color Press that will allow them to offer everything from list rental and internal data management to digital printing and integrated lead tracking. The NexPress 2500 Press supports a wide range of substrates and this has enabled Mailings Unlimited to dramatically reduce its postcard, direct mail, and brochure turnaround time while enhancing several overall print quality.

The NexPress joins existing high speed monochrome print devices and represents the first time the company is able to offer fully variable color products in high volume at production speeds. Mailings Unlimited handles a wide range of projects and has worked hard to educate its customers on the value of variable data printing in direct mail. The company sells its services directly to retailers, brand owners and other marketers but also aligns with ad agencies and marketing services firms.

The Oce CS9050 is a basic, affordable, 54-inch wide eco-solvent printer that delivers high quality prints at production speeds. It makes the transition for shops contemplating entering the digital printing marketplace simple because it is easy-to-use. Commercial printers do not have sacrifice quality or production print speeds with the Oce CS9050.

Corporate customers can save outsourcing costs by bringing display graphics printing in-house with the Oce CS9050. It is environmentally safe and features an easy-to-use system that offers indoor and outdoor versatility for all customers. It delivers excellent productivity for its price segment. The Oce CS9050 can achieve speeds of up to 151 square feet per hour and has multiple print modes, including 1440 x 1440 dpi, 1440 x 720 dpi, 720 x 720 dpi, and 540 x 720 dpi.

The Oce CS9050 is ideal for short run print jobs and can be used in light production environments where high quality output and outdoor durability are required. Sample applications include point-of-purchase displays, vehicle graphics, transit advertising, exhibit graphics, banners, museum graphics, wayfinding, and window displays.

The Digital Print Center (DPC) started operating in Lebanon over a decade ago as a provider of digital printing services primarily in producing scratch cards for various mobile operators around the world. Now, DPC has decided to grow and diversify its product offering a portfolio.

DPC has invested in a brand new Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 74-6LX2. With the addition of the FoilStar module, the new printing press will transform DPC into a unique print shop combining both traditional and digital printing. The new Speedmaster supports a wide range of printing materials and thicknesses of up to 0.8mm. The configuration of this machine offers sheet guidance with Air Transfer system, rapid-response inking units and short setup times made possible by extensive automation.

The FoilStar module applies cold foil on the fly and enables high-quality metallic coatings on a wide range of printing stock. Up to six various foils in a range of web widths can be used, thereby enabling huge savings on jobs that require only a small amount of foil. This development enhances the finishing options available for label, packaging and commercial printers.

The Bureau of Engraving Inc. in Minneapolis required a versatile Web to print system that could accommodate a mix of customers that need the speed, print quality and short run convenience of digital printing and long runs associated with traditional offset. The Bureau chose the Kodak Insite Storefront system to take them from their traditional sales model to online ordering and job tracking with one complete solution.

The Kodak Insite Storefront system offers everything that printing companies need to support online ordering. It has the capability to handle new orders or reorders of existing material and provides catalogues from which customers can order books and manuals, business identification products, and collateral. The Storefront system can be customized with the company’s corporate branding and a flexible pricing engine; provides several types of online payment options; is localized in 15 languages; and can support 177 currencies in 228 countries.

The Web to file output applications offered by other manufacturers still requires human intervention to print the job. The Bureau was interested in automating all of the steps, from Web to output device. Insite Storefront’s ability to use a Web to print application with the Bureau’s offset presses as well as its digital printing operation made it the right choice.

Ricoh Americas Corporation is the leading provider of digital office equipment. They announced the availability of the EFI Fiery E-7100 Print Controller for the Ricoh Aficio MP C6000 and MP C7500. The Fiery-based E-7100 Print Controller is designed as a user-friendly workflow optimization tool when paired with the Aficio MP C6000.MP C7500 and improves office productivity by delivering rapid project processing and queue management.

The E-7100 is easy to navigate with a user interface that helps to increase efficiency through intuitive setup, submission, and monitoring features that ensure accurate color production across an array of reproduction tasks. The intuitive icon driven interface of the E-7100 is customizable and can be arranged to display only the most commonly used features and settings.

When paired with the Aficio MP C6000/MP C7500 series, the E-7100 delivers consistent, predictable color output while at the same time works with the system’s scanning capabilities to deliver color files to a variety of destinations in multiple file formats. The E-7100 is an excellent solution for color experts as well as color novices. For color professionals, the E-7100 offers a powerful set of advanced tools that deliver the accurate color required in professional environments.