Fiery LLC, the largest independent provider of digital front ends (DFEs), today announced the most innovative and user-friendly Fiery DFE, providing unrivaled performance, superior color, and intelligent automation for digital printing. With the new Fiery® FS600 Pro platform, print providers can simplify and automate job preparation and processing while ensuring print production runs smoothly and at maximum capacity.

OnPrintShop, the globally acclaimed web-to-print solution provider, is ready to participate in the most awaited Printing United Expo 2023. The event is scheduled to take place in Atlanta, Georgia. Scheduled to commence from October 18th to 20th, 2023, the expo will offer a platform to OnPrintShop for presenting its revolutionary W2P solutions. Attendees can engage with the OnPrintShop team and experience firsthand the company's transformative offerings at booth #B10038. 

Esko will use this month’s C!Print event to showcase how its latest software solutions deliver technology that makes it easier for packaging companies to connect its people and processes, to access data, automate operations and to drive operational efficiency.

With today’s brands and packaging suppliers facing a catalog of potentially crippling challenges, Esko has developed its latest software innovations specifically to make it easier for people and processes to connect, to automate operations and to drive operational improvements.

Mimaki, a leading manufacturer of inkjet printers and cutting systems, has today announced a new 3-Litre External Ink Supply Option for the Mimaki JFX600-2513 Large-format Flatbed UV Inkjet Printer. This new ink system has been designed to enable JFX600-2513 customers to maximise production efficiency and improve automation for a more streamlined, productive print operation.

Leading PDF quality control and automation expert Enfocus has announced it is bringing its winning hand of automation software to Las Vegas, NV as an exhibitor at the Printing United Expo.

Matt Wright has stepped across from his role as a Kongsberg, Canon, and Mimaki trainer at CMYUK to join its Academy team. While he will continue his training activities, a growing proportion of Matt’s time will be concentrated on demonstrating ENFOCUS and EFI automation software to help customers achieve greater efficiency and resilience within their production workflows. This move is a direct response to the growth in demand for automation software that began to build momentum during the pandemic.

Visitors to All4Pack Paris will see first-hand the benefits of an automated, digitized and connected prepress workflow, when Esko demonstrates its full ecosystem of solutions at this year’s Paris expo.

Infigo, the leading provider of personalised print and e-commerce solutions are partnering with Tilia Labs, the Canadian software company that provides printers with user-friendly solutions that improve cost-efficiency and automation, to enable print clients to use Tilia’s Phoenix product through an Infigo storefront.

Web-to-print developer Infigo has bolstered its commitment to helping printers, label and packaging manufacturers significantly reduce costs and waste by partnering with Significans Automation.

Enfocus, the leader in PDF quality control, advanced PDF editing and workflow automation for the graphic arts industry, has announced the release of a new workflow automation package that has been tailored specifically for the needs of the wide-format print sector.

Enfocus, the leader in PDF quality control, advanced PDF editing and workflow automation for the graphic arts industry, has announced a platform update for its market leading preflighting and PDF editing programme, PitStop, as the company celebrates its 25th anniversary of the software.

All sectors, from automotive to aerospace to printing are entering into a new era coined “Industry 4.0”, representative of a more streamlined approach to production by utilising state of the art technologies to keep up with the increase in demand. The printing industry has focused in on one aspect of Industry 4.0 in particular, “automation”, to better connect printing technology and allow for a more seamless transition from when a customer places an order to its’ delivery. With its clear long-term benefits, this change is already happening in the industry – in Keypoint Intelligence’s Software Investment Outlook 2020-21, researchers found that more companies were investing in automation in these past two years, particularly to fulfil the large amount of smaller jobs [1].

A world-first integrated solution has been developed by Esko and CERM, enabling Belgium-based Asteria Group to automate workflows to produce complex labels.

Today Xerox announced the new Xerox® Workflow Central, a secure, cloud-based software platform providing access to workflow automation and digitization tools, helping today’s teams overcome everyday workflow challenges for unstoppable productivity, from any location, at any time.

Essentra Packaging has become the first global packaging manufacturer to begin rolling out cloud deployment of the Esko Automation Engine workflow solution across its European prepress departments.

Enfocus, the leader in PDF quality control, advanced PDF editing and workflow automation for the graphic arts industry announces the launch of a completely re-vamped customer portal: My Enfocus. My Enfocus is the portal where Enfocus users can find relevant information specific to them, such as license keys, dashboards and much more. It will also allow customers to download the latest installers, assign subscriptions or log a support ticket.

Print on demand, in the shortest possible time, personalized – changing customer requirements and a pandemic that is causing enormous pressure. These days, print service providers are challenged more than ever to prepare their businesses for the future. Automation is an important component in this process.

Esko has delivered a world-first in connected packaging production, supercharging secure Variable Data Print (VDP) capabilities in terms of both speed and scale for a new collaboration with Scantrust and pioneering packaging company ePac Flexible Packaging®. Esko Automation Engine is at the heart of the operation, with its innovative VDP technology enabling the printing of serialized and secure QR codes on flexible packaging on a mass scale, unleashing the power of VDP for the new connected packaging and connected goods service, ePacConnect™.

Ricoh Latin America announces a partnership with OnPrintShop with the objective of helping its customers, both SMBs and large companies in the commercial printing industry, to automate and optimize order management and increase sales through an e-commerce solution that allows them to quickly set up online orders and reduce administration time and costs.

French RIP specialist Caldera has announced PrimeCenter V1.2, a new version that arrives one year after the original launch of the prepress automation solution for digital printers. The purpose of this new version is to provide users with long-awaited features while improving the flexibility of the software.