Adcraft Decals, Independence, Ohio., recently launched a redesigned website, www.adcraftdecals.com. The site offers specific applications for the company’s products.
AMES Print & Packaging Solutions, Somerville, Mass., showcased print-on-demand VDP packaging with both addressing and personalized graphics/text on folding cartons printed inline. The company also exhibited BookBuild, a module that allows web users to build a custom book (such as a textbook) at the site and order the copies on demand from the company’s Indigo.
Blanks/USA, Minneapolis, now offers online ordering.
Continental Imaging Products, Wauconda, Ill., introduced “ODDS,” an On Demand Document Security program. The technology provides a software template so copy-resistant variable backgrounds can be printed on most laser or inkjet printers. The solution is ideal for use with contracts, applications, loan records, leases, medical forms, prescriptions or similar items. It is supplied to users as a PDF overlay.
48Hour.com, Boston, is installing a Horizon Standard stitcher in its Phoenix facility in response to customers’ requests that the company manufacture booklets.
Golden Business Forms, Golden City, Mo., is expecting to install a new roll converter and add 25 percent more floor space to its plant.
KDM Products, Carpentersville, Ill., has a new 3-color 14-inch press.
ISODISC, Omaha, Neb., now manufacturers custom-imprinted CD-Rs for hospitals that burn images from
X-ray machines to discs. The imprint helps hospitals with their branding and can help boost referrals.
Luminer Converting Group, Lakewood, N.J., offers micro-embossed holographic images for coupons. The method is a low-cost alternative to traditional hot stamping, the company reports. The images deter users from photocopying or scanning the coupons.
Nekoosa Coated Products, Nekoosa, Wis., offers synthetic media that can be run through digital presses. The media is waterproof and features scratch-resistant coating. Applications include on-demand menus and membership cards.
Quikproof.com, Springboro, Ohio, recently partnered with Webstorytellers, a company that produces short TV-style video clips that give an overview of your business. “It’s a small video size, like YouTube, but it’s very professional,” says Cindy Hadfield, Quickproof.com president. “Instead of posting a statement on your website that might turn off or confuse readers, the video explains it better, like what you would tell a client if they called on the phone,” she says. Greg McKinney, a former TV news anchor who now makes the business videos, also works on search engine optimization. Although the partnership just began at the show, Hadfield says, she’s gotten a lot of enthusiastic inquiries.
Silvanus Products, Ste. Genevieve, Mo., offers binders designed with removable metal rings. This allows distributors to print small quantities of binders on demand and then hand-assemble them with the rings. At the end of the products’ life cycles, the metal rings can be easily removed and recycled.
Specialty Graphics, Des Moines, Iowa, now offers Spanish translation services. The company hired an employee who translates manuals, instruction booklets, employee handbooks, health care forms and more. The employee also works in the company’s prepress and design departments.
THP, Freedom, Pa., announced that it’s scheduled to install a new 8-color, Drent Goebel Vision press in April 2008.
USA/docufinish, Plainfield, Ill., now offers apparel, complete with embroidering and screenprinting services.
Four51, Eden Prairie, Minn., and SAP partnered to introduce a new ERM software solution, BusinessOne. The program integrates web-to-print functionality with CRM, accounting, inventory and related internal logistics, helping save time and processing errors.