Xplor is the worldwide association of users and suppliers of products and services that create, modify, and deliver customised information using a variety of document technologies. Representing thousands of professionals in over 35 countries, the organisation is engaged in the design, production and distribution of variable data documents and is a specialist in the digital printing industry.

The Xplor ‘Document University’ at DPW 06 is a series of dedicated digital printing seminars designed to meet the needs of those moving from graphic arts and traditional litho printing into digital, as well as those already experienced in the world of digital print.

Four seminars over two days at the event will focus on topics including best practice in digital print communications and successful colour.

Show visitors can attend one or more of the seminars to build upon their knowledge of digital printing. The seminars cost £75.00 for Xplor members (£105.00 for non-members). Those who register on or before 6 October can receive an early bird discount, reducing costs to £55.00 for Xplor members (£85.00 for non-members). Student tickets cost just £25.00. Register online at www.xploruk.org.uk.

Visitors to the show will also notice that finishing has a strong presence this year with a range of equipment including punchers, guillotines and trimmers, booklet makers, binders, folders, collators, shredders, laminators and wrappers.

The industry’s key finishing suppliers, including first time exhibitors Babs UK and Friedheim will be at the show, and will be joined by other finishing exhibitors including Ark Presentation, Ashgate Automation, D&K Europe, Duplo International, Encore Machinery, GBC Films, Graphic Arts Equipment, Morgana Systems, PDC Presentation Solutions, Renz, Simply Print Finishing and Watkiss Automation Sales.

Peter Morris, Managing Director of Friedheim International, said, “We now have a selection of equipment that ideally fits with the format of the Digital Print World event, and that is the reason behind our decision to exhibit this year. I’m certain that visitors to our stand who see the machines in operation and appreciate their benefits will also understand this decision.”

New Launches
Last year, 40 per cent of exhibitors launched new products at the show. Here we’ve got some pre show information about some of the new goodies on offer, but our strong advice is to give yourself enough time to have a good look round, as we can guarantee that there will be gems on the show floor that don’t appear here.

Art Systems - Stand# 448
Onyx’s award-winning products include Onyx ProductionHouse, Onyx PosterShop and Onyx RIP Centre software packages, of which the new Version 7 will be on show.

Ashgate Automation Ltd - Stand# 540
Watch out for The Crease Matic 150P digital card creaser, with new rotary perforating attachment that has proved a popular choice for digital printers needing a matrix style creaser to crease to prevent cracking when folding digitally printed card, combined with a useful sheet perforator all in one machine.

BABS UK Ltd - Stand# 415
Look out for the new BABS document shredders and a range of trimmers and guillotines.

Canon (UK) Ltd. - Stand# 130
Canon will be launching new modules to The Canon Business Builder that helps customers to grow their businesses in order to make them more profitable.

Colourbyte Europe - Stand# 458
Colourbyte’s hot new product for DPW is ORIS Press Matcher, an automated colour workflow that matches the colour across digital presses, copiers, wide format printers and traditional printing methods such as offset, flexo and gravure. It uses an advanced 4D colour gamut mapping process to automatically convert digital files prepared for one printing condition to one or more different printing conditions. This means the ‘look’ of a print campaign can be precisely controlled no matter what devices are involved.

First shown at IPEX 2006 and now at DPW, ORIS Sign Master brings expert colour management to virtually every major output device used for signage production, driving over 500 printers from 37 different manufacturers. Features include a user friendly interface with drag and drop hot folder based file processing, a powerful PostScript and PDF RIP, professional colour management tools, monitor preview, automatic tiling and rotation, plus cropping tools for image cut-outs and simultaneous printing to multiple devices.

Also new is ‘The BIG MEDIA Swatchbook’ containing over 50 different materials for large format printers. Visit the stand to pick up your free copy.

D & K (Europe) Ltd. - Stand# 625
D&K will be launching its new B2 thermal laminator – Jupiter. This compact, easy to use, fully automated machine with deep pile feeder laminates up to 20 metres per minute.

Visitors will also see the SuperStick 42” Pro Laminator. Complete with its own stand, it features variable speed, heated rollers and a release liner rewind and is designed for multi-purpose laminating and ideal for wide format digital output.

Danwood Group - Stand# 315
Danwood is launching the new Konica Minolta C6500 at DPW. This device is the first of a range of fully enabled production colour products that will establish Konica Minolta as a serious player in the graphics and high volume production market place, and builds on the success of the Bizhub Pro 1050 which has so far demonstrated reliability, quality and performance with Danwood's customers.

Duplo International Ltd. - Stand# 245
Duplo’s new finishing guide	Duplo International will be unveiling a major new initiative designed to encourage printers to ‘Think Again’ about the tangible business benefits that can be gained from thinking more carefully about the way printed sheets are finished. Duplo will also be debuting two new solutions designed to compliment the campaign. Also for the first time in the UK, the new GMP-Protopic 520 Digital Laminator, designed to combat the problems of laminating digital print, will be on show. Exerting one tonne of pressure onto the roller, the easy to use and cost-effective on-demand laminator addresses common problems associated with laminating digitally produced printed work, such as curling.
The GMP-Protopic 520 - the first of its kind - runs at a maximum speed of 15m per minute and uses GMP’s polynex digital supermelt films, which guarantee perfect lamination on all leading digital media. Duplo will also for the first time demonstrate an automised end-to-end digital finishing solution consisting of its new multi-functional MKF-35 Knife Folder coupled in-line to its DC-645 Production Colour Finisher. Visitors can pick up Duplo’s new finishing guides hot of the ‘press’ on the company’s DPW Stand 245, where the guides will be finished live on a System 2000 bookletmaker. Duplo’s guides, which have also been awarded full accreditation by the BAPC’ are also available from www.profitfromfinishing.com

Encore Machinery Ltd. - Stand# 347
DPW is the London debut for the high speed Pit Stop digital creaser/perforator configured on-line to either a two or four plate MB 35 folder, which will fold any combination of folds. Its large roller diameter works well with thicker stock.

Formara Ltd (Print4London) - Stand# 405
A new Business Continuity product for Digital Printers will be launched at DPW 06. Print4London becomes Pint4London as we give visitors the opportunity to get some free beer and wine (after the show of course and subject to terms & conditions) and you can have a go at darts to win some great prizes.

Friedheim International Ltd. - Stand# 363
Friedheim International’s first attendance at DPW will be marked by demonstrations of three key items of equipment. On show will be a Tecnau TC1013 cutter and TC0250 delivery table, the new PrintLam Digital laminator from Tauler, as well as the first UK display of a Dempack seal/shrink combination machine and shrink tunnel from new exclusive agency, Audion Elektro.

GBC Films Group Europe - Stand# 335
Amongst a number of solutions, you’ll get the chance to see the newly introduced Digital Lay Flat Film.

Graphic Arts Equipment - Stand# 150
Visitors will be able to see the first production model of the new generation Horizon SPF/FC-200A book production line following the showing of a factory prototype at IPEX in April.

HP Ltd. - Stand# 120
HP will exhibit its newly enhanced flagship HP Indigo press 5000 and a range of products and services available. In the Business Development pod, HP will showcase and demonstrate tools from its HP Indigo Capture business success programme, delivering the resources and marketing support to enable HP Indigo digital press users to capitalise on their investment. This will include The Commercial Job Estimator, E-learning courses, plus information about My Indigo Portal, HP’s exclusive customer site.

KAS Poly-Wrapper - Stand# 539

Compact C4 enveloper

KAS will be demonstrating the new Poly-wrapper, which has been developed to fill a gap in the market. It is ideal for printers and direct mail companies who want to upgrade from lower speed equipment, such as the Lara Route Express, which KAS already sells, without having to invest in high speed polywrappers at much greater cost. It will handle from CD width up to over A4 with a maximum speed of over 5000 A4 packs per hour. The poly-wrapper will have similar feeders to the Mailmaster 465HS range, giving ultimate flexibility, because it will be possible to purchase systems where the same feeders are interchangeable between the poly-wrapper and envelope inserter.

Also being highlighted is the Mailmaster Compact C4 Enveloper, an entry level DL to C4 system, which not only provides a lower price solution, but its smaller footprint also helps overcome space issues. It is supplied in a fixed configuration, comprising of a sheet feeder folder, two insert feeders and a had feed position, with the possibility of one additional feeder. It envelopes at speeds up to 5000 an hour, inserting up to 12mm into a C4 sized envelope, with a duty cycle of over 500,000 per month.

It has many of the features of the existing Mailmaster 465HS. These include quick changeover between jobs, touch screen control, folding facility, feeders that will handle from a single sheet to a 7mm book and optional OMR or Barcode reading.

Kodak - Stand# 140
Kodak will be showing its solutions for the digital market, focusing on four key application areas: Just in Time Printing; Variable Data Printing; Photo Product Printing and Litho & Digital Printing

Konica Minolta Buisness Solutions UK Ltd. - Stand# 420
Get ready for the commercial launch of the bizhub C6500 by Konica Minolta. (See Image Reports cover story).

Morgana Systems Ltd. - Stand# 230
An-integrated range of specialist digital finishing products can be seen on the Morgana stand at Digital Print World 2006.

Thanks to constant additions and refinements, the Morgana range now covers the gamut of creasers, creaser/folders, folders, bookletmakers and complete finishing systems and DPW will see the first public appearance of Morgana’s latest product in the shape of the KB 2000 perfect binder. Capable of producing 320 books per hour, the KB 2000 is the result of a lengthy search by Morgana for a perfect binding system that overcomes the problem of fusion oils produced by some digital print processes. Other recent introductions on display include the Morgana DigiCreaser, a unit that is fully automatic after feeding and completes a range of creasers that includes everything from manually operated models, through the semi-automatic Electro-Creaser to well-known best sellers such as the AutoCreaser 33 and 50 and the DigiFold.

Optimus - Stand# 532
Watch out for the new Price List Estimating interface for 2020 MIS and also QuickSmart that introduces several changes to the MIS package.

PDC Presentation Solutions Ltd. - Stand# 550
PDC will be showing the revolutionary new Speedcreasa, creasing and perforating machine, designed and priced to suit the digital and print finishing market.

Premier Paper - Stand# 344
Three individual swatches tailor made for the digital print market will be launched. The Premier Group is the first merchant to produce three separate digital swatches offering customers leading edge paper solutions across the main digital production presses: Indigo, Xeikon and Colour Laser.

Presstek Europe Limited - Stand# 240

Presstek 34DI

It was debuted at Ipex in April, the new highly automated Presstek 52DI is a landscape format 52cm Direct Imaging press that has a maximum speed of 20,000 A4 pages per hour. The Presstek 52DI simultaneously images all four plates in precise register on press. The result is exceptionally fast make-readies, printing up to 300 lpi with support for FM screening, capability to print on a wide range of substrates up to 0.5mm thick, and a more productive and profitable workflow.

Presstek 34DI-X - A two-page, four-colour, 34cm portrait format, DI press that produces 14,000 A4 sheets per hour. The highly automated press provides fast make readies, and supports line screens up to 300 lpi and FM printing all with the push of a button. Like the 52DI all four plates are simultaneously imaged on press in perfect register.

Pro2col Ltd. - Stand# 520
PDF2proof is a new soft proofing solution all set to revolutionise the approval process. Coming in two parts, the server and viewer application, PDF's requiring proofing are copied to the server where they are converted to PDF2 proof files. Predefined users are notified of the new file that is downloaded and opened automatically in the viewer application so that the proofing process can take place.

Ram Peripherals Ltd. - Stand# 559
The new TEAC P-55 produces professionally printed CD and DVD discs. Thanks to an innovative thermal retransfer print system, 4-colour, extremely durable CD/DVD full colour CMYK discs can be created quickly and effortlessly.

Screen UK - Stand# 360
Go along and have a look at Riteportal SE Screen's new internet portal that allows companies to prepare and deliver error-free, production-ready Certified PDF files from any application to the printer in one easy step. Easily tailored to a printer's production workflow, Riteportal SE simplifies the PDF creation, pre-flight, certification, encryption, and delivery of pre-defined PDF files into a simple 'click-and-print' process from the desktop for both online and offline delivery.

Tharstern Ltd. - Stand# 522
Tharstern will be showcasing its recently launched TharsternSQL v3 (T3), the latest and most advanced MIS. The latest incarnation of the powerful SQL based solution, to replace TharsternSQL v2, includes new functionality such as Bill of Materials & Warehousing to provide an up-to-date solution to answer the challenges of today’s printing industry.

Watkiss Automation Sales Ltd. - Stand# 350
Watkiss is to show the Watkiss PowerSquare200, a new and innovative complete book making system for digital print applications. Previewed at IPEX, it is now ready for market, including offline and online models. The company will also be exhibiting the Document Finishing System (DFS), the perfect solution for digital printers needing fast flexible finishing.

The Watkiss DigiVAC collating system is ideally suited to digital print applications - it is very gentle on delicate digitally printed stocks and is extremely simple to operate; needing no special paper-handling skills.

The Watkiss DigiVAC offers a completely unique concept in collating and booklet-making - non-stop production - thanks to the revolutionary patented suction feed system, which feeds sheets from the bottom of the paper stack.

Xeretec - Stand# 250
Xeretec, Xerox and EFI will be providing visitors to Digital Print World 2006 with an exclusive opportunity to see a comprehensive range of end-to-end colour digital printing installations that enable production printers to profit and excel in today’s digital print market. Highlights of the stand include:

• The first UK showing of the Xerox DocuColor 5000 digital press running EFI’s Fiery EXP50 server, EFI PrintSmith print management software and Atlas PrintShop Mail as part of a complete end-to-end production solution.

• New Xerox 8265 wide format eco solvent colour printer running the Caldera SE RIP.

• The first UK showing of the ever popular Xerox DocuColor 250 printer running the new EFI Splash RPX-I RIP.