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GRAPH EXPO and CONVERTING EXPO - 2006 EXHIBITOR GUIDE

“Don’t Leave Home Without It!”

Compiled and Edited by Paul R. White

Martin Yale Industries — Booth #123

Martin Yale Industries unveils its dealer brand strategy at Graph Expo. The intimus® brand, known for quality shredders, will now have paper folders, cutters, letter openers, and business card slitters in its product portfolio. This expanded offering will be reserved for graphics art and office machine dealers.

Martin Yale Industries introduces the 2020VSvariable speed paper folders. With a speed range of 3,000 to 10,300 sheets per hour professionals get the sheet control they need for folding paper from 18 to 110 lb bond paper. Stop by booth #123 for a working demonstration of this versatile machine.

Martin Yale Industries introduces the GC208gutter-cut business card slitter. Quickly and professionally produce business cards with a full bleed. Unique custom fit waste bin speeds production and minimizes clean-up. For more information: www.martinyale.com.

MetaCommunications — Booth #5131

About MetaCommunications

MetaCommunications is a leading software developer of cross-platform process management and productivity solutions for the graphic arts industry, including Job Manager˙, Virtual Ticket˙, Approval Manager˙ and Digital Storage Manager˙ applications. MetaCommunications has thousands of users of its software worldwide, helping some of the world's top creative agencies, corporate marketing groups, printing and prepress firms, and publishers work more efficiently and profitably. MetaCommunications was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Iowa City, Iowa.

Workgroups’ 2006 Software Suite Unveiled At Graph Expo '06

Workgroups’ 2006 is the first all-in-one process and productivity management suite designed for creative, publishing and prepress professionals. Simple to use and fully integrated with industry standard page layout and graphic tools, Workgroups 2006 unites and empowers creative and production staff by facilitating collaboration, automating processes, centralizing information, managing workflows, tracking files, and measuring key financial and productivity metrics.

Workgroups 2006 is a scalable server-based solution able to accommodate groups

from a few users to thousands across multiple locations. It is simple to deploy,

with client access from both Mac OS X and Windows computers. Workgroups 2006 Key capabilities include: financial productivity management, project & workflow management, collaborative approval management and document storage management.

Workgroups 2006 components can be purchased individually or as an integrated

suite. A JDF Solutions Framework is available for Virtual Ticket, allowing it to be used as the front-end graphical user interface to JDF enabled production workflows. Additional optional integrations are available for Kodak Prinergy and Artwork Systems Nexus CTP systems.

Pricing & Availability

Workgroups 2006 is available immediately and with complete multi-user suite bundles starting at $4995. Workgroups 2006 component applications, Job Manager, Virtual Ticket, Approval Manager and Digital Storage Manager may be purchased individually, starting at $1695. MetaCommunications products are available from authorized resellers, system integrators, distributors and OEM partners. MetaCommunications will be providing the first public exhibition and demonstrations of the Workgroups˙ 2006 suite at Graph Expo '06. For more information, call 319-337-8599 or www.meta-comm.com.

MAN Roland — Booth #3237

MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG is the world's second largest printing systems manufacturer and the world's market leader in web offset. MAN Roland operates out of Offenbach, Augsburg and Plauen in Germany. It employs 9,000 staff and generates annual sales of $2.14 billion (EUR 1.7 billion), with an export share of 83%. Web and sheetfed offset are its major product lines for publishing, general commercial and packaging printing. MAN Roland is the only printing press manufacturer to be a partner of the WAN (World Association of Newspapers). In North America, MAN Roland Inc. operates a network of five regional sales and service facilities, staffed by over 250 employees.

MAN Roland’s Graph Expo exhibit offers printers an opportunity to enter a world of innovation, automation, profitability, service and support. A first-class VIP lounge provides a comfortable and contemporary environment where visitors will be able to relax and enjoy refreshments while viewing live production from a customer site that runs ROLAND 700 and ROTOMAN presses. Showgoers can also experience printnet in action, and interview the printservices team for the latest solutions which provide total support for the life of your press.

A Six-Up Perfector Premieres

MAN Roland’s 29-inch press line, the ROLAND 500, has added perfecting to its industry-leading list of capabilities. The ROLAND 500 with InlinePerfector makes its North American trade show premiere at Graph Expo.

The press is the only one in its class with a single-drum sheet turning system combined with double-diameter cylinders. This makes it able to handle thicker substrates — up to 24 pt in the perfecting mode. The advancement also produces perfecting speeds as fast as 15,000 sph. In its non-perfecting mode, the ROLAND 500 can handle substrates up to 40pt. thick at 18,000 sph.

One-Touch Makereadies Debuts

The new generation ROLAND 700 handles substrates ranging from bible stock to 40 pt. board, including corrugated, plastics, and special materials, at a maximum speed of 17,000 sph. All ROLAND 700 models are available with single-drum perfecting. The press’ printnet PressManager and available QuickChange modules enables One Touch Makereadies. The ROLAND 700 also offers “inline everything” as options, equipping printers with the ability to apply foil effects, die cut, emboss, inspect print quality, sort and eject waste sheets, and complete other value added procedures all while the press is printing.

A QuickStart for Web Presses

QuickStart is advanced software that MAN Roland web press users can access to enhance the performance of their presses’ PECOM operating and automation system. Its advantages will be presented as part of the Commercial Web Seminar.

The innovation automatically controls all aspects of the run-up portion of makeready, where the web press needs to be brought up to speed and up to color as quickly as possible. By automating the start-up sequence, QuickStart requires only one operator activation point to begin run-up. All of the in-between sequences are taken care of automatically by the program, so they proceed smoothly and precisely, without human delay or error. The results: considerably less paper waste and a considerably faster makeready.

Commercial Web Offset Seminar

QuickStart is just one of many topics for the commercial web offset interactive seminar titled "Maximizing the potential of your MAN Roland press.” The presentation is open to current MAN Roland users and also those interested in learning more about commercial printing advances. Key topics will include reducing waste, PECOM presetting and reporting functions, achieving faster makereadies, the importance of on-press procedures and processes, QuickStart, and finding time for press maintenance.

24/7 Service, Support & Supplies

The globally scoped, localized focused coverage provided by MAN Roland’s printservices will be presented at multiple locations. Printers will find total support for the life of their presses and explore the program offerings such as repairs and maintenance, training, project management, upgrades, parts and supplies and more.

A demonstration of the worldwide, 24/7 TeleSupportCenter (TSC) will show how MAN Roland’s experienced technical teams can remotely diagnose and repair web press issues. Visitors will hear TSC success stories and see how TSC operates their 24/7 coverage, which saves the time and expense of an onsite emergency repair call.

Visitors can also explore printcom — MAN Roland’s consumables, parts and supply source. Its latest development: an eCommerce website called manrolanddirect.com. The interactive portal connects MAN Roland customers with an inventory of over 80,000 spare parts and consumable components —24/7.

Expanding the Envelope

A working tour of the Victor Envelope Manufacturing Company in Bensenville, Illinois will embark from McCormick Place on Monday, October 16, at 11:00 AM. Showgoers will be able to experience how Victor automates the production of custom envelopes in its 250,000 sq ft facility. The plant’s 6-color ROLAND 500 will demonstrate its ability to run very light weight stocks at incredibly high speeds. Lunch will be included on this tour.

Networking at Darwill

Monday, October 16, at 1:00 PM is the departure time for a tour to the 60,000 sq ft state-of-the-art facility of Darwill in Hillside, Illinois. Describing itself as “an integrated supplier of print, direct mail and fulfillment,” Darwill networks three ROLAND 700 presses through printnet. The working presentation will focus on how Darwill maximizes the use of automation as well as mixes digital and offset work to produce its award-winning jobs more cost effectively.

Packaging Productivity

Package printing can open up a new world of opportunity for commercial printers. A tour of Accord Carton in Alsip, Illinois will give them a first-hand look at how it is profitably done. One of the Midwest’s fastest growing packaging printers, Accord stepped up in size this past summer to a new 56-inch ROLAND 900 to complement and expand upon its 40-inch production stream. Participants will see the presses work a variety of substrates during the tour, which leaves McCormick Place on Tuesday, October 17, at 11:00 AM, lunch included.

Newsworthy Tour

Newspapers continue to lead the industry in automation and innovation. As the worldwide market leader in newspaper printing systems, MAN Roland is offering a feature tour of suburban Chicago’s leading newspaper — the Daily Herald. Winner of the 2006 Publisher of the Year, a Production All Star honor and the prestigious Ifra Color Quality Club award, the Daily Herald is produced on a REGIOMAN newspaper press in a fully automated facility that has become a model of efficiency for printers throughout the world. Showgoers are invited to register for the plant tour, which will take place on Tuesday, October 17, at 1:00 PM. For more information: www.manroland.com/graphexpo06.

MLP U.S.A., Inc. — Booth #5612

Diamond 3000LX sheetfed press

The 28 x 40-inch Diamond 3000LX accommodates .002-inch paper up to .040-inch board at 16,000 sheets per hour. A package of specifically designed optional features ensures smooth, markless sheet travel on plastics and synthetic paper. The demonstration press includes six printing units, an inline tower coater, extended delivery and UV curing system from Grafix LLC. The newly developed SimulChanger will allow all six plates to be changed at the same time.

Mitsubishi SimulChanger

SimulChanger, a new imulChanger, Mitsubishi’s simultaneous plate cylinder phasing system, targets the time-consuming plate-changing steps in press makereadies. The fully automated SimulChanger completes the plate changes on all printing units without the operator being present at the units in approximately one minute, regardless of the number of colors involved. Operators load new plates into cassettes while the press is running. All other steps are automatically accomplished with the touch of a button at the COMRAC press control console.

Mitsubishi Color Control System V (MCCS-V)

The Mitsubishi Color Control System V (MCCS-V) image-scanning spectrophotometer controls color tones of the entire image using all the image data for a print sheet. When measuring a 28 x 40-inch sheet, it collects data from 240,000 points in both horizontal and vertical directions. The MCCS-V has spectrophotometry and densitometry capabilities; it looks at the L.a.b. characteristics of color, as well as the reflective density.

Portable DRA

Portable DRA is an exclusive press performance measurement and analysis system for determining the magnitude and direction of movement on a printing press at a company’s production facility. Portable DRA measures different positions on test sheets to detect and calculate unit-to-unit, sheet-to-sheet movement on the gear side, operator side, lead edge, tail edge and infeed. It recommends solutions to remedy identified problems. For more information: www.mhi-mpp.com/e/.

NASTech, Inc. — In Partner Booths #2006, 5424 & 5629

NASTech, Inc. will be demonstrating its press and bindery management systems in two booths at Graph Expo 2006: Globe-Tek’s booth 5629, and HiFlex’s booth 5424.

NASTech Overview

All of NASTech products are designed to control waste, eliminate over-runs, and improve plant efficiency and profitability via accurate data and reports that are very helpful to any TQM, Six Sigma, or Continual Improvement programs. These easy-to-use touch-screen based systems can be interfaced to your existing ERP/MIS systems.

P-DAQ — A sophisticated press management system running on numerous large web presses. P-DAQ automatically collects, analyzes and graphically reports pressroom data: very accurate counts by form and version, basis weight, waste, paper/ink usage, plus real-time job status views. P-DAQ has a proven ability to cut waste, reduce costs, and improve plant efficiency.

P-DAQ LT — Using the same structure, database and reports as big brother P-DAQ, P-DAQ LT is designed and priced for presses with simpler delivery configurations: sheet-fed, roll to roll flexographic label, forms, and smaller web offset presses. An ideal replacement for aging Counting systems, P-DAQ LT provides an upgradeable long term solution.

B-DAQ — Using the same foundations as P-DAQ, B-DAQ collects data from perfect bindery and stitching equipment, allowing everyone to monitor the current status of jobs with real-time data fed directly from the bindery. B-DAQ collects and reports on data that management has always needed, but was previously too costly to acquire. For more information, contact John Knowlton at .at 1-888-962-7832, ext 707, or j.knowlton@nastechinc.com, or, visit our website at www.nastechinc.com.

NELA — Booth #5041

About NELA

NELA (USA) together with its German parent company Brüder Neumeister (NELA Germany) forms the largest register control firm in the printing industry. Register systems include inline punch and bending systems for offset printing, clamping systems on press and plate transportation systems. With more than 1,200 Vision Punch Benders worldwide, NELA is the proven leader in register control.

New Products

NELA is debuting NELA Plate Storage Carts for the pre-press room. A variety of carts designed to be docked behind optical or 3-point benders. The plates come out of the bender and they are conveyed into the plate cart by a plate distribution unit which loads one plate after another into the storage slots of the cart. The cart then easily undocks for transport. The NELA Plate Cart comes in 4 versions:

Horizontal plate storage
Vertical plate storage
Automatic loading
Manual loading.

The Service Wizard demonstration shows NELA’s unique capability of remote troubleshooting. A separate PC station on the booth demonstrates how NELA can service and troubleshoot the bender from any location.

NELA’s Vision Punch Bender is running live and will demonstrate vision punching and bending during the show. For more information: www.nela-usa.com.

Océ — Booth #1263

Océ VarioPrint 6250 Printer

The Océ VarioPrint â 6250 is the world's most productive digital duplex cut-sheet printing system. Featuring Océ Gemini Instant Duplex technology, it delivers breakthrough performance at 250 letter, 160 legal and 132 ledger-size duplex prints per minute, up to 70 percent more productive than other printers in its class.

Océ Job Appropriate Color

Océ Job Appropriate Color ä approach maintains that companies should invest only in the color they need to achieve business results. Océ offers the industry's most complete product set to address multiple levels of color, technologies and speed bands, so printers can choose the color technology that's right for their goals.

Océ VarioStream 9230 Printer

The 231 ipm Océ VarioStream â 9230 is one of the fastest digital printers for three-over-three printing . It simultaneously prints monochrome, two-over-two and three-over-three (black plus two custom colors double-sided) applications and Job Appropriate Color ä output. Innovative color mixing produces output that looks like more than three-over-three color.

Océ Digital Full Color Printers

The full color CPS900 digital color press offers 100 percent consistent color, offset-like quality, and problem-free performance without calibration. The Océ CPT60 tandem system teams multiple CPS print engines in a single configuration to increase speed and capacity for production-level performance.

Océ VarioStream 7650cx Printer

The Océ VarioStream â 7650cx is the centerpiece of the Océ Digital Book Solution, printing books on demand with crisp halftones, solid blacks, and consistency on every page. It works in highly synchronized efficiency with Océ PRISMA software. Jobs are submitted over the web and move smoothly through the workflow.

Océ VarioPrint Titanium Printers

The new Océ VarioPrint â Titanium offers outstanding image quality; uninterrupted production; jam-free performance; vendor interoperability and flexibility to print-while-RIP, load- and program-while-run. A High Capacity Stacker increases unattended productivity. Oversized media support from every drawer expands the application range. The quiet system has the lowest ozone emission in its class.

Océ PRISMA Software

Océ PRISMA ä software is a tightly integrated highly functional digital document workflow architecture on the market. Océ continues to expand the PRISMA architecture to provide customers with more capabilities. a nd cross-platform interoperability.

Océ PRISMAprepare Software

Océ PRISMAprepare ä PDF-based software streamlines print make-ready tasks. This device-independent software optimizes production of color and black and white documents on production printers like the Océ VarioPrint 2110 Titanium and Océ VarioPrint 6250, as well as competitive systems.

Océ DPconvert Software

Océ drives interoperability with Océ DPconvert ä software, which offers seamless conversion from proprietary formats to market standards for customers who want to switch to Océ printers without modifying RDO-based applications.

Océ DPlinkSoftware

Océ DPlink ä software offers plug-and-play Xerox â DigiPath â and FreeFlow â MakeReady connectivity for operations that need to maintain a mixed print environment, but don’t want to change applications. For more information: www.oceusa.com.

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