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By Denise M. Gustavson

G raphics of the Americas Expo & Conference (GOA)—February 18-20, 2016, at the Miami Beach Convention

Center in Miami Beach, FL—is the largest event in the US attract-ing key industry professionals in graphic communications from throughout North America, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. From demonstra-tions by major manufacturers and suppliers, to education and training by industry leaders, to networking with industry peers from around the globe, GOA will provide attendees with ideas that will help them grow their business all year long.

James Martin, GOA president, said, “Wide-format sign and display, direct to garment, vehicle wraps, and variable short- through long -length runs will be shown on offset, hybrid and digital presses of every type. We have partnered with the biggest names in the industry to feature the most profit-able and talked-about solutions on the market today.

“GOA 2016 will be home to the industry’s first Dye Sublimation Application Center, where textile

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applications will blow audiences away. It’s not to be missed!”

Live on the GOA 2016 show floor are the following exhibition centers:

Sponsored by Epson, the Dye Sublimation Application Cen-ter—new for 2016—connects leaders in the textile/dye-sublima-tion printing marketplace with GOA attendees, to showcase the latest textile and dye-sub printing support and solutions featuring Epson’s printers, ink, transfer equipment and media.

Sponsored by UniNet, Kompac, and UPM, Short Run Digital Cen-ter is the place to learn about short-run digital printing. Attendees can meet with industry experts and see the latest equipment in action.

In the Direct-to-Garment Center sponsored by OKI Data Americas, GOA attendees get a first-hand look at digital garment decoration technologies. They can learn from industry experts and discover techniques, tips, tricks and trends to improve production accuracy and prevent errors.

A show favorite, Wide Format Print Shop Live! is where the lat-est digital technologies, software, and consumables for wide-format

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are on display. GOA visitors can discover the best way to employ solutions and optimize production efficiency, as well as take note of a variety of innovative applications. Wide Format Print Shop Live! is sponsored by HP, Caldera, Zund, and Gilman Brothers.

The Vehicle Wrap Center, spon-sored by Kay Premium Marking Film (KPMF), features live, “hands-on” vehicle wrap demonstrations. Vehicle wrapping is fast becoming one of the hottest forms of outdoor advertising. This educational show floor feature demonstrates the workflow from start to finish.

The Center will also be the place to find the latest in digital printing, vinyl technology, lamination, vehicle templates, wrap-specific artwork, and tools on display.

Wrap Cup Americas presents the vehicle wrap competition where the “wrap stars” of the Americas region will go up against each other, and the clock, to determine the Wrap Cup Champion of the Americas. The competition is sponsored by MR Clipart, 3M, Kay’s Automotive, Microgeo, Race Ramps, Image1Im-pact, Rolinx, Steinel, Wrap Cut, and Masters of Branding.

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Said Martin, “Anyone who has attended GOA knows that our live expo demonstrations, coupled with unmatched educational sessions in English and Spanish; make it an easy decision to attend GOA to get a head start on a successful year ahead. We look forward to wel-coming our veteran, and first-time, attendees alike!”

Educational OppsThe seminars at GOA connect attendees with some of the most interesting and forward-thinking icons in the industry. This is where attendees can hone their skills or learn new ones. These seminars also provide attendees with in-depth educational content, case studies, and actionable insight to help them learn what they need to be doing, where they need to be in-vesting, and how they need to make decisions for the future.

Tracks will cover topics such as: Prepress & Production, Sales & Marketing, Management, and Wide Format. More than 20 semi-nars will be presented in Spanish, taught by industry icons from around the globe.

The American Graphics Insti-tute Live! presented by American Graphics Institute. Learn from the team of authors and instructors who create the Digital Classroom series of books, videos & online content. Come discover new features and hard-to-find tips and tricks that will save you hours of time. Tracks cover topics such as: Design & Creative, Photoshop, and InDesign & Publishing.

Additionally, there are four free sessions which are open to all at-tendees. (Check the signage on site for seminar room locations.) §Sublimation – The Print On Demand Solution Presented by: Maria Fuentes Viera, Digital Decoration Product Specialist, Sawgrass Ink Thursday, February 18, 2016 • 10:30–11:45 am Looking for a way to expand your profits without blowing your bank account? Sublimation is a very cost effective digital printing process that lets you diverse your offerings

so that you can bring in more dollars on every order. Custom cell phone covers, promotional products, plaques & awards, personalized gifts, apparel, digital appliqué, signage, etc - the list is long. Learn how the process works, how to produce sublimated products, what to charge, and how to market in this fast paced, information packed session. §Be a Game Changer – How to Leverage Affordable Color for Eye Popping Output Presented by: Felipe Arriagada, managing director, Indigo De Papel Thursday, February 18 • 2:00–3:15 pm Sponsored by Ricoh Looking for ways to deliver affordable color applications through shorter runs with faster turnaround times? Do your customers need clear or white toner for invitations, table settings or postcards? Are you expanding into retail? This session will outline how to achieve these goals with actionable steps to expand your portfolio. §Diversify Your Business with Sublimated Photo Gifts Presented by: Maria Fuentes Viera, Digital Decoration Product Specialist, Sawgrass Ink Friday, February 19, 2016 • 10:30–11:45 am Sublimated photo gifts are profitable and easy to produce. And with an ever-widening range of high-margin products, such as metal, acrylics, glass, and stone, the revenue opportunities are only limited by your creativity. From personalized photo-gifts to large format professional applications to fine art reproductions, sublimation offers plenty of unique photo-centric opportunities. Learn what’s new and hot in the world of sublimated photo products as well as how to produce, market and sell them effectively. §What’s your Overall Equipment Effectiveness? Presented by: John Sweeney Friday, February 19 • 12:30–1:45 pm Sponsored by SpencerMetrics LLC Overall Equipment Effectiveness is key to understanding if you

are getting the ROI and Payback on your equipment purchases. Learn which print and finishing processes are impeding your productivity, and more importantly how to correct them. The key is to monitor and identify the root causes! Every dollar saved drop to your bottom line. If your net margin is five percent you need twenty dollars of new sales to drive that same dollar to the bottom line.

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On the expo floor, attendees will be able to see the latest workflow and production solutions. Be sure to check out these companies while you explore the show.

Xerox Corp.—Booth 201Xerox will showcase its versatile and powerful high entry-level presses, the Color 800i/1000i Presses, which feature an optional fifth toner station for metallic gold, metallic silver or clear dry inks.

With the optional fifth toner station, print providers can migrate lucrative foil stamping applications, such as invitations, certificates and business cards, and add a “pop” to short-run, high-value digital print. In addition, multi-pass printing with clear ink adds creative, atten-tion-grabbing spot or flood effects on a wide range of applications.

The Color 800i/1000i Presses also provide exceptional quality, leading press availability and many automation capabilities that boost productivity.

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Color-Logic—Booth 204Add dimension to your print using Pattern-FX from Color-Logic. With over 100 unique effects achievable in each volume, create eye-catch-ing designs in a matter of seconds and give your print the sparkle it deserves. Each pattern can be scaled, rotated, edited or even combined with other patterns, to create print that truly outshines its competition.

Each pattern has six unique ways of being utilized – A pattern may be used as a metallic element

using one of the primary Col-or-Logic effects (Metallic, Dimen-sional-FX, Watermark-FX and Watermark-FX Plus), or the pattern may be used for creating an emboss or varnish plate! Each pattern can also be combined with any of the 250 colors from rom the Color-Logic swatch book, meaning each pattern can be used six different ways across 250 different metallic colors or metallic gradients.

Xante—Booth 608The Impressia Digital Multi-Media Press and the Enterprise High

Speed Feed System are revolution-izing the envelope printing market with the unrivaled ability to produce full color envelopes on demand with rapid print speeds (up to 78 full color envelopes per minute), enhanced color quality (up to 2400 dpi), and the indus-try’s lowest cost per print (less then 1¢ per envelope). This no click charge system is the most

affordable way for print shops to go digital, and delivers fast, full color results on a wide variety of media including letterhead.

Rollem International— Booth 809The Champion 990 is at the heart of Rollem’s 50+ years of technology. It out performs every finishing machine in its class in registration, speed, quality, and economy. And it’s versatile—perform slitting, scoring, perforating, micro-perfo-rating, and kiss-cutting, simulta-neously or independently.

One hundred percent accuracy, easy set-up’s and change-overs

make it the ideal entry-level slitting, scoring and perforating system. With speeds of 18,000 sheets per hour on products including flyers, greeting cards, business cards, direct mail, labels, or stickers and more, it’s a sound investment for most size shops. The Champion is available in five sheet sizes: 18-, 24-, 30-, 36-, and 40-inch sizes.

Printware—Booth 824The iJetColor 3.0 Press and Workflow features a number of new capabilities and enhance-ments to help customers further their productivity and profitability including: §Enhanced CPU hardware and print drivers §Hig-speed Ethernet communications support

§Navigator Harlequin RIP 10.1r1 with increased multi-page and variable data output. § Improved automation for color spot matching with Color Boost Technology §Built in cost calculator for accurate profitable printing §Exclusive online training modules for lifetime trouble-free operation § Improved color output with advanced profiles and PMS color matching § Improved toolbox controls for easier operation and care §Enhanced user control over cleaning/maintenance cycles to optimize print quality §Mask optimization for transparencies.

Primera Technology—Booth 925Primera’s CX1200 Digital Color Label Press delivers full-color digital label printing, utilizing one

of the fastest and highest-resolu-tion color laser engines available. Add the FX1200 Digital Finishing System, an “all-in-one” off-line solution to cut any size or shape label, rewind and laminate. Together, CX1200/FX1200 provide professional-grade short-run label printing to manufacturers who need com-plete flexibility with the size, shape and quantity of their labels.

Hunkeler AG—Booth 1016Working for the printing indus-try since 1922, Hunkeler is an independent, owner-managed family business which has some 280 employees around the world. Digital printing takes pride of place.

Here our performance is concen-trated on the digital segment we supply advanced pre- and post

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solutions for web based digital printing systems, publishers, graphic arts market, data centers, security printing and direct mails.

Hunkeler’s role as a technology leader is confirmed by thousands of successful installations all over the world. Leading digital press manufacturers and users of all kinds appreciate our expertise and solutions.

Tompkins Printing Equipment Company—Booth 1208Tompkins sells and exports quality equipment around the world. The omcpany also rep-resents the world’s major manu-facturers of new equipment who are known for quality, innovation, and efficiency. The company was recently selected to represent the

Sackel NanoGraphic Printers and NanoGraphic Inks. For 83 years and three generations, Tompkins has built their reputation on integrity, honesty and superior customer service.

OKI Data Americas—Booth 1701OKI Data Americas, a Platinum

Sponsor of Graphics of the Americas, will exhibit its new C942 five-color A3/tabloid

device. Devel-oped for short-run, on-demand commercial appli-cations, this

CMYK+White printer offers expansive media handling capabilities and impres-sive output speeds. It is the fastest color-on-color device in its class, allowing users to produce bold full color printing on trans-parent and colored media. The

Fiery C9 Server provides high quality color matching and simplifies management of complex print jobs. The C942 offers revenue generating opportunities and a strong value proposition for businesses looking to augment their in-house production capabilities.

Colter & Peterson—Booth 1717Colter & Peterson will offer four versions of Microcut, the auto-mated back gauge control system with nearly 35,000 instal-lations worldwide. Microcut COLOR WS, Microtrack II, Microcut PLUS WS, and Microcut JR have outstanding features unique to any size operation.

The retrofit system is a terrific value and costs a fraction of the price for a new paper cutter. Each system is automated, saves time and can be installed on any brand

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cutter between 20 and 150 inches. Users can store cutting sequences so the back gauge automatically positions itself for each individual cut within 1/64th of an inch.

Mimaki USA—Booth 1725Mimaki JFX200-2513 UV-LED flatbed printer can print onto a single board up to 4x8-feet, or can be used to print on multiple, smaller rigid pieces in one pass. It is ideally suited for applications

such as backlit displays, signs and posters, interior décor, glass and metal decorative panels and more. Its landscape-oriented format is small enough to fit into most sign and graphic print shops. White and clear inks in economical 1-liter ink bottles, plus jettable primer, are available. The UV-LED lamps offer reduced energy consumption and a longer lamp lifetime.

The Gilman Brothers Company—Booth 1900There is no limit to what INFINI-TY can do for you! Gilman Brothers INFINITY is a styrene foamboard made in the USA, using 100 percent USA produced raw materials, is recyclable, cold bendable that prints flat and transforms into 3D display or signage and features digital grade styrene sheets that maintain their color under any light source as part of their ColorOne White Point Management System assuring papers maintain their color under any light source, truly making all

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colors pop and accurate for exact match of logos. It is available 3mm and 3/16 to 1-inch thickness, in sheet sizes to 60x192 inches.

Zund America—Booth 1900With the recently introduced automatic tool changer, ARC, Zünd is exhibiting an automation solution that significantly reduces setup times for routing applica-tions on Zünd G3 digital cutting/

routing systems. In a fully integrated tool magazine, the user can freely combine up to eight different bits. Zünd Cut Center, the production software that powers Zünd cutters, automatical-ly selects the correct bit for the job, processing method (cutting, polishing, etc.), and material at hand, ensuring optimal results. This eliminates the potential for operator error that can easily occur in higher-volume routing applications and significantly enhances overall productivity.

STS Inks—Booth 1906STS Inks has announced a new neon fluorescent ink set for most major manufacturers’ printers. The neon ink can be printed as spot colors or mixed with stan-

dard CMYK process colors. Mixing the neon fluorescent colors with standard CMYK colors opens up a wide range of custom colors and effects. These prints can be viewed under normal lighting conditions or get an even wider range of effects by viewing under black light. No need to buy an additional printer to add new output possibilities, just add STS Inks neon fluorescent ink set to your existing printer.

Epson Americas—Booth 1932The Epson SureColor F9200 64-inch printer works with various sublimation transfer papers to create a range of textiles and applications, includ-ing efficient production of high-quality soft signage, sports-wear, apparel, accessories, and customized promotional items with the best possible results. Leveraging a dual Epson Preci-sionCore TFP printhead and Ultra-Chrome DS inks, the F9200 is

built for industrial-level produc-tion; providing precise, repeatable performance. Epson-exclusive UltraChrome DS ink, including a new high-density Black ink, delivers improved ink efficiency and black density with better tonal transitions and neutral grayscale. A high-capacity three-liter bulk ink system and improved post-platen heater offers faster drying times for seamless media handling and continuous productivity.