Our February report covering the tail end of 2022 into 2023, includes 12 presses in the US and 10 in Europe (plus 3 oldies from 2020 and 2021). We are finally seeing web-fed installations on par with sheet-fed after 7 months of reporting a tilt toward sheet-fed.

Our table below includes a total of 20 companies installing 25 presses. While the majority appear to be first time inkjet investors, more than 25% of the companies listed were adding to their inkjet portfolio:

• New Jersey-based Arna Marketing added 2 Canon VarioPrint iX3200 and 2 ProStream 1800 presses to their portfolio in 2022.
• CustomerKNECT, formerly MetroMail, based in Seaham, England replaced 3 older Canon ColorStream continuous presses with a ColorStream 8160 and a VarioPrint iX 2100 in November and December 2022.
• Ricoh beta site, Heeter in Pennsylvania, went live with the first Pro Z75 B2 sheet-fed press complementing their 3 existing Pro VC 70000 continuous presses.
• Birmingham England- based Shumacher Packaging installed their FOURTH Durst Delta SPC 130 press. That’s a lot of corrugated press capacity!
• Early inkjet adopter, TAG Informatique, who were the beta site for the HP T250HD, just added a Screen TruePress Jet 520HD AD and 520NX to their existing fleet of Screen and HP equipment in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The Screen presses will replace older presses from Canon and Xerox.
• Temiziş Ofset & Dijital in Eskişehir, Türkiye added a second Screen TruePress 520 HD Mono after purchasing the first in in 2021.

Applications and OEMs

As in most reports, many of the companies are producing more than one type of work. Direct mail was most commonly cited (12 companies) followed by transaction printing/customer communications (9 companies) along with labels (5) and packaging (2). We noted that Compos Center, was using the Konica Minolta Accuriojet KM1e to print on Tyvek for graphic displays.

By the numbers (without earlier installs) we saw 8 Canon, 7 Screen, 2 Domino, and one each for BlueCrest, Durst, Konica Minolta, Kyocera and Ricoh. We also reported on 3 older (2020 and 2021) installs for BlueCrest, Canon, and Landa. We’ve shared a few pictures after the table.

Here’s the February table with helpful links to the company website. You can find more details on individual press models on the Inkjet Device Finder.

February 2023 Roundup

If you are an OEM and want to report a recent installation, please get in touch with [email protected] or [email protected]  and we will happily share your announcement.

Pictures Shared

Commercial and book printer, Powerprint reports producing 15 million pages in the 5 months since they installed their Canon varioPRINT iX3200 press in 2022.   

Vya issued a press release announcing that they had  more than doubled their digital color print capacity with the acquisition of a new Canon varioPRINT iX3200 digital printer.

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