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DG3 Blasts Off into High-Volume Personalization with the Debut of Its HP T230 Color Inkjet Web Press

The installation lets customers add high-volume digital web printing to the array of services they buy from DG3, one of the top providers print and visual communication products in the Northeast.

Tuesday, March 04, 2014

On February 27, with rocket ship imagery and the acrobatics of a pair of glittering aerialists as the backdrop, the Diversified Global Graphics Group (DG3, Jersey City, NJ) launched an HP T230 color inkjet web press into an orbit it hopes to fill with richly colored variable print.

There to celebrate the liftoff were about 100 customers who now can add high-volume digital web printing to the array of services they buy from DG3, one of the top providers print and visual communication products in the Northeast.

The press, installed last November and put through its first full-scale production run a few weeks ago, is DG3's latest investment in technologies aimed at broadening the range of the digital and conventional marketing resources it offers to a high-end business clientele.


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About Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry is a journalist and an educator who has covered the graphic communications industry since 1984. The author of many hundreds of articles on business trends and technological developments in graphic communications, he has been published in most of the leading trade media in the field. He also has taught graphic communications as an adjunct lecturer for New York University and New York City College of Technology. The holder of numerous awards for industry service and education, Henry is currently the managing director of Liberty or Death Communications, a content consultancy.

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