Franklin Park, IL, January 6, 2009-Tukaiz, a leading provider of results-driven marketing communications services, announced today it is embarking on a capital improvement plan for its Franklin Park, IL campus. In order to meet the company's current growth and demand for point-of-purchase (POP) and point-of-sale (POS) offerings, Tukaiz has invested in three new additional wide format digital printers and one additional flatbed digital printer.  This new equipment will increase productivity while expanding print capabilities to produce wide format banners, posters, signage, and more. Additionally, Tukaiz is enlarging its facilities to accommodate the new equipment.

"We are very excited about the acquisition of our new digital printers as it better positions us to meet our customers' innovative and on demand POP and POS requirements," said Dan Defino, vice president and managing director of Tukaiz. "The addition of such advanced technologies ensures that we continue to deliver on Tukaiz' promise to be a total solutions provider of web-to-print capabilities driven by our interactive programming group and front-end software technologies.  Our focus as a company has always been to provide our customers the ability to take advantage of integrated solutions that help them achieve sales and marketing success."

Technologies acquired include:

•    Two HP Designjet 10000s -Super wide, producing 104-inch applications, these digital printers allow for an increased application span to provide a variety of wide format print options to customers.  The speed of these printers coupled with their low running costs make digital technology a more cost effective option for POP and POS materials. 

Additionally, the printers provide a higher concentration of colorants in the inks to produce a wider selection of rich, saturated colors.

•    HP Scitex XL 1500-The HP Scitex XL 1500 printer produces wide format applications on almost any media of any format and size.  The printer can easily switch from four-, six-, or eight-color printing to provide both durable and vibrant color applications.  

•    HP Scitex FB6100-Producing vibrant POP displays with a print quality of up to 1200 x 800 dpi resolution, this digital printer prints on a range of wide-format, rigid, or flexible media.  In addition, its eight-color output offers a range of color options to produce high-quality imaging.  The HB Scitex FB6100 is capable of printing sizes up to 5' x 10' on thick material. 

Tukaiz believes that investing in superior technologies is paramount to providing the most advanced, efficient solutions for its customers. These recent investments are wholly designed to deliver more options, better capabilities, and higher-quality output for every type of print requirement.