Salt Lake City-based Color Graphics Inc., a full-service print provider, increased its print production capacity when it recently installed a five-meter Durst Rho 500R superwide roll-to-roll UV-curingⁱ inkjet printerⁱ. Color Graphics is one of the first to acquire one of these units in the United States. Color Graphics is employing its new Rho 500R primarily for higher-end retail and P.O.P. applications. The Rho 500R prints six-color, 600-dpiⁱ images on a wide variety of roll media at speeds up to 4,300 square feet an hour.  -Read more-

Digital printerⁱ maker Roland DGA Corp., Irvine, Calif., in partnership with software developer Corel Corp., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, announces that Corel’s new CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 now features Roland Color Libraries for contour cutting and spot colorⁱ matching, including the company’s entire metallic color library supporting new VersaCAMM and SOLJET metallic inkjet printerⁱ/cutters. The addition of these libraries greatly simplifies the production process for Roland customers that design using CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, the company says.
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Wide formatⁱ printer maker Mutoh America, Phoenix, Ariz., teamed up with custom car builders Fesler Built, Scottsdale, Ariz., for the recent Grand National Roadster Show in Los Angeles. Mutoh donated prints to wrap the Fesler Rig for this eventⁱ, and for the entire 2010 roadster trade show season. The wrap was done using a Mutoh ValueJet 1614 printer, and Avery MPI Supercast Easy Apply RS media, and laminated with Avery 1030 Digital Overlam. Mutoh says there will soon be HD video capturing footage of the graphic installation process completed on the Fesler Rig.  -Read more-

Employees of specialty substrates and solutions provider GPA, Chicago, have generously pulled together their resources to make a $5,000 donation to assist in the reliefⁱ efforts after the devastating earthquake in Haiti. All employee contributions were matched by GPA as part of the company’s ongoing philanthropic focus. GPA selected the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (CBHF) to handle the distribution of the company’s donation. The fund was created by President Obama, enlisting the support of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W.  -Read more-