Commercial Printing
Capital Colour Press (Commercial Printer)
When the Edmonton, Alberta-based Capital Colour Press, an MGS Graphics Services company, decided to go computer-to-plate (CtP) in its prepress operation, it didn't have to look very far. During its entire 24-year existence, Capital Colour Press has maintained a strong relationship with Agfa. When the decision was made for the mid-size printer to go CtP, they knew Agfa's :Palladio 4-up violet platesetter was going to be their best option.
Corelio magazines (Commercial Application) :Apogee Portal
Corelio Printing - a member of the Corelio group - started with Agfa’s project management system :Apogee Portal mid 2005.
Prepress Manager, Mr. G. Watteeuw explained to us their experience and plans with this system.
Democrat Printing (Commercial Printer)
Democrat Printing is a large, full-service web printer specialized in printing corporate magazines and catalogs. To streamline operations and increase turnaround time, the printing company switched to Agfa Graphics' :Delano and :ApogeeX.
Drukkerij Baudoin (Commercial Printer)
Drukkerij Baudoin is a mid-sized commercial printing company located in Lichtaart, Belgium. The company was founded in 1973 by Mr. Jos Baudoin and his wife Carolina Klockaerts. Today the company is managed by Mr. Patrick Van de Water and by Mr. Alphons Severeyns.
Fotocomp Service (Commercial Prepress provider)
Fotocomp has been able to significantly boost process control, automate entire processing phases, and output exceptional high-quality plates. This has allowed the company to add new business with no increases in overhead or labour.
Guido Maes PrintingDeluxe (Commercial Printer)
Serving clients in the fashion industry requires exceptional quality reproduction, which is exactly the speciality of this company, located in Ghent, Belgium. GMPD needed a way to achieve the highest possible quality and at the same time increase productivity for their 9 employees. The :Xcalibur 45 with :Sublima screening technology allows GMPD to reach 340 lpi with no extra effort on press or in prepress.
Hudson Printing (Commercial Printing)
Hudson Printing in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. is proof positive of the benefits of transitioning a business accustomed to an older way of doing things to newer methods. Born over 100 years ago and reborn in the 70's, Hudson Printing had to patiently school its customers and 200 employees in the ways of CtP. Now that they understand those benefits, Hudson is reaping the rewards.
Imprimerie Moderne de l'Est (IME) (Commercial Printer)
After switching their presses to alcohol-free damping, the company also aimed at achieving zero alcohol for the large format 120 x 160. For that purpose, IME switched to :Amigo thermal plates working in conjunction with two :Avalon VLF CtP systems equipped with high-precision HD writing heads.
Leech Printing (Commercial Printer)
Based in Brandon, Manitoba, Leech Printing, a leading 4-up printer with 50 employees, did some soul-searching as the company's 75th anniversary approached. Started by Cec Leech in 1927 and succeeded by Don & Bud Leech in the 70's and Michael & David in the 90's, the Leech family is proud to achieve this important milestone. By their big milestone, celebrated in December 2002, Leech Printing become the latest to go computer-to-plate (CtP) with Agfa's :Palladio system, a reliable violet-laser based system and one of Agfa's hottest selling platesetters.
Limmatdruck (Commercial & Package Printing)
After the positive experience with the :Galileo platesetter, the need for a VLF system made Limmatdruck choose the :Xcalibur VLF equipment. Together with the integration of :Apogee and the :Sherpa proofers, this results in a complete CtP workflow.