Litho Development and ResearchIndigo Digital Printing PressesFeaturing Digital Offset Color |
Throughout the 500-year history of printing, the common element in virtually all printing processes has been the use of liquid ink. Liquid ink printed images are of high resolution and brilliant color. Indigo's unique electronic printing process, called Digital Offset Color™, combines high performance digital imaging technology with a liquid ink offset printing press, merging the benefits of on-demand electronic printing with the qualities of offset printing.
This means that for the first time in the history of printing it is economically feasible to produce glossy, high-quality printing in runs as short as a single copy. With the trend in modern marketing toward increasingly targeted promotion, a key application is for literature which can be mass produced, yet individually personalized. Indigo's technology makes this a commerical reality.
Indigo's family of digital presses combines high performance digital imaging technology with an offset printing process to electronically achieve the brilliant glossy color image quality that is unique to offset-Digital Offset Color. Only Indigo delivers Digital Offset Color, at the highest speeds, highest quality, and lowest cost per page. Only Indigo offers ElectroInk -- a true color liquid ink based digital printing -- on practically any substrate. Indigo's digital presses can create full-color, uniquely personalized or target products that incorporate variable data text and images, based on database profiles, automatically composed and printed -- in real time. Indigo's product line for commercial printing applications offers each customer the product best suited to his or her applications, print volumes, and capital expense preference, all at the same high quality. Being sheet-fed, Indigo's presses for commercial printign also provide the greatest speed and versatility in changing stocks from one job to the next, an important benefit for short-run and on-demand printing applications. Indigo's products also enable digital printing for industrial applications such as packaging and plastic cards.
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e-Print Pro |
The e-Print® Pro™ is an entry-level digital printing press suitable for simple digital printing applications such as short-run, on-demand, and proofing, at low to medium printing volumes. |
TurboStream |
The TurboStream™ is Indigo's flagship printing press. It suits high value applications such as electronic collation, versioning, and personalization, at medium to high volume printing, with a six-color printing capability. |
UltraStream |
The UltraStream™ is Indigo's highest speed, highest productivity digital printing press. It is designed for high volume printing, with a seven-color printing capability. |
Omnius One-Shot Color |
The Omnius One-Shot Color® is Indigo's web press that prints in six colors on a very wide variety of materials. This substrate versatility brings on-demand short-run color printing to each of the main packaging markets: food, beverage (e.g. wine labels), pharmaceutical, and personal care products, in virtually any packaging medium -- labels, flexible film, folding carton, and selected plastics. |
Omnius CardPress |
The Omnius® CardPress™ uses Indigo's one-shot color printing technology to print brilliant, distinctive six-color images onto plastic cards. In the multi-faceted plastic cards market, the versatility, power, and quality of Digital Offset Color open up a wide range of new business opportunities. |
Omnius WebStream |
The Omnius® WebStream™ is a full-color Web-fed Digital Offset Color printing press that uses liquid inks. It is ideally suited to the printing of labels. It can print on a wide variety of substrates and features short-run, on-demand, full-color, high-quality printing. |
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Like conventional offset printing, Digital Offset Color printing transfers a liquid image from the imaging surface to a printing blanket, and from the printing blanket to paper. However, unlike conventional offset printing, Digital Offset Color printing creates a new ink image with each impression and, due to the unique qualities of Indigo's proprietary ElectronInk, it leaves no residual ink on the blanket.
ElectroInk is one of Indigo's key technologies. It is a liquid ink that can be electrostatically charged to produce high resolution and high quality color images. Unlike xerographic toners, ElectroInk provides a density and richness of color directly comparable to offset print. To further extend the color range achievable with Digital Offset Color, Indigo has developed the IndiChrome™ wide gamut printing system.
Indigo presses print on the widest range of substrates from coated and uncoated paper to transparencies and label stock. The number of Indigo-optimized subsrates from major manufacturers continues to grow through our partnerships with many industry leaders.
The Indigo e-Print Pro, TurboStream, and UltraStream digital presses are being marketed to pre-press trade shops, commercial printers, copy shops, and service bureaus for applications such as brochures, mailers, business cards, business forms, newsletters, greeting cards, and other printed products.
The Omnius One-Shot Color Printing Press, and the Omnius WebStream, are aimed at the flexible packaging and label markets. The Omnius CardPress is designed for plastic card printing.
Indigo is totally committed to its customers and provides a comprehensive partnership package covering technical support and training, market development, and business planning.
The Indigo World Wide Support Organization ensures fast and efficient maintenance of your Indigo press. Your Indigo support center provides a variety of support programs, including remote diagnostics, fast parts delivery, hot-line help desks, and operator training from basic to advanced levels. You can also opt to have your own in-house Digital Press Person, or Digital Press Specialist, whom Indigo will train. This highly skilled individual will give your business reduced service costs, increased productivity, and improved yield.
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LDR International is the North American distributor for Japanese-manufactured Itoh Paper Cutters. Itoh Paper cutters are by far the best manufactured paper cutters on the market for professional printers and bindery shops. Itoh paper cutters can cut not only paper, but also PS plate, plastic sheet, aluminum board, laminated board, and more. Itoh can provide a customized guillotine to automatically cut the material at irregular angles (trapezoid). Besides paper cutters, Itoh also manufactures loaders, front-loading and side-loading machines, unloaders, and computerized knife trimmers. Whatever your bindery equipment needs for cutting or cutting systems, Itoh has it. And LDR International has Itoh.
Examples of industrial strength finishing and binding machines: Itoh paper cutting machines include the eRC-DX (Robocut Series) of paper cutters featuring a TFT 8.4 inch LCD interactive display screen. This cutter, of paper, is CIP4-compatible. THe Itoh eRC-DX series of computerized paper cutters are an innovation ahead of their time in the print workflow industry for today and the near future. Another example of fine Itoh paper cutter is the RC-DX (Robocut) Series which comes in 4 sizes: 40-1/2 inches, 46 inches, 54 inches, and 63 inches. THe RM-DX (Robocut Monitor) for Paper cutters is comes with a built-in color compouter monitor for easier more accurate operation. The Ioth RU 4.0 and 4.1 Series of unloaders are not paper cutters, but they are unloaders and they are compact, highly efficient unloaders designed to stack up paper sheets on a pallet.
Shoei folders are a winning combination of the best computer technology and automation and folding machine technology in the world. With Shoei-computer assisted folding machines each measurement is automatically taken in seconds to minimize set up time. This increases folding productivity immensely. Shoei folders and pharmaceutical folding machines can easily and quickly adapt to short run jobs, jobs with diversified operations, without stopping. The computer controlled miniature folding system can be installed into any Shoeil folding machine regardless of the number of fold plates or size of the machine. No manual changeover is required for pharmaceutical folders by Shoei, nor any manual setting for the mini folding machines.
THe SM40 is a miniature folder that is ideal for folding B3 size stock, extra small folds, and for taking pharmaceutical and cosmetic package inserts. The SPT52-4KTT is a compact, computer assisted folder that is fully automatic (automated); a one-piece folder ideal for shops with limited space. It includes automatic size adjustment control and automatic roll pressure adjustment controls on the miniature folding machine. the SRT 74-6/4/4 is a multifunctional computer assisted 6-plate map folder with round feeder. It is Shoei's latest computer assisted miniature folder featuring a round feeder and it can use plates 74 cm maximum in width for a 6/4 map folding.
LDR International is the North American distributor for Japanese-manufactured Itoh Paper Cutters. Itoh Paper cutters are by far the best manufactured paper cutters on the market for professional printers and bindery shops. Itoh paper cutters can cut not only paper, but also PS plate, plastic sheet, aluminum board, laminated board, and more. Itoh can provide a customized guillotine to automatically cut the material at irregular angles (trapezoid). Besides paper cutters, Itoh also manufactures loaders, front-loading and side-loading machines, unloaders, and computerized knife trimmers. Whatever your bindery equipment needs for cutting or cutting systems, Itoh has it. And LDR International has Itoh.
LDR International is the oldest division of one-time Portland, Oregon-based Litho Development and Research. LDR International offers quality hardware for paper handling and finishing. LDR International is the exclusive North American importer and distributor of Itoh paper cutters, Kudo joggers, and Shoei folding machines. There products are distributed through a dealer network (#1 Network) and LDR's eight West Coast branches.
Our electronic prepress solutions include front-end workstations, OPI file servers, and prepress and pre-flight software, as well as scanners, copy dot scanners, imagesetters (such as those by ECRM, Monotype, and Screen, and Purup-Escofot), platesetters, computer-to-plate systems, proofing and wide-format plotters such as the Epson Stylus Pro 9000, and film processors. We provide service on our electronic prepress equipment, and prepress training.
Other of our electronic prepress solutions -- hardware and software -- include Fusion DFE digital workflow solution (PostScript imaging out to proofers, plotters, platesetters, and imagesetters), Xinet FullPress OPI workflow, file sharing, cross platform communications, Harlequin ICC profile processor and full color maanagement (HFCS) and Scriptworks RIP system; Also Flashnet and Webnative for backups across the network, various SGI (silicon graphics inc) server configurations including DLT jukeboxes, RAIDs, switches, battery and UPS backup systems. Various Screen boxes (filmsetters and film image plate setters). Now that's electronic prepress for you! Professional, commercial duty.
Computer to plate means that your computer to plate digital computer to plate files transfer directly to computer-to-plate aluminum plate at 2400 dpi or more or less (depending on the computer to plate CTP equipment you use). Computer to plate means you get to computer to plate press faster. You don't need to use non (CTP) computer to plate cameras nor non computer-to-plate (CTP) stripping work.
Direct-to-plate printing, also known as computer-to-plate printing, cuts out one of the steps involved in traditional printing. Traditional printing, aka offset lithography printing, produces film on an imagesetter. A metal plate (imagesetting plate) is made from that film.
It means no longer waiting for non computer to plate film in order to see computer to plate proofs. With computer to plate (CTP) technology, your computer-to-plate edits, computer-to-plate updates, (CTP) computer-to-plate reprints are effected with ease and speed compare to non computer to plate technology and non computer to plate processes as are the norm in pre computer to plate days and pre computer to plate converted printing shops. Computer to plate means computer to plate speed, CTP cost effectiveness and computer-to-plate accuracy. What are you waiting for? Get computer to plate technology now.
LDR International is a leading value-added source of electronic publishing solutions, equipment, and consumables for the graphic arts industry. For 37 years now, LDR International has been serving the graphics art sector with such products and services as presses, bindery equipment, consumables, inventory management, and environmental chemical compliance solutions (chemistries). LDR provides products, services, and solutions to the graphic arts and printing industry both nationally and internationally. Indeed, LDR is the largest graphic arts distributor on the West Coast of the United States.