Press Release Almanac: 12 June 2008
Keep up to date with the latest industry news, this week featuring a new release from Fujifilm and a deal between HP and Pantone.
Fujifilm Sericol Australia introduces Coldenhove Papier's new High Speed Formula Jetcol HTR 4000 Digital Transfer Paper
Exstream's Dialogue is First Enterprise Document Automation Software to License Pantone Colour Systems
Jetcol HTR 4000 140gsm digital transfer paper has long been recognised as the industry benchmark for it's printing stability and high transfer yield, particularly suitable for customers demanding the highest quality dye sublimation transfer paper.
Following the success of Jetcol's High Speed coating technology on 95gsm transfer paper, the same High Speed coating technology will become standard on the 140gsm Jetcol HTR 4000 transfer paper.
Maintaining it's unsurpassed transfer yields, superb evenness and printing stability, the Jetcol HTR 4000 "High Speed Formula" features drying speeds up to 4 times higher than regular transfer paper. This will provide significant benefits to digital dye sublimation printers, particularly for applications requiring heavy ink loads and deep, vibrant colours.
The improved Jetcol HTR 4000 High Speed paper will be available through Fujifilm Sericol Australia in widths of 1.118metres, 1.32metres and 1.62metres.
Exstream Software by HP has signed an agreement with Pantone, Inc., a leading provider of professional colour standards for the graphics, fashion, interior, and industrial design industries, to offer Pantone Matching System and Pantone Goe System capabilities with DialogueT 7.0, scheduled for general availability Q1 2009.
Dialogue will be the first enterprise document automation software to incorporate Pantone Colour capabilities in a digital environment. This announcement answers the demand for a wider range of precise colours on variable data business communications printed on Pantone-licensed digital colour devices including HP Indigo presses, which are capable of reproducing 97 percent of the Pantone Matching System and Pantone Goe System colours.
"The Pantone Colour Systems are the definitive international reference for selecting, specifying, matching, and controlling ink colours," said Andy Hatkoff, vice president of Pantone's Advanced Colour Technologies. "This licensing agreement will ensure business communications created using Dialogue provide a standard for colour control that gives print providers the ability to match corporate logo and brand identity colours specified by print buyers."
"Confidence in colour capabilities increases the range of business applications that can benefit from white paper workflow by eliminating the need for expensive colour critical pre-printed forms," said Scott Draeger, EDP, senior product manager for Dialogue. "With the incorporation of the Pantone Matching System and Pantone Goe System colours, Dialogue's already robust colour capabilities will bring managed colour to all personalised business communications, significantly reducing time that's wasted on manual colour adjustments at both the software and machine levels."