Volume 5 • Issue 1
Buyers still need great quality, but print sourcing is no longer determined on quality alone. One’s ability to produce print efficiently with speed, flexibility and great quality is what brings value to understaffed and over-pressured buyers.
Experienced hands are retiring. It’s significantly easier to find and train employees for high-speed inkjet than it ever will be for offset. SCREEN technology is so automated, a single operator frequently runs more than one press.
One production process means fewer steps, less chance for error and more flexibility. Full-color personalization means your customer’s creativity is what drives the job. SCREEN’s high-speed inkjet solutions allow for short- to mid-run static jobs, book of one work and highly personalized direct mail campaigns while preventing excessive waste and avoiding costly overruns.
What’s your WIP look like? Too much Work-In-Process is a killer for you to get work out the door, meet deadlines, drive out costs and preserve your bottom line. SCREEN high-speed roll-fed inkjet enables digital finishing solutions that require multiple stages to be streamlined into one collaborative operation, driving touch points out of production.
For more than 100 years, paper didn’t need inkjet treatment. Why start now? SCREEN roll-fed inkjet presses don’t require paper with an inkjet treatment. Inkjet treatment chemistry not only adds costs, it softens and dulls the surface of the paper, complicating the downstream process.
SCREEN roll-fed inkjet automation increases revenue per employee. Jobs previously requiring multiple employees across different departments are now completed by one employee collapsing multiple steps into one smooth process. SCREEN inkjet press owners produce a wider range of work more efficiently at lower costs.
Another successful year is coming to a close for SCREEN Americas as it continues to provide inkjet solutions to those looking to increase capacity and gain an edge competitively. As time goes by, there are more and more compelling reasons to make the switch to inkjet. Some printers have off-loaded their conventional offset presses completely, while others have integrated inkjet technology into their pressrooms to complement their overall production.
Whether you’re fully seasoned in your inkjet journey or have yet to embark upon the path, SCREEN Americas remains committed to providing you with solutions to ensure your prosperity among an array of applications, be they direct mail, commercial, publishing, packaging or label production. We also continue to strengthen our partnerships with finishing companies so that you can seamlessly transition to digital roll-fed inkjet production with minimized interruption.
In this issue, you’ll hear from many SCREEN customers who have made the switch and have found no reason to turn back. Whether it’s because their skilled hands are retiring or they need faster turnarounds for their customers, these printers have found solutions to their challenges with SCREEN inkjet technology. We’re proud to say that one of these printers has been in book printing since 1906 and is carrying on its legacy with the Truepress JET 520HD mono.
We look forward to taking the inkjet journey with you.
Ken Ingram
SCREEN’s flagship label press, the Truepress LABEL 350UV SAI S has earned the Digital Press System Certification in the Inkjet category by Idealliance, the global leader for standards in the graphic arts industry. The technology is the industry’s first UV inkjet label technology to meet the CRPC7—Characterized Reference Printing Conditions—standard for print production using an extra wide color gamut.
The certificate, issued March 7, 2025, states that the Truepress LABEL 350UV SAI S meets or exceeds the established industry tolerances in the areas of colorimetric accuracy, uniformity, repeatability, durability and registration.
SCREEN Americas announces a newly established dealer partnership with Digital Print Solutions of Macedonia, Ohio, and recognized the partnership in a joint open house held on June 25, 2025. The alliance will help expand high-speed inkjet solutions to a broader spectrum of print providers looking to increase their production capacity and tap into new markets.
Digital Print Solutions, also known as DPS, is the largest, and one of the most reputable independent providers of production digital equipment to commercial printers in North America. DPS will bring awareness to SCREEN inkjet technology as being one of the most dependably engineered designs to accommodate any printer’s specified need for its commercial, publishing, direct mail, label or packaging applications.
Allen Filson assumed the newly created role of senior director of customer success for SCREEN Americas in March 2025. A printing industry veteran, Filson brings with him a wealth of experience in leadership and customer service that will enable him to fine-tune SCREEN Americas’ customer success strategy and take its commitment to service to the next level.
SCREEN GA launched the Truepress JET 520NX AD in January 2025 and unveiled the high-speed inkjet technology at Hunkeler Innovationdays in Lucerne, Switzerland, in February. The press reaches speeds up to 225 meters per minute.
The Truepress JET 520NX has had worldwide success since its launch in 2017. It continues to serve many transactional printers and direct mail marketers who value variable capabilities. The press also allowed the publishing industry to shift to a print-on-demand business model.
High-density, water-based pigment inks have been specially developed for the Truepress JET 520NX AD. The technology also supports SCREEN JetInspection, an instrument designed to detect errors during print production.
SCREEN Americas sponsored the annual Inkjet Summit in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, April 14–16, 2025, where several SCREEN customers participated in the summit’s panels including Kim Kunimoto of Weekley’s Mailing Service, Berea, Ohio; Eric Kahn of Graphic Village, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Melissa Mayotte of MOSAIC, Cheverly, Maryland.
Breakout sessions were busy for the SCREEN team as they met one-on-one with attendees looking to optimize their inkjet solutions for their high-speed commercial, direct mail, publishing, transactional, label and packaging applications.
Question: Name the built-in inspection system from SCREEN that performs the following:
Creative Digital Printing, also known as CDI, in Las Vegas, Nevada, added the Truepress JET 520HD to its 12,000 sq. ft. facility. The press is the union printer’s first high-speed, roll-fed inkjet press and comes in response to increased demand for book production.
CDI specializes in hardcover and softcover textbooks for educational institutions, industrial training programs and union organizations. With expanding order volumes, CDI’s cut-sheet digital presses were no longer fast enough to keep up with demand. The Truepress JET 520HD is expected to grow CDI’s customer base and increase its annual revenue by 27% in 2025.
Hulco Printers Inc. of Scott, Louisiana, installed the Truepress Jet L350UV in November 2024.
The press led the full-service printer to expand its label business and improve the local economy. Scott, just west of Lafayette, is the home of Cajun cooking—a culinary delight requiring bottles of sauces and seasonings.
Owner Obie Hulin took a show-and-tell approach to local businesses by putting a label made with the L350UV on a bottle and showing his prospects what their product could look like. His business approach worked; his client base grew and label production now accounts for 40% of the company’s overall print production.
KC Book Manufacturing, Kansas City, Missouri, recently increased its capacity with the installation of the Truepress JET 520HD mono. The press is now assuming 70% of the company’s production of short-run jobs for small- to mid-size publishers in the softcover market.
With the recent retirement of three skilled operators, the company needed a press that could easily be operated by one person. The installation led the book manufacturer to eliminate all its conventional offset equipment. What didn’t need to be discarded, however, was the web press’s leftover paper stock, which will have a new home on the Truepress JET 520HD mono.