Scodix has received a PIA InterTech Technology Award, for its Scodix Ultra Pro with Foil. It is the second for the company.
The annual PIA Intertech Award recognises technological innovation and excellence in the commercial printing industry.
Jim Workman, vice president Centre for Technology and Research, PIA, says, “The judges were struck by the distinctiveness of several applications on the Ultra Pro, such as its ability to produce braille text, crystals for product decoration, and dramatic holographic-looking 3D images.
“The use of product enhancement for high-end packaging and marketing has developed rapidly, in large due to the ability to apply foil and other enhancements in a completely digital workflow.”
Currie Group supplies Scodix in Australia. Roy Porat, chief executive, Scodix, says, "We are honoured to receive this award and proud of the impact Scodix Ultra Pro with Foil is reshaping our marketplace so quickly.
“For our customers' clients, it is transforming an ordinary marketing project into highly revered, and in many cases, award-winning, giving brands heightened appeal.”
The company says the Scodix Ultra Pro with Foil digital press transforms a time-consuming analogue and expensive process into a digital one, which enables printers and their customers to enhance their prints with vibrant foil treatments. Using the inline Scodix digital workflow, foil enhances any project in-house, instead of having to outsource the foil application, or to use makeready processes that include molds and dies.
With Scodix Foil, users can also apply variable data foiling. Scodix says this application is highly profitable, enabling users to personalise each print; either through variable names, as on collateral such as direct mail and greeting cards, or in variable patterns, allowing each sheet of foil to look completely different to the next.”
Scodix calls its Ultra Pro digital press the most productive enhancement production system available. Engineered for commercial printers and folding-carton converters, it produces enhancements for applications across marketing literature, stationery items, book covers, boxes and premium packages, greeting cards, and photo albums with VDP capabilities based on a barcode system.
As an option, the Scodix Foil Station offers high gloss and embossed foil enhancement capabilities in a variety of densities for short to medium runs. Scodix says its Foil deploys a range of hot and cold industry standard foil films, coupled with a variety of substrates, including offset, digital, plastics, laminated/non-laminated, and coated or without applications for business and greeting cards, folders, book covers, brochures, labels, and packaging.
Printing Industries of America will present the InterTech Technology Awards at its gala event held after the first day of the upcoming Print 2017 tradeshow in Chicago.
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