Graphics of the Americas:  Feb. 28 - Mar. 1, 2008, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, FL - Co-exhibiting with Exactbind at Booth No. 788

PMA07 Int'l Convention and Trade Show:  Mar. 8 - 11, 2008, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV - Co-exhibiting with Midwest Photographic at Booth No. T255

Graph Expo and Converting Expo 2008:   Oct. 26 - 29, 2008, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL -- Booth No. 4449

NORTH BILLERICA, MA ——  ImPress Systems, Inc. announced today that it is offering its Force 10 specialty printer to the security printing market.  This innovative, digital system has been sold since June 2002 for use in product decorating applications.

ImPress Systems was granted a United States patent for an Optical Security Image Printing System using its digital foil technology. Worldwide patents for the technology are pending. In security printing applications the technology allows for “one of a kind” holographic imprints to be determined and produced at the time of printing. By replacing the conventional hot stamp die with a digital print head, Force 10 offers a broad range of capabilities to produce a unique  foil “lay down” using standard Windows applications. Some examples of the possibilities include personalization, serialization, bar coding, and pattern change. The system is capable of both positive and negative (drop out) image printing within the same impression. 

NORTH BILLERICA, MA — June 10, 2003 —  ImPress Systems, Inc. announced today the introduction of Force 10L.   This innovative, digital system replaces the traditional printing processes currently used to decorate leather, vinyl, plastic, and paper items, including day planners and diaries, portfolios, presentation folders, book covers, signs, novelties and gifts, as well as commercial applications.  This larger version of Force 10, which was introduced last year, has been designed to decorate the spine of three ring binders and books.  Configured as a compact, desktop printer, Force 10L significantly reduces the direct and indirect costs of printing by eliminating costly set-up time, as well as the dies, screens, cliches, inks, and solvents used in traditional printing methods.  The system is cost effective for long, short, and personalized runs and applies any computer-generated text and graphics instantly.  Versatile, quiet, and environmentally friendly, Force 10L is safe, easy-to-use, and produces sharp, durable impressions on-demand.

The first on-demand cylinder printer, Cyclone, introduced in 2001, prints and decorates cylindrical items, including pens, pencils, cosmetic packaging for lipsticks and eyeliner pencils, flashlights, etc., as well as other commercial applications.

“We are very excited about the positive response to our innovative systems and our patented technology,” said Stephen L. Aroneo, president.  “Over the coming year, we will continue to introduce new configurations of our PC-based systems and feeders to advertising specialty, cosmetic packaging, and other finishing printers.”

NORTH BILLERICA, MA – September 30, 2001 –  ImPress Systems, Inc. was awarded the prestigious Worth-A-Look Award for its Cyclone On-Demand Digital Cylinder Printer at the Print 01 Show recently held in Chicago, Illinois. 

The Must See ‘ems and the accompanying Worth-A-Look winners were selected by a panel of leading industry consultants and trade magazines from over 200 nominations and highlighted the most compelling products, services, and exhibits at the show. 

“Every printer and converter should be aware of the evolving technologies encompassed by these award winners”, said William C. Lamparter, PrintCom Consulting and organizer of the program. 

Other Worth-A-Look winners in the variable imaging category included Xerox, Xeikon, Indigo, Hewlett-Packard, Canon, Océ.

NORTH BILLERICA, MA — September 6, 2001 —  ImPress Systems, Inc. announced today the introduction of Cyclone APS.   This innovative, digital system replaces the traditional printing processes currently used to print and decorate pens, pencils, markers, and a variety of similar cylindrical items. Designed to automate long, short, and personalized runs, the printer and integrated feeder is compact, easy-to-use, and can apply approximately 3000* variable, computer-generated text and graphic images per hour.

Cyclone, introduced earlier this year, is the first on-demand cylinder printer designed to eliminate costly set-up time, as well as the dies, screens, inks, clichés, and solvents necessary in hot stamping, silk screening, and pad printing.  Versatile, quiet, and environmentally friendly, both Cyclone and Cyclone APS significantly reduce the direct and indirect costs of printing. 

* Calculation based on printing an image ½” in length at a speed of .8” per second.

NORTH BILLERICA, MA. — January 2000 — ImPress Systems introduced Cyclone, a digital cylinder printer, at the Promotional Product Association Trade Show in Dallas, Texas. This on demand system replaces the traditional hot stamping, silk screening, and pad printing processes currently used to print on cylindrical items, including pens, pencils, cosmetic packaging for lipsticks and eye liner pencils, flashlights, etc., as well as industrial applications. The product will be available for sale in the second quarter of 2001.

 “This product is the first in a series of innovative digital specialty printing systems produced by ImPress,” said Stephen L. Aroneo, President.  “These systems represent a fundamental change in this industry and will replace the traditional printing methods which have been used for centuries.”

This ground-breaking technology offers advertising specialty, packaging, and other finishing printers easy-to-use, environmentally friendly, PC-based solutions that eliminate the need for printing tools, e.g., dies, screens, cliches, etc.  With both graphics and text capabilities, the turnkey systems reduce the direct and indirect costs of printing and are cost effective for long, short, and personalized runs.