04.08.16
Pazazz Printing, a Montreal-based full-service print provider, has acquired the first Xerox iGEN 5 press equipped with both the optional extended color gamut and the optional capability to print on thick stock. Pazazz Printing’s capabilties include UV offset printing, digital printing, wide format printing, and labels and packaging.
According to Warren Werbitt, founder and CEO of Pazazz Printing, this new press will allow the company to expand its product mix, particularly with short-run packaging. Moreover, it will improve and enhance color quality at Pazazz, who says it’s the first and only printer in Canada to achieve Pantone Certification for color printing.
The iGEN 5’s extended color gamut is enabled by a fifth toner station that supplements CMYK with orange, green or blue to match a wider variety of spot colors, including up to 90% of the Pantone Plus Coated library. The thick-stock capability allows the iGEN 5 to feed, image and stack media as thick as 24 points. The new press was installed in November 2015. Werbitt comments, “The first time I compared an image printed on the iGEN 4 with four colors to the same image printed with five, I almost lost my marbles,” he says. “The fifth color made it so much more vibrant. The iGEN 5, with its additional pigments, thicker stock, and the larger sheet size, really made it the right choice. It helps us stay ahead of the curve.”
According to Warren Werbitt, founder and CEO of Pazazz Printing, this new press will allow the company to expand its product mix, particularly with short-run packaging. Moreover, it will improve and enhance color quality at Pazazz, who says it’s the first and only printer in Canada to achieve Pantone Certification for color printing.
The iGEN 5’s extended color gamut is enabled by a fifth toner station that supplements CMYK with orange, green or blue to match a wider variety of spot colors, including up to 90% of the Pantone Plus Coated library. The thick-stock capability allows the iGEN 5 to feed, image and stack media as thick as 24 points. The new press was installed in November 2015. Werbitt comments, “The first time I compared an image printed on the iGEN 4 with four colors to the same image printed with five, I almost lost my marbles,” he says. “The fifth color made it so much more vibrant. The iGEN 5, with its additional pigments, thicker stock, and the larger sheet size, really made it the right choice. It helps us stay ahead of the curve.”