Highcon’s Revolutionary Laser-cutting Ability Expands Company’s Options for Unique Print and Packaging Solutions
Rolling Meadows, IL - September 11, 2017 -
Komori America Corporation announces that Impress Communications has purchased a Highcon® Euclid III for its Chatsworth, CA facility. It is the first installation of a Highcon Euclid III in the West. Komori America and Highcon, a global provider of digital cutting and creasing solutions, entered a strategic selling agreement in late 2016. Komori America now sells and supports the entire Highcon product line as part of its overall strategy to create new value for its customers with the ability to effectively connect various processes to Komori’s diverse functions with the latest technologies.
Impress Communications designs and produces a variety of materials, from high-end product brochures to complex packaging to point-of-purchase displays. The company is the home of three specialized Komori sheet-fed printing presses, an eight-color Lithrone S40P with double coater and Komori’s proprietary H-UV™ system, a six-color Lithrone SX29 and four-color Lithrone S40P, both equipped with H-UV. The Highcon Euclid III complements Komori’s advanced printing systems with its ability to remove bottlenecks in the post-press process. Additionally, it delivers increased design flexibility by offering a wide range of applications that include unique packaging solutions, intricate cutouts, etching, unique scoring capabilities and 3D modeling.
“We are extremely excited about the Highcon’s capabilities, and even more excited for the true innovations that will be realized once our customers can bring their full creativity to bear on the near limitless possibilities,” said Paul Marino, president, Impress Communications. “Having the ability to precisely cut out intricate patterns, which would otherwise be impossible to achieve with traditional steel rule cutting dies, makes it possible for us to envision every job from a new perspective given the immense impact laser die-cutting brings to a design.”
“The versatility of the Highcon Euclid III adds further value to innovation inherent in the Komori presses. We are confident its broad design flexibility will support Impress Communications in providing customers eye-catching products that stand out in a crowded marketplace,” said Ron Kukla, Highcon’s sales director for the Americas.
“Komori is committed to offering solutions that provide the flexibility, innovative applications and faster time to market necessary today to succeed,” said Jacki Hudmon, senior vice president of new business development for Komori America. “We are looking forward to seeing the unique applications they will be able to produce when combining the advanced technology of our Komori presses with the versatility of the Highcon.”
About Komori America Corporation
Tokyo-based Komori Corporation, a premier manufacturer of printing solutions, provides excellent technology especially suited for today’s highly competitive printing marketplace. Delivering a high level in print quality coupled with impressively fast makeready and open systems architecture, Komori presses help printers achieve the higher productivity and efficiency levels essential for increased margins and business growth. Komori America Corporation headquarters are in Rolling Meadows, IL with sales and service organizations throughout North America.
About Highcon
Founded in 2009 by Aviv Ratzman and Michael Zimmer, Highcon developed a truly innovative digital cutting and creasing solution that is transforming the post-print market. Highcon now offers converters, printers and trade finishers a product portfolio that covers a wide range of formats, substrates and applications: from general commercial and packaging products to variable data cutting, 3D modeling and an online web-to-pack solution. The Highcon solutions replace the expensive and slow conventional die making and setup process with a digital technology that bridges the gap between design creativity and production capability, delivering improved responsiveness, design flexibility and the ability to perform a wide range of applications in-house. Highcon products are installed at customer sites