xpedx Expands House-Branded Vector Printing Papers Line for DI Presses.PHILADELPHIA -- Continuing its drive to provide printers across the U.S. with the widest choice of high quality, value-priced printing papers, xpedx today announced it has expanded its line of Vector DI Coated Offset papers for DI (direct imaging) offset presses. The smooth, high brightness text and cover coated printing papers are available in gloss and matte finishes for a wide variety of printing jobs on DI presses manufactured by Ryobi and other major DI press manufacturers worldwide. xpedx has issued a new swatchbook and print demonstration for the Vector DI Coated Offset papers line. The swatchbook shows off the papers in CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK) The color space used for commercial printing and most color computer printers. In theory, cyan, magenta and yellow (CMY) can print all colors, but inks are not pure and black comes out muddy. , tritone tri·tone n. Music An interval composed of three whole tones. [Medieval Latin tritonus, from Greek tritonos, having three tones : tri-, three; see , duotone Du´o`tone n. 1. (Photoengraving) Any picture printed in two shades of the same color, as duotypes and duographs are usually printed. and grayscale In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. Displayed images of this sort are typically composed of shades of gray, varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest, though in . The line, available in many xpedx locations and at xpedx.com now, will be available across the xpedx network later this summer. The xpedx house branded Vector line features a broad array of coated and uncoated printing papers for every day use by printers. Other Vector products are Vector Multi-Purpose Paper, Vector Laser Cut Sheets, Vector Computer Paper and Vector Copier Tabs. Vector complements the wide range of branded papers offered by xpedx for every level of price and quality. All Vector papers are precisely sheeted and have been widely tested on major OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and printing equipment, including laser and inkjet printers, plain-paper fax machines, high-speed copiers and DI offset presses. About xpedx and its businesses Loveland, Ohio-based xpedx, an International Paper (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IP) company, is North America's largest marketer and distributor of printing papers and graphics supplies and equipment. It is also a large distributor of packaging supplies and equipment and facilities supplies and equipment. xpedx has more than 7,000 employees in 250 locations in the U.S. and Mexico. Major customers include commercial printers, publishers, manufacturers, retailers, facility managers and companies across many industry segments. In addition to delivering the world's largest offering of printing papers from a single source, xpedx provides graphics professionals with advanced digital prepress equipment, hardware and graphics software, Ryobi presses and digital workflows, color management tools, finishing, bindery and packaging systems. xpedx also offers detailed operations analysis, advice and financing to help make a customer's printing operations more efficient and profitable. xpedx is one of the largest providers of post-consumer waste content and recycled printing papers in North America. It offers the greatest variety of Forest Stewardship Council The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a non-profit organization based in Bonn, Germany. The Council's stated mission is "to promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world's forests". (FSC FSC See: Foreign Sales Corporation ) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative The Sustainable Forestry Initiative is a program to certify forests to insure they are being managed in a sustainable manner. SFI was started in 1994 by members of the American Forest and Paper Association. (SFI SFI Sustainable Forestry Initiative (forest certification program of AF&PA) SFI Santa Fe Institute (scientific research in Santa Fe, New Mexico) SFI Science Foundation Ireland SFI Six Figure Income ) certified papers in the U.S. Other xpedx owned-and-operated businesses include New York-based Bulkley Dunton, Lenexa, KS-based xpedx Printing Technologies/Ryobi, the xpedx National Technology Center (NTC), a pre-press laboratory and demonstration center based in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as a network of 140 retail paper stores in 32 states that operate under the names xpedx Paper & Graphics, xpedx Paper Store, If It's Paper and Arvey Paper & Office Products. xpedx also operates one of the largest business-to-business e-commerce sites, xpedx.com, and is the exclusive, full-line importer and distributor of Ryobi printing presses in the U.S. xpedx also operates suiteshoponline.com for graphics professionals. During On Demand 2006, visit xpedx representatives at Booth 2857. Editor's Note: xpedx is spelled all lower case. |
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