Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), part of Barry-Wehmiller, has partnered with International Game Technology (IGT), a leader in gaming, to enhance its complex lottery instant ticket game printing process with PCMC’s ION digital printing technology.

In just seven months, PCMC’s digital print team – Eric Short, Fabio Girolami, George Safrany and Peter Kuschnitzky, along with Ben Klinter, who provided in-person start-up and operator training – delivered a complex high-speed ION inkjet system powered by Memjet’s DuraLink technology, with a Navigator front end from Xitron.

“PCMC’s ION inkjet print engine is built using DuraLink components,” says Kuschnitzky, PCMC’s digital print applications specialist. “We designed a multiple-wide duplex print engine, which prints at full speed, in full color. Because IGT is printing in variable data printing mode, no ticket is exactly the same.”

Meanwhile, Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc., a global inkjet ink technology partner to equipment manufacturers, integrators, and ink formulators, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the official opening of its first of two new facilities in New Castle, Delaware dedicated to the production of aqueous ink inkjet dispersions.

The New Castle site is Fujifilm’s first dispersion manufacturing facility in the US. The new facility, a $19 million investment, will create more than 21 new professional, managerial, engineering, and skilled labor jobs.

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