ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Illinois—SCREEN Americas announces the installation of the Truepress Jet520HD+ to Graphic Village of Cincinnati, Ohio. The company’s full-service printer, which has high-profile clients from the education, nonprofit, restaurant and healthcare industries, is installing the first continuous-roll-fed inkjet press. Installed in April 2023, the Truepress Jet520HD+ is expected to assume 20 percent of Graphic Village’s print production in direct mail, transactional, book publishing, and commercial applications.
Founded in 1921, Graphic Village employs 225 employees across four cities in the Midwest: Muncie, Louisville, Chicago, and Cincinnati—the company’s headquarters, where the SCREEN Truepress Jet520HD+ is located. Eric Kahn is the executive chairman of Graphic Village. He bought the company in 2013 and started investigating roll-fed technologies after investing initially in cut-sheets. In 2019, he met with SCREEN Americas during the Digital Packaging Summit and then in January 2020, he visited SCREEN Japan to explore a global partnership. Three years later he purchased the Truepress Jet520HD Series.
“SCREEN offers great technology at a great value,” said Kahn. “We are looking forward to assigning the HD to more programmatic work and plan to reserve our cut-sheet devices for the shorter runs. We believe this will make us more competitive.”
Kahn, who is eager to expand his business into new markets with the Truepress Jet520HD Series, has acquired a new client worth $1 million per year as a result of purchasing the Truepress Jet520HD. He expects the technology to eliminate bottlenecks in the facility’s workflow and increase speed-to-market capabilities as well as eliminate the need to hire multiple press operators.
Under Kahn’s leadership, Graphic Village has received several awards in printing excellence from Graphic Media Alliance, a graphic arts association serving Ohio, Michigan and northern Kentucky.