{"id":13711,"date":"2014-05-05T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.signmedia.ca\/?p=13711"},"modified":"2014-05-05T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T12:30:08","slug":"cober-open-house-showcases-evolving-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.signmedia.ca\/cober-open-house-showcases-evolving-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cober open house showcases evolving solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signmedia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/HP_Indigo_10000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13712 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.signmedia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/HP_Indigo_10000-500x299.jpg\" alt=\"HP_Indigo_10000\" width=\"255\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>Cober Evolving Solutions, a print-service provider (PSP) in Kitchener, Ont., held an open house on April 24 to showcase the first HP Indigo 10000 digital press installed in Canada, among other expanded in-house capabilities and new departments.<\/p>\n<p>The company ordered the press (pictured, above) in 2013 to add poster-size output for highly customized marketing materials and to shorten lead times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis press will let us take on projects we would not have otherwise been able to do,\u201d says president Peter Cober (pictured, left), whose grandfather Vernon L. Cober started the business in 1916. \u201cIt\u2019s a game-changer in terms of time to market.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.signmedia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_7783.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13847 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.signmedia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_7783-500x755.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_7783\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s existing wide-format department, established over the past few years, operates HP Scitex LX850 and FP700 printers with an Esko Kongsberg i-XP 24 digital cutting table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to outsource wide-format graphics,\u201d says Cober. \u201cNow we do lots of banners and real estate signs in-house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company has also expanded its sign printing capabilities further by acquiring Kempenfelt Group and Kempenfelt Wideformat in Barrie, Ont., which use vinyl cutters and an Agfa Titan printer, among other equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s gotten us into screenprinting and display fabrication,\u201d Cober says. \u201cIt\u2019s been a good alignment of cultures, as they were a family business too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cober Evolving Solutions, a print-service provider (PSP) in Kitchener, Ont., held an open house on April 24 to showcase the first HP Indigo 10000 digital press installed in Canada, among other expanded in-house capabilities and new departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37,10,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wide-format-printed-graphics","category-innovations","category-installations","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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