Remember our comparison environment from the previous post on graininess?
Offset vs. Inkjet- Measuring Print Defects For Perspective
The first in a series taking a measured approach to comparing offset and inkjet print quality.
Should Inkjet Be Compared to Commercial Print?
Mary does a bake off with a 200 lpi sheet-fed offset press against a continuous aqueous pigment inkjet press. She measures when she bakes.
Impress Without Leaving an Impression
Top reasons why inkjet is better than flexo for corrugated packaging.
Xaar Looking Toward The Future
A candid interview with John Mills of Xaar on strategy and changes to support industrial inkjet integrators and their customers.
Trends in Book Papers
Mary Schilling talks key attributes of book papers and some new paper releases for 2020.
Color Management and Shiny Things
As inkjet expands into more demanding markets it’s time to demand more from your color management tools.
Obsession With Inkjet
Back in 2017, Indie band OK Go, achieved a task like no other. Elaborately choreographing a 4-minute music video using 567 perfectly timed Canon inkjet desktop printers, creating a waterfall …
Cool Tools: Bringing You the World of Color
Have you ever wanted to hold a color globe just to systematically navigate between colors and explore how they blend into each other? Have you ever wanted to physically display the color wheels’ gradual relational value from any given color to the next? Inkjet Insight has been on a mission to find Cool Tools which make our lives easier. For printers to prepress and designers, there are tools and innovations which help with the processes or create a better understanding of our creative, colorful world.
Cool Tools 2: Creating Cross-Channel Color Schemes
Being efficient is what digital communication is all about. Helping save time and energy when designing for different media is an industry requirement that can be achieved through knowledge as well as finding cool apps and gadgets for designers.
Cool Tools: Selecting Color Schemes for Print
Whether you are working on direct mail or transaction printing, designing for ease of navigation and to deliver a clear message is just as important as the color scheme or graphics used. Each color carries a message or an emotion and will provoke a response. Choosing the colors to support the intended tone of the mailing is important – particularly when there is a call to action that needs emphasis.
Mills and Converters Deliver Inkjet Innovations
As the grand finale to an exciting Inkjet Innovation Week, I had the pleasure of hosting Bill Rojack, vice president of Midland Paper, to discuss “Innovation Foundations: Inkjet Paper and Specialty Media.” An analysis of the trends in the inkjet industry would not be complete without exploring advances in media that can save printers money or open new markets.
What’s Driving Innovation in Web-Fed Inkjet Systems?
A full recap of Inkjet Insight’s webinar presentation of “What’s Driving Innovation in Web-Fed Inkjet Systems?” OEMs are continually finding creative solutions to make the process easier and faster, while giving customers the ability to expand their portfolios and increase profits, learn more about these innovations.
Trend Knows Their Destination
We love printing companies who eat their own cooking. Learn how Trend Offset Printing put their inkjet environment to use on their own marketing leveraging data, creative design and extensive personalization. #inkjetinnovation
Shift Happens: Welcome to Print Conditions
Characterized Reference Printing Condition Profiles, or CRPC, are a 1-7 series of color ICC profiles based on paper type that defines the conversion between Adobe device CMYK values and the inkjet output device. These profiles are not newly released, so I am often surprised to find that people have not applied them to their workflows.
Shift Happens- Aligning Color Targets
When working to align color from design to print or printer to printer, ensuring the entire process is targeting the same color space is important. When we target a color …
Spreading Smiles Not Cooties
I now understand, why my dog is so excited to go outside or for car rides. Lately, I feel the same way. But wearing my custom mask helps me know I am protecting myself and others while bringing smiles in these changing times.
Label Production Delays—Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That
There is no time for delays in the ever-evolving COVID-19 world, especially when it comes to printing labels with important health and safety information. Digital and inkjet processes have provided a process which high speed and on demand labels can be produced without any delays in film or platemaking.
Banding Together to Support Healthcare Workers
With personal protective equipment in high demand to combat spread of COVID-19, Alliance Rubber Company is modifying their production and offering solutions.
Helping Designers Bring Bling to Inkjet
Mary Schilling helps a Chicago designer for Allison&Ivy tackle her first catalog project on inkjet. Learn about the designer’s questions and why the project was a success. Helping designers helps the industry.