December 1, 2020
Trends in Book Papers
Mary Schilling talks key attributes of book papers and some new paper releases for 2020.
Mary Schilling writes about technical inkjet industry articles, provides RIP and workflow training, manages print quality analysis evaluation, ink management and color management for OEM’s and end users for pre and post machine installs. Mary Schilling consults with paper mills, fluid and inkjet machinery suppliers on how to improve color and print quality for high speed and industrial inkjet involving paper, plastics, metal, fabric and glass with UV and aqueous inkjet fluids. This experience led her to receive Innovator of the Year awards from the Flexographic Technical Association and from Xplor International for her efforts in closing the gap between inkjet printing for document, and digital corrugated packaging. She is the owner of Schilling Inkjet Consulting, Published Author and Certified ColorGate Color Trainer and Distributor. Her latest published works can be found www.thinkforum.com/bookstore
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November 23, 2020
Color Management and Shiny Things
As inkjet expands into more demanding markets it’s time to demand more from your color management tools.
September 8, 2020
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
August 26, 2020
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.
August 4, 2020
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.
July 28, 2020
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.
June 26, 2020
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.
June 22, 2020
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.
June 16, 2020
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
May 12, 2020
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.
May 5, 2020
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
May 4, 2020
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.
April 16, 2020
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.
April 9, 2020
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.
April 8, 2020
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.
March 17, 2020
Cool Stuff: Inkjet as Unique as a Unicorn
Unicorn Graphics began in New York as a humble calendar printer in 1985 and has expanded into a multi-million-dollar creative print company offering a wide array of printed products.Looking beyond inkjet technology as a print service, Unicorn Graphics is bringing product, and product customization, to market using material which we don’t normally don’t think about printing on. Get ready to see some cool stuff.
February 12, 2020
Cool Stuff: Inkjet Makes a Grand Entry
Inkjet has entered our homes in many ways. From flooring and wallpaper to tile and upholstery, inkjet print technology has touched just about every point in our personal lives. There seems to be no limit to the ability to personalize the interior of our homes and make them one of a kind. But, why limit the personal touch to the interior?
January 29, 2020
Profiling with Primers and Coatings
In the previous post How to Make an Inkjet Sandwich I talked about the potential different ways that ink can react to a substrate when used in combination with other fluids such as primers or post-coatings. Those interactions make it critical to optimize all the fluids for your entire process, prior to linearization and profiling, to avoid print defects such as color to color bleed and coalescence.
January 29, 2020
Get Skin in the Game When Educating Customers
At Inkjet Insight, we are all inkjet. So, when we come across different inkjet applications, we want to experience it and dissect the product ourselves. Most often we are visiting
January 13, 2020
New Year, New Opportunities with 3D Scanning
The METIS 3D Scanner creates opportunities for designers and printers think outside the box and expand creative applications for all print markets. Being able to reproduce 3D texture reproductions with existing UV printing equipment or providing scanning services for CGI/PBR (computer-generated imagery/physical based rendering) applications allows designers to not only visualize but customize and develop 3D patterns.
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