March 23, 2022
With bucket loads of things that can disrupt your business. Pat McGrew recommends a strategy to identify the mission-critical elements of your business and a set of plans to invoke to ensure your survival.
March 17, 2022
Is Inkjet Environmentally Unfriendly?
The focus on sustainability is gathering steam among consumers, print buyers and other organisations involved. The more surprising it is to see digital printing, specifically inkjet, being labelled not environmentally friendly by the Royal Mail.
March 8, 2022
February Inkjet Installation Roundup
Overall, 24 presses at 12 sites including five in the US, two in Germany and one each in Brazil, France, Netherlands, Sweden and UK.
March 2, 2022
Finishing Differentiates Your Opportunities
Finishing can be your differentiator, but you will have to think differently to make it fly. The goal is to find the things your customers want to buy and set a path to supply it.
February 24, 2022
Heliosonic: Inkjet Without Nozzles
Heliosonic proposes an inkjet process without nozzles in which a laser induces the jetting of drops. The advantage is that all kinds of inks can be used, from standard offset inks to specialty, functional inks.
February 23, 2022
High-Speed Finishing for High-Speed Inkjet
Learn about new unwind and rewind options, cutters, folders, stackers, perforators, stitchers, and wrappers, as well as full inline booklet makers and book manufacturing solutions for inkjet. While press manufacturers cranked up the speed on continuous presses and added sheetfed inkjet, the finishing vendors went into overdrive.
February 16, 2022
Kodak Introduces KODACOLOR Ink for Film-to-Fabric Printing
Film-to-Fabric, also known as Direct-to-Film or DTF, is an emerging technology that is seeing rapid adoption, particularly among custom t-shirt decorators. Read on to learn about KODACOLOR, new ink system for Film-to-Fabric (DTF) printing projects from Eastman Kodak and how garment decorators can take advantage of this system to grow their businesses.
February 10, 2022
Five Takeaways From Color22
Mike Todryk goes deeper into the Color22 event. Here are his five takeaways from Color22.
February 3, 2022
Gutenberg One – The Book of One Produced on Site
A professionally finished single book printed on location can be an attractive proposal for consumers. The Gutenberg One, a fully self-contained print & finishing solution, sets out to fulfill this promise.
February 1, 2022
Color Me Not Impressed – Preparing for Pantone Punt
Pantone discontinuing swatch updates from Adobe color libraries. Get ready. Get set. Get something else. Why this change matters to your inkjet design workflow, and steps you can take now to lock in the value of your existing color libraries for as long as possible.
January 25, 2022
Industry Leaders Talk Book Publishing & Inkjet
Industry publishing leaders Brooke Warner of She Writes Press and Kevin Spall of Scholastic share how inkjet is impacting book printing. Despite resistance to change among large publishers, inkjet and digital book volumes are growing. Paper and labor shortages have fueled digital adoption to get books to market faster.
January 20, 2022
Europe: Looking Back at 2021 and Forward to 2022
2021 was not quite what we expected, with paper shortages, transport issues, and cost increases disrupting the industry. Ralf Schlözer offers some lessons learned by the European printing industry and how to take advantage of them as we move into 2022.
January 19, 2022
What Makes an Inkjet Ink Sustainable?
Sustainability is getting more focus, but the print industry has yet to agree on a definition. So what makes an inkjet ink sustainable? This article looks at the different parameters to be considered. Perhaps sustainability goes beyond the ink itself…
January 18, 2022
What Print Means Today – Video
I’ve had the opportunity to interview Francis McMahon of Canon Solutions America several times over the past few years. Usually we are talking about technical progress and the market for inkjet. This time we had a long conversation about print in our every days lives and the overall economy.
January 11, 2022
December Inkjet Installation Roundup – 2021 Look Back
Our installation roundup this month includes a bonus look back at 101 inkjet buyers and their selected presses in 2021 in addition to coverage of December 21.
January 6, 2022
Going Green with Plant-Based Ink from Ricoh
Ricoh launched a plant-based ink, promising strong environmental benefits. The ink is available for integrators in packaging print and other markets.
January 4, 2022
Why Inkjet Fits Direct Mail Like a Glove
With new inks and technologies around the corner all the time, inkjet will continue to fit direct mail like a glove for years to come.
December 14, 2021
Replay – Reimagining Transaction Printing for Printers, Designers and Their Customers
Opportunities abound to design and produce better, more valuable customer communications when printers, designers and their mutual customers are all on the same page and understand the stakes. Check out our December webinar, Reimagining Transaction Printing for Printers, Designers and their Customers to learn more.
December 9, 2021
HP PageWide Industrial Looks Back at 2021
Elizabeth Gooding had the opportunity to catch up with Kris Albee, Global Marketing Strategist with HP PageWide Industrial to talk about their strong year with inkjet placements and volumes in 2021.
November 10, 2021
Optimizing the Book Supply Chain
BoD offers true book-of-one production with roll-fed inkjet and a dedicated online portal for authors and publishers. Moving the production site allows even for next day delivery to all book shops in Germany.
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