September 1, 2020
We are living in unprecedented times. The silver lining is that times like this often force us to implement changes that we really should have made long ago. Let’s use this time to tighten up our own ship and “Be Prepared.”
August 19, 2020
Global Graphics Powers Miyakoshi’s High-Speed Digital Press
Japanese manufacturer looks to roll out Global Graphics’ technology across all digital presses
July 29, 2020
No Automation? Rules for Managing Manual Workflows
If end-to-end automation is not for you at this time, what can you do to optimize your efficiency? You can still look at the path of work through your shop and make a note of each stop it makes.
July 24, 2020
Koenig & Bauer Durst Announce Beta for VariJET 106 Press
Koenig & Bauer Durst GmbH has announced plans to bring the VariJET 106 to market. Launch plans include first beta site for new B1 VariJET press. Additional announcements include high performance possibilities available with Delta SPC 130 and CorruJET 170.
July 23, 2020
Mouvent Scaling up in Inkjet
For a young company, Mouvent has a remarkably strong heritage in digital printing. With the great flexibility and scalability of the Mouvent clusters it is no surprise that Mouvent is aiming for a much wider range of products such as folding carton, flexible packaging and corrugated.
July 8, 2020
Domino Entering Corrugated Postprint with the X630i
In June Domino introduced the X630i, its first digital inkjet product offering for corrugated. Domino joins an increasingly crowded field of post-print cut-sheet inkjet presses for corrugated. Get an overview of this new offer and an overview of the current corrugated field.
July 7, 2020
The Felix Schoeller Group Has Created New Scope for Individual Label Solutions with ATTRACT
Release Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Press release from the issuing company New facestock materials produce unusual finishes and high-quality haptics The Osnabrück-based Felix Schoeller Group, manufacturer of a wide
July 1, 2020
ColorGATE Announces New Solutions & Services
ColorGATE, a leading vendor of powerful software and hardware solutions for color critical digital printing applications, has announced the release of three new solutions and services: Productionserver 20, ColorGATE Custom Create, and Color Management Services.
June 30, 2020
Konica Minolta Announces AccurioJet KM-1e B2+ LED UV Inkjet Press
Konica Minolta announced the AccurioJet KM-1e digital color B2+ sheetfed LED UV inkjet production press, continuing its accelerated growth path within the industrial print market.
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 25, 2020
Miyakoshi Flexes Its Packaging Muscles
Miyakoshi Printing Machinery Co., Ltd. (Miyakoshi), launched the MJP30AXF web-fed digital inkjet press focused on the short-run, flexible packaging market.
June 24, 2020
Packaging Innovation – Inside Out with Inkjet
Last week, David Zwang, Editor of WhatTheyThink and Mary Schilling, Partner at Inkjet Insight provided an overview of new and exciting developments coming to market that address packaging during Inkjet Insight’s Inkjet Innovation week. Here’s an overview of top trends and market entrants in all segments of inkjet for packaging.
June 17, 2020
Miyakoshi Announces the Official Launch of Water based Inkjet Digital Press for Flexible Packaging
Miyakoshi Printing Machinery Co., Ltd. (Miyakoshi), a market leader of innovative, state-of-the-art printing and packaging solutions, today announced the official launch of its new inkjet digital press for flexible packaging, the MJP30AXF during Inkjet Innovation Week.
June 16, 2020
HYBRID Software formula for success: F ~ i4.0 * C-squared
HYBRID Software has introduced a number of new revolutionary features to its product line of automated production workflow, advanced editing, customizable job ticketing, customer-facing e-commerce portals and version control for critical production files.
April 23, 2020
Single Pass – Going with the Inkjet Flow
When it comes to print heads, the viscosity influence can be critical to the reliability of operation. To understand this, Mark Bale demonstrates in part two of his single pass series.
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 28, 2020
The Top 4 Drying Methods for Inkjet
Just as there are many types of inkjet printheads and ink, there are many types of processes for inkjet drying. Most printers combine several processes to create a drying solution. Ralf Schlozer discusses the fundamental factors related to drying in document and packaging printing environments including absorption, phase change, radiation and evaporation. It’s dry – but important.
October 31, 2018
The Value in OEM Inkjet Inks
Have you ever wondered why it is difficult to find 3rd party ink suppliers for production inkjet devices? Mark Bale discusses the pros and cons of OEM supplied inkjet inks versus 3rd party and the key questions to ask if considering working with 3rd-party ink developers.
December 8, 2017
Skew the Gamut
Mary Schilling recently wrote about different approaches to matching Pantone colors on production inkjet. We got an interesting note from one of our UK readers, David Albin, who suggested that forcing
June 1, 2017
Understanding Linearization
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