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May. 13, 2020

Inkjet Insight to Present Inkjet Innovation Week

As the world slowly emerges from quarantine and travel remains restricted, virtual events play a vital role in educating potential buyers and helping industry suppliers to showcase new offers and demonstrate industry leadership. With Inkjet Innovation Week, June 15-19, Inkjet Insight brings together internationally recognized analysts and experts with hands-on experience with inkjet print quality analysis, workflow design, and product design to highlight innovations that drive business.
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May. 13, 2020

Combining at the Fold – Komori Acquiring MBO

With MBO Komori is acquiring a solid post-press equipment manufacturer, having achieved sales of €51.7 million in 2018. This is helping to diversify the Komori product portfolio. MBO serves a fairly stable market as folding is an essential part of many print production processes regardless of using analogue or digital print. MBO can also be a door opener into printing companies Komori had no good access to before.
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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.
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May. 11, 2020

Multi-Dimensional Approach to Commercial Print Market – Video

Ricoh partners with commercial printing companies to drive requirements for their inkjet technology enhancements and business services. More than hardware is required to drive success.
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May. 07, 2020

Single Pass Inkjet – The Tension Between Jetting and Wetting

Surface tension of an ink is the second most important property you’ll see on ink specs, but there’s a solid reason for that when it comes to printing single-pass. It comes
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May. 06, 2020

The New Normal and Inkjet Printing

Every business innovates, solves problems and employs people. We are resilient and COVID-19 will not change that fact. Nevertheless, recovery from the pandemic will be highly irregular and uneven, requiring frequent pivots as the fluid print marketplace evolves to a new normal.
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May. 05, 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
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May. 04, 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.
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Apr. 28, 2020

Open Your Mind Up to Inkjet – John Gagliano – Vision – Video

John Gagliano, Executive Vice President with Vision shares an inkjet journey that began with selling outsourced inkjet jobs to grow volume and led to investment in state-of-the-art, high-volume production inkjet at the end of 2019.
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Apr. 28, 2020

Global Graphics Direct™Powers Faster, Wider, High Resolution Digital Presses

Direct™ unlocks the potential of digital presses by driving print jobs directly to the printhead electronics giving unprecedented speed and image quality. Released today, it is the first fully integrated product line from Global Graphics designed to be part of a fully automated print solution, supporting Industry 4.0 telematics and integration with digital press controllers and MIS systems.
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Apr. 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.
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Apr. 22, 2020

Putting the Pieces Together

Roger Serrette the Customer Experience Center Director for Ricoh USA shares with us how he is managing in quaratine.
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Apr. 22, 2020

Working with Virtual Support When Everything is on Lockdown

When that reliable, friendly face is no longer sitting in their office on your site, can’t travel, or is less available on the phone, what options do you have for getting the support you need? Ask your vendors about virtual support! It takes many forms. You may already be using some form of it, but make sure you are taking advantage of every option. 
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Apr. 21, 2020

Communicating Vital Information

Whether it is a website, email or direct mail campaign, catalog or postcard, always design with a purpose. Every word, color, font and material should have a purpose and intent.  They need to communicate your message. This is what separates good design from bad.
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Apr. 20, 2020

Global Strategy from my Living Room – Kevin Shimamoto

As the first members of the Inkjet Insight team began to shelter in place due to COVID-19, I asked them to share their personal stories. In our series “Profiles in
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Apr. 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.
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Apr. 15, 2020

Designer Opportunities: Prepare for New Markets in Inkjet

Mary Schilling provides an overview of the growing range of opportunities available to designers who understand the capabilities and constraints of inkjet printing.
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Apr. 14, 2020

Memjet Announces Unexpected Death of CEO Len Lauer

On April 13, Len Lauer, CEO of Memjet, passed away unexpectedly at his home in La Jolla, California. He was 62 years old. Lauer was named the CEO of Memjet in 2010 and assumed the role of Chairman in 2012. 
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Apr. 13, 2020

Relieving Pressure on Transaction Printers – Video

Mike Herold, Director Global Marketing, Production Inkjet Technologies at RICOH talks about the cost benefits that inkjet brought to the transaction printing industry over the past decade and the increasing pressure that transaction printers face as inkjet has evolved into new markets.
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Apr. 11, 2020

Inkjet Tip: Head Capping is Worth More than a Spit

If you intend to do a significant amount of mono printing on your inkjet device, check to see if the device caps the C,M,Y print heads when not in use. If head capping is not available, compare devices for the amount of ink wastage from CMYK spitting. Run test jobs and also check how this information is reported on estimating systems since they will be different.

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