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May 25, 2021

Sustainability and Production Print: The Players Adapting Materials and End-Use Products

Explore a sampling of brand sustainability goals and examples of packages that support brand sustainability goals from multiple industries including personal care, home furnishings and quick service restaurants.
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May 11, 2021

The Shape of Water

A close look at the Water Technology ink that was created for the Koenig & Bauer Durst Delta SPC 130 and the evolution of Durst.
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May 7, 2021

Monthly Inkjet Installation Roundup April

This month we learned of 13 new production inkjet installs with 10 in the US and 3 in Europe.
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May 5, 2021

Have You Walked Your Legacy Workflow?

The wrong time to discover that a legacy job no longer runs is when you are at the deadline.
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May 3, 2021

Innovation Interview – Taylor Buckthorpe Colordyne Technologies

Colordyne has evolved from a label OEM to a multi-application platform for strategic integration partners.
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April 20, 2021

What it Takes to Print Corrugated Packaging

Mark Bale kicks of a series of “what it takes” substrate challenges beginning with corrugated packaging from 2009 to today.
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April 19, 2021

Global Graphics Group Launches SmartDFE for Labels and Packaging

Designed to be the heart of a fully automated manufacturing system.
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April 15, 2021

Deep Dive: Inkjet Printing For Corrugated – Part 2

Ralf Schlozer examines considerations for investing in inkjet for corrugated packaging in the second part of a series.
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April 7, 2021

Effects of Paper on Brand Colors

Real world look at the impact of paper color on inkjet-produced brand colors from IWCO Direct.
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February 23, 2021

Inkjet Head Technology Explained – Replay

Our Inkjet Explainer series tackles fundamental components of inkjet and there is nothing more fundamental, yet often misunderstood, than the printhead.
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February 22, 2021

Inkjet for Corrugated Is Not Just for Short Runs

The use of production inkjet in corrugated production is ramping up at a pace of about 20% CAGR through 2025, according to Smithers. That growth includes both preprint and postprint corrugated, an important distinction, since many believe that digital print, and specifically inkjet, is only designed for short runs or on-demand applications.
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February 4, 2021

Impress Without Leaving an Impression

Top reasons why inkjet is better than flexo for corrugated packaging.
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December 23, 2020

Cost-Benefit Analysis – Lather, Rinse, Repeat – Video

In this video, Elizabeth Gooding provides her top reasons to look at the inkjet cost-benefit analysis in different ways and to repeat the process at multiple points in the life of your investment.
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December 22, 2020

2020 Launches: Inkjet Label & Packaging Printing

Here’s a handy round up of the major launched os inkjet label and packaging presses in 2020 from Ralf Schlozer.
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December 17, 2020

Continuous Inkjet Firmly Entrenched in Commercial Markets

Commercial printing is a large market with little digital penetration, providing green fields for the right inkjet technology. But what is the “right” technology?
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November 11, 2020

Hybrid and Bespoke Packaging Solutions: Using Component Technology Expands Print Options

Bespoke or “custom-built” solutions are moving print from a stand-alone process to become a part of the product manufacturing process.
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October 8, 2020

Unusual Inkjet Applications: “I Didn’t Think You Could Do that with Inkjet!”

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September 16, 2020

Webinar: “I Didn’t Think You Could Do that with Inkjet!”

Mary Schilling and Elizabeth Gooding will be talking about all the weird and wonderful things that are possible with inkjet. Expect lots of examples of cool applications and things you will want to know if you are thinking about branching out.
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September 15, 2020

Koenig Bauer Durst Joint Venture

Stemming from two well-known parent companies, the Koenig & Bauer Durst joint venture might be less well known. The company bundles the digital packaging print activities and has launched several interesting inkjet products for packaging print. This article gives some background on the joint venture and an overview on the activities.
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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.

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