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July 22, 2021

Ink Estimating Challenges and Work-Arounds

Estimating in any print business can be a challenge, but inkjet users face a level of variability that users of other print technology don’t. Ink costs represent a large percentage of job costs and  the level of ink use varies widely.
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June 30, 2021

Batching Jobs for Efficiency: Watch the Gotchas

Batching jobs keeps your press running more efficiently but there are a few hurdles to get over to reap the benefits.
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June 7, 2021

May Inkjet Installation Roundup

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May 12, 2021

ColorStream 8000 – Welcome to the Canon Inkjet Family

With the ColorStream 8000 Canon plans to build on the strengths of the previous generations, while expanding the application range and productivity.
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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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April 1, 2021

Solimar Systems and Kyocera Document Solutions Europe’s Partnership to Provide More Efficient Digital Inkjet Production

The collaboration provides a comprehensive workflow solution to maximize the efficiency and productivity of their Kyocera TASKalfa Pro 15000c inkjet production printer.
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March 23, 2021

Wolverine Solutions Group: A Split Shop Comes Together

Wolverine Solutions Group shares their experience working with both aqueous and UV inkjet for transaction printing and direct marketing.
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March 17, 2021

Pivoting to Inkjet with Direct Technologies

Richard Hawes of Direct Technologies shares an inkjet journey that delivered $13 million in new revenue along the way.
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March 10, 2021

Transformations Series: Polaris Direct

In this installment of the Transformations interview series, Joe Maloy of Polaris Direct, discusses how inkjet transformed not only Polaris, but the way their marketing clients approach customer programs.
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March 2, 2021

3 Trends Driving Direct Mail ROI

The evolution of programmatic and trigger based marketing mail has accelerated with inkjet. Get the proof points from Polaris Direct, Data Axle and Postalytics.
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February 25, 2021

Does Inkjet Really Need to Go Faster?

High speed inkjet already outstrips most sheetfed offset. With run lengths falling, do we really need to go faster?
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January 7, 2021

Large Format Printing on Page-Wide Inkjet Presses

Posters, banners, signage – there is a large group of print applications that are based on a large format, unfolded sheet and usually printed single sided. Admittedly, what exactly constitutes a “large format” is up for discussions.
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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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November 13, 2020

Light & Mid-Production Inkjet – Low Glamour High Value

Ralf Schlozer provides an overview of the light-to-mid production inkjet devices making an impact in the European market.
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October 15, 2020

Full Circle with Toppan Merrill

Interview with Mike Zimny of Toppan Merrill on serving clients and staying nimble with inkjet. Part of our “lane changers and game changers” interview series.
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October 8, 2020

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

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October 8, 2020

How Current Printing Industry and Inkjet Technology Trends are Impact Mailing Operations – Webinar

WhatTheyThink’s Richard Romano and Inkjet Insight’s Elizabeth Gooding teamed up for an overview of the impact of inkjet on the mailing industry at the MCS Mail Manufacturing Summit.
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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 16, 2020

COVID and the Message that Cried Wolf

With full color production inkjet, advanced composition, and customer facing message management tools readily available, sophisticated variable messaging is not a technical challenge. The problem is that companies have been teaching their customers to ignore the message areas for years, and now they need them to pay attention.
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August 6, 2020

Cutsheet Inkjet in Europe

In previous editions of this series I wrote about the main applications production inkjet is being used for, focusing mostly on roll-fed inkjet – the dominant production method so far. This is different for cutsheet inkjet, which is far more versatile and is used across a number of applications.

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