June 14, 2022
Sean Smyth kicks off a series on continuous inkjet efficiency. In part 1 he interviews press OEMs on the use-cases and benefits of non-stop winding solutions for customers.
June 8, 2022
Hardening Data Driven Print – Part 2
While you may not consider your business a likely target, talk to your peers the next time you get together. You’ll find that many printing companies have already been targeted with malware and ransomware. We get practical and build some actionable guidelines for data protection.
June 1, 2022
Hardening Data Driven Print – Part 1
Hardening is a process that IT and cybersecurity people use to guard against threats like malware and ransomware, but also to ensure that customer data remains unexposed as it is gathered, processed, used in business applications, and included in customer-facing communications.
May 19, 2022
Value Stream Mapping in Inkjet. Finding the Easy Win
The economics make inkjet attractive for short to medium runs, with the inherent flexibility and variable content capability valued by print companies and their customers.
May 5, 2022
Coating and Varnishing for Inkjet
Coating & varnishing can add value to a print and is often used in commercial print. However, adoption in inkjet still lags. This articles looks at the reasons behind, changes in adoption and markets for growth.
April 27, 2022
How to Build Sustainability into Your Strategy – Part 2
Inkjet printing and marking technology in late-stage manufacturing has been around for decades, enabled by the integration of print modules within the manufacturing environment.
April 20, 2022
How to Build Sustainability into Your Strategy – Part 1
In the print industry, sustainability is often equated with the creation, use, and recycling of substrates, but there are many other elements to consider.
April 7, 2022
In-Line Control for Inkjet
In-line quality control is a important step to automate print production and for short run inkjet printing it is especially crucial to minimise waste and interruptions. The article looks at strategies for in-line control options and gives an outlook.
March 9, 2022
2022 Outlook for Digitally Printed Labels
Digitally printed labels continues to be a growing market for inkjet. To dig into the potential for inkjet in the label market, we interviewed industry experts Catherine Heckman, President of the Tag and Label Manufacturers Association (TLMI); Paul Lender, of Avery Dennison and Gianluigi Rankin from Michelman.
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 9, 2022
There’s a Wizard in my Ear – And That’s Good!
Just about every vendor has or is working on solutions that make it easy to interact confidently with their technicians using virtual and remote solutions. They are only half of the equation. What’s the other half?
January 31, 2022
Solimar Systems and RISO Announce their Strategic Partnership
Providing Customers with Enhanced Workflow Processes for Digital Inkjet Printing
January 27, 2022
The Wizards Are Coming to A Machine Near You – and That’s Good!
Even with the training and documentation at hand, the processes, procedures, and parts orientations on large inkjet machines can be confusing.
January 26, 2022
Download: Improving Operations and Profitability with Thermal Inkjet Technology
Learn how printing companies in packaging, coding & marking, direct mail and more are expanding the substrates they can print on and commanding premium pricing using thermal inkjet technology. Free download.
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 12, 2022
Wizardly Workflow Guidance for 2022
Automation, integration, and education are your three missions for 2022. Evaluate where you are and start moving toward a more optimized workflow to unlock maximum margin from every job.
January 5, 2022
Wild Workflow Learnings of 2021
During 2021 we have seen interest in workflow automation grow from several directions.
December 14, 2021
An Inkjet Workflow Retrospective
Despite the challenges of 2021, annual reviews are essential to finding a path to continue to grow. For some companies that path included new investments.
December 7, 2021
10 Minute Tip – Wind it up and Splice it
Looking at how avoiding a single paper change per shift could save a bunch of downtime and dollars over the course of the year. But how do you do that?
December 1, 2021
Imposing Workflows – Part 1
To create optimized imposition processes today there are a host of choices that take the math and design aspects of imposition out of the hands of the prepress team and put it firmly in the hands of imposition engines
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