March 29, 2023
Inkjet color may be more consistent than any other print process, but it still needs regular checkups to maintain top pop.
March 28, 2023
Products and Fabrics for Inkjet Textile Printing
This article is the third in a series on inkjet for textile printing intended to help companies not involved in textile printing to evaluate market opportunities. This article will address basic fabric requirements and their preparation for inkjet printing.
March 23, 2023
Shopping for Inkjet at Hunkeler Innovation Days
Attendees at the Hunkeler Innovation Days conference were motivated to seek new solutions to address their labor challenges. Their goals were: improving automation, simplifying workflow, improved throughput, and decreasing manufacturing time.
March 22, 2023
Making Money: Profit Takes More than Revenue
Controlling costs is essential to any business, but there is more to ending the year profitably. Find the data that can help you make the best decisions about what products to offer in the markets you serve, and then review a key set of performance indicators regularly.
March 21, 2023
The Changing Face of Pantone Colors and Branding
Adobe’s changes to Pantone color library management has caused confusion and paved the way for new tools and new ways to define brand colors and systems. Learn how IWCO has responded.
March 15, 2023
2023 Inkjet Shopping Guide for Flexible Packaging Presses
This shopping guide is intended to give a high-level overview of flexible packaging presses available or announced.
March 14, 2023
Don’t let good business go bad
This episode of the “things to do better” series looks at the joys of customer onboarding and maintenance and why it’s so hard to get development estimates.
March 9, 2023
Picking Inkjet Winners Through 2027
A look at growth segments and growth drivers for inkjet presses through 2027.
March 7, 2023
Innovations in Ink Expand Inkjet Printing Possibilities
The ability to print on a wider variety of substrates is a significant unmet need for inkjet users. This article explains why this is such a difficult challenge for many application segments an how ink technology is making strides in some markets.
March 6, 2023
Hunkeler innovationdays 2023 – inkjet reaching maturity
The Hunkeler Innovationdays event evolved from an open house for web finishing into what is arguably the most important event for high volume digital printing.
March 2, 2023
February 2023 Inkjet Installation Roundup
Our February report covering the tail end of 2022 into 2023, includes 12 presses in the US and 10 in Europe (plus 3 oldies from 2020 and 2021). We are finally seeing web-fed installations on par with sheet-fed after 7 months of reporting a tilt toward sheet-fed.
February 28, 2023
2023 Inkjet Shopping Guide for Corrugated Presses Part 2: Pre-Print Plus
Continuing our coverage of inkjet for corrugated, the second part in this shopping guide offers a high-level overview of the corrugated post-print devices available plus a few alternative approaches to corrugated print.
February 23, 2023
Products and fabrics for inkjet textile printing
Part 2 in a deep dive into inkjet for textiles: a look at how the intended end-use drives fabric and process choices
February 21, 2023
2023 Inkjet Shopping Guide for Post-Print Corrugated Presses
High-volume production inkjet is still relatively new to the corrugated printing industry. However, the choices are already plentiful. This shopping guide is intended to give a high-level overview of the corrugated post-print devices available.
February 16, 2023
3 Inkjet Workflow Pain Points – 1 Answer Part 2
In Part 2 the focus turns to Paper and Capital Investments. In the world of inkjet, these are essential elements to understand and control. Let’s reduce the friction to allow the inkjet devices to be as productive as possible. Leverage your data to make good decisions.
February 15, 2023
Multi-faceted decision criteria drives inkjet and offset investments
Book and magazine printer, Maracle evaluates new digital, inkjet and offset to support growth. Workflow automation drives significant reductions in labor, time to market and paper waste complicating the TCO analysis between offset and inkjet decisions.
February 14, 2023
Opportunities with single-pass dimensional inkjet print
Several companies offer tactile embellishment systems already and the market interest has been quite high. However, as multi-pass systems, they require some time to build up sufficient thickness.
February 8, 2023
3 Inkjet Workflow Pain Points, 1 Answer – Part 1
In this series we look at three of the top inkjet workflow pain points and paths to reducing the friction they cause with one technique that pays off. It starts with data but doesn’t end there. Data requires analysis and interpretation.
February 7, 2023
Understanding inkjet for textile printing
This article is the first in a series on inkjet for textile printing. It is intended for companies not currently involved in textile printing other than signage.
February 3, 2023
January 2023 Inkjet Installation Roundup
In January(ish) we are reporting on 15 press installations at 14 companies, down slightly from December. The pendulum has swung back to the US with 9 in the US, 4 in EU and 2 in UK as compared to December where we reported on 17 press installations with 12 of them in Europe and only 3 in US.
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