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December 23, 2020

2020 Production Inkjet Launch Review

Updates on all 2020 production inkjet press launches serving the document and publishing market, when announced, when commercially available and important development trends.
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November 17, 2020

PrintMail Pro and Canon’s Project 360 Program

Texas-based PrintMail Pro shares their experience transitioning from toner to inkjet with support from Project 360
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October 21, 2020

Lane Changers and Game Changers

Inkjet is allowing printers to do more things with a single press, and fewer companies associated with any particular application segment are staying in their own lane.
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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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September 23, 2020

Thomas Printworks: from Business Cards to Buildings

Thomas Printworks is a different kind of printing company that takes an unusual perspective on print markets. While many companies categorize themselves as a particular type of printer, direct mail, commercial books, etc., Thomas Printworks looks at the customers they want to capture and how to do the most for those customers. In terms of printing applications and technology, they simply look at large format and “small format.” This article discusses the digital print portfolio the company uses to deliver solutions of all sizes to a wide range of customers and what they have learned from investing in inkjet.
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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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Living Through Virtual Conferences”
September 10, 2020

The Good, The Bad, The Beautiful & The Ugly: 
Living Through Virtual Conferences

Without knowing if we would all be starting to go back to work or suffering online fatigue, organizers had to devise plans to keep everyone engaged while meeting their conference brief.
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September 9, 2020

How to Stay Informed in a Remote World

Fall is around the corner and the question is how to make the right decisions for new equipment and technology without live events. Should organizations continue to postpone capital investment decisions? As we move into the last quarter of 2020 it is time to make many decisions.
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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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July 15, 2020

Canon ProStream 1800 Overview – Seeing is Believing

This week Canon launched the ProStream 1800, increasing productivity and successfully shifting the break-even point between offset and inkjet will exceeding the offset color gamut.
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June 23, 2020

What’s Happening in Sheet-Fed Inkjet?

Get a high-level synopsis of the webinar “Opening New Markets with Sheet-Fed Inkjet Innovations,” covering the varied approaches to the market based on sheet size, print application segment and buyer profile. If your interest is piqued, you can listen to the full webinar and download the presentation for more details.
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June 16, 2020

Trend Knows Their Destination

We love printing companies who eat their own cooking. Learn how Trend Offset Printing put their inkjet environment to use on their own marketing leveraging data, creative design and extensive personalization. #inkjetinnovation
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June 9, 2020

Packaging 2020 – Inkjet Drivers and Innovations

Shifting market requirements are creating new demands and innovations in the packaging supply chain. While pandemic driven economic uncertainty will undoubtedly have some effect on consumer purchasing habits, consumer product
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April 1, 2020

Canon Doubles Down on Commercial Print with VarioPRINT iX

With the introduction of two new VarioPPRINT iX models, Canon is focused squarely on the needs of general commercial printers for high image quality on a wide media range and flexibility to run mixed media jobs at full speed. Canon will continue to market and support the current VarioPrint+ iSeries in the appropriate markets along with the new VarioPRINT iX Series. The new devices will be ready to ship in July 2020. See overview and supporting white paper.
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March 31, 2020

Change in the High Volume Inkjet Printing Industry

Pete Basiliere spoke with two users of high volume inkjet presses about the issues they encountered when migrating from analog or other digital technologies to inkjet. Edmundo Ortiz and Brian Dicker offered very different answers to the same question: What advice do you have for someone considering inkjet printing?
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March 4, 2020

The Inkjet Production Printing Market in Europe – Commercial and Specialty Printing

Ralf Schlozer takes a careful look at aspects of the commercial printing market in Europe and where inkjet has and has not penetrated. Key adopters of different inkjet options are referenced along with expectations for future development.
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February 18, 2020

The Inkjet Production Printing Market in Europe – Book Printing

In Europe, inkjet printing of books continues to have great success. And the good news? There is still room to grow in the book printing market. Ralf Schlozer shares information on top producers in Europe and key trends for 2020 and beyond.
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January 28, 2020

The Top 4 Drying Methods for Inkjet

Just as there are many types of inkjet printheads and ink, there are many types of processes for inkjet drying. Most printers combine several processes to create a drying solution. Ralf Schlozer discusses the fundamental factors related to drying in document and packaging printing environments including absorption, phase change, radiation and evaporation. It’s dry – but important.
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January 7, 2020

Inkjet Insight Production Inkjet Market Survey on Print Quality Measurement and Paper Qualification

Our latest research surveys production inkjet users on  requirements for print quality measurement when qualifying papers for use on inkjet presses and their satisfaction with OEM services related to meeting those requirements. Executive summary available to all. Premium members can download 18 page report.
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November 21, 2019

drupa 2016 to 2020: the Inkjet Journey

Pat McGrew delivers the 3rd in her drupa series looking at some of the key announcement from 2016 and who has delivered – and who has not.

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