Technical Feature

Process upgrades to green up your print

As the old saying goes, small changes can make a big difference. One area this is particularly true for printers is the pressroom. Of course investing in a brand new super-duper eco-friendly press is...

Can ISO 15339 deliver on cross-process promise?

Colour is the lifeblood of any self-respecting printer. And so any opportunity to further assure all colour is exactly as it should be –particularly where the printer is dealing with highly sensitive...

Wide-format advances set big applications in motion

Here’s a question. Which is more likely to catch the passer-by’s eye: a static, albeit beautifully printed, image, or one where the models pictured are blowing animated kisses to the viewer?

Inkjet technology drives sectors other than just print

If ever a simple adjective could cause confusion in the world of print, it’s ‘industrial’. The term has been cropping up with increasing frequency of late in relation to wide-format machines, meaning...

Success with fabric may be cut from a different cloth

Fabric is both a synonym for textiles and the word for discussing the very essence of stuff. So it’s something of a paradox that in all the talk of printing textiles, the materials themselves are...

Getting to grips with digital’s post-press requirements

Ripe Digital discovered the importance of finishing the hard way. “When we bought our press, an HP Indigo, we thought ‘that’s it, we’re printers now’,” says director Richard Penny of when the company,...

Tinkerers in search of the eureka moment

Print’s best-known eureka moment came more than 550 years ago, when Johannes Gutenberg figured out a way to print books using moveable type and a press based on the sort of screw press used for making...

DC-rider: driving innovation

In years to come, when we’re getting from A to B in Back to the Future-style floating cars, 2014 may well be remembered fondly as the year that the electric vehicle finally came of age.

3D technology – a model future for print?

Suddenly, all of your customers have become 3D print customers. At least in principle. On 16 January, Adobe added 3D printing support to Photoshop Creative Cloud, which is already used by pretty well...

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