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If you have been letting your imagination run wild recently, wide format digital printing is just the technology to turn your creative ideas into splendid reality. Here are a few things to help you avoid waking up to a project management nightmare. So, radio spots, a Facebook campaign or the odd website banner does not…

We hear a lot these days about the circular economy, the idea that basically what goes around as goods and resources comes around as raw materials. The circular economy concept is about using waste as a new raw material or as a component in raw materials, like turning waste paper into pulp for new papers…

Inkjet is unique amongst printing technologies, there is no other option to print on such a wide varieties of substrates with such efficiency and ease. Just how does it work, and what does it all mean to a print buyer? When Germans come across some fine spirits or wines, they often colloquially say “Das ist…

Newspaper publishers should be doing much more to counter the perception that print is bad for the environment. Consumers associate printed newspapers with waste, but correcting this impression doesn’t seem to be a priority for the newspaper industry. This has to change, even though publishers may have other things on their minds like the precipitous…

In many respects the printhead is the heart of an inkjet printer, directly responsible for placing each individual drop of ink on the substrate.  Inkjet printheads are marvels of modern engineering, able to precisely place thousands of drops of ink of differing sizes exactly where needed. There are several approaches to designing printheads but by…

While the creative part of a printing project involving wide, or very, very wide format production should be unrestrained and “wild” (allowing yourself to think out-of-the-box), there are good reasons to be more pragmatic and sensible when it comes to planning the operational side. It’s true that there is often a lot of prototyping going…

Despite the old proverb, humans are prone to judge their fellow man by first impressions, so appearances are important. Why would it be any different for an advertising or communications campaign? That is why making the right substrate selection is vital for every digital printing project. Many products produced by artisan paper-mill Gmund are certified…