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Probo invests in Truepress Jet L350UV digital label press
Specialist web-to-print company Probo (www.probo.nl) has entered the digital label print market with the installation of the latest Screen Truepress Jet L350UV digital label press. The investment will enable the company to expand its product portfolio and offer a faster turnaround on short-run variable jobs on a wider range of substrates. Based in Dokkum, Netherlands,…
Lees meerLinkIn Learning: social media is disrupting education
There seems to be no end to the ambitions of the social media giants. After publishing it is education´s tun to experience these network´s disrupting powers. LinkedIn Learning now has free video training on subjects which vary from business software to design and variable data printing. The quality of the modules is not always very…
Lees meerXerox and the secret of good Flow
Xerox is not just production printing, it also scores well with the streamlining of business processes. The secret is creating the perfect Flow. A perfect Flow can be accomplished by eliminating three Flow Killers from your organisation. The first is Friction, inefficiency caused by poor process design or communication dynamics. The second is Noise, information overload and the resulting…
Lees meerFrench print shop reopens after ´Charlie Hebdo´
The print shop in Paris which made world news last year because the Charlie Hebdo terrorists sought refuge there has reopened. President Hollande personally attended the opening at the end of September. The premises were very damaged because of the fights between the terrorists, the Kouachi brothers, and the French troops that tried to end…
Lees meerExpensive paper because of Brexit
British printers are faced with a hefty rise in paper prices which could well run into the double digits. The reason is the fact that the British pound fell by 14% against the Euro. Most of the paper for the British print industry comes from mainland Europe. All eyes are trained on UPM the biggest…
Lees meerThe Print Show a success also for HelloPrint
The NEC Birmingham was home for The Print Show from 11 to 13 October. The Print Show is a tradeshow targeted at the UK with a strong focus on practical solutions and education. The number of visitors and exhibitors were higher than expected which shows that the difficult years for our industry are in the…
Lees meerAndreas Weber: the continuing added value of print in our digital world
Looking back on an emotional drupa year our colleague and journalist Andreas Weber concludes that, thanks to its added value, print is making a comeback. Not only the increased investments and actual prints, but also the improved results by manufacturers such as Heidelberg and KBA prove an upward trend. There is no reason to relax…
Lees meerSiegwerk Appoints AtéCé as Exclusive Distributor for its UV Ink Portfolio in The Netherlands
Siegwerk and AtéCé Graphic Products have signed a distribution agreement for the Dutch market relating to Siegwerk’s UV and LED UV inks as well as its new K-Supply inks certified for Komori’s H-UV system. Siegwerk has approved AtéCé Graphic Products, the Benelux market leader in offset plates, printing inks, coatings, printing and stripping blankets and washcloth…
Lees meerBlokboek articles now also on Google+ for Business
From today you will be able to read all Blokboek.com articles on Google+. For the steadily growing number of Google+ users this will mean that they can access our content via their favourite app. They can share the content with their communities, save it in Collections and add comments. This makes Google+ the 6th social media…
Lees meerKodak continues to invest
“Everything is going really well with Kodak” says Peter Trampler, in charge of Kodak Northern Europe, during an informal press conference in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Pim Nijenhof, Kodak Benelux, focused mainly on the continuing NexPress success. 48 of these NexPress digital presses are currently being operated in the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg). “We do not…
Lees meerGlobal Graphics CTO voorzitter nieuwe ISO werkgroep voor een gestandaardiseerde idee-tot-afdruk PDF-workflow
De ISO organisatie heeft al veel grafische deelprocessen genormaliseerd en van internationaal erkende standaards voorzien. Nu wil de organisatie, gesteund door rip- en workflowfabrikant Global Graphics (bekend van de Harlequin RIP) het hele proces van idee tot afdruk standaardiseren. De ISO TC130/WG2/TF5 werkgroep heeft als taak om een PDF workflow op te zetten waarin het eindresultaat,…
Lees meerGlobal Graphics chairs new ISO workgroup for a complete idea-to-print PDF workflow standard
ISO has worked on norms and standards for many print processes. The organisation now is looking to prepare standards and norms for the full idea-to-print process. They are supported in this by rip and workflow manufacturer Global Graphics (known from Harlequin RIP). The ISO TC130/WG2/TF5 workflos is tasked with determining a PDF workflow standard which will…
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