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Bobst installs first inkjet press for corrugated board
Using Kodak Stream inkjet heads the packaging machine specialist Bobst installed its first inkjet production press for full colour printing of corrugated board. Model AG in Weinfelden, Switzerland is the first to enjoy the (beta) version. The machine has a speed of up to 200 meters per minute and can handle sheets of up to…
Lees meerFespa 2015 broke all records
More visitors, 43,775 a growth of 17%, more exhibitors (750) but especially more interest in the new market segments such as industrial and interior printing. These are the results of the Fespa 2015 in Cologne. The organisation is very happy with this, just like the exhibitors who announced more sales than usual. Next year, from…
Lees meerGermany web offset printers doing well
The large German rotation offset printers are doing really well without any surplus. The European Web Association (EWA) who have many German rotation printers as its members, announced that EWA members saw their printing volumes rise by 2.8% in 2014 compared to 2013, primarily because of commercial printing. Apparently the print houses were fully manned…
Lees meerBritish polymer banknotes
The polymer banknote will replace the paper banknote. That is if we believe Martin Sutherland, CEO of banknote printers De La Rue. Sutherland says polymer is “the substrate of the future”. Polymer is cleaner, more durable and more profitable he says. De La Rue is world´s largest commercial producer of banknotes and passports. The print…
Lees meerThe Inkjet Conference: a reason to visit Düsseldorf and not only for techies
If you want to know about the latest inkjet technology and its applications the Inkjet Conference on 7 and 8 October in Düsseldorf Germany is the event to visit this year. With more than 40 presentations, keynotes and in particular networking, all aspects of inkjet printing are highlighted during the second conference about this disrupting…
Lees meerToner printing not dead yet: Xerox invests $35M in a new EA toner plant
Inkjet has seemed to be taking over the printing market, but Xerox has invested $35M in a plant to increase its emulsion aggregation toner capacity by 40%, 75 years after the first xerographic print. According to the company this is necessary to be able to supply enough colour and black-and-white toner for the 295 billion…
Lees meerDetermining counterfeit money with your smartphone
If you would like to determine if euro banknotes are real or counterfeit, you can use the new app by De Nederlandse Bank (Dutch National Bank). By scanning the note with the camera of your phone the app can determine if the note has the correct characteristics such as ink, watermark and hologram. The bank…
Lees meerDigital Marketing predictions that came true and changed our world
Predicting trends, especially in marketing, is not easy. Even more so when they concern new digital internet technology. For the occasion of the 10th anniversary of their Future of Digital Marketing Event EConsultancy have made a list of 10 of their predictions. Of those 10 predicted trends which came true it is noticeable that most,…
Lees meerLaurel Brunner: Printing out the internet?
It sounds like a joke, but British university students have calculated how many printed pages it would take to print all public information on the web. They multiplied the number of Wikipedia articles by 15 which made 71 million pages. According to students of the University of Leicester this would require 8,337 trees. Read Laurel´s…
Lees meerAgfa wins two EDP Awards
The European Digital Press Association granted two Awards to Agfa for their Asanti Color Management software and their Anapurna M3200i. Asanti got the Award for best color management solutions and Anapurna for best wide format roll-to-roll printer up to 3.3m. More information about the EDP Awards and Agfa via this link.
Lees meerOCR Journal #001: is this the future of print?
Exclusive, with only 500 copies of which each cover has its own unique data art visualisation, content perfectly attuned to its target market and contemporary design, Office for Create Research offers us a peek into what might be the future of (magazine) printing. Mark Wilson describes in his Co.Design blog the OCR Journal #001 as…
Lees meerTesting out the taxi as billboard
The Heineken Experience, previously a Heineken brewery which was transformed into an interactive journey through the Heineken world, in cooperation with taxi service Cabture and Amsterdam Taxi Service (TCA), has revamped two taxis into driving billboards with a TaxiTop ad for the Heineken Experience. TaxiTop, well-known in New York, replaces the taxi roof light to…
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