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Ricoh restores and returns lost photos to tsunami victims
The Save the Memory Project is a project sponsored by Ricoh working to return damaged photos to the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011. With the help of Ricoh products and software more than 400,000 photos which were found in the area by volunteers are being digitalised, restored and catalogued.…
Lees meerLess printing costs trees
Since the worldwide paper production is decreasing the recyclable paper is becoming scarce. Demand exceeds supply. This means that paper manufacturers need to cut trees to produce paper. According to a press release by PPI the amount of recycled printed paper in Finland has decreased by 10% every year since 2008. According to Kyösti Pöyry, CEO…
Lees meerSappi to build a nanocellulose pilot plant in the Netherlands
Landa is not the only company using nano technology for our industry. Paper producer Sappi will start testing their nanocellulose technology in Sittard-Geleen. The technology was developed together with the Edinburgh Napier University. The pilot plant will be located at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus (picture) in Geleen, the Netherlands, where research and development into bio based chemicals…
Lees meerWind powered printing press comes alive in Koog aan de Zaan
An antique Heidelberg letter press will print in Koog aan de Zaan using wind power. You are welcome to see this little graphic miracle up until 9 May, between 11.00 and 16.00, if there is enough wind, of course. You can also support this noble cause by buying a print of windmill Het Pink. More…
Lees meerAmazon wants to 3D print order en route to customer
American webshop Amazon has submitted a patent for what might become a ´mobile factory´: a truck which would print the product with a 3D printer en route to its customers. In other words, you order, the truck leaves for your address and during the trip the product is being printed using a 3D printer. Amazon…
Lees meerGrafische Groep Matthys wins Invercote Award 2015
The Grafische Groep Matthys (Turnhout, Belgium) recently won the international Invercote Award 2015 in the ´Best Design´ category for their exclusive luxury folding carton packaging for saffron. “This prize is a recognition for the special products made in Turnhout using the innovative in-line cold foil printing process.” Using this technique they make luxury graphics products for…
Lees meer100,000 Euros for destroyed printershop after terrorist attack
For a short time the Dammartin-en-Goël, north-east France, based printers were world news. What remained for the owner was a traumatic event and lots of damage. A collection by sympathisers raised 102,095 Euros which allowed the printers to start again. After the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo the terrorists sought refuge in the…
Lees meerHeidelberg sold in march 22 printing units in the Netherlands
After the press releases about the acquisition of Tetterode by Heidelberger Drukmaschinen AG, there is more news. In March only they signed contracts for delivery of 22 Speedmaster printing units. A medium sized company, specialised in folding invested in two Heidelberg Speedmasters XL 75-4-LX. The machines are equipped with the so called F format (60×75 cm).…
Lees meerThe Netherlands, not so bad at innovation
The European Patent Office announced that 2014 was a record year for Dutch patent applications. Kenedict visualized who requested the 8,000 innovative patents and how they related to each other. Unilever, DSM, Shell, NXP and ASML are, together with Philips, the driving force behind these Dutch Innovations. Health and communications are the most important patent…
Lees meerD.I.N., a new way of B2B marketing in our digital world
Digital Industry Network, D.I.N. is a new buzzword for a combination of business to business marketing techniques connected to each other because of the use of the internet. According to techmarketing expert Andy McCartney the combination of social media activities, web portals and newsletters replace the old B2B sales model of marketing and sales visits.…
Lees meerKBA Report no. 46: assistance in choosing the right press size, the advantages of LED and UV curing and 200 year printingpress history
The new KBA Report not only has room for a few customer cases, but also for the rich history of the company which started 200 years ago with the first Times newspaper printed on the steam-powered double cylinder printing press built by Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer. Report 46 also gives an insight into factors…
Lees meer9353 kilometres of photo books, made by Albelli
Albelli has reached an important milestone: 1 million unique customers have captured their memories in a photo product. This means that Albelli has welcomed 411 clients daily since their start in June 2008. The pages of all books together come to 9353 kilometers, 43 times the length of an A2. In 2008 Albelli already had 48,886…
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