Heidelberg wins three Red Dot Awards

Door Rob van den Braak | 04/04/2016

Heidelberg received the Red Dot design awards for their Omnifire 250 4D printing system as well as for their Speedmasters XL 106 and XL162. According to the jury the combination of ergonomics, technical innovation and the modern design was the reason for this triple. Heidelberg has won more than 50 awards for their designs. More…

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Brett Martin´s plastic substrate successful at FESPA Digital

Door Rob van den Braak | 01/04/2016

FESPA Digital was a success both in numbers of visitors as well as in product introductions. One of these introductions was the series of substrates by manufacturer and market leader Brett Martin. Plastic substrates such as the new Coexcell, a PVC Foam which can be printed directly, show that the development of substrates is on…

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Chris Costello: Designer of the most hated font

Door Rob van den Braak | 25/03/2016

After Comic Sans by Vincent Connare, Chris Costello´s Papyrus is the most hated font, according to Fastcodesign. Papyrus was designed in 1982 when Costello was bored at his first job at a famous advertising agency. Papyrus was developed from some scribbles and is now one of the most used and downloaded fonts. From obituaries to…

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Drupa Expert Article #8: Packaging goes digital

Door Rob van den Braak | 18/03/2016

In the eighth and last Drupa Expert Article, Michael Seidl, journalist and publisher, discusses the trend of using digital printing techniques for packaging. According to Seidl there are various good reasons for this, such as the smaller editions and the demand for local and personalised packaging. Seidl also discusses the growth in this market segment…

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A kiss on your Valentine´s card

Door Beate den Engelsman | 23/02/2016

Receive a real scented kiss on your Valentine´s Day card? PostNL repeated its service of sending a free Valentine´s card, with a real kiss on the stamp. The so-called Kiss stamp is a stamp for sending a loving card. When scent is sprayed over the stamp,  the kiss becomes visible. This was available to anyone…

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BookBaby: a manual for success in book printing on demand

Door Rob van den Braak | 04/02/2016

BookBaby, a service for self-publishers, is not just the source for the price of a print-on-demand book (20 Euro), but it also offers a ´manual´ for self-publishing. Everything a future bestseller writer needs to know, and, even more importantly, how to make money, can be found on the Bookbaby site. From the low start up…

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Color Passport: because colour is more than just a ink formula

Door Rob van den Braak | 01/02/2016

CIELab can define and store any colour. But colour is more, it evokes emotions, colours combine and resonate with other colours and colours are interpreted differently in different cultures. Color Passport endeavours to code all specifics of one colour so that the user, from designer to printer, knows more about colour and the transformation to…

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NYTimes.com: the gains of 20 years news via the web

Door Rob van den Braak | 28/01/2016

New York Times started their distribution of content via the web on 22 January 1996. In the first few months the number of visitors of nytimes.com was less than a dozen. Only when the number of computers with internet connection started to grow it did those numbers rise, very quickly. Last year the NYTimes had a…

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New Xerox smart label

Door Arthur Lubbers | 27/01/2016

An economic and difficult to counterfeit smart label – that is what Xerox says it has developed with Printed Memory.  The printed electronic label can hold up to 36 bits of data with which the authenticity and condition of a product can be proven. The origin as well as the distribution of the product can…

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