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Marrs Green most popular paper colour
Marrs Green is most people´s favourite colour. At least according to British paper manufacturer GF Smith based on an internet survey. The green blueish tint, which is very like what we call interliner green (long distance bus service in the Netherlands), was chosen as favourite from a wide range of colours the participants could choose…
Lees meerNew flatbed cutting plotter by Mimaki
Mimaki has launched the new Mimaki CF22-1225 flatbed cutting plotter. The plotter handles materials up to 1220×2440 mm wide and is the ideal addition to the Mimaki JFX200-2513 flatbed UV inkjet printers for on-demand production of seasonal POP displays or components for fairs and exhibitions. The ready-to-use cutting solution is faster, easier and more economic…
Lees meerConnecting print to digital very simple with the Apple camera app
Portrait mode with studio lighting got more attention and the new option in the camera app to scan QR codes and activate the hidden function. I myself have never been a fan of QR codes. They ruin the layout and were never user friendly. The latter has now been changed with the Apple camera app.…
Lees meerManhole covers perfect for printing t-shirts
Three ladies with a paint roller and a t-shirt. Painting the manhole covers in Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and using a rolling pin afterwards to put pressure on the t-shirt. The result is a beautiful print of the cover on the shirt. it´s a hype, but a brilliant one according to the audience. Marieke Noort, Jeanne…
Lees meerDigitally printed catalogue with spectactular colour range helps sales of exclusive fashion line
Thanks to a catalogue printed on a Fuji Jet Press 720S, Paul Hetherington´s clothing label Alex is even more successful. Hetherington´s clothes are worn by Kanye West and Lady Gaga for example. Hetherington chose the jet Press for its perfect reproduction of the most difficult colours. After extensive tests he had 300 copies printed by…
Lees meerThe Hague Tech collaboration with The Vault in San Francisco
Tech community The Hague Tech has signed a collaboration agreement with The Vault, tech community in San Francisco. The parties are committing to aim to share three promising start-ups with international ambitions in 2018. “With this collaboration we want to connect the networks in both cities”, says Brian Gharibaan, co-founder of The Hague Tech. “Our…
Lees meerKonica Minolta unveils AccurioLabel 190 press
Konica Minolta unveiled its AccurioLabel 190 full-digital toner press for Europe, which has been developed and manufactured in cooperation with Danish company Grafisk Maskinfabrik (GM). And not even a week after Labelexpo, the production of GM winders is approaching its capacity and Konica Minolta is actively looking into scaling up. Konica Minolta’s AccurioLabel 190 will…
Lees meerWashable adhesive labels for beer bottles
Anyone who thinks that a small family run print shops cannot innovate, has another think coming. Label´Or printers has developed washable adhesive label, after two years of research. These labels are custom-made for the bottles of abbey ale brewery Val-Dieu. Normally (larger) quantities of beer labels are so-called wet glue labels. Wet glue labels use…
Lees meerPrint it yourself – cheaper and faster
The Promocompany, based in Ede, The Netherlands is a wholesale business that sports a 25-year reputation as a key player in promotional items. The business recently decided to insource printing and selected two Mimaki printers. Read the PRstory we made for Mimaki here.
Lees meerWill Google conquer the world with its hardware?
Google introduced a flood of hardware products this week. From laptops to headphones and from mobile phones to voice activated loud speakers were presented in London. This seems to suggest that the software giant wants to conquer the world with hardware. But it´s quite the opposite. AI and ML are what it´s all about. With…
Lees meerControl Media installs Micron Media´s Cron platesetter
Control Media recently purchased a new Cron platesetter. “It is now being used in our premises in Wildert (Belgium), but will move with us to Etten-Leur (the Netherlands) to our new premises, a 9,000m2 production plant”, says director Leon van Nunen. “The new platesetter means an increase from two to three platesetters. The number of…
Lees meerLaurel Brunners Blog: a green card for textile printing
In Laurel´s Verdrigris blog this week good news for digital textile printers who are concerned about the recyclability of their products. If printers use inks with an Underwriters Laboratories Greenguard they are assured of the fact that their textiles comply with strict environmental rules. Read more about the UL Greenguard and suppliers in Laruel´s blog…
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