Ghent Workgroup welcomes new member Stuttgart Media University

Door Rob van den Braak | 09/08/2017

With bringing together the combined know-how of the former University of Printing and Media, and the University of Librarianship and Information, Stuttgart Media University covers a broad spectrum of media expertise: from printed to electronic media, from mass media and media theory to production, and from design to making media available. As an established academic…

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Xitrons software will drive new digital label presses and Flexo/Resin/Thermal CTP Device

Door Rob van den Braak | 09/08/2017

Xitron, the leading independent developer of RIP and workflow products for commercial, digital, and high-speed inkjet printing has announced an agreement with Liaoning Basch Digital for the development of a cross-product prepress workflow. The system will be designed for Basch’s Panthera® 3322C color inkjet label press, the 3326V digital inkjet varnish press, and will also…

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New print media is called Colback

Door Marco den Engelsman | 09/08/2017

During Dutch Design Week 2017 in4ite will be launched. This is a cooperation between Low & Bonar, a listed global operating company specialised in the production of performance materials and a group of 10 creative minds. This multidisciplinary group of people consists of: designers, architects and graphic designers all with their own vision. The group…

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X-Rite Color-Eye: colour measuring with a smartphone

Door Rob van den Braak | 08/08/2017

X-Rite has announced a smart and affordable solution to measure colour. With the Color-Eye colour calibration card and a smartphone the company claims to have found a clever way of determining colour within acceptable norms. Color-Eye is based on the success that X-Rite has with its CapSureMe app which consumers and make-up artists use to…

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The first LANDA S10 is now at customer site

Door Rob van den Braak | 07/08/2017

Just over a year ago Landa demonstrated a digital vision for print at Drupa 2016. Earlier this year it announced the line-up of beta customers. Now Landa is ready to deliver presses to the first customers. After a final test run at the Landa factory, the first Landa S10 Nanographic Printing® Press has been packed…

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EU Ecolabel now available for all UPM graphic paper grades

Door Rob van den Braak | 07/08/2017

Following its Biofore approach, UPM Paper ENA has reached the next significant milestone in the company’s sustainability journey, as now all its mills produce papers that are awarded with the EU Ecolabel. The UPM Hürth paper mill completed the full range on June 5th, when its products received the EU Ecolabel certificate. The mill achieved…

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Renz highlights new additions at IPEX 2017

Door Rob van den Braak | 03/08/2017

Renz will be showcasing its newest portfolio addition, the Argos F400 cold UV coating machine with its innovative cold UV curing technology, at IPEX 2017, October 31 to November 3 2017, NEC, Birmingham. The highly flexible flat coating system can be used in handfed, automatic and inline mode to digital print systems. It can run…

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Eddy Hagen: judging colour objectively is impossible

Door Rob van den Braak | 03/08/2017

We already knew that judging colour is far from simple and that the environment plays an important role. On the Insights4pint blog Eddy Hagen talks about another factor which makes it nearly impossible to judge colour objectively. He calls it “The uncertainty principle of visual color evaluations.” Simply said, people are so easily influenced where…

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Bell and Howell Sells Sorting Business to Fluence Automation

Door Rob van den Braak | 02/08/2017

Bell and Howell announced that it has spun off its mail-sorting business and certain parcel-labeling technologies to a new company named Fluence Automation. The newly formed company is owned by a group of investors that includes members of the Bell and Howell sorting-leadership team. “This strategic move is part of our plan to accelerate Bell…

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