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A Spanish First: Fujifilm Jet Press 720S at La Trama
Start-up digital print business La Trama selects the Fujifilm Jet Press 720S to sit at the heart of its operations Founded five months ago to provide fully customisable short to medium run length commercial print jobs of outstanding quality, La Trama Digital Print is a dynamic, modern digital print business. Based in Zamudio, Spain, the…
Lees meerSmart Glove
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a smart glove that wirelessly translates the American Sign Language alphabet into text and controls a virtual hand to mimic sign language gestures. The device, which engineers call “The Language of Glove,” was built for less than $100 using stretchable and printable electronics that are…
Lees meerPhoenext, big in textile printing
From Ajax football flags, scarfs for the André Rieu fan base, Nick & Simon pillows, oven gloves to sleep masks – you name it, Phoenext makes it. “We do just about anything except clothing,” as owner and director Jakob Lameijer points out. They relied on the transfer sublimation expertise of Mimaki dealer Texo Trade Services…
Lees meerWhatsApp beats paper mail
There are plans to reduce the number of days for postal services and increase the costs. To keep postal services affordable and regular measures have to be taken before long, according to Henk Kamp (Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs). The postal market is decreasing fast because communication is more and more digital, according to Kamp.…
Lees meerApple ARKit to unlock augmented reality´s potential
Static print has got formidable competition now that Apple´s ARKit is making it super easy for developers to add augmented reality to their apps. ARKit will not only take care of a flood of new games which will transport players to different worlds, but will undoubtedly be used for advertising and other information. You can…
Lees meerHow to reach 32% of millennials with multi channel publishing
There is an unstoppable trends among millennials, people born between 1980 and 2000. The increasingly important group of people is changing their preference for the consumption of news to digital publications. At least 32% of them prefer digital. The solution for content disseminators is multi channel publishing. Read Agfa´s Mobile Snippet about how to…
Lees meerDesktopography: your whole desk will be one big touch screen
Carnegie Mellon University´s Future Interfaces Group has come up with a way to make a touchscreen from your desk. With hardware consisting of a mini projector and a 3D camera which can be screwed into your desklamp Desktopography miraculously changes your desk into an interactive workspace where you can manipulate objects. It is a cheap…
Lees meerBarcode´s 43rd birthday
43 years ago, on 26 June 1974 at 08:01am the first product with barcode – a 10 pack Wrigley´s Juice Fruit chewing gum – was scanned at the cashier´s desk in a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. Today about 3,000 barcode peeps are heard every second in the Netherlands. Worldwide more than 5 billion a…
Lees meerNostalgia: How the Boston Globe was printed for more than 50 years
It is a unique video, for some of us nostalgia, for most of us an introduction to how newspapers used to be printed. The most remarkable thing is the pride of the operators in their quite difficult job. Watch the video via this link and see how much our industry has changed over the past…
Lees meerPDF Aktuell 109: JPEG2000 compression for PDF files, notes on PDF Days Europe and more PDF news
In the PDF Aktuell 109 newsletter Stephan Jaeggi reports on the PDF Days Europe, explains what the JPEG2000 compression can mean for PDF files and how you can check barcodes in a PDF with ChkBarcode. Read this and more PDF news via this link.
Lees meerEosta: laser printing fruit and veg
You will undoubtedly know the packaging and stickers to indicate if fruit and veg are organic. A Dutch supplier of organic fruit and veg, Eosta, has found a more environmentally friendly way to show this: laser printing. The outer layer of the skin gets a laser printed logo or text. The fruit or vegetable goes…
Lees meerInkish.tv: Power Women in Print
Inkish.tv, the TV channel for the print industry, rightly shines a light on women in our industry. Quite remarkably many work in binderies and that their strong side is in managing growing companies. Watch these Power Women below or via this link. Power Women in the printing industry Power Women in the printing industry! The…
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