Design
Brett Martin´s plastic substrate successful at FESPA Digital
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…
Lees meerChris Costello: Designer of the most hated font
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…
Lees meerDrupa Expert Article #8: Packaging goes digital
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…
Lees meerQuarkXpress 2016: A winner, if it can live up to the expectations of the new features
Convert PDF to native Quark objects, make and export HTML5 publications, colour picker, support for ICCv4 profiles. These are only a few of the new features Quark is promising for its Xpress 2016 update. An very impressive list with which it can become as good, or even better, as Adobe InDesign. The question is of…
Lees meerA kiss on your Valentine´s card
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…
Lees meerBookBaby: a manual for success in book printing on demand
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…
Lees meerColor Passport: because colour is more than just a ink formula
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…
Lees meerNYTimes.com: the gains of 20 years news via the web
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…
Lees meerNew Xerox smart label
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…
Lees meerQR codes, 3D, metallic effects and coating in the ACTEGA/KBA calendar
The beautiful colours of life under water require specialized reproduction. Special paper, coating, and six colour offset are needed, and, for extra information via a mini-website, QR codes. Coating manufacturer ACTEGA Terra, KBA Sheet-fed Solutions, Sappi and Rudolf Reproflex joined forces to produce a unique calendar for their clients. The calendar was printed in the…
Lees meerNew way of interactive printing
Researchers from Media Innovation Studio of British University of Central Lancashire have come up with a new form of interactive printed matter. By touching the conductive ink used the reader can view the accompanying audio or video on their mobile phones. A so-called Ekko is necessary to do this. EKKO consists of a clip, a…
Lees meerState of the art interactiveness: Carlsberg poster serving beer
After the Digital First hype another hype is coming to advertising: interactive. Creative interactive campaigns are a weapon in the battle the consumer´s attention and money. Not only interactive posters, but also printed material with coupon codes to receive discounts via the internet, are said to become more popular this year. This interactive hype is supported…
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