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Agfa Graphics and EFI Enhance Hybrid Workflows through Apogee 10 Integration with Fiery Digital Front Ends
Apogee version 10 users can now integrate their prepress workflow with EFI Fiery Digital Front Ends. Thanks to this integration they are able to manage dozens of digital print solutions directly from Apogee. This makes the hybrid workflow with output to traditional and digital print technology a lot simpler. Read more about this new solution…
Lees meerSocial Media Publishing still at stone age stage
We at Blokboek.com strongly believe in Multi Channel Publishing and especially in Social Media Publishing. It is much easier and faster to find new, motivated, readers via social media than via print. That is why we try out as many forms of social media publishing as possible. We use everything from simple tweets to Flipboard magazines…
Lees meerPolymer banknotes in Britain
The earlier announced new polymer £5 note has been launched this month. Banknote printer De La Rue had the honour to print these and expects that the polymer note will eventually replace the paper one. The £5 note has the image of Winston Churchill. The £10 note, expected next year, will have Jane Austen´s image.…
Lees meerNoto: a font with 300,000 letters for 800 different languages
Publishing is global. This means that apart from world languages such as English and Spanish a global publisher needs to support 300 other languages. If you add all of these up you get 300,000 different characters. Google, which is making a name for itself with automated translation of web content, is facing this problem head-on.…
Lees meerPDF Aktuell 103: 25 years PDF, new offset color profiles and more PDF news.
Stefan Jaggi celebrates PDF´s 25th birthday in his newsletter. Both Stefan and I were present at the birth in 1991! Furthermore new color profiles for sheetfed offset, Color Logic´s new superfast color server, an update on PDF specifications for packaging and lots more PDF news. Read the full newsletter via this link.
Lees meerOcé researching new inkjet technology
Océ, together with the Technical University Eindhoven, the University of Twente and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), will start developing new inkjet technology. The official start of the project ´Fundamental Fluid Dynamics Challenges in Inkjet Printing´ was 27 September in Venlo. Goal of the project is to get new insights into the…
Lees meerNessan Cleary: The basics of printheads – Wild Format #2.0
Inkjet heads are the heart of every inkjet printer. Read the 9th article in the Wild Format series about the different types of heads and how to control them. Read The Basics of printheads by Nessan Cleary on our articles page via this link.
Lees meerGlobal Graphics CTO voorzitter nieuwe ISO werkgroep voor een gestandaardiseerde idee-tot-afdruk PDF-workflow
De ISO organisatie heeft al veel grafische deelprocessen genormaliseerd en van internationaal erkende standaards voorzien. Nu wil de organisatie, gesteund door rip- en workflowfabrikant Global Graphics (bekend van de Harlequin RIP) het hele proces van idee tot afdruk standaardiseren. De ISO TC130/WG2/TF5 werkgroep heeft als taak om een PDF workflow op te zetten waarin het eindresultaat,…
Lees meerVIGC web2print conference: all about cooperation
The traditional web to print conference by Belgium VIGC which was held on 14 September hosted by Agfa was all about cooperation. It followed the trend of companies increasingly using the strength of others, even competitors, and the important role of automation. In her new role as Vice President of Cimpress Open, Diane Swint talked…
Lees meerGlobal Graphics chairs new ISO workgroup for a complete idea-to-print PDF workflow standard
ISO has worked on norms and standards for many print processes. The organisation now is looking to prepare standards and norms for the full idea-to-print process. They are supported in this by rip and workflow manufacturer Global Graphics (known from Harlequin RIP). The ISO TC130/WG2/TF5 workflos is tasked with determining a PDF workflow standard which will…
Lees meerDigital adverts on your back
Mobima in Belgium is a company which focuses on digital advertising inside and outside. Their motto is “digital is the new normal”. The company offers battery powered outdoor signage as well as indoor display. The most remarkable product the company will show at Sign2Com Expo in Kortrijk, Belgium, is the digital backpack screen, the Mobibag.…
Lees meerStrategic cooperation between KBA and ACTEGA underlines the role of coatings in print
Printer manufacturer KBA has announced their cooperation plans with coatings manufacturer ACTEGA. The plan is to develop products and solutions for print shops with a KBA offset press that guarantee the best results from the inline coater. The cooperation is global and applies to all water-based, HR-UV and LED-UV coatings which ACTEGA offers via its…
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