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Heidelberg wins three Red Dot Awards
Heidelberg received the Red Dot design awards for their Omnifire 250 4D printing system as well as for their Speedmasters XL 106 and XL162. According to the jury the combination of ergonomics, technical innovation and the modern design was the reason for this triple. Heidelberg has won more than 50 awards for their designs. More…
Lees meerXerox Book Publishing Event
The market for book on demand is getting increasingly important for Xerox and its customers, which is why they introduced the Xerox Impika web inkjet production presses and the improved iGen press. 55 publishers from Europe and Russia were invited to Verona, Italy to learn about the developments which will be central to the Xerox…
Lees meerBrett 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 meer#5/11: Postscript Level 1 at drupa 1986 versus Multi Channel Publishing at drupa 2016
Ten years after the introduction of Postscript the real breakthrough at drupa 1986 was data exchange, or the exchanging of orders between pre-press systems with their own file formats. This was now possible with Adobe Postscript.hese. This was the beginning of what is now considered effortless data exchange. Read what has changed in 30 years…
Lees meerXitron RIP: A Harlequin RIP for any output devices
New output devices, CtP systems, digital printers and proofers usually have their own raster image processor. For existing devices or if the RIP included is not according to the needs, it is not easy to find a replacement RIP. Xitron has found a solution. It has built the Navigator RIP based on the well-known Global…
Lees meerGLU lezing: Kim Hoogervorst – luchtopnames
Kiwi Aerial Shots is een bedrijf gespecialiseerd in het maken van luchtopnames met behulp van drones en hebben jarenlange ervaring op het gebied van film en techniek. Deze combinatie zorgt ervoor dat zij perfect mee kunnen denken om hoogwaardige en creatieve producties tot stand te brengen. Kim werkt met verschillende drones die voor de meeste…
Lees meerGoogle patent makes printed book interactive
If the Storytelling Device for which Google obtained a patent gets to market it will be very simple to make a printed book interactive. A device the size of a hamburger projects images onto the page and emits sounds via the built-in loudspeakers. The images and sound can be activated by touching the pages. Image,…
Lees meerVITS at drupa: mixing offset and digital in web finishing
VITS International makes it possible to mix offset and digital printed rolls to one product with its Sprint Variable Data Finishing System. At drupa VITS will show in-line and off-line systems with speeds of up to 457m/minute web output. More info about VITS in the below press release.
Lees meerLaurel Brunner: Cooperation is profitable
In the case of environmentally friendly entrepreneurship cooperation can be profitable as described by Laurel Brunner in her Verdrigris blog. As an example she mentions the cooperation with waterless printing plate manufacturer Toray and Seacourt Printing. As Light Touch they jointly developed a production process which combines Toray´s plates with UV LED inks. The combination…
Lees meerDeltabach sets the pace with LED UV retrofit by AMS
High-flying commercial print house Deltabach, Nieuw Vennep – The Netherlands, has reported a 25% increase in productivity since an XP9/17W LED UV curing unit from Air Motion Systems, Inc. (AMS) was retrofited onto its 4-colour Heidelberg CX 102-4-L press this past year. The improvement in productivity, which has seen output rise to a current rate…
Lees meerGMG Shares Color Management Expertise with users at drupa
At drupa, GMG will showcase its latest software, a clever Photoshop plug-in, new proofing media, and its extended range of services (Hall 8A, Stand B10) The GMG booth has always been an essential destination for leading color management experts visiting drupa. For over 30 years, the Tubingen, Germany-based company has been providing reliable colors and…
Lees meer#4/11: Web offset at drupa 1982 versus digital web at drupa 2016
At drupa 1982 I saw, only just returned from 2 years military service in Surinam, how web offset became a disrupting technology which made rotogravure an expensive and old-fashioned technology. This was great for me as I had just started in sales at Machinehandel Houtstra, distributor for Solna Offset, the Swedish press manufacturer with relatively…
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