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Typo costs hackers nearly 1 billion dollars
Typos can be very costly as many print shops know. But not as costly as the mistake hackers made whilst preparing transfers from the Bangladesh Central Bank they hacked. Several transfers for about 81 million US$ had already gone through when they mistyped Foundation so that it read Fandation. Staff at Deutsche Bank noticed this…
Lees meerBlock books from 15th century digitised
The oldest known European wood blocks prints date back to approximately 1450. They were printed with wood blocks made with a lot of craftmanship in Germany and the Netherlands. The Münchener Digitalisierungzentrum has published a selection of these online. And we wouldn’t be Blokboek.com if we didn´t pay some attention to this. These wood blocks have given…
Lees meerESMA shows the potential of functional printing at drupa
ESMA, European Specialist Printing Manufacturers Association, will be present in two pavilions at drupa 2016. The pavilion in hall 3A 70 will be dedicated to functional and industrial printing with member companies such as SPS demonstrating screen printing equipment used for food decoration (e.g. chocolate) and other special effects achievable at high operation speed. SPS’s…
Lees meerWEKO drupa 2016: Don´t play – work with precision!
WEKO, known for its application systems for powder and liquid will come to drupa with solutions for digital printing. WEKO-DigiCon to adjust paper humidity is one of them. And that is, according to Managing Director Sales & Marketing Marcel Konrad, a serious and precise matter. Read more about WEKO at drupa in the press release below.…
Lees meerAugmented reality on the cover of the Boekenweekgeschenk 2016
The Dutch Boekenweekgeschenk (gift with purchase during national book week in the Netherlands) Broer (brother) written by Esther Gerritsen is now available. An augmented reality video has been hidden in the cover of the book. The video can be seen by using a smartphone or tablet. To look at it you will have to download…
Lees meerAIIM Webinar: Your Document Strategy Disrupted
With the coming of social media, cloud content and printing on demand, information management has become a complex task which, more often than not, is not the core activity. Unfortunately so, as getting the right content to the right people the right way is the key to success for any company. Add to that the…
Lees meer#3/4: The first UV inks at drupa 1976 versus LED UV at drupa 2016
During drupa 1976 I looked at things with different eyes. I had just started studying for my teacher certificate print technology and I was writing a paper about inks. I visited all known ink manufacturers, from the famous market leader K&E to Dutch pride Royal van Son. Inks had started a quiet revolution. Manufacturers made…
Lees meerMimaki´s unstoppable journey
The Mimaki UV55 – 320, is the first 3,2 meter wide UV printer for under 100K ( 68,000 euro to be exact). Mimaki was not well known as inkjet printer manufacturer. This has changed rapidly in the past few years. With a turnover of more than 100 million Euro in Europe alone, Mimaki is now…
Lees meerFESPA Digital in Pictures
Editor Beate den Engelsman made this compilation of remarkable, unique or just beautiful images of FESPA Digital. The images show how diverse digital technology has become and how technology can inspire creative communicators in making unique products.
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 meerHarlequin Multi Level Screening Engine: a new grid technology for production inkjet
The myriad of production inkjet solutions at drupa not only compete in terms of production speed, paper size, printable media and cost price, but most of all on quality. That is what printers do and the quality is determined by a number of factors such as ink drop size and how exactly they reach the…
Lees meerBobst celebrates its 125th anniversary at drupa
The company is performing very well despite the weak Swiss Franc. Bobst will do a remote presentation of a futuristic finishing and print press which looks a lot like a high-speed train. Super impressive. Press Release: BOBST IS LEADING INNOVATION AT DRUPA BOBST, the world’s foremost supplier of equipment and services to packaging…
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