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Printed trees provide energy
Wood is still a very important source of energy and results in deforestation worldwide. Finnish researchers have turned this around: instead of chopping tress they have found a way to print artificial trees which provide energy. The stems are made of 3D printer wood-based material and the leaves are flexible, organic solar cells (printed electronics).…
Lees meerLiving Ink Pen
During the development of algae based ink Fulbright discovered that this ink changed from one day to the next. This resulted in a Living Ink pen which they intend to bring to market mid 2016 with the help of Kickstarter. The pen appears to be a ´normal´ pen, but the text or drawing only appear…
Lees meerScreen expands Schneidler Grafiska distribution portfolio with Truepress Jet digital label press in Scandinavia
Screen has appointed Schneidler Grafiska AB as its exclusive distributor for the Screen Truepress Jet L350UV digital label press in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The move continues the long standing relationship between the two companies. Schneidler, with headquarters in Sweden and branch offices in Denmark and Norway, offers clients a complete end-to-end service from…
Lees meerTaking printing to industrial level: AFIP conference on 2-3 March in Düsseldorf
Fully integrated temp logging label, manufactured by Quad Industries “Printing as an integral part of the production process” will be the main theme of technical presentations during the third Advanced Functional and Industrial Printing (AFIP) conference, organised by ESMA on 2-3 March 2016 in Radisson Blu Scandinavia hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany. The conference…
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 meerPDF/R will be the end of the TIFF data format
The Tagged Image File Format, published in 1986 by Aldus Corporation, will soon be a thing of the past. TWAIN Working Group and PDF Association have developed a specification for a more compact file format based on PDF. The format promises more possibilities than TIFF. PDF/R allows images to be shared, via TWAIN Direct, between…
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 meerAvery Dennison launching six new digital products at FESPA
Avery Dennison is launching 6 new digital products at the 2016 FESPA Digital exhibition, under the theme ‘HERE FOR YOU’. The stand in Hall 1 will feature new MPI™ 1104 cast films, a new digital wall film portfolio, and their latest application trainings and workshops. Shaun A Hobson, senior business director Graphics Solutions Europe, said that…
Lees meerFESPA Textile provides ideal location to learn and share knowledge
Textile printing is proving to be one of the fastest growing sectors in the digital wide format print industry, and with technology a key driver for the changes, demand for education is high on the agenda for print service providers. At FESPA Textile 2016 (8-11 March), FESPA is supporting printers with a daily programme of…
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…
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