‘Positively Print’ Program Launched to Recognize Printers Championing the Power of Print
A new print advocacy program, aptly named “Positively Print” and designed to promote the power of print in the media mix, has been announced by the Graphic Arts Show Co. (GASC). GASC produces the graphic communications industry’s largest and most comprehensive tradeshows in the Americas, the annual GRAPH EXPO and alternating every fourth-year global PRINT […]
drupa report 2010
The latest drupa report No. 2 is hot off the press and available in 41 different versions: national landmarks of the key exhibitor and visitor markets adorn the covers of the individual editions. This has resulted in a very diverse collection. In addition to these country-specific editions, there is also the “Düsseldorf Edition” – the […]
Sun Chemical to Increase Heatset Ink and Rycoline® Prices in North America
Sun Chemical will implement a 6 percent price increase for heatset and directory inks in North America effective July 1, 2010. Prices will also increase for all of Sun Chemical Rycoline® blanket and roller washes, specialty solvents, isopropyl alcohol, alcohol replacement and aqueous coatings. The price of solvent-based washes will increase by $0.50 per gallon […]
The issue of metamerism in print production
With print, each medium in the production process from original art to image capture, monitor display, proof, and final presswork has its own unique spectral characteristics. The majority of color reproductions utilize cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks or colorants. But none of those inks are exact spectral matches to the media originally used to […]
Going Green: Questions to Ask Your Printer
Ready to dive, head first, into the waters of sustainable print production? Perhaps you’ve taken a peek at some of the sites provided in “Going Green: 45 Educational Resources” and now you’re eager to take off the arm floaties? What about your print partners? Are they swimming in the same ocean or are they knee-deep […]
Stop the Presses! 5 Wonderfully Nostalgic Printing Presses
The movable type printing press is widely regarded as one of the most important inventions of all time. Once we were able to communicate ideas to large numbers of people, our collective knowledge grew and civilization took a giant leap forward. Johannes Gutenberg couldn’t have foreseen in the 15th century what a huge impact his […]
KBA Introduces DensiTronic PDF Reader Module
KBA North America, a global press manufacturer based in Dallas, is introducing its new and unique DensiTronic PDF reader for its sheetfed offset presses. This new scanning system can be easily added onto the press as a part of the KBA DensiTronic Professional closed-loop scanning spectrodensitometer system that provides density and color measuring for quality […]
For Memorial Day, Thoughts of Print in Times of War
The first official observance of Memorial Day took place on May 30, 1868, with the laying of flowers upon the graves of Union and Confederate dead in Arlington National Cemetery. Just a few years past was the end of the Civil War, a conflict that stands as history’s most thoroughly documented set of hostilities up […]
Kodak offers three affordable ways to deploy Web to print solutions to print service providers
In comparison to other Web to print offerings, which can depend on a click charge, the KODAK INSITE Storefront System now provides three affordable pricing packages. Print service providers can choose a Kodak hosted, customer hosted (both under subscription) or purchase option. Uniquely, customers can switch between options to accommodate any changes in their circumstances […]
New UK Postal Regulatory Framework Proposal
Postcomm, the UK postal regulator, has today set out its proposals for the introduction of the first phase of a new regulatory framework for the postal services market to replace the structure that has been in place since 2006. A new and stable regulatory framework is a key requirement for securing a successful future for […]
Graph Expo 2010
Printing industry professionals from North, South and Central America, as well as the Caribbean, will convene October 3 – 6, 2010, at McCormick Place South in Chicago, Illinois, to attend GRAPH EXPO 2010, the largest graphic communications exhibition and conference in the Americas. See full details at: http://www.graphexpo.com/
Why One-to-One Cross Media is going to change our future?
Innovative Web. Recently, as a web to print expert, I started to investigate the integrated One-to-One Cross Media opportunities and my eyes really opened up. If you are a Service Provider and your purpose is to become a Marketing Service Provider, One-to-One Cross Media campaigns must be part of your future services. Why? First let […]
