Episode 3: Ink and Substrates Matter
by Noel Ward, Editor@Large
So you know inkjet is the game changer and has a lot of room to grow and change, and that an inkjet press running coated or glossy paper offers more paths to profitability. Priming fluids may have helped, but are not necessarily essential. So it sill comes down to putting the ink on the page, which is why Ink and Substrates Matter.
Inks and Substrates Matter
On any flavor of press, substrates...
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Chasing the Holy Grail of Inkjet Printing * Third of 3 Parts
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Chasing the Holy Grail of Inkjet Printing: The Second of Three Parts
Episode 2: To Prime or not to Prime?
by Noel Ward, Editor@Large
The story so far: Inkjet printing on glossy and coated stocks is a Holy Grail of inkjet printing. But like in human relationships, there’s chemistry involved, only here it is the chemistry of inks and the surface of the paper. The technologies are advancing all the time, but for the moment it comes to one question:
To Prime or Not to Prime?
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Chasing the Holy Grail of Inkjet Printing: The First of Three Parts
Episode 1: Where Ink and Paper Meet
By Noel Ward, Editor@Large
It’s probably no coincidence that adoption of high-speed inkjet printing has been growing right along with the throughput speeds of the presses. But for all they offer, high-speed inkjet systems have typically lacked the ability to handle coated or glossy substrates. Now, thanks to changes in inks and papers, such stocks are speeding beneath the print heads of many inkjet presses. This expands the opportunities...Last edited by noelward; 11-30-2017, 08:55 AM. -
Xeikon Café Opens Shop in Chicago
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Xeikon Café Opens Shop in Chicago
By Noel Ward, Editor@Large
If you aren’t a Xeikon customer or prospect, or just didn’t go to the recent Xeikon Cafe in Chicago, you missed a great event. We’ll get to that. But first, a bit of history.
That was then…
A quarter century ago, at a trade show called IPEX (now a mere shadow of its former self) two smallish companies rolled out their full-color digital printing presses. Today, the latest iterations of their machines are still influencing the ever-expanding... -
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How Canon Users thINK
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How Canon Users thINK
By Noel Ward, Editor@Large
Early fall is a fine time to go to south Florida. Hurricanes are (maybe) a bit less likely to disrupt travel plans, the temps have dropped out of the nineties and although the humidity is still there, the lower end of the Sunshine State is not a bad place to be, especially when the venue is the tony Boca Raton Resort and the reason for being there is Canon thINK 2017. This third iteration of Canon’s customer-driven conference brought in more than 400 people... -
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An under-the-radar flight pattern for MCS Inc.
by Sean O’Leary
The first thing Glenn Toole said to me was “We change our world every 4 - 5 years and if we don’t we’re not moving ahead.”
It was just last week that your PrintPlanet reporter stopped by MCS, Inc.’s Bolingbrook, IL National Demonstration Facility for a follow up chat with Glenn Toole, Vice President Sales & Marketing. This trip was sort of a continuation of a brief Print ’17 booth visit, after which I had been dogged by a feeling that there was more... -
Putting the customer at the center
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Putting the customer at the center
An interview with the Managing Director of Enfocus
Some of our members may be aware of changes at Enfocus during this year. As change happens, staff turnover occurs and some new faces emerge. Such has been the case at Enfocus, however the one constant is their ongoing customer support, evident on PrintPlanet posts and by their own, internal customer support. At PRINT-17, our staff had the chance to meet the new Managing Director, Wim Fransen, and discuss his customer-centric focus.
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Seeking Full Disclosure: Who was Underwhelmed by PRINT 17?
By Noel Ward, Editor@Large
Trying not to be snarkier than usual, I look back on four days at PRINT 17, remembering what it once looked like, thinking about what many I spoke with said about the show, and wondering what universe NPES lives in when they say this show went well.
To be sure, the educational sessions, on the floor and in meeting rooms, were very good. These are one of the prime reasons for attending a trade show and anyone who goes to a show without taking advantage...Last edited by noelward; 09-21-2017, 03:48 PM. -
Short-Run Rotary Die-Cutting: More Value and More Margin
By Richard Romano, Industry Analyst
Printing today is about more than ink on paper. In fact, even saying “ink on paper” is an anachronism, given the bewildering variety of substrates that today’s equipment can print on. Today’s print customers are increasingly looking for ways for what they produce to stand out from other printed items, either in customers’ mailboxes, on store shelves, or any other environment where printed materials are jostling for attention. To that end,... -
Automated Cross Platform Color Management is Now a Thing
"What do you want the job to look like, where is it going and what are the rules for mapping out of gamut colors?"
Sean O’Leary
Chief Technology Officer | Print Planet
I was recently involved in producing case studies documenting a half dozen large commercial printers’ installations of high speed production inkjet printers. The featured inkjet models were built by Xerox, Fuji, Ricoh, HP, Konica-Minolta and other major manufacturers and they had been installed...
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