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Have you called KM about this? You are probably not the first KM-1 owner to encounter this. I suspect a specific foil is required that is compatible with the ink.

by Noel Ward, Editor@Large Why ever would you want to automate your operation? After all, it seems far too complex, costs money, involves a lot of your people, will absorb significant time, and you figure you probably don’t need it. And then you run out of excuses. I used to work with a guy...

By Noel Ward, Editor@Large The title above is not intended as an existential question, but as the relevance of print continues to evolve it is worth consideration. Of interest here is a technology called Augmented Reality and its relationship to print. Is there one? Definitely. At PRINT 18 I...

Nice work! Very informative video.

By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Many printers I talk with say they worry that some jobs may be handled without the attention to detail they claim is part of their company culture. Ensuring that such care is taken is not always an easy task, especially once a job leaves prepress and lands in...

PIRA is about right although their methodologies can leave something to be desired. I disagree with their projections, but digital share in packaging will still remain low. BTW, the Labelexpo I went to in Chicago (Sept 25-27) had a lot of both digital and flexo presses on the floor. There is...

by Noel Ward, Editor@Large The Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois is probably not on anyone’s bucket list of must-see locations, yet every two years the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center is packed to the roof trusses with label and flexible packaging pros looking for new technologies that...

By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Just about all the major equipment and software vendors these days hold annual events to connect with customers and prospects, talk about new technologies, and try to bring a personal touch to what can otherwise be a somewhat distant relationship. These shindigs span...

Color is like politics or religion. It matters more to some people than others. Color is like politics or religion. It matters more to some people than others. Color accuracy IS important, but although achieving perfect color was once the holy grail of print production, the world has changed...

By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Chances are, you’re seeing more and more jobs that require full color—it may be even most of the ones coming in, given the rapid increase in digital short-run printing. With that demand comes the need for color consistency, reliability and predictability, so you have...

By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Owners of small to mid-size businesses—meaning just about any type of print provider—know first-hand how tough it can be to keep a business profitable and moving forward. You’re always looking to get the most favorable returns on every deal and you try not to leave...

By Noel Ward, Editor @ Large What works and what doesn’t? What is making you crazy and keeping you up at night? Where is the money going? And how about the profits? One of the best parts of the work I do is getting inside printing operations, learning about the different issues print providers...

By Noel Ward, Editor @Large Well, maybe you haven’t been hacked (that you know of), but chances are one or more of your customers has, whether or not they are willing to admit it. I was getting a glass of wine at the One Canon event a few weeks back when Carlos Fernandes the head of Agile...

As near as I can tell, the USPS couldn't find a single one of its post offices using a military spec GPS, a map with the post office marked on it, and a dozen employees. And you expect them to figure out how to ship a package to the far side of the world? Right. Like that will happen. I'm...

By Noel Ward When the first high speed inkjet machines, all roll-to-roll devices, began reaching the market there was a lot of skepticism. Even some of the journalists and analysts with whom I swap perspectives weren’t sure inkjet was going to be a real player. Some thought (or maybe hoped)...

by Noel Ward, Editor@Large What do you do when things go sideways? What does your team do? Who decides? And how do people feel when it’s all over? Successful? Or maybe like everyone just dodged a bullet? When things don’t go according to plan, there are usually a few people in any organization...

by Noel Ward, Editor@Large Ask yourself a question: How dependent is your business on the support available for the equipment and technology on your shop floor? If your company is like most others in our industry the answer is probably something like, “More than I’d like it to be.” To minimize...

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...

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...

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...