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Like their forebears at the time of the nation’s founding, printers are doing what they do best to popularize the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Read about it here...

Offset lithography is well prepared to attract its share of attention at drupa: https://whattheythink.com/articles/119336-offset-stands-ready-take-rightful-place-drupa-2024/

Can you imagine printing packages and labels without black ink? Neither can I. But the New York State Legislature can, and some of its members want to force the industry in that direction by banning the pigment carbon black from packaging and label production. It's just one part of a sweeping...

For a story about how printers plan their capital expenditures, I'd like to hear from owners / CEOs who have recently made or plan to make major investments in production technologies. Please contact me at [email protected]

In the Bronx, an all-volunteer organization known as Women's Press Collective is demonstrating why print remains foremost among the media as a force for social good. Its pressroom in the Bronx may be the only remaining place in the New York City metro area where people who don’t work for...

From left, Graphic Communications Scholarship Foundation (GCSF) board members David Garcia, Amybeth Menendez, John Aaron, and Diane Romano (president); Samantha Farber, recipient, 2022 APC-NYC Judy Salmon Scholarship Award; Kaye Torres, recipient, 2022 Graphic Communications Scholarship...

Here goes: why couldn't we print in color with an RGB plus black ink set? When transparent CMY inks (the subtractive primaries) overprint, they produce R, G, or B (the additive primaries) depending on what combination is used. Wouldn't the same thing happen, but in reverse, with overprints of...

Graph Expo 2008 is coming. What if you could give the exhibitors a “wish list” of the new products and solutions that you would most like to see them bring to the show? Here’s your chance. WhatTheyThink wants to know, and we want to include the hot picks from your wish list in a pre-show story...

I was asked the other day whether a 10% over/under allowance was still a generally accepted printing trade custom. My response was that the over/under percentage is whatever the printer and the customer agree to put in the contract. The "official" language of the printing trade customs as...