Mike Hilton’s Global News: Print is being integrated with digital!
Welcome to this week’s news roundup of yet another 20 of the best received during the past seven days and a new addition in Online Features from Ricoh South Africa’s Vaughan Patterson explaining how print is being integrated with digital in ways we never would have thought possible, such as with printed electronics in consumer publications.
“Print’s transcendence of time unites customers with your digital story — Print is being integrated with digital in ways we never would have thought possible. One such way is through printed circuits. Brands can literally print an electronic circuit in a magazine for a novel form of advertising. There are examples of outdoorsy brands that have printed torches so people can rip a page from a magazine and light up the trail. It’s gimmicky but it’s novel and stands out like a lighthouse on a remote and storm-tossed shoreline to paraphrase bad novels.” —Vaughan Patterson, Ricoh South Africa.
The tailender this week goes to Duplo (Monday) as printers are invited to get ‘hands-on’ with latest products and innovations at an inspirational new showcase event set to take place at its headquarters in Surrey, UK, on 15 and 16 February.
Mike Hilton
e-News comprises: Headline News – Online Feature Articles – the Verdigris initiative and Wild Format Technology Guides from Digital Dots, and our Drupa and Newsroom, all of which can be accessed from the Website Home Page and its Index. We also have News in Review, which provides a weekly overview and listing of all news added to the site in the prior week.
Headline News
Over 28,000 news items have now gone online since we launched our Website in September 2001. News for the past 24 months can still be accessed via the Home Page and its continuation news page
Week beginning Mon 23 January – publication date is in each footline.
Monday
Domino at Label & Print 2017 at the NEC in March
Domino Digital Printing Solutions to exhibit vibrant range of digitally textured labels at Label & Print 2017…
Duplo invites you to get hands-on in February
Printers are being invited to get ‘hands-on’ with latest products and innovations at an inspirational new showcase event…
Swedish College to teach students Hybrid PACKZ
Hybrid Software PACKZ keeps Swedish students at the forefront of packaging technology at Brobygrafiska College in Sunne…
Falkland installs its first central cooling device
Falkland Press to use Technotrans exterior central cooling system to minimise waste heat from press’ ancillary cabinets…
Tuesday
The FINAT label industry’s 2017 calendar
2017 looks like being a busy year for events for the international labelling association, FINAT…
Canon to sponsor Rugby World Cup 2019
Canon has renewed its contract and become the first company to serve as an official sponsor for the Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan…
Clinical Print Finishers invests in B2 Folding
IFS-supplied Horizon AFC566F folding machine supports flexible service delivery at Leicester trade house…
Walter Digital chooses Ricoh Pro VC60000
The Stuttgart firm has invested in a Ricoh Pro VC60000 inkjet press to increase efficiency and productivity…
Wednesday
Technotrans pumps up the volume on cooling for digital
Chilling for digital printing with the Omega and smart.chiller products will be one of the key issues at PrintWeekLive! In Coventry in March…
Sun Chemical partners with DSS for anti-counterfeiting
Sun Chemical partners with Document Security Systems to cross market and sell brand protection technology…
AVT SpectraLab II now X-Rite XRGA compliant
SpectraLab II, AVT’s latest in-line spectral measurement solution now certified as X-Rite XRGA compliant…
Flint Centre of Technical Excellence adds new flexo press
Flint Group Narrow Web finalises investment in a state-of-the-art Mark Andy flexo press at its Rogers, Minnesota, facility…
Thursday
EFI reports record Fourth Quarter, Full Year 2016 results
Electronics For Imaging, Inc. today announced its preliminary results for the fourth quarter and year ended 31 December, 2016…
POLAR anniversary machines to celebrate 111th birthday
Looking back with pride on its success story, the company plans to thank its customers with exclusive gifts…
GMG announces a new release of GMG OpenColor
New GMG OpenColor now provides innovative GMG colour separation technology for Adobe Photoshop and PACKZ…
Enplater acquires its second HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press
Spanish converter Enplater acquires second HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press reinforcing its leadership in food packaging…
Friday
Real and Artificial Intelligence: Guy Gecht at Connect
Using both to gain profit-building efficiencies. An overview of EFI Connect 2017, 17 – 20 January in Las Vegas by Rosemary Monaco…
SPGPrints reflects on a positive Heimtextil 2017
Excitement for SPGPrints’ new 3200mm-wide Javelin and 700mm-wide Pike home deco printers at Heimtextil 2017 earlier this month…
TRESU Group at ICE Europe in Munich from 21 – 23 March
TRESU to exhibit its flexo ancillary programme for optimised flow control at ICE Europe 2017 in Munich…
SoOPAK unveils its new customer-friendly Website
The leading short-run packaging specialist launches ‘our box, your success’ tagline and revamped Website to emphasise being the best online packaging solution provider in North America…
The lead articles from a week last Friday…
Ricoh at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2017 in Lucerne
Ricoh to focus on end-to-end workflow with Ricoh Pro VC60000; and Pro C9100 at Hunkeler Innovationdays from 20 – 23 February…
Premier boosts productivity with Promatrix 106 CS
Premier Folding Carton in Cincinnati reaping the benefits of Heidelberg’s Promatrix 106 CS die-cutting machine…
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Online Feature articles 2014 – 2017
Only 49 articles for last year – but you will find another eleven Expert Articles and ten drupa ante portas Blogs from Andreas Weber in our drupa Newsroom. There were over 70 last year, and over 90 in 2013 and in 2014 which can still be accessed via the Index on the Home Page.
Online Features Jan/Feb Chapter 03
Print’s transcendence of time unites customers with your digital story
Print is being integrated with digital in ways we never would have thought possible. By Vaughan Patterson, Ricoh SA…
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Improving colour across suppliers
Colour is an integral part of every product we see and touch, and it elicits an emotional response. By Shoshana Burgett, director of corporate strategy for X-Rite Pantone…
Verdigris – Environmental Initiative
Laurel Brunner’s weekly Verdigris Blogs 2017
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Trumping the Paris Agreement
The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner – Fri 20 Jan
Technology Guides – from Digital Dots
Technology Guides for Wild Format 2016 – 2017
This is the brand new series for 2016 – 2017. The first 18 can now be found in this special section in the Index on our Website Home Page. All have illustrated PDFs to download.
No 19 – Installation Basics for Wide Format Projects
Have you ever heard that print is dead? Well, if you have, I’m sure you disagree, especially when we look at the development of digitally printed options. By Paul Lindström
No 18 – Machine Head
Investing in the right wide format equipment is paramount for any digital print provider. With options more diversified than ever, just how do you find out which machine will really rock your shop? By Sonja Angerer…
Drupa Newsroom
Our Drupa Newsroom with news from Messe Düsseldorf and for Drupa 2016 can be found in the Index. It is divided into Chapters for your convenience… but you must scroll down to view each Chapter and its content when you visit the Newsroom…
News from Messe Düsseldorf 2016 – 2017
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Messe Düsseldorf to reconstruct Southern Section
Plans for the reconstruction of the South Entrance and Halls 1 + 2 in a EUR 140m investment approved for completion in 2019…
The various Chapters in the drupa Newsroom are highlighted below. When you enter, just scroll down to see and access the complete collection:
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