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Smithers Forecasts Future of Digital vs. Offset Printing to 2029

Offset printer in action

The market-research firm Smithers has published a new report:  The Future of Digital vs Offset Printing to 2029. It examines how offset and digital printing technologies are competing for market shares and tracks the revenue and technology outlooks for both sectors from 2024 to 2029. Offset Printing Smithers forecasts that demand for offset litho printing will fall from $354.4 billion …

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PRINTING United Alliance Expands Training Options for G7+ Expert Certification

Logo for G7+

Whatever combination of printing devices your print business uses (e.g., offset, flexographic, wide format inkjet, digital toner/inkjet, sublimation, direct-to-garment) the G7+TM method of process control can help your shop achieve color success. Training for G7+ Expert Certification can help print-production managers and other professionals responsible for ensuring color accuracy and consistency in printed products, such as brand managers, color managers, …

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Roland Adds XP-640 Eco-Solvent Inkjet Printer to Its TrueVIS Series

Roland DG TrueVIS XP-640 eco-solvent inkjet printer

Roland DGA has added the 64-inch, 8-ink TrueVIS XP-640 high-speed roll-to-roll eco-solvent printer to its TruVIS series of wide-format inkjet printers that use UV, latex, or eco-solvent inks. The XP-640 will appeal to companies produce higher volumes of eye-catching, outdoor-durable prints for applications such as vehicle graphics, banners, billboards, and event marketing displays.   “While sign and graphic production has diversified …

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Meet Creators of Branded Environments and Wayfinding Signage at ISA Sign Expo

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The Society for Experiential Design (SEGD) will hold two full-day educational programs concurrently with the 2025 International Sign Expo, April 23-25 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV. The SEGD is a community of graphic and exhibition designers, fabricators, architects, media developers, creative technologists, teachers and students who design experiences that connect people to places. The co-located …

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How a Long-Time Book Publisher Retooled Its Business to Handle Orders from Ten to Millions of Copies

Paltz collaborative robot at Core Publishing Solutions

By Eileen Fritsch The digital transformation of printing that began in the late 1990s didn’t really take off until the Great Recession of 2008-2009 forced publishers and distributors of printed books. newspapers, and magazines to cut costs by publishing more of their content online or in e-books. One company that has successfully adapted to the dramatic drop in demand for …

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Press-Ready 2025 Time-Travel Calendar with Color-Logic Print Embellishments

Color-Logic 2025 Calendar

Color-Logic has produced a visually striking 2025 Calendar for print-service providers that use Color-Logic print embellishment technologies with their digital printers. Designed to be printed with CMYK and white inks or toners on a metallic substrate, this calendar serves as both a functional planner and an elegant piece of art. Mark Geeves, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing, said, “As …

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HP Latex F Series Are Upgradeable Superwide Latex Inkjet Printers

The HP Latex FS50 and FS60 3.2-meter (126-in.) industrial roll-to-roll inkjet printers for mid- to high-volume graphics production are built to last. Instead of having to be replaced and scrapped as the internal printing technology ages, the HP Latex FS printers can be enhanced periodically with new hardware and software technologies that HP develops. Print-service providers (PSPs) can choose the …

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12 Common Obstacles to Print-Workflow Automation

Worker managing task board with sticky notes

Improving automation is critical to the profitability of modern print-service providers. But automating workflows doesn’t happen overnight. It requires an ongoing effort to integrate the software for use with a mix of old and new equipment old and continuously update variations in job costs and pricing. It often also requires adjusting some traditional practices and employee attitudes. In an education …

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Printful and Printify Announce Merger

The CEOs of Printful and Printify

The pioneering platforms Printful and Printify enable hundreds of thousands of individuals and businesses to use the efficiency of on-demand production to build their own e-commerce businesses. On November 5, 2024, they announced plans to merge. The merger has satisfied regulatory review and received overwhelming support from the shareholders of both companies. Today the two companies serve hundreds of thousands …

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Mimaki TS330-3200DS is a New Hybrid Digital Textile Printer

Mimaki TS330-3200DS hybrid sublimation-textile inkjet printer

At PRINTING United Expo 2024, Mimaki USA introduced a new hybrid textile printer that can easily be switched from printing on sublimation transfer paper to printing directly on polyester textiles. The Mimaki 3.2-meter TS330-3200DS prints 4 colors of water-based sublimation inks on rolls of transfer paper or polyester fabrics up to 127.6 in. wide. Based on proven Mimaki 330 printheads …

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