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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Continuous training is essential to print-industry employees who want to thrive as printing technologies, applications, and markets continue to evolve. One convenient source of print-industry training is the iLEARNING+ e-learning platform. Launched in 2022 by the PRINTING United Alliance, the platform offers relevant introductory, intermediate, and advanced-level courses to industry professionals, students, and educators worldwide. … Read more
In the digital printing world, surface imaging (or surface decorating) refers to using different types of digital printing, cutting, embellishing, and engraving devices to add decorative designs and images to textiles, rigid panels, flexible films, wallcoverings, and other surfaces used in architecture, interior design, fashion, sports apparel, and residential and commercial décor. In other words, … Read more
A recent Two Sides North America survey showed that 48% of Americans believe paper is bad for the environment, and 60% believe U.S. forests are shrinking. That’s not true. In honor of International Print Day (October 20, 2021), we compiled some facts that print buyers should know about the relationship between printing paper use and … Read more
More environmentally friendly printing is emerging as a key industry trend for the 2020s. This trend is examined in detail in the Smithers report “The Future of Green Printing to 2026,” Published in August 2021, the report profiles the evolution of circular economy principles, key legislative initiatives, the impact on analog and digital print processes, … Read more
Print shops can produce almost anything with wide-format printing and finishing devices. But the versatility of the equipment combined with rising customer expectations can also create new challenges–especially for wide-format newcomers who don’t yet understand the intricacies of using a greater variety of specialty materials and workflows. Wide-Format Elite Access is a new service from … Read more
To learn more about sustainability efforts within the printing and packaging industry, the resources listed below can give you a good start. The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP) SGP’s vision to create a true circular economy within the print supply chain. SGP is the print industry’s catalyst to increase business opportunities among brands committed to … Read more
Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia plans to offer a series of short courses related to advanced digital printing technologies for surface imaging. The courses will be designed for imaging and printing practitioners, professional designers, and students in universities and colleges who wish to enhance their careers in the imaging industries. Organizers anticipate launching the courses … Read more
As part of the 14-day PRINTING United Digital Experience, industry analysts and business owners discussed growth opportunities for wide-format graphics producers in the post COVID-19 era. Five themes dominated the outlook sessions, keynote presentations, and panel discussions during the Wide-Format Hardware and Consumables Insight Day (October 26) and the Wide-Format Workflow and Finishing Day (October … Read more