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PRINTING United Alliance Expands Training Options for G7+ Expert Certification

February 25, 2025 by Editor

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, …

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

December 20, 2024 by Editor

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 …

Ricoh Consultants Co-Innovate with Growth-Seeking Print Businesses

January 17, 2025December 17, 2024 by Eileen Fritsch

Ricoh’s Graphic Communications Division offers more than production inkjet presses, toner presses, and wide-format inkjet printers. Over the past 40 years, Ricoh has re-invented itself as a global technology company that provides integrated digital workplace services and print and imaging solutions to many types and sizes of businesses. If your print or graphics business needs expertise for building an integrated …

12 Common Obstacles to Print-Workflow Automation

November 15, 2024 by Editor

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 …

iLearning+ Print-Industry Training for Newcomers and Experienced Pros

August 18, 2024 by Editor

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. iLEARNING+ is now being used …

What is Surface Imaging?

August 2, 2023 by Editor

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, surface decorating specialists can design …

Correcting Common Myths about Printing Paper and Deforestation

October 19, 2021 by Editor

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 deforestation. North American forests are …

Demand for Sustainable Print Technologies Will Create New Business Opportunities

September 11, 2021 by Editor

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, and all major print product …

Ricoh’s Wide-Format Elite Access Helps Operators Solve Production Challenges on Any Brand of Wide-Format Printer

September 1, 2021 by Editor

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 Ricoh USA, Inc. that connects …

Organizations that Promote Sustainability in Printing and Packaging

April 25, 2021April 19, 2021 by Editor

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 a sustainable supply chain and …

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