HP PrintOS Production Hub Helps Time 2 Display Reduce Bottlenecks in Large-Format Print Workflows

Operator at Time2Display using HP Product Hub software

UK-based print specialist Time 2 Display has transformed its operations by using the HP PrintOS Production Hub platform to integrate order management, job preparation, and remote print control into one connected workflow. Since implementing the system, the company has significantly reduced media costs, waste, internal bottlenecks, and customer response times. Simplifies Complex Workflows Like many print-for-pay users of large-format printers, …

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See Color-Controlled Precision Print Workflows at CGS ORIS Americas HQ

Entrance to CGS ORIS Headquarters in Minnesota

CGS ORIS Americas, a leader in digital print, imaging technology, and color management, recently opened a new headquarters and customer-experience center in Plymouth, Minnesota. The customer experience creates a collaborative space for demonstrations, training sessions, and workflow enhancements. Visitors can explore high-performance UV-inkjet printers by Platinum Technologies, high-resolution METIS surface scanners for fine art and industrial applications, and the high-precision …

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Hybrid Software to Hold Fusion Packaging Summit April 20-22 in Sarasota, Florida

Attendees at Hybrid Software's Fusion Packaging Summit

Hybrid Software, a leading innovator of packaging design and visualization software, is hosting the Fusion Packaging Summit, April 20-22, 2026, at the Westin Sarasota, in Sarasota, Florida. Focused on the future of label and packaging production, the program will help packaging printers and converters, trade shops, brands, and consumer packaged goods companies. The Fusion Summit will explore trends across all …

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Agfa Shows Range of Print Technologies at 2025 PRINTING United Expo

Over the past 25 years, wide-format printing equipment has become wider, sturdier, faster, more versatile, more automated and capable of using specialty inks on specific materials. These advances have laid the groundwork for building custom digital printing systems for industrial manufacturing. The evolution of Agfa’s wide-format printing technology is a good example. Since Agfa announced their Anapurna 100 UV inkjet …

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Significans to Participate in AI Pavilion at the PRINTING United Expo

Milestones in AI advances

At the Printing AI Pavilion at 2025 PRINTING United Expo, visitors can learn how artificial intelligence (AI) is radically transforming the printing and packaging industries. Until AI technology is widely used by all, experts believe AI offers print-service providers a massive competitive advantage. AI Pavilion visitors will see AI applications (including the latest solutions from pioneering exhibitors), hear expert-led panel …

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See Embellished Greg Horn Art Prints at 2025 PRINTING United Expo

The creative technologists behind Color-Logic metallic print embellishment software are collaborating with Unifoil to offer limited-edition prints of Greg Horn’s iconic comic-book artwork at the 2025 PRINTING United Expo from October 22-24 in Orlando. This limited series highlights the remarkable capabilities of Color-Logic design software and demonstrates how metallic effects can elevate print designs to new heights. This will be …

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Fiery Impress DFE Adds Esko Color Engine for Industrial Label and Package Printers

Logos for Esko and Fiery

The Esko color management engine for accurate color reproduction in design-to-print workflows for packaging and label printers has been integrated into the powerful, versatile Impress digital front end (DFE) that Fiery offers to manufacturers for high-speed industrial inkjet printers. Integrating Esko’s Color Engine and the Fiery Impress DFE benefits makes sense for both industrial press manufacturers and press users. Press …

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Durst Group Introduces Open Software Initiative and Smart Factory Portfolio

Quocirca print-business analysts predict “The future of the print industry is not about a single device, but about an intelligent, integrated, and purpose-driven ecosystem that is secure, data-driven, sustainable, and adaptive.” But achieving a secure, adaptive, sustainable ecosystem for printing businesses can be difficult. Over the years, print-service providers have adopted various estimating, inventory management, and job-onboarding tools that may …

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2025 Pinnacle Product Awards for Printing Inks, Media, Software and Other Non-Output Products

The PRINTING United Alliance presents Pinnacle Product Awards to manufacturers or suppliers of innovative hardware, equipment, software, and substrates that are driving the print industry forward. Awards are presented in three categories: Output, Non-Output, and Technology. The Output category honors multiple types and sizes of printing devices. That category is featured in a separate post on this blog. This post …

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Adobe PDF Print Engine 7 Automates Prepress Tasks within the RIP

At FESPA Global Print Expo 2025 Adobe announced version 7 of Adobe PDF Print Engine. Thirty years after the dawn of the PDF era, Adobe’s remains committed to bringing advances in imaging science to commercial printers, packaging converters, and manufacturers worldwide. Adobe PDF Print Engine version 7 reduces manual interactions and supports faster, more automated production by combining challenging prepress …

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