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Vanguard Digital Printing Systems Opens Experience Center in Tennessee

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Vanguard Digital Printing Systems, A Durst Group Company, has opened an experience center in the culturally rich small town of Franklin, Tennessee. Located near Nashville, the new Vanguard experience center enables dealers, customers, and potential buyers to get an in-depth, up-close look at the features and capabilities of Vanguard’s award-winning wide-format UV flatbed and roll-to-roll inkjet printers. According to a …

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Smithers Forecasts Future of Digital vs. Offset Printing to 2029

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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

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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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Print Workflow Automation: Q&A with President of Significans Automation

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Integrated automated workflow

For the March issue of the PRINTING United Journal, I interviewed multiple experts for an article about the value of integrated automated workflows for printing businesses. One expert interviewed was Marc Raad, President and CEO of Significans Automation. Because there wasn’t room in the article for all of the insights he provided, I am publishing the interview as a Q&A …

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

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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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End-to-End Printing Workflows for Users of Offset, Flexo, and Digital Presses

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ECO3 and ePS software partnership

In 2024, ECO3 and eProductivity Software (ePS) began collaborating to develop custom end-to-end integrated printing workflows for the many printing and packaging businesses that use a mix of offset, flexo, hybrid, and digital presses. The integrated workflows can shorten deadlines, reduce errors, and optimize production choices in enterprises use offset and/or flexo presses for high-volume jobs along with digital presses …

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The Future of Large-Format Printing: AI, Sustainability, and Remote Innovation

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Large-format printer in green jungle

By Mike BoyleGlobal Head, Large-Format Printing, HP At HP we are already looking to the year ahead and all the ways we can leverage technology and innovation to work smarter for our customers. In 2025, we’ll see some transformative changes in the Large Format Print (LFP) industry, as it continues to embrace AI (artificial intelligence), sustainability and remote innovation. As …

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

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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

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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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