Fujifilm Acuity TR Printer Uses UV-Curable Water-Based Inks

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Fujifilm Acuity TR wide-format inkjet printer with poster print

Fujifilm’s Acuity TR™ revolutionary new 64-inch roll-fed printer uses the company’s proprietary AQUAFUZE™ water-based UV-curable ink. The innovative ink technology combines the benefits and characteristics of water-based and UV inks. Aquafuze was developed by the Fujifilm Ink Solutions Group, a global manufacturer of high-performance inkjet inks and pigment dispersions. About Fujifilm Aquafuze Ink Technology Aquafuze ink uses a photopolymer dispersion …

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Durst P5 SMP Could Be a Game Changer in Large-Format Printing

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Durst P5 SMP high-speed wide-format graphics printer

Durst’s P5 SMP™ (Super Multi-Pass) system is a hybrid UV-LED Multi-Pass Inkjet system with the versatility and production speeds to serve high-volume producers of signs, corrugated packaging and displays, and decor materials. The printer was announced at drupa 2024 and officially launched at a November 2025 event at its production site in Lienz, Austria. With a maximum print width of …

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Agfa Shows Range of Print Technologies at 2025 PRINTING United Expo

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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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Alliance Insights Reports on AI Adoption in the Printing Industry

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A report from Alliance Insights (formerly NAPCO Research) explains how commercial printers, book manufacturers, apparel decorators, and sign and graphics companies are moving beyond the hype about artificial intelligence. The 31-page report, entitled “AI Adoption in the Print Industry,” shows that AI is moving swiftly from experimentation to execution and delivering measurable gains in efficiency and creativity. The report notes …

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Significans to Participate in AI Pavilion at the PRINTING United Expo

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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

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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

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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

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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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Epson SureColor F1070 Printer for Start-Up or Growing Custom Apparel Makers

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Epson SureColor F1070 DTG/DTF inkjet printer

Entrepreneurial creators who want to grow an apparel business may want to check out the Epson SureColor® F1070 Business Edition. With this affordable, compact hybrid printer, users can grow their custom-apparel businesses with two popular garment-decorating methods: direct-to-garment (DTG) or direct-to-film (DTF). The DTG method prints graphics primarily on pretreated cotton and cotton/poly garments that are manually loaded onto the printer. The …

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2025 Pinnacle Product Awards for Technology that Improves Printing

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2025 Pinnacle Product Award Logo

Previous posts on this blog have covered the 2025 Pinnacle Product Awards in the Output and Non-Output categories. This post puts the spotlight on the winners in the Technology category. The Technology category in the Pinnacle Product Awards program of the PRINTING United Alliance continues the tradition of an awards program previously known as the Intertech Technology Awards. The Printing …

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