PSA SURVEY: FOUR MORE WEEKS TO GO
The goal of RIT’s Print Standards Audit (PSA) Survey is to capture the impact of standards and certification on printing operations around the world. Today, the survey is well on its way to fulfilling this goal. The survey consists of two parts: (1) a 15 minute Internet survey to collect information on the practices printers […]
Heidelberg USA and PIAG to Host “Check It Out” and “FoldMania” Workshops on June 22
Heidelberg USA’s Print Media Academy, in conjunction with the Educational Foundation of the Printing and Imaging Association of Georgia, will host “Check it Out”, a free prepress, press and bindery check essential skills workshop for print buyers and printers, on June 22 from 9 a.m. until noon. Then following is a second session, “FoldMania,” a […]
Masterpiece Graphix Releases New Line of RIT-Certified Papers for HP Indigo and Kodak Nexpress
Masterpiece Graphix has released a new line of value-priced, RIT-Certified digital gloss papers for the HP Indigo and Kodak Nexpress: MGX Digital 80# Text, MGX Digital 100# Text, MGX Digital 80# Cover, and MGX Digital 100# Cover. All stocks are glossy-coated on both sides and digitally optimized for two-sided printing. These paper stocks are available […]
FujiFilm To Measure/Rate Proofing Submissions For IPA/IDEAlliance Technical Conference
Can’t attend the IPA/IDEAlliance Technical Conference but still want to know how your proofer rates? Send it to Fujifilm. The Graphic Systems Division of FUJIFILM North America Corporation is using its Taskero Universe ColorPath Verified to measure all proofs during the IPA/ Technical Conference, which is being held in Chicago on June 7-8, and is […]
‘Positively Print’ Program Launched to Recognize Printers Championing the Power of Print
A new print advocacy program, aptly named “Positively Print” and designed to promote the power of print in the media mix, has been announced by the Graphic Arts Show Co. (GASC). GASC produces the graphic communications industry’s largest and most comprehensive tradeshows in the Americas, the annual GRAPH EXPO and alternating every fourth-year global PRINT […]
drupa report 2010
The latest drupa report No. 2 is hot off the press and available in 41 different versions: national landmarks of the key exhibitor and visitor markets adorn the covers of the individual editions. This has resulted in a very diverse collection. In addition to these country-specific editions, there is also the “Düsseldorf Edition” – the […]
Sun Chemical to Increase Heatset Ink and Rycoline® Prices in North America
Sun Chemical will implement a 6 percent price increase for heatset and directory inks in North America effective July 1, 2010. Prices will also increase for all of Sun Chemical Rycoline® blanket and roller washes, specialty solvents, isopropyl alcohol, alcohol replacement and aqueous coatings. The price of solvent-based washes will increase by $0.50 per gallon […]
The issue of metamerism in print production
With print, each medium in the production process from original art to image capture, monitor display, proof, and final presswork has its own unique spectral characteristics. The majority of color reproductions utilize cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks or colorants. But none of those inks are exact spectral matches to the media originally used to […]
Going Green: Questions to Ask Your Printer
Ready to dive, head first, into the waters of sustainable print production? Perhaps you’ve taken a peek at some of the sites provided in “Going Green: 45 Educational Resources” and now you’re eager to take off the arm floaties? What about your print partners? Are they swimming in the same ocean or are they knee-deep […]
Stop the Presses! 5 Wonderfully Nostalgic Printing Presses
The movable type printing press is widely regarded as one of the most important inventions of all time. Once we were able to communicate ideas to large numbers of people, our collective knowledge grew and civilization took a giant leap forward. Johannes Gutenberg couldn’t have foreseen in the 15th century what a huge impact his […]
KBA Introduces DensiTronic PDF Reader Module
KBA North America, a global press manufacturer based in Dallas, is introducing its new and unique DensiTronic PDF reader for its sheetfed offset presses. This new scanning system can be easily added onto the press as a part of the KBA DensiTronic Professional closed-loop scanning spectrodensitometer system that provides density and color measuring for quality […]
For Memorial Day, Thoughts of Print in Times of War
The first official observance of Memorial Day took place on May 30, 1868, with the laying of flowers upon the graves of Union and Confederate dead in Arlington National Cemetery. Just a few years past was the end of the Civil War, a conflict that stands as history’s most thoroughly documented set of hostilities up […]