Help and Learning

By Daniel Gandner, Marabu

Materials that come in contact with sensitive contents must fulfil strict legal requirements to guarantee the safety of foods or cosmetics and, in turn, consumers´ health and wellbeing. This includes provisions governing the transfer of substances from the FCM into the food or cosmetic product. This transfer of substances (migration) is only permitted in quantities that do not endanger human health, change the food´s composition or negatively impact the food´s organoleptic characteristics (like taste or smell).

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By Andy Marken

On my office wall I have two images Picasso’s Don Quixote de la Mancha and the unofficial military public information crest, “Last to Know … First to Go.”

It’s tough getting the entire corporate team moving in the same direction and doing/saying the same thing when you are:
- Constantly tilting windmills to slay dragons
- Not certain if the team is going in the same direction as part of a parade or someone is intent on running others out of town

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The content programme for FESPA Digital 2016, taking place from 8 – 11 March 2016 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, will explore the trends and opportunities in digital printing available to printers today, to help them become a digital print hero.

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Digital PCB Production using industrial inkjet printing

By Roel De Mondt, PhD, Agfa-Gevaert N.V.

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By Sabine A. Slaughter
Wandering around the aisles at SGI and looking at all the offerings one has to wonder what is next for the advertising and communications industry. From screen printing to digital printing and on to digital signage, from cutting to laser cutting and even 3D-form cutting, from lamination to sophisticated application of all kinds of media - all is there to see at the World Trade Center.

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Highlights of the RT Media Imaging Summit & Expo

By Harvey R. Levenson, Ph. D., Professor Emeritus, Cal Poly Graphic Communication Department, San Luis Obispo, Calif.

One thing that was clear from the recent two-day RT Media Imaging Summit & Expo that took place at the South Point Hotel & Casino, in Las Vegas is that, "It's an inkjet and toner world."

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drupa 2016 is set to open its doors in exactly 365 days. Recent years have seen rapid disruptive changes and adoption of new technologies. How does this impact the industry and who will be the biggest player at drupa next? By Sabine A Slaughter

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At the Xerox Premier Partner event in Madrid, keynote speakers and printers outlined their vision of the future to come.

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What you need to know about the cold-foil transfer process

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Green does not equal green – and this not only in terms of colour. How can all industry players – suppliers, print service providers and print customers – achieve a greener environment? Companies like HP help in achieving the goals that lead to less impact on the surrounds.

By Sabine A Slaughter

By now the decision has been taken to decrease the environmental impact. But how should it be done? What measures need to be taken and implemented? Quite a lot of questions arise that not be able to be answered straight away. A multitude of factors have to be taken into account and what is more – which and what measures will offer print industry participants solutions that are affordable yet fit to the individual budgets and jobs. Careful analysis is required to achieve the targets.

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