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What is the new black?

By John Blyth, Marketing and Communications Manager, Ricoh Graphic Communications, Ricoh Europe
Have you seen the latest Rolls-Royce? The Black Badge Ghost. It’s the blackest Rolls-Royce ever specified, featuring the “deepest, darkest, heaviest black” ever put on a Rolls-Royce. The marketing for this new edition is almost all around the all-encompassing black colour scheme.

To tint or not to tint?

By Dennis Leblanc, Senior Business Development Manager, North America, at Drytac.

Selecting materials and media for a print job can be a tricky process, with the pressure firmly on the print service provider to ensure they make the right choice and achieve a high-quality result.

Duggal: 5 Types of Sustainable Printing Technology

5 Types of Sustainable Printing Technology Duggal Uses Daily

Why print’s ability to engage is driving physical magazine launches

By Sander Sondaal, Director Commercial Print Sales, Ricoh Graphic Communications, Ricoh Europe

Parkrun has launched a free magazine citing the mental health benefits of being away from screens.

Behind the Name: Decoding Mimaki’s Products

By Mark Sollman, Product Manager EMEA, Mimaki Europe

Mimaki has, over the decades, released an extensive array of products, across multiple sectors and all using various technologies. What many may not know is that the product names alone tell a great deal about each printer or cutter, through a series of letters and numbers. Here we can use the high quality, high productivity textile sublimation inkjet printer, the TS330-1600, which offers a high-quality solution to printers looking to explore digital sublimation printing and expand their production capacity, as an example.

The Green Revolution: How Microfactories Can Change the Face of Fashion

By Mark Sollman, Product Manager EMEA, Mimaki Europe
With the all-important COP26 Climate Change Conference having taken centre stage in November, there is no time like the present for the fashion world to rally together in stepping up sustainability efforts and getting carbon emissions under control.

Screen vs Digital Printing - What are the advantages of each?

Digital Printing is a relatively recent application for printing. The first digital printers were launched in the early 1990s and over the last 30 years have expanded to become a major segment of the printing industry.

Direct printing on glass that works

Glass is both a fascinating and a demanding material. As an expert in the field, you already know this – so let us just add: Digital direct printing on glass unlocks promising fields of business, and swissQprint flatbed printers are your key to success.

Why print shows continue to play a vital industry role

By Eef De Ridder, Vice President, Graphic Communications Group, Ricoh Europe
Print industry events are at last regaining their rightful place in the calendar and it has been hugely exciting to see clients, partners, and colleagues, as well as meet new prospects, once again.

Profit from Drytac’s pattern coating science

By Phil Webster, Head of Industrial Sales, EMEA, at Drytac
Adhesives are absolutely critical to the success of applications across a range of sectors. Simply put, if you get this choice wrong, then you put the entire project in jeopardy and run the risk of undoing your hard work earlier on in the process, thus costing you valuable time, money and, potentially, repeat business.

Certificates for UV inks

As more and more specific requirements are imposed on inks and on printed products, there’s no getting around certificates any more. We have made an overview of the most commonly used certificates for inks.