Wide-format

Roland DG is showing a new sub €30,000 sublimation package for printers looking to add soft-signage printing at Fespa in Cologne.

Very high speed inkjets look set to shake up the large-format printing market in the coming year. The mighty HP will bring its PageWide technology to market, battling existing Memjet technology that...

The fundamental principles of colour management are pretty straightforward: we use profiles to record the characteristics of printing devices and of the substrates and adapt the way we lay the ink...

UV inkjet is undergoing a boom in applications, fuelled in part by advances in materials science that have enabled the development of speciality inks that can meet a variety of unique needs.

Writing this on the eve of what looks set to be a record-breaking Fespa, it’s easy to see why there remains such a buzz around the wide-format sector.

Lasers have long been a staple of science fiction. Whether it’s Darth Vader ordering the destruction of the planet Alderaan from his giant orbitting Death Star or James Bond and the US ‘Space Marines’...

We’ve put aside the big ticket items and six- or seven-figure budgets in order to take a look at some wide-format ‘bargain buys’ – useful pieces of equipment or software that cost less than £10,000.

It was Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana who came up with the aphorism “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” and it’s certainly true that the past has much to...

InkTec has launched its new superwide device, the 5m UV roll-to-roll Jetrix RX5000, at Fespa.