Technology

Will latest UV techs lighten the load for commercial print?

If you believe the hype then new UV curing technology is, after dominating first Japan and latterly mainland Europe, about to revolutionise the UK sheetfed litho market.

Documobi unveils system for ‘unbelievably personal’ DM

Documobi, the company behind mobile print recognition system iPR, has launched mobile technology that personalises direct mail.

Process upgrades to green up your print

As the old saying goes, small changes can make a big difference. One area this is particularly true for printers is the pressroom. Of course investing in a brand new super-duper eco-friendly press is...

Success with fabric may be cut from a different cloth

Fabric is both a synonym for textiles and the word for discussing the very essence of stuff. So it’s something of a paradox that in all the talk of printing textiles, the materials themselves are...

Welcome to the 2014 Wide-format report

In many respects digital is a mature technology, certainly insofar as the stranglehold it has on many wide-format markets. But, that’s not to say that as a technology it has exhausted its growth...

Getting to grips with digital’s post-press requirements

Ripe Digital discovered the importance of finishing the hard way. “When we bought our press, an HP Indigo, we thought ‘that’s it, we’re printers now’,” says director Richard Penny of when the company,...

3D technology – a model future for print?

Suddenly, all of your customers have become 3D print customers. At least in principle. On 16 January, Adobe added 3D printing support to Photoshop Creative Cloud, which is already used by pretty well...

Use numbers to fine tune performance

We live in an age where highly automated machines have taken most of the guess work out of manufacturing. But despite hitting new heights of sophistication, the latest generation of machines are not...

Dates for your diary: why tech TLC goes a long way

Okay, so it’s honesty time: can you truthfully say that you have completed every scheduled maintenance process on every machine in your print business on the day and at the time it was scheduled? Do...

Forecasting the future fortunes of print tech

A new year, a new technology landscape, potentially, for printers to get their heads around. So what should printers be keeping their eyes on?