The German company Werner & Mertz has once again contributed a sustainable packaging and print advancement to the print community. With their partners Siegwerk, EPEA Switzerland and Mondi, their Recyclate Initiative has developed a flexographic printing ink system for flexile sheets.
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Marabu presented CO2- and energy-saving UV-LED-curable screen printing inks and a new digital printing varnish at glasstec 2022. The manufacturer's portfolio was also expanded with inks suitable for screen, digital, and pad printing for the glass industry.
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Printing professional Bernhard Grob shares his stories and memories of travelling the world as a print executive for over 30 years in his book “DESTINATION – Travelling the World for the Printing Industry”. While it was initially planned to print the book live at drupa 2020, you can now get your own copy by donating to support young people starting out in the Graphic Arts industry.
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For the second installment of our new #PrintingProcesses series, we’re focusing our attention on flat printing, also known as Lithography. Developed in Munich, Germany, by a penniless playwright, it offered a cheap and efficient printing method that quickly gained popularity all over Europe.
Continue ReadingWe are starting our new series #PrintingProcesses with the original, first-ever printing process: Relief Printing. With this technique you cut an inverted version of your intended print into a plank of wood, linoleum or metal plates, apply the ink onto the plate and press it down on paper to create the image, like a stamp.
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Living Ink developed an algae-based ink that could be a sustainable alternative to petroleum derived products. Compared to traditionally used carbon back, it results in a decrease of carbon dioxide emissions by 200 percent.
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Image Credit: Koenig & Bauer AG The research of the high-speed printing machine ranked Johann Koenig among the pioneers of
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This week’s future links deal with new packaging designs, water-based flexographic inks, polyester films for sterile packaging applications, high performance laminates and the new robots at DHL.
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Our very first future links in 2017 are all about trends in the printing industry. They give an outlook on drupa 2020, provide a forecast for the global 3D printing market and predict developments for the label and package printing industry. Additionally, they also look back on drupa 2016 and its great success.
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Here is a special edition of our future links with the latest news on inkjet printers. They feature ESMA’s third Annual InkJet Conference 2016, the world’s smallest all-in-one printer by HP, a new research project to further develop Océ inkjet printers, UK's first graphium hybrid UV inkjet press, and the new Orion Touchscreen Tablet Kit.
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