Benny Landa, “the father of commercial digital printing”, a true drupa fan and owner of more than 800 patents should not be missing from our series “Pioneers of Printing”. So it is time to finally introduce to you the revolutionary man who made it possible to print directly from a computer.
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A team of researchers from Australia has found a way to create nano-thin flexible touchscreens by using liquid metal chemistry and printing the ultra-thin and ultra-flexible electronic material directly onto their desired surfaces. With this new technique, touchscreens could be rolled out like newspapers in the future.
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With the COVID-19 pandemic still haunting the world, we are once again looking at the 3D printing community and offering you a special edition of our #PioneersOfPrinitng, showing you how the industry is joining forces to overcome the coronavirus crisis.
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In this edition of Pioneers of Printing we focus on the ground-breaking achievements of Charles “Chuck” Hull. His success story of the “father of 3D printing” shaped the print industry forever. Nowadays, 3D printing is playing an important part in the future of our industry, manufacturing and medical printing.
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Ever since printing and computers have entered private households and enabled people to design their own greeting cards, the job of the manual typesetter became more and more redundant. Still, the Museum für Druckkunst in Leipzig employs one. Read more about his everyday work here.
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The Museum of the Printing Arts in Leipzig showcases live presentations of many different printing machines that were used in the printing workflow decades ago. In this article we feature Roland Müller who used to work as typesetter and now works the Linotype in the museum.
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In our series Pioneers of Printing, we present to you the driving forces in the history of printing technology. In this article, you learn about Jack S. Kilby who made significant contributions to the invention of direct thermal printing.
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In this special edition of our Pioneers of Printing series we focus on drupa itself, because the Museum of Industry in Ghent recently featured us in an exhibition about the printing industry.
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This edition of Pioneers of Printing focusses on the American engineer and inventor Gary Starkweather who, along with a variety of amazing achievements during his career, invented the first laser printer.
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In this edition of Pioneers of Printing we esteem the work of Anthony Velonis. The New York artist is mainly responsible for introducing the screen printing technology to public and making it popular, as well as inspiring other great artists such as Andy Warhol who created art with this printing technique.
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