Adobe recently introduced a new technology: their Project Glasswing. It’s a new mixed reality technology, which connects physical objects with on-screen-editing with Adobes programs such as Photoshop or Premiere Pro. A transparent showcase, which revolutionizes the world of editing and presentation.
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What roles do sustainability and recycled paper play in the printing business and how important is it to find your own niche? We talked about this and other topics with Dr. Kevin Riemer-Schadendorf of the UmweltDruckerei, a sustainable online-printer from Hannover, Germany.
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In our series #PrintingProfessions we present jobs and career paths in the printing industry. In this episode we look at the program of studies of the Packaging Engineering and explain what you need and what you have to do to become one.
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With all our exciting success stories of the advancements in functional printing, there is still one area that we haven’t yet gotten into: printed interior! In this field of application, printers have to follow different rules that we summarize in our article.
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Deborah Corn meets Larry Corwin, president at Rollem International to look at another drupa success story. The company managed to secure international partnerships through exhibiting at drupa: “We're really proud to be a multi-decade participant. I'm not sure what kind of company we would be if we hadn’t exhibited at drupa 25 years ago.”
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The media technology specialist in the field of printing is one of many exciting professions in the printing industry. In the new drupa blog series #PrintingProfessions you'll find all the interesting information you need to know about the industry professions.
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In the close future, more and more products will have packaging that includes printed electronics. Several do already and provide lots of benefits compared to conventional packaging. These being authenticity checks, tracking, or games.
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Big, bigger, The Box! Within the 3D printing industry, experts experiment with extremes such as printing on a nano scale or aim for big solutions. Especially in industrial 3D printing manufacturers are in need of printers, which can print large parts e.g. for trucks. Most industrial 3D printers are already able to print metal or resin, but not accurate when it comes to printing with FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling). But, in contrast to metal, FMD 3D printing can be scaled up to create big parts. This is what the Swedish startup BLB Industries uses in their The Box 3D printer – one of the biggest 3D printers in the world.
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It is official: Delhi is the city with the world’s worst air pollution. More and more people using vehicles, the continuing growth of industrial areas and various other reasons lead to an increasing amount of smog released into the air. That is why Graviky Labs, a spin-off group of MIT Media Lab, launched Air-Ink last year. This invention converts exhausted gases into ink.
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Printed electronics and functional printing are booming. This is why our weekly future links are all about current developments in this sector. We featured a new centre for printed electronics in Durham, a new 3D-printed series of multi-layered rigid PCBs with flexible conductive connectors, lightweight flexible solar modules and a review of flexible and printed electronics in 2016.
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