Category: Features
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Digital Textiles in India
One of the most striking things about visiting India is just how colourful everything is, from shopfronts and market stalls through to the clothes that people wear out and about.
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Fespa pt2: a maturing market
One of the main takeaways for me from this year’s Fespa show was just how much the market for large format sign and display hardware has matured.
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Fespa pt1: Look to the East
To some extent, this year’s main Fespa trade show was always going to be overshadowed by Drupa. That’s one reason why Fespa likes to get out of Germany and visit Amsterdam in Drupa years…
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News Digest…March 2024
In many ways, March has been the calm before the storm before big events like the next round of UK elections kick off – or so the hapless Rishi Sunak must have hoped – before his zombie government next has to face the ire of the electorate.
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HP updates Indigos and inkjet
HP has used its DScoop users event in Indianapolis, USA, to preview its Drupa offerings, with three new Indigo variants and updates to the PageWide Advantage 2200 inkjet press as well as to the PrintOS workflow.
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Agfa building on digital print
A few weeks ago I interviewed Pascal Juéry, CEO of Agfa, who discussed the opportunities for growth in the packaging market and reaffirmed Agfa’s commitment to large format printing.
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Revisiting the Samba printhead
It’s been 10 years since Fujifilm first offered the Samba printhead to other OEMs and it’s remained a market leader throughout that time so it’s worth taking a deeper dive into the technologies behind this head.
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News Digest…February 2024
For the West, February primarily marked the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine, amplified by Donald Trump’s threat of not helping NATO allies. This means that European nations are having to increase their defence spending at a time of economic uncertainty, while also wondering just how flaky America is as an ally?
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Packaging etc at Pamex
This is the final part of my report from the Pamex show in Mumbai, India. The show proved to be an interesting snapshot of the Indian print market, covering a broad range of commercial print technologies, from prepress through print to finishing.
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Pamex and narrow web solutions
This is the second part of my report from the Pamex show in Mumbai, India. There’s something reassuringly familiar about the different print fairs regardless of which part of the world they are in, and this was just as true of Pamex as any other show, with the added bonus that everyone speaks good English!
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Inside Fujifilm’s bet on MEMs
Over the last couple of years Fujifilm has been quietly upgrading the Dimatix manufacturing plant in Santa Clara, California, which is home to the Samba printhead. So I went to have a look at the factory, to get a better understanding of how the MEMs manufacturing process works, and what this means for the resulting…
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India. Everything is possible
This may seem crazy but before heading to Dusseldorf later this summer to see the latest, fastest, most whizziest printing tech at Drupa, I first went to India, starting off in Mumbai for the Pamex show and a dose of reality at the sharp end of commercial printing.