by Henry Freedman   Applications include digital presses and offset UV printing production. Small is elegant when it comes to electronics. Technology transfers from printing plate technology (like emulsions, whirl coating methods) have over time resulted in key developments required for...

by Henry Freedman A guide to sorting the choices among electronic, conventional, and long-run digital. Today’s print production world holds an unprecedented range of options in press selection. Never before have we had such choices intermixing conventional offset, digital, hybrid short...

by Henry Freedman      Toner Key to Hot Selling Mid-Range. Xerox rolls on with 700 digital color press. Is it equivalent to the BMW 3 series? When first announced at Drupa 2008, Xerox garnered over 100 sales of its new model 700 mid-level production color press. No doubt sales are headed...

by Henry Freedman       Developments in low-cost electronics manufacture, coupled with advances in printing and imaging technology, will open opportunities in electronic displays-some using adaptations of traditional print technology. This isn’t unprecedented. At the arrival of printed...

by Henry Freedman     Hewlett-Packard, the global leader after 25 years of mastery in inkjet R&D, has set a near-term target of bringing this technology to a printing plant floor near you. In fact, you could have it in an office printing device, the CM8060/8050, which HP swears is a...

by Henry Freedman       We are on the doorstep of the elusive higher speed and higher quality digital web press. The next five years will see the turning point. Finally, barriers are falling, leading to increasingly higher speed digital color web presses, which I define as a paper web with...

by Henry Freedman       Just as production environments in photo finishing, printing and publishing have workflow tracking requirements, so do areas of scientific research in biochemistry and medicine. Commercial imaging and security printing industries may one day benefit from emerging...

by Henry Freedman       At Graph Expo, Punch Graphix’s Xeikon 6000 stood tall—literally and figuratively. The webfed color digital press, its tall print tower housing paper festoon and print engines, features fiber-optic communications and enhanced RIP for increased speed vs. model 5000: It...

by Henry Freedman       Kodak intelligent Calibration extends component life while improving productivity. How do you make dry toner perform as well as an offset ink? Offset process advocates have running joke about digital printing having excessive streaking, banding and uneven solids....