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April 12, 2011

Top 5 Uses of Wide Format Printing

Wide format digital printing is the ideal way to professionally print large images. Often used for advertising materials and fine art, wide format printing ensures the size of the image doesn’t compromise the print quality. Below are the top five uses of this type of printing… 1. Advertising banners Businesses use banners to promote themselves

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April 12, 2011

Digital Printing – The Flexible Way to Print

Home computing Digital printers are not just used in businesses; these printers are readily available and provide a professional and inexpensive way to print documents and photos at home. Publishing Gone are the days when publishing houses relied on printing presses to produce huge volumes of books. Thanks to digital printing, publishers can save money

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December 18, 2010

Colour helps you remember

Colour is commonly recognised as an important variable when committing things to long term memory. When information is first processed, it enters the sensory memory and then proceeds to the short term memory, which is associated with the left side of the brain. The right side of the brain is associated with long term memory,

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September 19, 2010

New Translucent Material Released

After trialing a new translucent material for GF Smith we are happy to say we have successfully produced our first two jobs on the substrate. One in colour and one in black and white. For more information on Cromatico or any other GF Smith product please click the visit website link below. < Visit website

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September 15, 2010

Ultraviolet Curing and Dry Ink Printing

Ultraviolet curing (with relation to printing), more commonly referred to as just UV-curing , the process whereby a solvent-free ink is ‘dried’ to the substrate to which it is being applied via exposure to ultraviolet light. The technologies responsible for such production methods are still in their infancy in comparison to older, more developed techniques

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September 14, 2010

EFI Introduces UV LED Cured Inkjet System

The digital printing industry has this week received news of a brand new digital printing system capable of inkjet printing to flexible materials without the need for pre-treating; The EFI Jetrion 4830 LED UV inkjet system, partnered with a new flexible ink set, promises printing onto unsupported and heat sensitive materials, including printing to shrink

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August 16, 2010

The Evolution of Perfect Binding – Part IV

PUR itself has undergone a multitude of developments and improvements over its thus far short lived presence in the binding industry; The first generation PUR raised concern amongst books manufacturers, since it had to sit for nearly 24 hours after binding before it had cured sufficiently to have developed enough strength to withstand the shipping

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August 10, 2010

The Evolution of Perfect Binding – Part III

The Introduction of Polyurethane Reactive (PUR) in Printing Moving towards the present day, advances in perfect binding came one after another and once more towards the end of the 1980’s, technologies in bookbinding took another dramatic leap upwards with the advent of PUR. PUR is the shorthand name for the more recently introduced binding option

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August 2, 2010

The Evolution of Perfect Binding – Part II

The Advent and Development of Perfect Binding The first early attempts at perfect binding employed traditional, flexible animal jelly glues, however attempts at perfect binding only really became commercially viable with the development of synthetic resin dispersion technologies using water to help allow the adhesives seep into the paper’s pores at the site of adhesion.

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July 10, 2010

The Evolution of Perfect Binding – Part I

The Beginning of Mass Printing and Bookbinding The evolution of bookbinding in documents and literature has evolved somewhat from its roots in the first century A.D. where recordings on clay tablets were replaced by what we would recognise as the first conventional books. Originally printed on sheepskin vellum, the binding of religious documents marked the

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April 30, 2010

HP Helps Expand Digital Printing Portfolios

The recently held IPEX 2010 Exhibition was the perfectly opportunity for digital companies begin to outlining future plans with regards to their product ranges in order to generate a buzz. HP are no different to this tactic and as such, have announced their plans to expand its graphic arts portfolio which will assist customers in

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March 18, 2010

Digital Printing is Growing Trend for Business Professionals

Ask any business manager what makes the cornerstones of a good organisation, and the chances are a vast majority of them will highlight the importance of effective marketing and promotion. They will also more than likely inform you that achieving effective strategies is not all about expensive ad campaigns. Any serious professional will understand that

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