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Komori sets sights high for European presence
Komori wants to shed its low key reputation to stand alongside its German rivals as
22 April 2024
Komori wants to shed its low key reputation to stand alongside its German rivals as
The latest version of the leading inkjet press is shorter than the flagship, but shares the quality and speed of its big brother. Canon has developed a version of its Prostream flagship inkjet press that is 20% shorter than the Prostream 3000. The Prostream 2000 has virtually the same specifications as the earlier machine: it […]
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The first company to buy the inkjet press with which Agfa hopes to shake up
The Japanese company promises that grey cabinets covering advanced print technology will be joined by
Printers in the Netherlands are pioneers when it comes to innovating with inkjet presses, making the country ideal for early installations of the new technology. Dutch printers continue to lead the way in welcoming inkjet printing. The second Ricoh Z75 B2 inkjet press has been installed in the Netherlands and has been followed by the […]
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The Smart DFE from Global Graphics uses AI to help process PDFs and to keep the inkjet presses running. A comparison between the printing industry and the world of vertical take off fighter jets is not commonplace. According to Eric Worrall, VP products and services for Global Graphics, it is valid. He likens running a […]
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Screen, once a dominant player for drum scanners, is aiming to repeat that position across the field in inkjet printing. Only a generation ago a printer might turn to Screen, or rather Dainippon Screen, for a new studio camera or a four-colour proofing press. Today’s printer would be hard pressed to recognise a darkroom camera […]
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Canon has developed a new label press and smaller cut sheet machine, both using its own thermal inkjet technology. Canon has announced two new inkjet presses, using its own thermal inkjet technology for the first time in commercial print. The VarioPrint iX1700 is a 170ppm SRA3 cutsheet machine intended to fill a gap between the […]
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Kyocera has a road map which covers release of more machines for the commercial print sector – all with sustainability at heart. Printers can expect new Kyocera presses next year, including an SRA3 inkjet press to challenge the dominance that Canon currently has in high end sheetfed inkjet printing. The company is currently finding success […]
Creating an inkjet ink for commercial printing means mixing different ingredients with as few compromises as possible to ensure the best performance for the press and user. Water is wonderful stuff. But it has its place. And that place is not on a sheet of paper. This is a problem because the inkjet presses being […]
Fujifilm is one of the few companies with end to end involvement in inkjet. It offers inkjet presses for large format, document printing and packaging; it develops the inkjet printheads and it develops the inks to go with them. UV inks for large format printing are housed in Broadstairs, Kent, with water based inks located […]
The answer to the problem of how to dry the water in inkjet ink might be as simple as reducing the amount of water in the ink says Xaar. Xaar is the British inkjet printhead producer that flirted with disaster when designing a thin film print head to compete with the biggest boys in the […]
Domino is investing to boost production of UV inks as company lays groundwork for growth.
Revenues have dipped, but profits are rising giving Kodak the confidence that its strategy is
For seven years, the technology has partnered with the local publisher to prove that inkjet
Whether Hunkeler Innovation Days will be seen as the tipping point for inkjet is moot. It was certainly the event with at least one positive version of print’s future in action. Hunkeler Innovation Days 2023 was unquestionably the best exhibition in the printing industry since, well, Hunkeler Innovation Days 2019. If anything the enforced absence […]
The Japanese giant took customers down the river to show off its digital press technology, or at least the first stages of its plans to help print transform from litho to digital. The ads exhort printers to “take a fresh look at Fujifilm”. Its UK general manager Andy Kent calls the company “the industry’s best […]
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HP’s Advantage 2200 is the first of a new family of inkjet presses that will take on commercial and carton printing. Annette Friskopp is at pains to declare that she has only been in charge of HP’s continuous feed inkjet operations for a year. It is brave then that she is so visible during the […]
Kodak has unveiled what it believes is the machine that suits the direction the industry
The industry’s journey to inkjet printing is only at the beginning. Printers need a road
Fujifilm and Screen will demonstrate the impact that inkjet printing can have at the packaging
DS Smith is to use what is the 50th Nozomi sold by EFI in its
Textile printing remains very much analogue, but Xaar believes its Aquinox printhead, launched late last
The inkjet roadshow last week introduced commercial printers to the technology behind inkjet printing and