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A few months ago, our print company purchased DTG (direct-to-garment) equipment which is basically a shirt printer that looks like a wide format machine. The main advantage of DTG over screen printing is the ability to print small orders of full color garments easily and fast. First, I decided to not identify the company we [...]
As of my last post, I’m close to purchasing my first 3D Printing machine, the Replicator 2 by MakerBot. This home-based machine is meant more for hobbyists and individuals and not really for commercial printing, but I think it’s a baby step forward (for me) into better understanding the technology. Today, I read an interesting [...]
Justin Crockett at Cracked.com pointed out in his article “5 Ways Your Nerd Gadgets Are Killing You” that printer toner fumes may be as bad as cigarette smoke. This is a pretty scary thing for me since we run a digital printing company that relies on a toner-based production machine. His article: The next time [...]
About a week ago, I came across this article on Wired that immediately caught my attention. There’s nothing better than finding new entrepreneurs that think outside the box and introduce brilliantly simple creations in the realm of print. When designer Briana Bolger-Schuth took a break from advertising work, she wanted to make art. She had [...]
Time constraints: Everyone has them, no one knows what to do with them. This past week I’ve been trying to figure out how best to deal with too much to do in too little time. So what do you do when you have 16 hours worth of stuff to do in 8 hours? I mean, [...]
Epson America introduced its next generation 64˝ solvent printer, the Epson SureColor S30670. Incorporating Epson’s latest technological breakthroughs, the SureColor S30670 is the first solvent-based printer to use the Epson MicroPiezo TFP print head, bringing a new level of quality, performance and value to the signage, vehicle graphics and fine art markets. “Our first generation [...]
This week a sale representative came by trying to sell me on the ColorWave 650, and since we are no longer a reproduction shop focusing on houseplan printing, we really were not too interested, but it still nice to see a machine like this mixing b/w and color so well. Océ, a Canon Group Company [...]
Comparing DTG printers is fairly complex and overwhelming. Unfortunately, if you read over T-shirtforums.com, you will only find a sea of complaints and answers with no real way to compare the models. The only thing I could attain was that all of the machines are overly problematic, but DTG has come a long way so [...]
I go back and forth whether the Xerox 700 is worthwhile. Even though we run into ALOT of trouble with this thing, we have printed over 2.5 million clicks on our machine in less than three years. We’ve also experienced countless quality issues and service debacles that is probably responsible for my hair loss. Read [...]
Anajet’s new mPower digital apparel printer is the fastest and most durable direct-to-garment printer in its class. Purpose-built for high-volume production, the mPower uses a robust industrial print head and a new, innovative, patented ink delivery and recirculation system superior to the Anajet Sprint. For singles, short runs, or hundreds of prints per day, the [...]
When Epson decided to develop a commercial outdoor printer, customer and industry expectations were high. And for good reason. Over the years, Epson has been known to provide some of the best wide format solvent printing available…or have they? I wanted to look closer myself at the machine since there were so many ads for [...]
The history of digital print is relatively short compared to printing as a whole, which dates back to 1439, when German businessman Johannes Gutenberg created a press that started the mass production of books. The first digital printing presses came onto the market in the early 1990’s. Digital printing assembles each image from a complex [...]
Bringing easy large-format printing and the instant sharing of plans to design professionals wherever they work, HP unveiled a new HP ePrint & Share mobile application for the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. HP ePrint & Share is a printing and sharing tool that allows designers in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry to [...]
Canon Inc. and Océ N.V. announced the launch of two new production printing systems developed jointly by the two companies: a monochrome production printer series equipped with Canon finishing and scanning technology, and a high-speed color multifunction system series incorporating Océ controller technology. Since Canon welcomed Océ into the Canon Group in March 2010, the [...]
As a completely digital printer, we’ve been dealing with click charge plans for some time now, most notably with Xerox. I have to tell you, its a love / hate relationship so if you intend to enter a new contract for a digital production machine based on clicks, I have some advice for you. There [...]
A click charge is an agreed-upon charge per “click” or piece of paper that runs through your machine and are a common charge incurred during the lease of digital printing equipment such as copiers, printers or digital presses. My experience with click charges is based on three digital machines with Xerox including the Docucolor 240, [...]
Xerox Corporation’s new DocuColor® 8080 Digital Press handles jobs ranging from direct mail and calendars to booklets and collateral – opening up new ways for printers of all sizes and scope to increase business. Core to the DocuColor 8080 are three features that offer printers a competitive edge: productivity apps, low gloss dry ink and [...]
The Morgana DocuFold Pro is a brand new concept fully automatic paper folding machine. Equipped with the latest SmartScreen technology, it enables an operator with minimum training to carry out a variety of folds from an icon driven touch screen. An unlimited alpha numeric memory is available to store all standard and non standard jobs. [...]
