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New technology from Mimaki It’s a printer, and its reason for being is printing on large media for applications like signage or posterboard. Machines in this segment of the industry have traditionally been large, expensive, and plagued by poor print quality, lots of waste and long production times. Enter the new , released in February of 2012. This machine can print directly on ...
3D Printers may seem like Science Fiction, but the truth is they have been part of the construction world for around 20 years. Now, however, technological advances will be bringing the device to our homes. Here is a look at the world's first 3D Printer available for your home. 3D printing technology has been wowing onlookers across the world recently with ...
Voting is underway for recognition as a FESPA “printing hero.” What is a FESPA? All right, first things first. Barcelona-based FESPA, the Federation of Screen and Digital Printers Associations, represent the interests of screen and digital printers in twenty-six European countries, with a further ten associations outside Europe. The federation's inaugural Hall of Fame, intended to be a “who's who” of the ...
A plastic sticker that records temperatures could soon provide detailed storage histories of crates of food or bottles of vaccine. Printing the energy Thin Film Electronics, based in Oslo, Norway, aim to combine their own printed memory circuits with printed transistors from PARC in Palo Alto, California, plus a printed temperature sensor from PST Sensors, a spin-off from the University of Cape ...
Think you’ve got it tough? Consider Kodak. Down in a hole The 131-year-old pioneer, once known to photographers as the “Great Yellow Father” because of its pre-eminence as a maker of photographic film, has filed for bankruptcy. It has not come as a surprise to business analysts. The company decided in 2003 to dissolve its foundering film business and embarked upon a massive ...
Awards are useless if no one knows about them, aren’t they? OKI Data Americas want us all to know about theirs. OKI printers are built around the parent company’s innovative, digital LED technology and Single Pass Color™ feature, which uses fixed LEDs rather than the familiar, conventional side-to-side scanning laser engine. This means fewer moving parts and a “straight-through” paper ...
3D printers, generally speaking, lay down microfine layers, one at a time, of heated plastic material or resin until they have built up a three-dimensional object according to the design of a 3D modelling program. Most of them, anyway. Printing paper But Mcor Technology of Ireland’s Matrix 3D printer uses a different type of “ink” to build a 3D prototype: Paper. ...
Four new colour laser printers are here from Brother, and the company is promoting them with one promise: speed. Brother Industries, Ltd., of Nagoya, Japan, one of the giants of the printer industry, has targeted small office environments in the hopes that these cost and efficiency-minded buyers are keen on printing in full colour, and in a hurry. The company’s U.S. ...
The Consumer Electronics Show has just closed in Las Vegas, and one of the stars, appearing in many guises across the exhibit halls, was the 3D printer. Again. Haven’t we been here before? This has been going on now for nearly twenty years. 3D printing is like the video telephone, which publicly premiered at the 1967 World’s Fair in New York and ...
Researchers at the University of Illinois have come up with a remarkable new ink based upon a surprising material — silver. New solutions The study, just published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, details the new ink, which is based upon a solution of silver and ammonia. This type of ink is a liquid at room temperature. It is made ...