3D Printing, Part the Second

Published December 4, 2012

Forge Graphic Works Achieves SGP Certification

Published December 3, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fact #34

Published December 3, 2012

Meet the Beetles

Published November 30, 2012

Marco Boer on where the wide format market is going

Published November 30, 2012

Marco Boer, VP at IT Strategies, talks to Richard Romano about where he sees the wide format market going and discusses innovations happening and the implications for printers in the future.

Carbon Auction Action

Published November 29, 2012

Forests In Danger

Published November 28, 2012

Share Wear

Published November 27, 2012

Student Packaging Design Competition Now Open

Published November 27, 2012

Paper Drives

Published November 26, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fact #33

Published November 26, 2012

Hungry Like the Wolf

Published November 23, 2012

Thought for Food

Published November 22, 2012

Looking at Clouds from Both Sides

Published November 21, 2012

The Twinkie Defense

Published November 20, 2012

Pulp Friction

Published November 19, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fact #32

Published November 19, 2012

Spongebarb

Published November 16, 2012

Polar Expresses

Published November 15, 2012

Green Design: The Missing Link?

Published November 14, 2012

Eli Cloots of Enfocus on automating workflows

Published November 14, 2012

Eli Cloots, Director of Product Management at Enfocus, talks to Richard Romano about "islands of automation" in print workflows and how Switch is able to tie them all together.

Walgreens Debuts New "Green" Product Line

Published November 13, 2012

For Kimberly-Clark, Bamboo Is Nothing to Sneeze At

Published November 12, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fact #31

Published November 12, 2012

Look Into the Light: Miracle Cures On The Horizon

Published November 9, 2012

Richard Romano talks about UV printing from a technology standpoint, identifies where LED technology fits into the overall scheme of things, and looks to see what the future may hold for it.

Bruce Bayne of SpotOn! on their product and calibrating printing processes

Published November 9, 2012

Bruce Bayne, President of SpotOn! talks with Richard Romano about how the company was founded and goes into detail about the software product and how it helps to calibrate and monitor printing processes.

Green People

Published November 8, 2012

Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

Published November 7, 2012

SGIA Recap: EFI Leverages New Technologies to Boost Productivity, Image Quality

Published November 7, 2012

Although predominantly known as a workflow company-"Fiery" is essentially synonymous with RIPing-EFI was demonstrating at SGIA a couple of weeks ago its prowess in developing wide-format hardware, with models on display that showcased two of the company's new technological developments.

Falling Back

Published November 6, 2012

Yet Another Post About Sandy

Published November 5, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fact #30

Published November 5, 2012

Statue of Limitations

Published November 2, 2012

Triceratops, You'll Like It!

Published November 2, 2012

Printing’s Next Dimension

Published November 1, 2012

3M: Sustainability That Sticks?

Published October 31, 2012

Survey Says! Sustainability Is Top Trend in Packaging

Published October 30, 2012

Sandy In My Shoes Brings Memories of the Salty Air...

Published October 29, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fact #29

Published October 29, 2012

Next Monday: 23rd Consecutive Chicago Paper Show

Published October 29, 2012

No Whey!

Published October 26, 2012

That Was the Expo That Was: SGIA Recap

Published October 26, 2012

Richard Romano gives a walk through of SGIA Expo-held October 18-20 in Las Vegas- where every conceivable surface and object was printed on for his enjoyment.

Recycle Your Old iPhone

Published October 25, 2012

They Get Letters

Published October 24, 2012

Yes Print Day!

Published October 23, 2012

Newsweek Announces Green Rankings

Published October 22, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fact #28

Published October 22, 2012

Last of the Steam-Powered Trains

Published October 18, 2012

Viva Las Vegas: Getting the Most Out of the SGIA Expo

Published October 18, 2012

This week, today, to be precise, the annual SGIA Expo kicks off at the Las Vegas Convention Center and runs October 18–20. There is a tendency in pre- and post-trade show coverage to recite a litany of vendors, products, and specifications, but one of the important things to understand about the wide-format market is that it is all about applications.

Mickey Goes Green!

Published October 17, 2012

EPEAT Performance

Published October 16, 2012

Return Receipt

Published October 15, 2012

It’s Infection Prevention Week

Published October 15, 2012

Sacre Bleu!

Published October 12, 2012

Sanitized Telephones?

Published October 12, 2012

FTC Revised Green Guides Finally Appear

Published October 11, 2012

When the Sun’s Over the Lanyard...

Published October 10, 2012

Not In the Cards

Published October 9, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fact #27

Published October 8, 2012

Going Green Digest

Published October 5, 2012

HP Latex Inks Certified by UL Environment

Published October 4, 2012

Dave Tecson of CGX on Workflow Automation

Published October 4, 2012

Richard Romano talks to Dave Tecson, Workflow and Operations Specialist at Consolidated Graphics, about workflow automation and the challenges in setting these systems up.

SGP "Takes Action" to Promote Sustainable Printing

Published October 3, 2012

Unileverage

Published October 3, 2012

The Logfather

Published October 2, 2012

Dirty Data

Published October 1, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fact #26

Published October 1, 2012

Dead Salmon, Exploding Colons, and the Mathematics of Ponytails Honored at Ig Nobel Prizes

Published September 28, 2012

Intel Outside

Published September 27, 2012

Display Graphics on Display at Upcoming Graph Expo

Published September 27, 2012

The month of October brings a brace of major trade shows for the printing industry; October 7–10 brings Graph Expo, as it always does, to McCormick Place in Chicago, while October 18–20 brings the annual SGIA Expo to the Las Vegas Convention Center. WhatTheyThink will be on the prowl at both shows with video, actual written reports, and more.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Published September 26, 2012

Of Rats, GMOs, and Bad Science

Published September 25, 2012

Forest, Trees

Published September 24, 2012

Exit Through Gift Shop

Published September 24, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fact #25

Published September 24, 2012

Of Organic Foods and Meta Analyses

Published September 21, 2012

Top Publishers Ally with SFI

Published September 20, 2012

Drops in Demand

Published September 19, 2012

iWaste?

Published September 18, 2012

PNEAC Announces 2012 "Environmental Publication of the Year"

Published September 17, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fact #24

Published September 17, 2012

Fit to be Dyed

Published September 14, 2012

Tough On Shoes

Published September 13, 2012

A Portrait of the Artist as a Wide-Format Printer: Learn to Think Creatively

Published September 13, 2012

In last week's feature, guest writer Dan Marx outlined five "essential truths" about wide-format printing, and in his introduction he mentioned that he's witnessed "a full-blown revolution: a complete movement away from old-school analog technology." Over the past several months, as I have spoken to equipment manufacturers and suppliers for these weekly features, as well as other analysts, one thing that always comes up is the fact that more and more traditional printing companies are expanding into wide-format printing

Intel, HP Collaborate on Most Energy Efficient Data Center

Published September 12, 2012

"Nice Dress; Where Did You Get It Printed?"

Published September 11, 2012

The Mariners Go Nuts

Published September 11, 2012

Making the Grade

Published September 10, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fact #23

Published September 10, 2012

My Friend Goo

Published September 7, 2012

Tissues of Lies?

Published September 6, 2012

Heating Up the Alphabet Soup

Published September 6, 2012

Duke of Oil 2

Published September 5, 2012

Two Sides Live!

Published September 4, 2012

Going Green Two Sides Fast Fast #22

Published September 4, 2012

The Big Squeeze

Published August 31, 2012

Jambalaya

Published August 30, 2012

Duke of Oil

Published August 29, 2012

Beyond Paper: New Wide-Format Substrate Options

Published August 29, 2012

In last week’s feature, we spoke about flatbed wide-format printers, and remarked that one of their big selling points was that they could print on a bewildering variety of materials—increasing the number of applications that creative shops could develop, the more niches shops could carve out for themselves, and the better they could serve their clients.

Reissued CDs

Published August 28, 2012