Printing Blog March Archive

Print Your Own Newspaper

03/24/09 23:22

How would you like to have your news personalized, meaning you only get to print what you want to read?

MediaNews Group seems to think that this is the future of content delivery to users. The Group announced its plans for I-News, a content delivery system that will allow you to print your own newspaper on your own printer. More of that here.

Link: Back to the future: MediaNews revives “print your own newspaper” » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Canon USA wins awards for digital printers

Canon USA has received two DIMA Digital Printer Shoot-Out for its excellent digital color prints at the 2009 PIMA International Convention and Trade Show.

The company won the ‘Inkjet 50 Inches Wide Or More’ category with its Canon imagePROGRAF iPF9100 60-inch large format printer, and the ‘Black And White, Best B&W With Grayscale Inks’ category for its PIXMA MP980 Photo All-In-One (AIO) printer.

The printers were chosen by a panel of judges by the overall quality of the prints.

Link: Design News - Canon USA Receives Two DIMA Digital Printer Shoot-Out Awards - TAXI Design Network

Dimensional Printing

Have you ever wished that your prints were a bit more realistic than just ink printed on paper? Like, say, if you have a photo of a rose, it feels like a real rose?

As of this moment, only one family of photo printers can do exactly that, and that is the KODAK NEXPRESS Digital Production Color Presses. Just how this kind of printing, dubbed as dimensional printing, works? We'll talk about that here at WhatTheyThink.com

Link: Dimensional Printing from KODAK Transforms Images - Printing Industry News from WhatTheyThink