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Printing goes mobile

Printing goes mobileFEATURE: The digital march goes ever forward. In years to come we will look back on drupa 2012 and it will be clear that it was the drupa when print started moving into the cloud for real.

Benchmarking, measuring and the meaning of data

Benchmarking, measuring and the meaning of data

FEATURE: We've been staggering around the halls of drupa for what seems a lifetime. We keep hearing about improvements in new engines that are very difficult to put into a meaningful context.

Jumping ahead needs manufacturers' help

Jumping ahead needs manufacturers' help

FEATURE: When you ask customers what they want next, do they really know? This is a key question when manufacturers are asked about how they plan future solutions.

The end is nigh for offset? Not for those who move with the times

FEATURE: Sitting here at yet another drupa press conference we have had yet another question about the stuff that analogue can do that cannot be done with digital machines.

The constant upgrade

FEATURE: So Adobe is launching CS6 in a fanfare of publicity and I can't wait to upgrade my CS5.5 Design Premium to the latest version.

FEATURES

HP at Sign and Digital UK: great expectations and practical realities

Sign and Digital UK sees the Designjet 1.54m L26500 and 2.64m L28500 lining themselves up as top attractions at the show.

Manufacturing: more than skin deep

Sophie Matthews-Paul gets under the bonnet at HP Scitex in Israel, from where she reveals the value of a visit to a manufacturing facility for a PSP.

Mood Indigo goes wider

Sophie Matthews-Paul has the scoop on HP's latest addition for drupa – a new B2 press, the Indigo 10000.

Taking a different view of measuring profit

Printers have traditionally measured their business according to the volume of work going through the factory.

Print Shop Live: the learning curve continues

Planning an event like Print Shop Live, which is taking place during FESPA Digital in Barcelona, is an interesting exercise.

Feature

Why is digital ink more expensive than its analogue equivalent? Digital ink has a far more convoluted role

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Why is digital ink more expensive than its analogue equivalent? As digital develops, prices will fall

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A new page from Honey Printler's diary: head in the cloud

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Has the HP FB6100 had its day? It's time for more exciting machines

NEWS

Bridgeshire Packaging gives good marks for first world-wide installation of HP Scitex FB7600

Perfect Colours offers deferred payment for HP Designjet upgrades

HP Scitex ink meets standards for indoor use

New HP Designjets to make first major international appearance at FESPA Digital

Fastsigns Gloucester installs HP Designjet L25500 with help from Perfect Colours

Stocksigns gets first HP Designjet L26500 latex printer in UK

Delta Display increases Scitex line-up to seven in UK printrooms

ArtSystems opens HP latex printer demonstration suite





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PRODUCT PROFILES

Output road test: HP Designjet L26500

Sophie Matthews-Paul tests the HP Designjet L26500, one of the two new HP Designjet latex printers to have been introduced recently.

HP Scitex FB7500

Since creating quite a stir when launched at FESPA in 2009, the HP Scitex FB7500 Printer has managed to raise a further eyebrow or two among print service providers (PSPs) seeking to pack some extra punch to their large-format offering.

OPINION

Do you really need an iPad?

Lucien Moons gives his own response to the Question of the Week, Do I need an iPad?

Looking at the smaller picture: double-sided banner printing

Double-sided banners are a common large-format application, yet producing them reliably has always remained a secret guarded closely by skilled machine operators.

A new page from Honey Printler's diary: paving the way for a new printer

Dear Diary: They're digging up the road outside the plant and it's playing havoc with our deliveries.