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Solvent strikes back

FEATURE: A new generation of solvent-based printer is in town, whose price-to-performance ratios are bringing the fight back to latex. Barney Cox considers engines around the £20,000 mark and how their value can be determined.

Chinese whispers: market growth in China

FEATURE: Everything about China is massive: population, growth, development, health scares, natural disasters, banquets and buildings.

Colour management is moving cross-channel

OPINION: As screen technology advances, will there be an opportunity for printers, or others, to provide cross-channel colour calibration? GMG's Michael Farkas discusses.

Slow and steady making progress: the Verdigris blog

OPINION: Laurel Brunner's Verdigris Project has seen plenty of change in print's environmental awareness over its five years, but there is still a lot to be done.

A la carte: digital menuboard opportunities for printers and sign-makers

FEATURE: Could digital menu boards be the stepping stone into the digital signage market that PSPs and sign-makers have been looking for? Drew Harding of Eclipse Digital Media discusses a potentially lucrative product.

FEATURES

A shiny challenge: metallic inks for wide-format print

Sophie Matthews-Paul delves into the latest developments in the eye-catching world of metallic inks – including new UV-curable formulations.

Imagine that: FESPA Global Summit

FESPA Global Summit brought together presenters and attendees from across the world and across the print supply chain. Laurel Brunner explores the ideas that were generated and what they could mean for the future of print.

Industrial action: new applications for digital ink-jet

'Industrial printing' is a hot topic for 2013, but what does it mean? Sophie Matthews-Paul assesses the growth of functional ink-jet applications.

The eco-nomics of print: the Verdigris blog

In her latest Verdigris blog, Laurel Brunner notes the relationship between sustainability and efficiency, and is delighted to find the idea propagated at the FESPA Global Summit.

A wide-format retrospective: 2012 in context

Sophie Matthews-Paul reflects on the year just passed and looks ahead to 2013, debating what platforms could be of interest to wide-format print houses looking to invest this year.

Feature

Knives out: why it's time for the QR code to go

Feature

On yer bike: Memjet on track to disrupt print

Feature

EcoPrint: the tough questions pt 2

Feature

The year so far in UV-curable

NEWS

Hollanders to scale up with new investors and CEO

NFC within reach for marketers with new white paper

Graphic arts market forecast to grow to more than €25bn

JCDecaux partners with zappit to develop NFC sites nation-wide

70% of printers planning to diversify in 2012, says FESPA survey

Programmes 'nearly complete' for IMI Digital Printing World conferences

IMI Europe's Ink Jet Conference identifies growth in textile and ceramics printing

Hybrid emphasises labels as lucrative option for display producers

VIDEO

OPINION

The mobile opportunity for print: the Verdigris blog

Laurel Brunner spies an opportunity for printers at the crossover point between print and the ever-expanding smartphone market in her latest Verdigris blog.

Seeing your face on a billboard

There is something about the billboard. While the content may change, the structure itself is a permanent part of its landscape, and, often, the most eye-catching if not the largest thing in it.

Print is dead: long live print

While sifting through Twitter today I came across a new hashtag: #printisnotdead.