Digital Printing-Wide Format - Roll to Roll

Starting up a new in-plant at Franklin University four years ago may have been one of the best decisions Bob Donahue ever made. Since Printing…

As an old friend in the business once told me, “Your printers will break, and your inks will fade.” Yes, that was almost 20 years ago, and modern inks don’t fade nearly as much as they used to, but the maxim still stands — your printers will break. There is, however, quite a bit you…

Wide-format inkjet printing has been around for a while. Twenty years ago, IPG was urging in-plants to pursue this new line of business, and we’re still at it. The message has not fallen on deaf ears. According to IPG data, 71.4% of in-plants have at least one wide-format printer; 30% of those have two. The…

This has been a year of major change and growth for Vanderbilt University Printing Services.

Autumn is such a beautiful time for a road trip across the rolling hills of central Pennsylvania. But leaf peeping is not what brought me out to Penn State, my alma mater, recently. The university’s Multimedia & Print Center, one of the country’s largest in-plants, held a two-day open house, and I decided to check…

No one predicted that wide-format inkjet would open a new market for printers for signage, vehicle wraps, building wraps and more.

Offset-Like Quality Though the debut appearance of the Océ VarioPrint i300 inkjet press was t

A few years back, a committee at Misericordia University decided to create new ADA signage across the entire campus.

Because the Océ Arizona 1280 GT is a true stationary flatbed printer, it allows the user to print onto pre-cut pieces. This example shown by Canon Solutions America's Randy Paar was printed on black foam board on the Océ Arizona printer, and was then finished on an Océ ProCut digital finishing system.

The next application in this series is plaques and awards.