Ricoh awards sustainability prize
24 June 2019
It’s surprising that there are so few sustainability prizes that award cash, but Ricoh is leading the way, especially in the USA.
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Danish printing company building a circular economy
17 June 2019
There are signs that Circular Economy thinking is gaining traction in the printing business.
Match-making for brands
6 June 2019
As digital printing extends its reach into more and more applications, an issue that’s growing in importance in many sectors is brand colour accuracy.
Composting plastic
3 June 2019
We’ve come across a rising number of compostable alternatives to plastic of late. The ideas are heading in the right direction, but there needs to…
Plastics and the circular economy
28 May 2019
By 2025 the European Union’s (EU) Circular Plastics Alliance expects ten million tonnes of plastic to be recycled every year.
European Union Ecolabel getting tighter
20 May 2019
Earlier this year the European Union (EU) published some updates to its ecolabelling criteria.
The sublime art of textile printing
17 May 2019
Textile printing has become an established part of the wide format market in garments and decor as well as soft signage.
HP adds super-wide Stitch to dye-sub range
15 May 2019
HP has introduced the Stitch S1000, a super-wide dye sub production printer, at FESPA.
Round and round goes plastic and print
13 May 2019
The circular economy is rapidly moving from being the preserve of green activists and investors out into the mainstream. The idea that everything we use…
Wild Format: choosing the right spectrophotometer
13 May 2019
There can be no quality control without making measurements, and the necessary instrument for such measurements in the graphics business is a spectrophotometer.
Paper industry lagging
7 May 2019
Sad to say the paper industry is still one of the world’s top polluters, alongside steel and energy producers.
Wild Format: look at me
1 May 2019
It’s in the nature of wide format graphics to grab attention, relying on size and positioning together with a very graphic design.
Substrate recycling innovations from print provider
29 April 2019
We tend to expect the makers of substrates to be the ones who come up with affordable and recyclable materials, but Australia’s Cactus Imaging is…
HP aims to stitch up dye-sub textile business
23 April 2019
HP has announced new dye sublimation printers, thermal transfer papers and inks to address the burgeoning digitally printed textile market. Two 1.6m (64-in) models have…
Plastic packaging and recycling too simple a conversation
23 April 2019
The enthusiasm for plastics reuse and recycling initiatives is a step in the right direction, but it overlooks the role of consumers.