The Verdigris blog: Printing plate price rises
11 June 2018
Agfa and Kodak have recently announced that printing plate prices are to rise by about 10%. It’s just a matter of time before Fujifilm follows…
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The Verdigris blog: Expanding print’s reach
4 June 2018
Looking at technology and raw materials processing is only part of the graphics industry’s sustainability picture. It’s easy to forget that if people don’t read,…
Nexfinity first at Dutch photobook site
4 June 2018
Lay-flat photobooks with mono images are one of the products Fotofabriek is producing with its Nexfinity Kodak’s first European installation of the Nexfinity press…
The Verdigris blog: Making textile printing more sustainable
29 May 2018
The history of textile printing is a history of innovation, from transferring colours to substrates with carved woodblocks to digitally printed fabrics. In between such…
The colour of money
29 May 2018
Ricoh has produced swatch books to show how its neon yellow and pink can be combined with CMYK on the Pro C7200 press Colour…
The Verdigris blog: FSC, PEFC and ISO 38200
21 May 2018
The foresight of both the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) is to be commended. Both organisations…
The Verdigris blog: environmental thinking on a bigger scale
14 May 2018
Imagination, ideas and technological innovation are what progress is all about. We care about what we understand, what we know, so we generally focus only…
The Verdigris blog – monitoring sustainability
8 May 2018
It should be a normal expectation that companies would choose to police their own sustainability performance. And yet we still cannot manage to do it…
Ricoh launches production workhorse
1 May 2018
That’s a wrap: the Pro C9200 on display at Ricoh’s Customer Experience Centre, Telford Complementing the Pro C7200 series launched in March, Ricoh has…
The Verdigris blog: tax benefits from digital printing investments
30 April 2018
The environmental benefits of digital printing are obvious and broadly recognised. Print buyers and publishers can operate with reduced inventories. Less waste is produced during…
The Verdigris blog: inks matter
23 April 2018
The packaging industry is ripe for disruption, especially when it comes to inks. The sector’s in the sights of digital press manufacturers, print service providers…
Kodak gets a taste for food packaging
23 April 2018
The Sapphire EVO meets regulatory requireents for indirect food contact First shown as a technology demonstration at drupa 2016, the Sapphire EVO hybrid press…
The Verdigris blog: Cutting insurance costs through certification
16 April 2018
Insurance companies are starting to pay more attention to certifications in the graphics industry. If you can prove that you run your business well, for…
The Verdigris blog: communications and energy demands
9 April 2018
In his Bruno Kessler Lecture last year, Roberto Viola, Director-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology at the European Commission, said that energy usage by…
Kodak announces John O’Grady as new president of Print Systems Division
9 April 2018
John O’Grady John O’Grady, current president of the Consumer and Film Division and former general manager of World Wide Sales for Print Systems Division,…