Thirty years since its founding, Xeikon is marking the occasion with a series of educational blogs chronicling the history of digital printing.
The series, dubbed Triple-X, will be authored by industry experts Laurel Brunner (who writes the Verdigris blog) and Ed Boogaard and will run between now and November, when Xeikon will celebrate its 30th anniversary.
‘The year 2018 marks an important milestone in the history of digital printing. It has been 30 years since Xeikon, one of the earliest pioneers of the direct digital colour press, was founded,’ said Ms Brunner. ‘And it’s been 25 years since the Xeikon DCP1 and the Indigo E-Print 1000 were introduced at IPEX 1993. The Agfa Chromapress, based on the Xeikon engine with an Agfa front-end system, one of the first integrated digital production systems on the market, was also introduced at that time.
‘The digital printing industry has come a long way over these years, and it is a good moment in time to explore digital printing’s evolution and what it can tell us about the possible future of media and communications, especially the printed variety. We hope it will be beneficial to those who are relatively new to the industry, and a walk down memory lane for veterans who have been around for a while.’
