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A Growing Market for Printing Embellishments
Print embellishments like spot varnish, foil, raised printing, effects like glitter and other enhanced printing finishes, make printed materials jump out when handled. Print embellishments are now easier to justify Marketers love what can be achieved with embellishments, whether it’s gold, silver or clear ink, but they have historically been difficult to justify. However, as printing […]
Proving The Value of Printed Mail in Uncertain Times
With trust in email and digital under constant attack, it is easy to see why delivering marketing messages via printed mail enjoys greater trust. To back this up, research conducted by Royal Mail found 87% of consumers rate messages delivered by printed mail as believable, compared to 48% for e-mail. On top of that, the […]
Xerox Iridesse Digital Press – Metallics & Iridescent Colours in One Pass
The new Iridesse Production Press from Xerox is the only digital press that can print metallic gold or silver dry ink, CMYK and clear dry ink in a single pass. With two in-line speciality dry ink stations, the new press will enable users to create applications with spot colours, metallic and mixed metallic gradients, and speciality […]
Real-World Feedback on the Xerox iGen 5 Press
Advanced Automation, 5th Print Station, Ultimate Configurability The Xerox iGen 5 Press has many great qualities, including advanced automation, a fifth print station, exceptional image quality, application flexibility and a configurable platform. These features come up time and again when our customers talk about their love for the iGen 5. Learning from other print providers’ […]
60% Increase in Production Print Capacity via Automation
Peterborough-based PremCom’s print management services include web-to-print, multi-channel marketing and business mail. They process close to 1,500 web-to-print orders a day and previously were having to review each order to route it to the correct production queue. This gave PremCom’s management team an opportunity to apply automation. PremCom spent just one month implementing Xerox® FreeFlow® Core […]
The Future of Smart Packaging
Smart Packaging uses printed electronics – circuits and sensors printed on everyday paper, proprietary technology that can detect anything from temperature to humidity to light. This smart sensor packaging brings sensors to normal, low-cost packages. One can see if a package was tampered with along the route, know exactly which conditions the package passed through, […]
The Print World Is Changing
The world of print is changing. We talk to real printers to get their perspectives on some of the major changes they are experiencing. Hear their thoughts on everything from key trends and winning strategies, to their biggest challenges and best advice.
Three Opportunities in the Growing Packaging Industry
The global value of protective transit packaging products and systems totalled $112.3 billion in 2016 and is forecast to grow to $139.4 billion in 2022 according to a new report “The Future of Protective and Transit Packaging to 2022,” published by Smithers Pira in late 2017. There are three major conditions driving this growth: The continued […]
When Is the Right Time to Invest in Inkjet?
Production InkJet is expanding, driven in some part by the need to manage lower print runs and heavy growth in variable-based, one-to-one marketing. As the market and platforms on offer have expanded, the investment required to take advantage of all that InkJet offers is becoming more and more compelling. Hear the points of view of several […]
