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We’re transferring the digital world into a print form

We’re transferring the digital world into a print form

"Video Killed The Radio Star", sang The Buggles in 1980 – but radio is still popular four decades later. "Digital brings print under pressure," is the lament in many quarters of the graphic arts industry – but this is not invariably the case. A typical example of how...

How to Get to Rid of the Spine Build up

How to Get to Rid of the Spine Build up

Is the spine build up of the book blocks that occurs during thread sewing also a thorn in your side? We can now remedy this well-known problem. The new VFN 700 spine nipping press from Muller Martini presses each bookblock in the spine area, thereby significantly...

The Year of the Decision

The Year of the Decision

At the end of the year, the Future Report of the Frankfurt Future Institute is one of my must-reads. The experts around Matthias Horx see 2021 as "the year of decision" in which a new (dis)order is supposed to emerge. The Corona crisis will most certainly go down in...

Global Graphics to acquire Hybrid Software

Global Graphics to acquire Hybrid Software

Global Graphics is set to acquire Hybrid Software Group from Congra Software. Rottenborn: "It brings us a global network of trained technical people" The Cambridge-based software developer has entered into a binding conditional agreement with Luxembourg-based holdings...

Shutterfly in record HP Indigo deal

Shutterfly in record HP Indigo deal

This text is reproduced with kind permission of Print Week, you can read the original article first published here. Richard Stuart-Turner US personalised products retailer Shutterfly has invested in more than 60 new HP Indigo digital presses – the largest single...

Publica PRO – A Good Perfect Binder Gets Even Better

Publica PRO – A Good Perfect Binder Gets Even Better

This text is reproduced with kind permission of Muller Martini, you can read the original article first published here. Even though softcover products are no longer printed in runs of hundreds of thousands, even millions of copies as they were a decade ago,...