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Tips on Specifying Paper for Various Printing Equipment
When it comes to papers for commercial printing, most designers think in terms of traditional offset lithography. Up until 10 years ago that was perfectly fine, except for the shift to digital printing. These days, print runs are smaller, making digital printing the go-to method for a lot of print projects these days. The thing …
The designer's guide to printing a poster
Make sure what you designed on screen is accurately reproduced on paper with our pro's guide to poster printing.
How 3D Printing Actually Works
The 3D printing industry has opened to individual consumers, piquing interest in the tech space within the past few years. But how does a 3D printer work?
5 Quick Fixes for Common Printing Problems
Here’s the top five printing snags and our quick-fix remedies to solve them.
20 Things You Didn't Know About... 3-D Printing
3-D printing is all the hype these days, but there's a lot about the technology that you don't know.
Why Does Paper Continue to Hang On? Moving Toward Digital
Digital transformation has been a buzzword for quite some time, and it’s easy to see why. It’s hard to empower revenue streams, reinvent customer experience, or launch breakthrough products...
What Happens When 3-D Printing Outgrows Plastics?
Grand designs: how 3D printing could change our world
3D printing technology combines computing power and agile machines to build almost any object, one layer at a time. How could it shape the future?
What Are You Printing for Dinner?
The rise of 3-D printed food could touch all the ways we eat
3-D Printing Design: Five Tips to Achieve Additive Manufacturability
The design freedom that comes with 3-D printing is altering our basic assumptions of how products are made. But we have to know where to start.
How 3D Printing Is Helping Make the Lives of Wounded Soldiers Better
“Set out to build a company and make a contribution, not an empire and a fortune," said Packard.
How 3-D Printing Body Parts Will Revolutionize Medicine
Welcome to the age of bioprinting, where the machines we've built are building bits and pieces of us.
How 3D Printing Becomes Normal and Ordinary
I thought I’d start this article with a quote from one of my absolute favorite science fiction writers ever (Kurt Vonnegut is a very close second!) “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordina...
How 3D Printing Facilitates Interactive Learning
In recent years, three-dimensional, or 3D, printing technology has experienced rapid development. In just the past year, 3D printing improvements have been found in various technologies such as printers for use in the home, as well as 3D pens for doodling with.
How 3D Printing Will Change Our World (Part II)
Today, 3D Printing technology lives in the realm of small plastic tchotchkes. But economists, theorists, and consumers alike predict that 3D printers...
4 Ways to Increase Profit for In-Plant Printing. Konica Minolta Blog
In-plant managers often talk about the challenge of outsourcing print orders. Overcoming these challenges is key to any in-plant’s success and can turn it from a cost center into a profit center. Read more >
Plasma Printing Techniques Deposit Nanomaterials on Flexible Substrates
I distinctly remember taking a test in fifth grade science class in which I had to name the states of matter. I would have risked my tiny fifth grade reputation on the fact that gas, liquid, and solid were the only possible answers.
3D Printing and Diversity: It’s Time to Start Taking It Seriously
Because most of the quickly growing companies and startups that tend to dominate it emerged from the maker community, the 3D printing industry often seems to find itself a little sequestered from the rest of the tech industry.
Four Tips for Better Ink Coverage on Uncoated Paper
Printing on uncoated paper? See how you can achieve better ink coverage on uncoated paper with these four tips.
Tips on Choosing Paper: Part III
7. The Printing Process I f your budget allows for specialty printing processes, such as embossing, foil stamping, letterpress and the like...
