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Kodak Must Look to the Long-Term

Monday, December 29th, 2008

As my next Tribute's Tuesday column is not until mid January I am putting this subject on the blog as I feel there are points to be made now. The majority of suppliers today are having a hard time and few are meeting the market projections they made around the ...

drupa Innovation Parc

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

This is my final blog entry covering drupa 2008 that finished just under one week ago. One of the most interesting areas at drupa was in Hall 7 and it was the drupa Innovation Parc (dip). This hall differed from every other hall at drupa in that it was one where ...

New Presses from Xerox

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

At drupa Xerox made a number of new product announcements but there were two of particular significance. These were the Xerox iGen4 press and the Xerox 700 Digital Color Press. I am writing about the new Xerox iGen4 as I feel that in announcing this product Xerox failed to really ...

Computer to Plate (CtP) at drupa

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

While CtP has been around a long time first appearing in the 1980s, it did not really come into the spotlight until drupa 1995. At that time it shared the overall spotlight of technological advance with digital printing. 1995 was when thermal CtP from Kodak and Creo burst onto the ...

Get Prinected - Real Integration

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

One of the real highlights of drupa is to be found in the Heidelberg halls, Hall 1 and 2. Here in a superb layout all the Heidelberg and Polar products are in operation. What may not be realized is that every one of these products is linked together in what ...

Océ and High Performance Color

Monday, June 9th, 2008

In a recent post concerning Miyakoshi I stated I would come back to the subject of their inkjet technology. I am doing this now by covering how Océ is going to market with its high-speed JetStream 1100/2200 range of color inkjet continuous feed printers. This range of printers is largely ...

Its Now a Footie drupa

Monday, June 9th, 2008

This last weekend the European Football Championship started and is taking place in Austria and Switzerland. First of all for American readers football is not the game played by highly over paid very large men wearing more body armor than the troops fighting in Iraq. Instead it is the game ...

My Video View of drupa

Monday, June 9th, 2008

We are now nearing the end of drupa and I'm still having very busy days. Today Monday June 9 will be my last day touring around the show halls and I have perhaps my busiest day yet with back to back meetings throughout the day. In the course of the ...

The Real drupa

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Much has been written about drupa in the trade press but for newcomers to the event nothing really prepares you for what you find when you get here. This is now my eighth drupa and my sixth as a journalist coming here. My first two were as a vendor. I ...

Is Inkjet Green?

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Yesterday I wrote a post entitled How Green is Your Printshop that covered some of the green initiatives from suppliers that are being seen at drupa. One of the responses to this entry came from Alex Fisher The PR Officer of Ingede. His comments are printed below.