I remember the days of the Nokia Communicator brick — the second generation. With that thing you could print via an infrared port on the device and your printer. My trusted LaserJet 2200DTN has such an infrared port, so I tried it. It worked, but it was a pain to keep the phone well in sight of the printer’s infrared beam. But they called it mobile printing. Today, with all the tablets and smartphones, mobile printing is back, but now it seems to actually work.
Printing less of more
January 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The title of this story isn’t a typo. Some products out there exist that allow you to print big documents on less paper, while others support printing with less ink to save money. A couple of services exist that allow you to save paper and ink when printing office documents and web pages. PrintEco is [...]
Kodak starting over again as mean, lean printing company?
January 21, 2012 By 1 Comment
So, big name Kodak has gone bankrupt. Most people think of photographic film when they hear the name Kodak. But Kodak was and is more than an enterprise involved in photography technologies. It has an established name in printing as well with its NexPress printing presses. The only problem is that it’s not making a [...]
Monotype Imaging licenses XPS printer driver solution to Microsoft
September 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Monotype Imaging Holdings has licensed its XPS-to-PCL 6 and XPS-to-PostScript vector conversion filters to Microsoft for use in the next version of Windows. Monotype Imaging’s XPS-to-PCL6 and XPS-to-PostScript driver technology enables printer device manufacturers to quickly and easily support XPS (XML Paper Specification) without modification to their PCL6 or PostScript printers.
Heidelberg to distribute Pageflex storefront
September 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Callas Software PDF2PRINT in Web2Print offering
May 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Soar Printing, an Auckland based printer in New Zealand employs over 70 people and offers an extensive range of services, from short run digital printing to long run offset printing and large format poster prints. Within their specific industry segments, the Soar divisions are market leaders utilizing the latest technology to deliver the best possible result. Soar Printing mainly focuses on printing for businesses: deliverables include marketing material, business forms, Point of Sale display items and packaging. They count brand names like Nestlé, Estéé Lauder, ASB Bank, Telecom New Zealand, Air New Zealand and Sky City Casino amongst their customers. Soar Printing wanted to offer a Web2Print solution for people who know how to use Adobe products and how to create print ready PDFs. Soar Printing was looking for a way to provide instant quoting and inline preflight to customers and at the same time remove the ongoing cost of those activities.
Product Analysis of the VUTEk GS3200 Super-wide format printer
January 4, 2011 By 2 Comments
Specialised printing is a growing market. Together with short runs and print-on-demand, super wide format printing has strong appeal to advertisers. Super wide format technology has reached the point that it is also attractive to the art reproduction market. Some vendors in the super wide format printer market focus on high speed and offer low to decent quality only, but our tests of this 2+ metric tonnes heavy beast reveal a printer that can tackle photo quality.
Web-to-Print done right equals profit
April 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Beyond Web-to-Print
April 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
The EFI ColorProof XF Software RIP
April 12, 2010 By 2 Comments
