Xerox: from photo copier, to print-on-demand, to variable data

By oliverbarstow, May 15, 2018

Xerox, originally the Haloid Photographic Company, is an American global corporation that commercialised the process of Xerography, a technology integral to the development of photo copiers and laser printers. In 1938, Chester Carlson, a physicist who worked independently, invented and patented a process for printing images using an electrically charged photoconductor-coated metal plate and dry [...]

Océ/Canon – Digital Printing with Inkjet Technology

By oliverbarstow, May 9, 2018

Yesterday, 8 May 2018, we met with Thijs van Thienen, product manager at Océ/Canon in s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, to discuss aspects of the company’s print offering. As an interesting aside, Océ – a Dutch company – holds the patent for adding colour to margarine, changing its actual grey grey to a more consumable yellow. It [...]

The same but different

By oliverbarstow, April 13, 2018

Digital printing processes use variable data workflows to customise text, colour and image within a print run, creating the possibility to personalise print on a large scale. This is not a new development in the industry, the technology was introduced with the founding of the Indigo company in 1993, heralding the so-called ‘personalisation revolution’. To [...]

Start researchproject Print/Press

By margreet, January 30, 2018

We proudly present Print/Press, a researchproject in collaboration with KVGO Sandberg Instituut, three printers (Aeroprint, Jubels en Hazenberg) and two designers. With funding from A&O Fund Grafimediabranche, we are able to start this research from the beginning of March this year. The main goal of this research is to realize A Digital “How-To” Guide to Printing Methods and Techniques. To reach this [...]