Author: Peter Dulis

This year’s PMA trade show in Las Vegas saw another edition of the annual DIMA awards. The DIMA Digital Printer Shoot-Out was designed to test digital output devices and the consumables used with these devices using standardized conditions and procedures. Each participating company was given 5 business days to produce a print for entry into…

Specialty imaging is a high-tech and potentially high-profit area of graphic arts, and Canon has many products which perfectly address the needs of high-production specialty imaging shops. Canon’s all-new imagePROGRAF S-Series of eight-colour large format printers boast up to a 40 percent increase in print speed as compared to their predecessors. The imagePROGRAF iPF9000S and…

The SGIA (Specialty Printing & Imaging Expo) was held in Orlando, Florida this October, and took us up-close and personal with the specialty imaging community in all its high-tech glory. Inkjet printers were again the highlight of the show. In conjunction with SGIA, DPI holds its Product of the Year competition, which compares digital imaging…

According to a recent I.T. Strategies report, the display graphics market worldwide has a retail value of about $100 billion (US), which includes both digital and analog technologies. <!–break–>Digital technologies—primarily inkjet, but also electrophotography and thermal transfer—represent about 30%, or $30 billion (US). The variety of aqueous, solvent, and UV curable inkjet printers that are…

Wide-format multi-function printers (MFP) have gone from rare to ubiquitous in the past ten years. Steve Blanken, director of sales for Contex USA, notes that “ten years ago, Canon introduced large format bubblejet inkjet MFP units priced well above $125,000” and only larger companies were able to justify the cost. “But now, you can get…