Current Article Archives

Industry Influences

The August issue of Digital Output features our annual state of the industry article. Topics touched on include trending applications...

June 29, 2025

Reducing Errors, Enhancing Efficiency

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a derivative of automation, in the sense that the graphic arts is turning to AI as a tool to streamline the entire print...

June 27, 2025

Walls for All Occasions

The connotations associated with wallpaper range from something antique you might have seen in your grandmother’s living room to 1980s...

June 1, 2025

Bits, Blades, & Belts

Wide format cutting tables offer task versatility—from tangential and oscillating cutting to creasing and sometimes extending to routing and engraving...

June 1, 2025

Fast, Faster, Fastest

Recent flatbed announcements from several vendors included upgrades in print speed. For example, in January of this year, swissQprint...

June 1, 2025

Flatbed Printers in 2025

June 2025: Target Chart

June 1, 2025

Flatbed Printers

Wide format, highly productive flatbeds are favored in production print shops to output anything from point of purchase (POP) standee...

June 1, 2025

Ecommerce Engagement 

Wide format digital print enables a range of applications serving both consumer and business needs. Corrugated cardboard mediums are an excellent...

May 31, 2025

Cutting Consumables

Finishing systems rely on a variety of consumables, like cutting blades and bits, to handle an array of tasks in one machine...

May 31, 2025

Wallpaper Substrates

Media optimized for use as wallpaper must feature several non-negotiable characteristics. These include durability and washability...

May 31, 2025

Sustainable Solutions

Textiles are used for a range of wide format print applications including banners, flags, displays, wallcoverings, and tablecloths...

May 5, 2025

Direct Growth

Direct to film (DTF) printing is popular for hobbyists and smaller businesses with a customer base in online as well as local retail outlets...

May 5, 2025

Reigning in Color

Color management is pivotal regardless of the printer, method, or ink set used. That being said, direct to garment (DTG) and direct to film...

May 5, 2025

For the Love of Installation

Graphics that are printed and finished properly are pivotal to the final appearance, but arguably if a graphic isn’t applied well...

May 5, 2025

There is No Limit

The International Sign Association (ISA) is well known for its creative, outside-of-the-box promotion of its marquee event, the ISA International...

May 5, 2025

Eco-Conscious Printing

May 2025: Target Chart

May 5, 2025