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Art Excitement

Every year we invite our readers to nominate their peers for our Application of the Year awards. This year’s top four winners—first, second, third, and honorable mention—differ in their scope...

Smart Laminators

Print service providers continually demand finishing units to step up to match the functionally offered by the latest print technologies...

Improving Ease of Use

As technology advances, equipment becomes more user friendly. Further, options for automation increase. While print providers are accustom to certain bells and whistles on printing equipment...

Give it a Glow

Neon and fluorescent inks are one tool wide format print service providers (PSPs) can add to their arsenal to stand out from the competition. While the appetite for these inks is specific, there is a market...

Flashback to Fluorescents

Neon and fluorescent inks brighten up the digital wide format print space. They offer a range of possibilities, including point of sale (POS), sign posts, backlit signage...

Sustainable, On Demand

Direct to garment (DTG) printing enables organizations to offer low-quantity runs of customized apparel. The technology continues to advance to enable more color options for...

Touch of Technology

Digital printing technology offers versatility to a variety of businesses. For those in the apparel space, direct to garment (DTG) printers provide adaptability and efficiency at an acceptable price point and footprint...

The Need to Pretreat DTG

Direct to garment (DTG) printing has grown in popularity as do-it-yourselfers and print shops alike capitalize on consumer customization trends. The upside, with demand at an...

The Foundation of DTG Printing

Print service providers (PSPs) considering adding direct to garment (DTG) printing need to understand it isn’t as simple as throwing a shirt on a platen and hitting print. Certain considerations...

In Full Color, Right on Time

An advertising agency turned contract printer? Thanks to direct-to-object printing capabili­ties, this statement has never been more true. Digital printing directly to substrates...