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3D Printing - A paper based 3D printing technology which can revolutionize the way we use print

3D printing has been the buzzword for the last few years and is gaining traction in numerous applications that can benefit from the technology. However, 3D printing has held great promise for prototype building, model building, medical applications, crafty accessories, small tools and jigs, etc.

For the first time someone has come up with an idea that makes 3D printing an integral part of a printing service provider. A tangible 3D paper print. Whoa! No this is not sci-fi - it is something that MCor Technologies Ltd has created and has the possibility of unlocking a new potential of perceiving 3D printed products from a printers’ point of view. So who is MCor?

Mcor Technologies Ltd is an innovative manufacturer of the world’s most affordable, full-colour and eco-friendly 3D printers. They are the only 3D printers to use ordinary business A4 and letter paper as the build material, a choice that renders durable, stable and tactile models. Established in 2004 with a talented team of specialists in the area of 3D printing hardware and software, Mcor’s vision is to make 3D printing more accessible to everyone. The company operates internationally from offices in Ireland, the UK, America and APAC. www.mcortechnologies.com

Their revolutionary creation is called Mcor IRIS HDTrue 3D Color Printer

Mcor IRIS HD Benefits

True Color Includes unique 360° high-definition color accuracy, International Color Consortium (ICC) color map, 1+ million colors and 5760 x 1440 x 508dpi, delivering accurate, consistent, rich, realistic color from part to part, screen to part, as well as on undercuts and sidewalls

Unmatched Affordability Never has 3D color modeling and printing been so affordable — a fraction of the cost of any other 3D printing technology; now, with Mcor Technologies, you can print more full color models every day

Office Friendly & Easy to Use Safe build materials, low noise level, no toxic waste

And what all can it do -

And it does all this with Paper. And why is it exciting that it can do this with paper -

1. Lowest Cost 2. Photo-realistic Color 3. Durable 4. Stable 5. Safest 6. Most Green and Eco-friendly 7. Professional Quality 8. Office and Classroom friendly 9. Versatile 10. Ubiquitous

So fellow printers looking to get into the 3D printing scene - check this tech out now!

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Nigeria-Based Printivo Wants To Become The Vistaprint Of Africa

Vistaprint has been around for twenty years, so if you live in the U.S. or Europe, ordering printed material online might not seem like a big deal. In..

The voice of Online Printing in Nigeria. Yes indeed! The new age printers are the ones who are letting people create and order their print jobs on the web. 

Way to go Printivo . . . 

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HP disrupts the repro print market with its new PageWide XL Series of printers

The new family of HP Large Format PageWide XL printers will deliver high-quality prints at faster speed and lower costs on a wide range of media.

HP PageWide XL series printers seem to be eerily similar to the Memjet Waterfall inkjet technology and Memjet has even filed a lawsuit against HP for infringement of their patent. 

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MEMJET FILES LAWSUIT ALLEGING PATENT INFRINGEMENT BY HEWLETT-PACKARD

August 11, 2015 | Filed under: Company, Technology

Memjet today filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Company in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. The lawsuit alleges infringement of eight Memjet patents related to its page-wide "waterfall" printing technology.

Specifically, the complaint asserts infringement of the following patents:

U.S. Patent No. 6,575,549, titled "Ink Jet Fault Tolerance Using Adjacent Nozzles" U.S. Patent No. 6,880,914, titled "Inkjet Pagewidth Printer For High Volume Pagewidth Printing" U.S. Patent No. 7,156,492, titled "Modular Printhead Assembly With A Carrier Of A Metal Alloy" U.S. Patent No. 7,325,986, titled "Printhead Assembly with Stacked Ink Distribution Sheets" U.S. Patent No. 8,662,636, titled "Inkjet Printhead Having Rows Of Printhead Segments" U.S. Patent No. 8,678,550, titled "Printhead Assembly With Laminated Ink Distribution Stack" U.S. Patent No. 8,696,096, titled "Laminated Ink Supply Structure Mounted In Ink Distribution Arrangement Of An Inkjet Printer" U.S. Patent No. 9,056,475, titled "Inkjet Printer With Web Feed Maintenance Assembly"

The lawsuit seeks both to enjoin Hewlett-Packard from its unauthorized use of Memjet's patented page-wide waterfall technology, and to recover damages resulting from Hewlett-Packard's use of that patented technology in HP's PageWide printer products, including the Pro X generation of office printers, the T-Series commercial presses, and PageWide XL series products. HP has stated its intention to use its PageWide Technology across its printing portfolio including in future Wide Format and 3D printers.

Memjet has invested substantial resources in the research and development of its page-wide waterfall technology over the last decade. Memjet has protected that investment through the development of its significant patent portfolio, including several thousand U.S. and foreign patents in the page-wide inkjet printing space.

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So HP is at work “disrupting” the print industry again and “disrupting” is their favorite word. They have created a new expensive toy for the map / blueprints / poster printers which I hope brings in the promised returns to these printers. One thing for sure that HP disrupts is the print service providers finances. Numerous cases worldwide of printers investing top dollars in HP’s state of the art new technologies which are promoted using excellent sales techniques making the printers believe that they are investing in a money printing technology only to realize over time that they are close to bankruptcy trying to pay HP for either financing the machines or buying consumables.

Hope PageWide XL changes this for HP and their loyal breed of print service providers.

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On occasion of the summit on ‘Ease of doing business – unfinished agenda’, a delegation of the Delhi Printers’ Association (DPA) met Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal at Hotel Le Meridian on 15 September, 2015 to hand over a memorandum listing the problems faced by the members of the association.

The Printers’ Association meets The Government - My views -------

The initiative to discuss the printers' issues with the local Government is a good step forward. Printing is an industry creating products for all businesses or individuals and the printed product is a necessity in almost all work fields. It is strange that while the printed product is a necessity for all businesses the printing industry itself is a highly unorganized sector. Lack of clarity of rules and different rules for different scale of printers creates a huge disparity between competing printers and destroys the objectives of a level playing field. While talking about moving printers from the "orange" to "green" category might be a good step, pollution and environment issues should be addressed on measured dynamics and merit since polluting effluents need to be monitored. This means while traditional offset, flexo, gravure and screen printers might still be discharging effluents, the modern digital printers are the ones who are truly heralding the printing industry to a no discharge non polluting industry. More important than these issues are the ambiguities regarding the VAT and Excise applicability and rates which, according to me, is the biggest differentiator between the competitiveness of printers. A stable, regulated and standardized tax rate structure will help in printers becoming more competitive and more importantly will help them in becoming more tax compliant. A lot of printers today are evading tax not because they truly want to evade tax but purely because they are ignorant about what tax and what amount of tax needs to be charged by them. I hope that these interactions with the Government will be more meaningful and will help in making the printing industry more organized, modernized and recognized and do not just be a 15 minute photo-opportunity exercise like in the past.

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Wow, what a year!

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Canaro by Rene Bieder.

The typeface is introduced by itself, but here is how he describe it:

“Conceived as an exploration of geometrical typedesigns of the early 20th century, Canaro developed into a font of that period with a modern streak. The lack of spurs provide a unique but unobtrusive appearance and support the contemporary character. In addition, the open shapes in combination with a tall x-height, create legibility in small text sizes. Typographic features like alternative lettershapes, ligatures, oldstyle numbers, arrows, fractions, special characters and many more, round up the whole family. Canaro is available in nine weights plus matching italics. Ranging from sharp and elegant thinner cuts to sporty and athletic heavy weights.”

You can buy this premium beatiful typeface with a 80% off (limited time) here: http://myfonts.us/k3045v

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So, are the Photo Studios the New Age Printing Presses? : Glo installs Indigo 10000; reinvents digital print

Cross Cut Road in Coimbatore has the allure of a big city shopping district. Top brands are visible, shopfront fascades are razzle dazzle, the shoppers are stylish. In the midst of this is Glo Digital housed on two floors. Four years ago, when PrintWeek India visited this site, it housed an Indigo 3050. That kit is still churning out prints, but in addition there is: the 5600 and the 7600 and of course the brand new 10000.

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Bitcoin Merchants

inkyface: Does anybody know of any printer accepting Bitcoin payments for jobs done?

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Bitcoins are the new age digital currency. Check this out and learn more about it.

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wooohoooo

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It was one of the best kept secrets in the industry. Today at 4 pm Manipal Technologies (MTL), one of India’s largest print solutions company, finally announced the process of merging their packaging businesses with Utility Printpack, India’s leading packaging solutions providers.

Wow!!!

Read about this on Printweek India. . . . 

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Oct 24th #Bansky

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The Master Craftsman Bansky is creating magic again on the streets of New York.

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Founder of the Indigo, the world’s first digital offset colour press which changed the course of the printing industry. 

And it all began in the back of a small cigar store in Edmonton over 50 years ago. Amazing!

A must read for all of you interested in the art of printing and the people behind it.

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WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?

A chilled beer.

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Everything that can become digital will become digital. And printing is no exception.

Benny Landa, the father of modern day digital printing.