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NEWS
EDITOR’S COMMENT
Reduce screen wash waste
Screen wash solvents can be separation, helps to prolong the handle harmful liquids or heavy
recirculated and filtered using a new working life of the screen wash containers.
system from CPS, designed to solvents.
minimise both the cost and The ability to reuse cleaning www.cps.eu
environmental impact of screen materials reduces waste and
printing applications. Two-in-one and makes it cost effective to
functionality also means the Green use higher quality solvents
Screen Combeasy SW can clean with for more consistent results.
either water or solvents, eliminating In addition to keeping
the need for two stand alone booths. costs down, the system is
Operators can choose whether to environmentally friendly. It
The power of
use the system for processing and also supports a safe working
cleaning screens with water or environment, as low
exclusivity removing ink with screen wash evaporation solvents are
solvents. When cleaning with solvents, retained within the wash
I recently received a press release from a the CPS 2 stage system of cartridge unit and recirculation tank,
Operators can choose to use water or screen
company highlighting the power of the filtration, followed by gravity ink solids eliminating the need to wash solvents
internet compared with the demise of
magazine advertising. Interestingly, the
company had sent the press release to the
editors of printed magazines. How I
Collaboration has spectacular results
laughed at the irony.
Actually, it’s not a laughing matter. It DPLenticular has been working different expressions.
shows a complete misunderstanding of closely with Bergman Media CEO Bergman Media Group,
basic economics and the media in general. Group to develop 3Dynamick: a Andree Bergman, explained: “A
Beware such arguments. plastic lens material that allows 3D-product requires specialist
Naturally, printed media is loosing images to be printed in both knowledge, both technically and
market share to the internet: usually for three-dimensional and ani - creatively. We had direct contact
the right reasons, sometimes for the wrong mated form. Bergman is using with DPLenticular throughout the
reasons. As a believer in innovation I would the technique for applications research and development stage.
expect and welcome this shift. such as packaging, book covers, “We have since developed a
However, every time you take one item CD covers and point-of-sale quick-drying ink for
of printed media from the market, the items. DPLenticular's plastic sheets,
remaining items become a tiny bit more The development of which allows us to guarantee
‘special’. Continue this process and ‘special’ 3Dynamick was technically
DPLenticular's specialist knowledge helped to
create a range of 3D POS products
colour quality to customers. They
becomes ‘scarce’ and ‘scarce’ ultimately challenging so Bergman utilised can now check a digital proof
becomes ‘exclusive’. As one moves along the experience and expertise of internal workshop as an introduction that really matches the final colours.”
this path, commodity-based sales turn into DPLenticular to get the product off the to printing with lenticular products and
negotiated deals and value rises. ground. DPLenticular organised an offered advice on film selection for the www.dplenticular.com
I say let the internet become a
commodity and let print be special. To
highlight this further I recently reviewed a
long list of websites, working backwards in
Cutting waste
date order. I was fascinated to discover that
as I worked back in time an increasing
number of the sites were unavailable,
down to size
presumably having gone bust. SignUp Auto is a new automatic software product
I encourage you to keep learning about nesting solution from EskoArtwork, group, Geert De
print’s evolving capabilities and apply the designed to help sign and display Proost, said: “SignUp
Material waste is reduced by re-using cut pieces
benefits where they add value. Where companies utilize their raw Auto uses intelligent
possible, build on print’s exclusivity in substrates more efficiently. It is said to nesting and metadata such as material multi-page PDF workflows and the
today’s increasingly digital world and eliminate costly operator time in and numb er of copies to achieve ability to nest irregular shapes. With
charge accordingly. Believe me, the upside Adobe Illustrator or other desktop ‘lights out’ produc tion, reducing errors this support, digital large format
of this recession will come, let’s not waste publishing packages and provides the and providing optimised material printing and finishing shops get faster
it. mechanism as a dedicated workflow usage and cost efficiency. production throughput and are able to
tool to accept files from a digital “Material waste is reduced by re- conserve operator time.”
Jon Barrett
Editor
storefront. using cut pieces with enhanced
EskoArtwork director platforms support for double-sided displays, www.esko.com
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