by Henry Freedman   Kodak intelligent Calibration extends component life while improving productivity. How do you make dry toner perform as well as an offset ink? Offset process advocates have running joke about digital printing having excessive streaking, banding and uneven solids....

by Henry Freedman   At Graph Expo, Punch Graphix’s Xeikon 6000 stood tall—literally and figuratively. The webfed color digital press, its tall print tower housing paper festoon and print engines, features fiber-optic communications and enhanced RIP for increased speed vs. model...

by Henry Freedman   Just as production environments in photo finishing, printing and publishing have workflow tracking requirements, so do areas of scientific research in biochemistry and medicine. Commercial imaging and security printing industries may one day benefit from emerging...

by Henry Freedman   We are on the doorstep of the elusive higher speed and higher quality digital web press. The next five years will see the turning point. Finally, barriers are falling, leading to increasingly higher speed digital color web presses, which I define as a paper web...

During more than 20 years, I consulted, designed, engineered, and installed computer systems for automating the Prepress department as well as the Cartographic Division at The National Geographic Society. In the Prepress Division I developed complex color print management and pricing systems...