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...

Publishing, at its beginning, was simply the distribution of printed pages and books. Today, information is published digitally on the modern extension of the printing press, the internet. Websites such as this one post information, magazines and books for immediate distribution worldwide....

For more than 35 years, Technology Watch Newsletter has delivered farsighted evaluations and projections focusing on technology development in the computer, telecommunications, office products, graphic arts and photographic industries. Each issue covers emerging technologies most likely to...

Technical Papers provides selected materials from my presentation library. The papers are easy to understand and have practical, every-day applications in today’s printing and publishing world.     by Henry Freedman The Integration of E-Commerce Enabled Expert Systems for...

I curated the Printing Impact on Man exhibit, a survey of the development and societal impacts of printing technology. A unique collection of artifacts, printed specimens, and printing machine, the exhibit was first displayed from January through February 1978, in Washington, D.C. Its...

Leading visionaries in printing and publishing gathered in Washington, D.C. for the World Conference on Electronic Printing and Publishing. Attendance was so large that the conference venue had to be moved to the Lisner Auditorium of The George Washington University. The participants, working...