Caldera with KIP
Caldera Graphics has announced a strategic partnership with KIP Europe for the supplying of production RIPs with the wide format KIP Color KC80 colour laser printer for imaging applications, states Wide Format Online.
With this printer, KIP has the ambition to revolutionise wide format colour printing in large quantities, a domain where inkjet technology is a slower and more expensive solution.
The KIP Color KC80 and its four-colour laser technology are unique on the market, according to the company, and targets not only blue-black poster applications or posters in ppc or glossy coated. Many substrates are being validated which will increase of the range of possible applications of this printer.
US govt wasteful on printing
The information technology revolution was once hailed as the beginning of a paperless office - everything would be stored and transmitted on computer, offices would go green, and dwindling forests would be saved, writes FierceGovernmentIT.
Turns out this was wishful thinking, certainly for the federal government. Printer manufacturer Lexmark says the federal government spends nearly $1.3 billion annually on employee printing, and wastes $440 million dollars a year on unnecessary ink and paper.
The company's survey found 57% of federal employees cited the need to have signatures on paper documents as the reason for so much printing, while 51% said they had to share copies of documents with others.
Canon unveils PosterArtist 2009
According to Canon, the new software is a poster-creation application with a range of new design features to make in-house poster production easier, with better quality output, states PrintGraphicNews.
The company said with the use of large format inkjet printers continuing to expand in a variety of different vertical markets, there has been an increasing demand for a simplified poster creation workflow targeted for the novice user.
With PosterArtist 2009, Canon's fourth generation of PosterArtist software, the latest additions and improvements provide users with the ability to produce professional, high-quality posters.
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