Esquire gets electronic

Esquire, the American magazine, is turning 75 this year. As part of the celebration, the October issue will be the first magazine ever to embed electronic paper into a mass-produced print product, says MarketWatch.

The cover will be done in partnership with the all-new Ford Flex Crossover and in collaboration with E Ink, the supplier of electronic paper display technologies.

Ford will prominently feature its highly anticipated Ford Flex on the inside cover, using the same E Ink Vizplex flexible display technology, in a double-page advertisement.

The US Transportation Security Administration is taking delivery of new imaging scanners for security checkpoints at 21 of the busiest airports in the country, says Carrentals.co.uk.

The new scanners will provide images that are similar to near-naked photos. These new security portals use a technology known as millimetre waves to see through a passenger's clothing and produce images that outline the naked body.

In the name of enhanced security, airline passengers have been required to expose their feet, place personal-care liquids in see-through baggies and now will be subjected to virtually nude images. There are people saying that this is a violation of passengers' rights.

Printing Industries of America and the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation have awarded Sun Chemical a 2008 InterTech Technology Award for its Platinum White technology, says What They Think.

The technology constitutes a UV flexo white ink that improves the productivity of converters when printing narrow web labels by delivering increased line speeds, faster changeovers, improved colour separations, and reduced costs.

UV rotary screen white inks have long provided high opacity and brightness for package printing, however, rotary screen printers are restricted to low press speeds and sometimes borderline adhesion to many substrates.