Production/Printing Processes

PRINTING United Expo 2022 Wraps With Overwhelmingly Exceeded Expectations
October 28, 2022 at 4:41 pm

PRINTING United Expo, the largest event in printing and graphic arts in 2022 — representing all facets of the industry — opened its doors last week to gather attendees and exhibitors from around the world for the first time under one roof since 2019. Held Oct. 19-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the global event drew registrants from 121 countries, and...

PRINTING United Alliance Announces New Apparel Decoration Summit
August 16, 2022 at 1:47 pm

Powered by PRINTING United Alliance’s apparel decorator-focused brand, the Apparelist, the Apparel Decoration Summit is launching a hosted, invitation-only conference being held June 12-14, 2023 at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Registration and more details on the Summit will be available soon...

A Crash Course in Color Management
March 1, 2022 at 9:22 pm

For anyone putting ink on, well, anything, managing color is of the utmost importance. That is, of course, if your client cares about that kind of thing (which they should). Brands choose their color schemes very carefully. It’s their entire aesthetic identity. And if their branding isn’t consistent across different media, that painstakingly curated identity goes out the window...

PRINTING United Expo 2021 Registration Now Open
June 1, 2021 at 12:11 am

PRINTING United Alliance announced that registration has officially opened for the highly anticipated PRINTING United Expo 2021, taking place at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando, on Oct. 6-8. New this year is a three-phase Expo experience which further provides access to even more education, new product debuts, and...

This Café in Scotland Uses 3D Printing Technology To Create Artwork on Latte Foam
February 4, 2020 at 7:43 pm

We think it’s safe to say that we all know at least one person that’s obsessed with latte art that baristas create. You know, the kind where the barista takes their time to carefully add the heart details with cinnamon or just create the swirl on the foam. It’s just so Instagram-able! Recently, the...

Harness the Power of Color
July 2, 2019 at 3:36 pm

If the substrate is the fifth color of printing, then consistency is the sixth: the quality that gives the laydown of ink or toner its recognizable character and unambiguous visual identity, job after job. The perception of color consistency is the result of making sure that everything in the print run...