Communication is seldom considered a critical basic skill in production. But whenever you are training employees, troubleshooting problems, collecting data, or documenting processes, your first stumbling...
A few weeks ago I was riding in a cab in Chicago when I asked the driver, "Where’s a good place to get something to eat...
With today’s proliferation of color, it’s easy to forget that black-and-white photos, movies, TVs, newspapers, and desktop printers once dominated our lives. In the past, if...
The amount of ink that many printers waste because of bad organization must bring joy to ink suppliers and sadness to the printers’ accountants. Poor ink...
Last month, we began our look at flatbed graphics presses by categorizing the wide selection of press makes and models into three general configurations: clamshell, two...
In this industry, you can find about a million different theories on just about every aspect of the printing process, whether it be taking the lid...
Anyone who has ever invested in new production equipment knows that buying a graphics press is like buying a new house. It can be a painful,...
Companies that use screen printing as part of a broader manufacturing sequence tend to treat it as an engineering process. Their aim is to understand where...
UV inks have revolutionized graphics screen printing, but curing these finicky formulations remains a challenge to any shop interest in hig-quality, high-volume production. Besides matching ink...
Artist and professor Malaquias Montoya has used screen printing as a medium for social change since his first position 40 years ago in a San Jose,...