The lead GAM Graphics has put Color-Logic into production, using the software to automate visual previews of metallic digital print embellishments. For a shop floor, that lands at estimating and proofing, not on press. Metallic work is exactly the kind of job a customer cannot picture from a flat
The lead Mimaki has put a new direct-to-film printer, the TxF330-800, at the front of a four-machine launch covering UV and DTF work for apparel and rigid substrates. The claims attached to it are productivity and stability, and the second of those is the one that
The lead Xerox is returning to Xeikon for digital press technology, and the two reports landing this week frame it as an integration rather than a one-off supply deal: Xeikon technology built into Xerox's upcoming presses. For anyone running a shop floor, the practical question is not
The lead Roland DG has put two UV printers into the direct-to-object market: the VersaObject IO-300 and RC-300, both aimed at personalisation work on finished items rather than flat stock. For a shop already running garment and wide-format lines, that is a different kind of
The lead Nazdar named Edward Baiden president and CEO. If you buy ink, that is the item on this week's list that touches your floor first. Nazdar makes both screen and digital inkjet ink, so a change at the top sits across two supply lines that many shops
The lead Ink cracking after the wash is back at the top of the Pulse queue, tagged recurring, out of a thread on r/SCREENPRINTING titled "need help with fading/cracking after wash". Same complaint, different shops, week after week. The sweep groups it with two other finishing
The lead PaperCut has published an urgent security advisory for its NG and MF print management software. The queue entry carries no CVE, no version numbers and no patch date; the operational instruction is to go to the source and read it. If your floor runs NG or MF, treat
The lead Five years of shop floor logs, one recurring list of failures. Ink Kitchen's throwback piece pulls together direct-to-film problems that keep coming back — and the maintenance fixes that actually stop them. If you run DTF, this is the item worth printing and taping to
The lead Five dates are on the board. The first is 27 September 2026, when EmpCo bans unsubstantiated "eco-friendly" claims. EUDR due diligence obligations follow on 30 December 2026, with a second tranche at 30 June 2027. GOTS 8.0 is fully effective 1 March 2027. On
One letter a week on print-on-demand production. The lead, the signals, one verdict, the dates. Every item carries the link it rests on.