Pulse

Pulse — 2026-08-30

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 this as the week's first job. Find out which build you are on. Find out who owns the upgrade, and whether that person is in this week or on leave. An urgent advisory from a vendor is a scheduling problem before it is a security problem: patch windows on a production floor compete with jobs already committed. Shops running print management on a server nobody has logged into since installation will take longest. Read the advisory first, then decide what moves.

thecannatareport.com — PaperCut urgent security advisory

Signals

Fact-check snippets are gone from general Search. Google has retired visual fact-check rich result snippets from general Search listings, and the developer documentation is where that status is recorded. Send that page to anyone who still has ClaimReview markup sitting in their templates. For a source-checked publication the markup is not wasted; it just no longer buys a visual slot in general listings. Keep the structured data if it serves your own archive and downstream consumers. Drop it from the list of reasons you give clients for paying for verification work. Worth checking what your CMS emits by default.

developers.google.com — Fact check structured data

Verdict of the week

Claim: Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 — Market surveillance and compliance of products. Rating: Confirmed. Why: The instrument is the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on market surveillance and compliance of products, amending Directive 2004/42/EC and Regulations (EC) No 765/2008 and (EU) No 305/2011, published in OJ L 169, 25.6.2019, pp. 1–44, so the claim's short title matches the official operative subject matter.

Dates

Sep 27, 2026 — EmpCo: ban on unsubstantiated "eco-friendly"
Dec 30, 2026 / Jun 30, 2027 — EUDR: due diligence obligations
Mar 1, 2027 — GOTS 8.0 fully effective
Dec 31, 2027 — Materials Matter Standard replaces GRS and RCS
~2028–2029 (indicative) — Realistic DPP obligation for textiles

Pulse — 2026-09-14

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

Pulse — 2026-09-10

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

Pulse — 2026-09-08

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

Pulse — 2026-09-02

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