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“It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don’t work.”

– Jerry Gillies (Author of 2 million copy bestseller Moneylove)

Digital Dots is an independent graphic arts research group specialised in digital prepress, printing and publishing technologies.

We provide market research, testing, evaluation and content services for the graphic arts, and publish the leading industry newsletter, Spindrift.

The march of digital technologies into the screen printing sector is relentless. Not only is it transforming business models, digital technology is also helping to create new applications for print, from building wraps to carpets.

Innovative use of wide format signs and displays is changing the commercial conversation printers have with their customers. It isn’t about the cost of a piece of print, but its value and effectiveness.

Wide format prints can be used not just to communicate a message, but as decorations for outside spaces. They offer advertisers unparallelled opportunities for reaching consumers in all sorts of new contexts.

Wild Format

One of the most dynamic areas of print is the wide format printing business, where a pioneering spirit prevails and production issues governed by materials science and chemistry.

We have been quietly covering this field for a couple of years, focusing on testing of UV-curing engines. This work is relatively new to us, but it is a field where we are striving to provide sign and display makers with more information about digital production, particularly for colour management and quality control.

We are currently producing a series of white papers for wide format printing technologies and applications. These papers cover a range of topics and provide companies with objective information to assist investment planning into wide format printing systems. Topics include Web to Print for Wide Format Applications, Inks & Media: What’s What?, What is a RIP & Why Should Sign & Display Makers Care? and User Guidelines for Wide Format File Preparation.

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