Low down and dirty and all alone. That’s how you may feel when a job specifies Reflex Blue. Printers deal with drying, scuffing, scratching, set off, and incompatibility with coatings and UV finishing. Yet Reflex Blue and it’s PMS friends remain popular choices for graphic designers. Not a Dry Eye in the House What exactly […]
Midstate Printing is currently in the market to buy a new press. We’ve narrowed our choices down to two manufacturers. Both could provide LED-UV or H-UV drying systems. Owner and Plant Manager Tom House gave me the task of gathering information on LED-UV vs H-UV drying systems. Off to Google I went. The H-UV system […]
Imagine the ability to incorporate variable data into your web, flexo and sheet-fed environments. Attendees of Drupa 2016 came away with a desire for variable data printing that utilized a combination of traditional printing and digital technologies. Manufacturers have invested in the development of inline inkjet heads on standard printing equipment and it looks like […]
UV and LED-UV drying systems are changing the way we think about print finishes. The LED-UV system allows printers to distance themselves from the old days of varnish effects that needed long drying times and required the use of powders. The UV process rapidly decreases drying time. Instead of drying by air and heat, inks […]
I left my office to walk out to the warehouse to check on some stock. The same walk I’ve made hundreds of times. I said hello to the same faces I’d seen for years and I realized printing has a problem. There are very few young people in our shop, and even fewer of them […]
At Midstate Printing our company’s goal is to make your printing campaign standout. Advertising today bombards the average person. Getting their attention can be a challenge. People see ads online now more than ever before. The rate that folks delete ads is at an all time high. This is where a print campaign can help […]
