On Manjaro, I installed my Pantum M7102DW wireless laser #printer easily enough through System Settings using print-manager. It automatically picked a generic PCL driver for this printer.
#CachyOS didn't have print-manager so I installed it. But the driverless options aren't working for whatever reason, and I don't get any PCL drivers to choose from.
All the Foomatic and Gutenprint packages seem to be installed so I'm kind of at a loss.
Für die #audiodump Hörers das fehlende Kapitelbild. #schriftmischung Holzlettern zweifarbig im Buchdruck.
@audiodump
#letterpress #printmaking #printing #leadtype #woodtype
#KnowledgeByte: #4D #Printing is a manufacturing process that creates objects that can change their shape or properties over time in response to environmental stimuli.
This is achieved by incorporating materials that respond to changes in temperature, light, pH, or other factors.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/trends/browser?topic=4D-Printing
Printing Ink Silica Matting Agent Market is growing as industries demand high-quality print finishes and sustainable ink formulations. These agents improve scratch resistance, reduce gloss, and enhance ink performance in packaging and publications.
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Ada Palmer is a national treasure! A terrific Renaissance historian at UChicago. But also an exciting, erudite (and fun!) guest at science fiction/fantasy/horror conventions for years. (She wrote the mind-bending Terra Ignota series.)
At one con she handed a small incunabulum around the room for everyone to (carefully) hold in our hands, while she spoke brilliantly about the early history of printing, as in this video.
IPP vs DNS-SD for driverless printing? #networking #printing
Local CUPS to remote CUPS with authentication #printing
@0xabad1dea
Wow! Astonishingly simply idea - people do the printing themselves (rather than having it mediated through a publisher). I wonder if the stelae though the middle east, like the ‘laws of Hammurabi’ etc. were also used in this way. 🤔
See Red Women’s Workshop, Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labor screenprint, London, 1975
In 1974, a group of artists founded the See Red Women’s Workshop to further the women’s liberation movement. Their posters address gender discrepancies in pay, capitalism’s reliance on unpaid homekeeping and childrearing, sexist depictions in advertising, and uniting women against racism.
Read more about See Red Women’s Workshop in our book, Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest. https://letterformarchive.org/shop/strikethrough-typographic-messages-of-protest/
#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Strikethrough #LetterformArchiveBooks #PublicationDesign #Printing #Publication #LetterformArchive #Typography #TypographyBooks #SeeRedWomensWorkshop
Cool History Fact of the night
Before woodblock printing (which was extensively used in China well before the west), there was a very clever, effective way to mass-reproduce the most important texts.
A few different times in imperial China, stone tablets of the most important books were commissioned. Anyone could walk up and look at them, but more importantly: anyone could lay a wet piece of paper over them and then gently rub ink over the paper, which would create a copy of white text on a black background.(And unlike printing, nothing needs to be done backwards.)
And if you were a famous enough calligrapher, you'd be asked to write onto a stone so someone else could chisel out your handwriting exactly, and then copies could be mass-reproduced as teaching examples.
(and I'm fascinated by how the stone fragment here is 1800 years old but the writing style is already extremely legible to me. It still uses the X-style 五 but is otherwise very Normal)
Xaar and Polipress Drive Digital Embellishments in Italian Wine Label Market
Xaar’s partnership with Polipress International in Italy is delivering advanced digital embellishment solutions to the premium label market. Through the installation of Xaar’s Versatex printbar the collaborat…
#wine #ItalianWine #MediterraneanWine #BeveragePackaging #Italianwine #labels #Printing #Wine
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2544287/xaar-and-polipress-drive-digital-embellishments-in-italian-wine-label-market/
Xaar and Polipress Drive Digital Embellishments in Italian Wine Label Market
Xaar’s partnership with Polipress International in Italy is delivering advanced digital embellishment solutions to the premium label…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #ItalianWine #MediterraneanWine #BeveragePackaging #Italianwine #labels #Printing #Wine
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2544287/xaar-and-polipress-drive-digital-embellishments-in-italian-wine-label-market/
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[#TRADESHOW] #Shanghai #International #Digital #Corrugated, #Folding #Carton & #Label #Exhibition will be held from March 4 to March 7, 2026, at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), #China. Held alongside #APPPEXPO 2026, the #expo #event focuses on the #future of digital #printing, #packaging, and #labeling #technologies, aligning with China’s #industrial upgrading and digital #transformation #strategies. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/shanghai-international-digital-corrugated-folding-carton-label-exhibition-2026/
[#TRADESHOW] #Shanghai #International #Digital #Textile #Printing #Expo will be held from March 4–7, 2026, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (Shanghai), #China. As a #key segment of #APPPEXPO 2026, the #event brings together #global #innovators to explore the #future of digital textile printing, #advertising, and digital #display #technologies. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/shanghai-international-digital-textile-printing-expo-2026/
DIRTY WORK STUDIO BRINGS RISOGRAPH PRINTING TO KW
Waterloo Region now has its first risograph print shop, thanks to the team behind Dirty Work Studio.
The four studiomates, Sid Drmay, Elise Glaser, Shalaka Jadhav and Natalie Vuong, came together through what they describe as a mutual interest in creating a space where visual artists can gather to develop their printing and publishing skills with peers.
The initial idea for Dirty Work Studio came about when Jadhav and Drmay attended a studio sale put on by the previous tenants—a pair of artists who have since moved out East.
“Sid and I, at different points in the afternoon [had come] by. We saw the space, sort of had the same idea and got really excited about the potential,” Jadhav said.
Around the same time that the studio space became available, Jadhav was also in the middle of acquiring a SF5130 risograph printer via a connection in Montreal.
“Risographs are a print method that uses an ink drum and soy-based ink, that basically uses a stencil method to push ink through the stencil and print onto the page, and you can do a lot really quickly,” Drmay said.
“It’s really popular with art prints, because you can do so much to add depth to your print,” they said.
Outside of Dirty Work Studio, all four studiomates are heavily involved with local arts organizations and community groups within the region.
Glaser runs the independent magazine collection at Disko Coffee. Drmay runs KW Zinetopia and the Hamilton Zine Machine. As part of her freelance graphic design work, Vuong handles design and social media for Roux Bakehouse. Jadhav is a member of the Creek Collective, KW Zinetopia and is also a writer-in-residence for CAFKA.25.
“I was coming from Seattle, and within the first month, there was a zine fair that Sid was running which was just right up my alley,” Glaser said.
“I feel really lucky to have met everyone. There’s a really vibrant arts community here,” she said.
Beyond its function as a print shop, the studiomates hope to cultivate Dirty Work Studio as a catch-all space to support programming and events.
“All of us, we come from print, community organizing, makerspaces,” Jadhav said.
“It started off as a co-working space and a print studio, but the past few weeks have been a lot of programming. Having informal spaces for creative community [to] get together is how interesting work and collaborations can happen,” they said.
“On average in a month, we’re looking to have at least five or six events. I’ve got a monthly cyber-thriller movie night, [Elise] has her monthly lecture series, there’s a deplatforming series going on right now. At this point we have a few things lined up where we’re providing space for folks doing different things, working with them to make their events successes too,” Drmay said.
“As much as we love working here and having that workspace, it is also really important to all of us to be able to have folks in here and run fun things, bring people together, because I think we’re all very passionate about having that kind of space here,” the said.
“For this to be more sustainable, it would be amazing to have more support from the community.”
Dirty Work Studio is open for risograph printing as of this past February and can be contacted for quotes at studioworkdirty@gmail.com.
News about upcoming programming can be found on their Instagram
@dirtyworkstudio.
[#TRADESHOW] #APPPEXPO 2026 will be held from March 4–7, 2026, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#Shanghai), #China. With the #theme “#CONNECT·CREATE·CHANGE,” the #event sets a new #benchmark for the #advertising, #printing, #signage, and #digital #display #industries, gathering #global #innovators to explore the #future of digital printing, #green #technology, and #industrial #applications. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/apppexpo-2026/
[#TRADESHOW] Shanghai #International #Ad & #Sign #Technology & #Equipment Exhibition will be held from March 4 to March 7, 2026, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#Shanghai), #China. As a #core #segment #event of #APPPEXPO 2026, the #expo focuses on the #future of #advertising, #signage, and #digital #printing #technologies, aligning with national strategies and #industry transformation. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/shanghai-international-ad-sign-technology-equipment-exhibition-2026/
