New ColorVANTAGE inks from Pantone.
Pantone, Inc., has announced Pantone ColorVANTAGE pigment-based inks for Epson Ultrachome printers. The printers that utilize these inks include Epson's Stylus Pro line of wide-format professional printers: the 9600, 7600 and 4000 models as well as the Epson Stylus Photo 2200. Pantone ColorVANTAGE inks are already available for the...

Digital imaging: the wave of the future.
October 2003--Product Watch Prices for digital imaging equipment have dropped significantly over the last few years. As a result, the use of digital imaging products in the classroom has greatly increased. Now, with this increased use of digital imagery by teachers and students, many schools are expanding...

HP HIT WITH $6.4M DAMAGE AWARD FROM 1996 DISPUTE.
A jury in San Jose Thursday found Hewlett-Packard Co liable for $6.4m in damages to Colossal Graphics Inc, a Palo Alto-based company which manufactures ink and bulk ink systems for large format printers. The jury in the two-year old case ruled against HP for breach of contract, breach of...

Epson Next Big Step for Photo Retail.
Don't underestimate the thousands of photo retailers that increasingly rely on smart digital imaging for basic survival. Digital minilabs, camera retailers and professional labs are realizing the importance of making wiser investments in digital technology to reflect their changing customer base. The digital photo business continues to...

E-Ink Gets First Electronic Paper Technology Out of the Labs.
E-Ink Corp, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has embarked on the first commercial demonstration of its electronic ink technology at US retailer JC Penny Co. E-Ink's Immedia display technology is intended to enable electronic displays to be based on electronic ink that can be...

Enzymes help office paper recycling.
Beside most office copying machines and laser printers these days stands a recycling container into which people dutifully toss their bad copies and printouts. Yet ironically, much of that paper still ends up in landfills. The reason, says Thomas W. Jeffries, a microbiologist at the University of...

Tried & true tips for art teachers: textures and fibers.
Textures and Fibers, the focus for this month's issue, touches an innate part of us. The tactile quality of the materials we work with is an important aspect of art making, one that is visually varied and stimulating. In drawing and painting we' re able to suggest...

Rapid development of the radiation curing sector.
With mankind paying greater attention to the environmental protection in recent years, radiation curing technology has developed rapidly. Compared with traditional curing technologies, radiation curing has the advantages of rapid filming, room-temperature curing, no solvent and low energy consumption. The technology has already been extensively used in coatings, ink...

Special dyes for color jet printing ink.
Dalian University of Technology and Dalian Suplor Information Material Co., Ltd. have jointly developed special dyes for color jet printing ink and production technology. In light of the problems such as the clogging of jet heads by dyes due to water volatility in ink, the puncturing of...

Backward integration boosts Kiri's prospects.
Byline: Ramkrishna Kashelkar Kiri Dyes and Chemicals (KDCL) is a Gujarat-based manufacturer of dyes and dye intermediates and caters to textiles, leather, paint and printing ink industries. It has a total production capacity of 10,800 tonnes per annum (tpa). It's coming out with an initial public offering...