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Landa Digital Printing: The flight of Icarus

The verdict is in: Landa Digital Printing is sold to FIMI for 80 million US$ in a flash sale. Benny Landa, who a few years ago claimed his company was worth 2 billion US$, is […]

Landa Digital Printing – a textbook example of ‘sunk cost fallacy’?

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you will have noticed that I’m a fan of ‘behavioral economics’. It’s a fascinating field in economics, that studies the irrational behavior of human beings. One […]

The evolution of offset printing
And why is this relevant to the troubles at Landa Digital Printing

It might seem a bit strange to have an article on the evolution of offset printing. Still, it’s highly relevant at this moment: it provides some context on Landa Digital Printing and its difficulties in […]

The web embraces OKLch (OKLab),
when will print follow?
A better way to describe color

Science evolves, based on experiences, experiments, and new insights. And that includes color science. Although the use of CIELab color description is fundamental to current color specification and reproduction, CIELab is ‘icky’, as John – […]

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The Impact of Color on Brand Recognition:
Re-evaluating the 80% Claim
A guest post, by Google Gemini Deep Research AI

Insights4print.ceo is my personal blog. But for once, I had to accept a guest article… Earlier this week, I read a newspaper article about the ‘deep research’ options that several AI tools now offer. And […]

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Is print quality control Russian roulette?

There are certainly people who are inclined to say that I need to get a life: as a kind of distraction, I recently put my spectrophotometer on different spots of one single package. Who would […]

Landa Nano: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
And The Alternative

Last Saturday, I visited drupa. And on my list was, of course, getting samples from Landa. Plus, a bunch of other digital printing presses, including one of the other B1 digital printing presses: the Koenig […]

The future of print quality exchange:
PRX/PQX vs XJDF

You may have noticed that I’m not a big fan of in-person press checks. It’s more about psychology and power games than getting that precious color right. And it’s a waste of resources, both in […]

New document setup: we need a new, different approach

Earlier this week, I posted on LinkedIn why, according to me, designers might not be familiar with color spaces and document profiles. It generated a lot of discussion… Going from “designers should not be bothered […]

Move over PDF/X-1a
Stop using a 20-year-old standard!

It was a surprise when I read the recent message from the GWG: ‘Stop using a 20-year-old standard’! My first reaction was: what??? The GWG promotes standards! But then I noticed the ‘20’, and it […]

Always put numbers in context!
(the next Landa Nano celebration)

Here’s an important lesson for life: always put numbers in context. E.g., the fact that I own 20 billion dollars. Unfortunately, it’s Zimbabwean dollar, which is worthless. (*) And with that in mind: what’s up […]

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ECG Printing: The Perfect Storm is near

When looking at packaging printing, ECG (expanded or extended gamut printing) is hot. Many people are talking about it, and the promises seem convincing: you can simulate much more brand colors with a set of […]

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When will new standards become mainstream?

JPEG was released 30 years ago. Although we have seen many competitors that were either more efficient or offered higher quality, or both, JPEG is still the dominant file format for pictures. One could wonder […]

The crossover between digital and offset printing, in real life

The word is a kind of magic, mystical: the ‘crossover’ between digital and offset printing. It’s the holy grail. It’s the number everyone wants to know. It’s a number that some vendors are showing off […]

Failing nozzles in inkjet: what is acceptable?

With inkjet, there is always a risk of failing nozzles. But the big question is: what is acceptable? One of the readers of this blog recently contacted me. He had a print job that was […]