#digital inkjet

[mhfoto]

Digital Inkjet technology referenced in 1971 The Miami Herald 24 May 1971, Mon · Page 130

[annaxmalina]

{2023} grief in grief out (July 12th - August 7th)

~*{ᵍᵒᵒᵈ ⁿᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵐʸ ˡᶦᵗᵗˡᵉ ᵍʳᵃⁿᵈᵖᵃ}*~ on the evening of July 12th, when i started working on this animation, my grandpa was admitted to the hospital with difficulties breathing. i only learned about this the following day and even later that he already had water in his lungs at that time. he had been in a bad shape since mid-March already, after his 88th birthday, suffering a severe phase of dementia after a physical illness. but after July 12th he was evidently living his very last days and in the early hours of August 7th he finally found rest. luckily, all the time, despite his episodes of dementia, he always recognized his family. he still smiled wearily at me past Saturday, though already unable to utter words; and the day before he still addressed me as his little sun, like he always used to do, and squeezed my hand.

[uglyconvention]

Adults only (dragon)

Inkjet print on vellum

8.5” x 11”

[weirdveil]

emptying the pungent liquid of temper / 2023

[jokeanddaggerdept]

[skunkes]

i wanna do more relief printmaking

[sheltiechicago]

Lillies, 2023, archival inkjet print, custom gold lead frame, digital video, 40 × 30 inches.

Artist: Sean Fader

The digital image as a tool for exploring queer histories.

Daddy, 2023, archival inkjet print, custom gold lead frame, digital video, 20 × 15 inches.

Spreckels Sugar, 2023, archival inkjet print, custom gold lead frame, digital video, 20 × 15 inches. 

Sugar Daddy I, 2021, archival inkjet print, custom gold lead frame, digital video, 44 × 78 inches.

[mnemotechnicstoo]

boys kissing

Digital - photoshopped inkjet overprint

2010s

[nickl-art]

back at it again with the neon colored ocs

[printmediacentr]

The Print Report: Innovate and Connect at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2025 with Daniel Erni

Daniel Erni, CEO of Hunkeler AG, joins Deborah Corn and Pat McGrew to discuss the 2025 Hunkeler Innovationdays event Feb 24-27 in Lucerne Switzerland, the unique opportunity it provides for printers to explore cutting-edge equipment and software solutions, connect with industry experts and colleagues, and why HID truly stands out as a 'must-attend' industry event. 

Mentioned in This Episode: 

Daniel Erni: https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-erni/

Hunkeler AG: https://hunkeler.ch/en/home/

Hunkeler Innovationdays 2025: https://innovationdays.com/

Hunkeler Starbook Plowfolder: https://hunkeler.ch/loesungen/starbook-plowfolder-buchloesung/

DOXNET: https://doxnet.de/

Old Swiss House: https://oldswisshouse.ch/

Pat McGrew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patmcgrew/

McGrewGroup: https://www.mcgrewgroup.com

Deborah Corn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahcorn/

Print Media Centr: https://printmediacentr.com

Partner with Print Media Centr: https://printmediacentr.com/partnerships/

Subscribe to News From The Printerverse: https://printmediacentr.com/subscribe-2

Listen Long and Prosper!

[annaxmalina]

{2023} [🕳️].final

5:13-5:42 (a sense of urgency) ~ 4:33-5:18 (the hours slipping by) :: words borrowed from Love, In Itself

[uglyconvention]

Dream bed (2024)

Inkjet print, acrylic, and wax pastels on paper

11” x 8.5”

[lorenzovitrified3]

Buy from top inkjet porcelain tiles manufacturer in India

Inkjet technology has been adopted in the decoration of porcelain tile to provide substantial benefits that are quite attractive in the market. This is something that Lorenzo Vitrified, one of the fastest-growing inkjet porcelain tiles manufacturer in India, utilizes to provide clients with high-quality products that fit today’s style and function. Inkjet technology also has the advantage of mimicking natural materials and complex patterns with ease. Lorenzo Vitrified uses this capability to provide tiles that resemble elegant stones, earthen woods, and modern looks. For the residential and commercial buildings, they have a wide variety that meets a variety of aesthetic needs.

Lorenzo Vitrified is one of the leading inkjet porcelain tiles manufacturer in India because it focuses on the quality of its products. They follow a Production process which is highly technical and follows all international standards. Lorenzo Vitrified has a range of inkjet porcelain tiles as the company stands out with a good mixture of modern chic and classic styles. Their collection ranges from the contemporary clean lines to the complicated classic designs to fit all types of tastes and building structures.

The designs of inkjet porcelain tiles have focused on simplicity, which goes well with the style preferred by most architects and individuals in the present age. Such tiles normally bear smooth and fine finishes with little or no patterns and colours that appear to blend well with different interior decor. Lorenzo Vitrified is heavily dependent on customization as it provides tiles that can be used to allocate personal touches to one’s home.

Such commitment to customers guarantees satisfaction at every stage of operation. The glowing words of praise from satisfied customers bear testimony to our ability to do more than what has been expected. Check our wide range of products today or feel free to reach out to us. Visit our website to explore variety of design from top inkjet porcelain tiles manufacturer in India.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”

20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired. I'd publicly noted my disappointment with glowing Wired reviews of DRM-encumbered digital devices, prompting Anderson to call me unrealistic for expecting the magazine to condemn gadgets for their DRM:

https://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2004/12/is_drm_evil.html

I replied in public, telling him that he'd misunderstood. This wasn't an issue of ideological purity – it was about good reviewing practice. Wired was telling readers to buy a product because it had features x, y and z, but at any time in the future, without warning, without recourse, the vendor could switch off any of those features:

https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/29/cory-responds-to-wired-editor-on-drm/

I proposed that all Wired endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:

WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.

Wired didn't take me up on this suggestion.

But I was right. The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations. Inkjet printers were always a sleazy business, but once these printers got directly connected to the internet, companies like HP started pushing out "security updates" that modified your printer to make it reject the third-party ink you'd paid for:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

Now, this scam wouldn't work if you could just put things back the way they were before the "update," which is where the DRM comes in. A thicket of IP laws make reverse-engineering DRM-encumbered products into a felony. Combine always-on network access with indiscriminate criminalization of user modification, and the enshittification will follow, as surely as night follows day.

This is the root of all the right to repair shenanigans. Sure, companies withhold access to diagnostic codes and parts, but codes can be extracted and parts can be cloned. The real teeth in blocking repair comes from the law, not the tech. The company that makes McDonald's wildly unreliable McFlurry machines makes a fortune charging franchisees to fix these eternally broken appliances. When a third party threatened this racket by reverse-engineering the DRM that blocked independent repair, they got buried in legal threats:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war

Everybody loves this racket. In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls locomotives. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they've been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves:

https://mamot.fr/@q3k@hackerspace.pl/111528162905209453

Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive, including Article 6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this month – Germany is also a party to the EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real – but so is the threat to conferences that host them:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/

20 years ago, Chris Anderson told me that it was unrealistic to expect tech companies to refuse demands for DRM from the entertainment companies whose media they hoped to play. My argument – then and now – was that any tech company that sells you a gadget that can have its features revoked is defrauding you. You're paying for x, y and z – and if they are contractually required to remove x and y on demand, they are selling you something that you can't rely on, without making that clear to you.

But it's worse than that. When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they invite both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remotely, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in the worst person at the product-planning meeting proposing to do so. The fact that there are no penalties for doing so makes it impossible for the better people in that meeting to win the ensuing argument, leading to the moral injury of seeing a product you care about reduced to a pile of shit:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification

But even if everyone at that table is a swell egg who wouldn't dream of enshittifying the product, the existence of a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature makes the product vulnerable to external actors who will demand that it be used. Back in 2022, Adobe informed its customers that it had lost its deal to include Pantone colors in Photoshop, Illustrator and other "software as a service" packages. As a result, users would now have to start paying a monthly fee to see their own, completed images. Fail to pay the fee and all the Pantone-coded pixels in your artwork would just show up as black:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process

Adobe blamed this on Pantone, and there was lots of speculation about what had happened. Had Pantone jacked up its price to Adobe, so Adobe passed the price on to its users in the hopes of embarrassing Pantone? Who knows? Who can know? That's the point: you invested in Photoshop, you spent money and time creating images with it, but you have no way to know whether or how you'll be able to access those images in the future. Those terms can change at any time, and if you don't like it, you can go fuck yourself.

These companies are all run by CEOs who got their MBAs at Darth Vader University, where the first lesson is "I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further." Adobe chose to design its software so it would be vulnerable to this kind of demand, and then its customers paid for that choice. Sure, Pantone are dicks, but this is Adobe's fault. They stuck a KICK ME sign to your back, and Pantone obliged.

This keeps happening and it's gonna keep happening. Last week, Playstation owners who'd bought (or "bought") Warner TV shows got messages telling them that Warner had walked away from its deal to sell videos through the Playstation store, and so all the videos they'd paid for were going to be deleted forever. They wouldn't even get refunds (to be clear, refunds would also be bullshit – when I was a bookseller, I didn't get to break into your house and steal the books I'd sold you, not even if I left some cash on your kitchen table).

Sure, Warner is an unbelievably shitty company run by the single most guillotineable executive in all of Southern California, the loathsome David Zaslav, who oversaw the merger of Warner with Discovery. Zaslav is the creep who figured out that he could make more money cancelling completed movies and TV shows and taking a tax writeoff than he stood to make by releasing them:

https://aftermath.site/there-is-no-piracy-without-ownership

Imagine putting years of your life into making a program – showing up on set at 5AM and leaving your kids to get their own breakfast, performing stunts that could maim or kill you, working 16-hour days during the acute phase of the covid pandemic and driving home in the night, only to have this absolute turd of a man delete the program before anyone could see it, forever, to get a minor tax advantage. Talk about moral injury!

But without Sony's complicity in designing a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature into the Playstation, Zaslav's war on art and creative workers would be limited to material that hadn't been released yet. Thanks to Sony's awful choices, David Zaslav can break into your house, steal your movies – and he doesn't even have to leave a twenty on your kitchen table.

The point here – the point I made 20 years ago to Chris Anderson – is that this is the foreseeable, inevitable result of designing devices for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades. Anyone who was paying attention should have figured that out in the GW Bush administration. Anyone who does this today? Absolute flaming garbage.

Sure, Zaslav deserves to be staked out over an anthill and slathered in high-fructose corn syrup. But save the next anthill for the Sony exec who shipped a product that would let Zaslav come into your home and rob you. That piece of shit knew what they were doing and they did it anyway. Fuck them. Sideways. With a brick.

Meanwhile, the studios keep making the case for stealing movies rather than paying for them. As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":

https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

Image: Alan Levine (modified) https://pxhere.com/en/photo/218986

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

[newtechtrends]

The digital production inkjet printer market is witnessing sturdy growth in Italy owing to factors such as the rising adoption of digital solutions and digital advertising. As inkjet technology can be used on a wide range of materials such as paper, cardboard, and canvas, it is widely adopted by the market player in Italy as a solution.