Justin Bailey, managing director at Global Graphics Software, highlights SmartDFE at the Fespa 2022 exhibition in Berlin. SmartDFE is a full software and hardware stack that gives you everything you need to add print to the fully automated smart factory. …

As the use of variable data, press speeds and resolutions grows, the need to inspect the print for defects before it comes off the press and goes into finishing and converting is essential. In this film, David Stevenson, product manager for Mako™ chats t…

Find out more about the challenges of connecting print to the smart factory in this short film: Smart factories are designed to autonomously run the entire production process and this will include the print subsystems. However, adding print to these smar…

If you're looking for software to power your first or next digital press, it will need the right kind of software engine that isn't based on disk technology and drives your digital press electronics directly. In this film, product manager Ian Bolton expl…

Global Graphics Software's distinguished technologist Martin Bailey explains what variable data printing is, how it works, and why Harlequin RIPs with Harlequin VariData™ in them can help you build a digital front end (DFE) for a digital press that will d…

In this film, distinguished technologist Martin Bailey demonstrates how to work with spot colors in Harlequin Core. Martin offers useful tips and tricks and uses sample files and configurations to demonstrate: - Separation and Emulation - Adjusting Emulat…

Mako product manager David Stevenson gives a short demonstration of the vector transparency flattening feature in Mako Core. Read more about vector-based transparency flattening on our blog: How to retain print quality with vector-based transparency fla…

In this film, Martin Bailey, distinguished technologist at Global Graphics Software, explains how to determine how much raster image processor (RIP) power you need to drive a digital press by calculating the press data rate. It’s the best way of calculati…

If you’re building a digital press, or a digital front end (DFE) to drive a digital press, you want it to be as efficient and cost-effective as possible. As the trend towards printing short runs and personalization grows, especially in combination with in…

Andy Cardy, Principal Engineer, and David Stevenson, Product Manager, give a demo of Mako™, the software developer’s Swiss Army knife for PDF application or workflows. In this session, they show you how to use Mako to modernize your print infrastructure …

In this film, product manager David Stevenson explains what happens when traditional print software designed for non-digital workflows handles vast amounts of data and how this is leading to a new generation of RIPs that ditch the disk and RIP print jobs …

The print software engineer's Swiss Army knife, Mako™ has many ‘blades’, each one matching a job that you need to get done. Using its unique document object model, Mako’s C++ and C# APIs offer control over color, fonts, text, images, vector content, metad…

Product manager David Stevenson presents the Mako™ SDK. David explains how using its unique document object model, Mako’s C++ and C# APIs offer control over color, fonts, text, images, vector content, metadata and more, combining precision with performanc…

There has never been a better time to take a break from deadlines and sharpen your development team’s metaphorical saw. Watch the live demo of Mako™, the software developer’s Swiss Army knife for PDF application or workflows. In this session we use codi…

Mako is a multi-platform technology for creating, interrogating, manipulating and visualizing PDF documents, offering precise control over color, fonts, images, vector content and more. In this video, Global Graphics product manager David Stevenson gives …

Sending print data directIy to the printhead electronics makes it possible to achieve blistering speeds even with variable data when every item is different. Can you maintain optimum quality too? The benefit is significantly improved productivity because …

This presentation, made at the recent Fespa 2019 in Munich, shares some of the insights and advances we’ve achieved over the last few years as we’ve worked with many inkjet press vendors to increase their output quality.

From about the middle of last year, the consensus seemed to be that inkjet had finally attained the same quality as offset lithography or flexography. How has that consensus been reached when the areas that inkjet still finds difficult are things like lar…

Is it really possible to achieve blistering speeds with variable data and maintain optimum quality? How do you keep the presses running with no waiting time when every printed piece is different from the next? How do you mitigate artifacts like banding, o…

ScreenPro offers high-speed halftone screening & quality improvement for inkjet printers and presses

At the recent Inkjet Conference in Chicago Global Graphics CTO Martin Bailey provided an update on mitigating texture artifacts on inkjet presses using halftone screens: streaking, coalescence, tone steps and the dreaded orange peel mottling.

Global Graphics CTO Martin Bailey presents an update on mitigating texture artifacts on inkjet presses using halftone screens: streaking, coalescence, tone steps and the dreaded orange peel mottling. But improved screening reveals other imperfections, a b…

Gary Fry, CEO at Global Graphics, presents 'What the Customer Wants - how software choices affect the performance of your press.' at the IMI Ink Jet Printing Conference 2017.

Intelligent software makes a huge difference to the commercial success of your inkjet press. That's the message that Martin Bailey, CTO at Global Graphics Software, discusses at the annual Inkjet Conference on 5th and 6th October 2016.

Today the inkjet industry is exploring how to achieve optimal, repeatable image quality. Brand owners expect high-quality output across all their communication channels. Yet many press manufacturers are frustrated that they are not able to achieve the q…

Harlequin Multi-Level Digital Screening is a new technology from Global Graphics Software. It has been specially developed so you can print confidently on challenging media and at higher speed, allowing you to expand into higher quality (higher margin) ap…

There are lots of guides on how to design direct mail jobs to increase response rates but nothing to help with the actual construction of a PDF for optimal production. Yet in 2011 an Infotrends study found that 85% of print service providers use PDF for …

"The challenge isn't just to be fast enough", says Global Graphics' chief technology officer, Martin Bailey. "The real challenge is to achieve that goal without incurring an uneconomically high cost for the bill of materials to buil…

"The challenge isn’t just to be fast enough", says Global Graphics' chief technology officer, Martin Bailey. "The real challenge is to achieve that goal without incurring an uneconomically high cost for the bill of materials to build th…