The world is changing at every nanosecond. Within the blink of an eye, so much around us, changes, isn’t it? A startup can turn into a biggie, a trending thing can become a thing of past, a technology can emerge, a product you are using right now can become extinct, and vice versa, by the time you finish reading this article, then you can imagine how much would have happened in a week? The printing industry is no behind in the race of change. Something somewhere is evolving or emerging in the print industry as well. To help save your time in searching what's new in the world of print, we have compiled the top stories of the past week for you to take a quick glance and get updated. Let’s see how the week for printing business was. The slots are filling up The week started with the announcement of open registration by Printing Industries Alliance, for the thirdDigital Print Think Tankscheduled for Thursday, February 21st 2019 at Manhattan, New York. The event is inviting printers from throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions and beyond and will be first come, first serve basis. Reservations are available for all presentation slots, non-presentation sponsorships and attendees. The event is planning to cover all topics of digital printing technologies from toner to inkjet as well as their applications including labels and packaging, wide format, direct mail and books. Even a panel of digital printers, end-users, and digital press manufacturers will be present to discuss the possibilities apart from presentations. For sponsors who are interested, can book their slots at 203 912 0804 or by email atm.maloney@bmcorp.comormmaloney@pialliance.organd for printers and others who wish to register should contact Kim Tuzzo at 716 691 3211 or email atktuzzo@pialliance.org 3D printing made more accessible to consumers A new plugin called Click & Print was launched on 18th December byMyMiniFactory, a UK-based 3D content platform which will allow users to 3D print without the need of prior knowledge of slicing or STL file preparation. It has also been made available for OctoPrint, an open source interface that allows a user to control and monitor 3D printers remotely.  MS to showcase its printing solution at Heimtextil MSPrinting Solutionsis gearing up to present its both brand new versions of JP4 textile printing machines atHeimtextil, the biggest international trade fair for home and contract textiles, which will be held in Frankfurt am Main from 8 to 11 January 2019. Live demo will be given to the visitors at the booth to help them figure out the accuracy and reliability of MS's printing systems and witness its scaling productivity and production speed without losing image quality. Canada to have significant growth in digital label printing segment On 20th December 2018, DATA Communications Management installed the first Heidelberg-Gallus Labelfire in Canada, opening the door for Digital Label Printing. The installation was made with an aim to boost performance in the fast-turnaround production of customized labels. This hybrid technology is believed to produce fast-turnaround prime labels with greater customization. Colorjet wins a second time in a row Colorjet India bagged the award for the ‘India’s largest manufacturer for a wide-format digital printer of the year’ during the annual 7th Imaging Solution Award night, held on New Delhi. This is the second time in a row Colorjet is taking the award home. Founded in 2004, Colorjet has installed and implemented over 4,000 of its printing solutionsand products across 315 cities around the world and is now in an exciting phase of growth and will be rapidly expanding in the other countries as well. Ultimaker's Christmas gift to 3D printing Ultimaker, the professional 3D printers, released the beta version of their brand-new user interface for the popular Cura 4.0 3Dweb2print solutions. Ultimaker’sCura is a powerful print design tool already having a good number of handy features, but its new user interface promises to present all those features in a much more logical and smooth way, based entirely on research into user workflow. That was all folks. You might have got an idea of how much the printing industry is transforming in terms of growth, technology and productivity. If a week was so much then God knows what's going to happen in the upcoming weeks. Stay tuned, we will keep you posted about all the latest news of the printing industry from around the world. ...read more