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UAE Central Bank circulates new AED 500 notes with additional security features; Vistaprint launches Facebook calendar service; US engineer designs dissolvable labels; a miniature printer that collates news and information from the web

 

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Kooaba's Paperboy promises online sharing of print content; Kodak's Dr. Dinesh Tyagi receives the 2011 Chester F. Carlson Award for electrophotographic toner research; VIGC investigation reveals lowering the TAC is acceptable and could save the global print industry hundreds of millions of dollars

 

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HP unveils 3D Object Scanner that captures 6 separate images of a document or 3-D object; new paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and tablets; material containing an ingredient for bricks may help build better packaging to keep foods fresher and inks on recycled cardboard may contaminate

 

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FHM Collections claims 'world's first fully interactive magazine' with digital watermarking; Stora Enso has developed a speciality paper that aims to reduce the amount of non-renewable material required to produce packaging; producing clean water in an emergency

 

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3-D printer that uses chocolate instead of ink or plastic ; Komori receives award for machine industrial design in Japan; Supermarket giant Tesco has dropped oxo biodegradable bags; Konica Minolta will launch two new textile printers at ITMA exhibition in Barcelona

 

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Manroland celebrates its century; printers to be offered opportunity to test printed electronics; Swiss Post to deliver personalised daily newspaper to Swiss readers; UK based publisher to save on ink with new 'eco-font'

 

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Sun Innovations has developed solar cells printed on a printer; Barbieri announces the world's first fully portable and WiFi-enabled spectrophotometer for professional digital printing; Furniture printing application created; BASF and X-Rite develop colour coating for tablets;

 

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Washington Post launches its personalised news site named Trove; Pantene announces its shampoo and conditioner bottles will be made from sugar cane; Heineken unveils new glow-in-the-dark bottle at Milan trade show; publisher develops eco-font that saves ink, without altering quality.

 

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Laserdenta enhances compatibility of software to provide more precision for stone model fabrication; Australian government proposed to cloak cigeratte packs in an unappealing shade; computer giant selects mushroom packaging ; Kate and William will get the comic-book treatment .

 

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GreenEcostore.com displays preserved recycled plastic products; Coca cola and Heinz collaborate on new packaging made partially from plants; Recycled cardboard packaging presents health risk, new research claims; FOPAP launched to tackle environmental misinformation.

 


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