VALHALLA, NY—May 21, 2013—Gilson Graphics, a Grand Rapids, MI-based commercial printer, recently installed Fujifilm's ColorPath Sync color management solution to work with the Fujifilm J Press 720 and J Press Web.
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Hi,
We have two Xerox 7556 with Fiery Rips. I’m unsure of the specific model-number, unfortunately, but it’s the " Fiery ® Network Controller".
We have some issues with our drivers, as can be seen here. This screenshot is taken directly from our print-server. As you can see, we’re unable to access the colour-settings, which is pretty annoying.
I’m suspecting it’s caused by this:
It seems there’s no communication between the printer, the controller and the driver. Which steps should I take to rectify this?
I should perhaps add, that our Citrix-host has the same issues with the printers, and that (as a result of that) we’re unable to print color-prints from Citrix.
Thanks in advance,
Thomas
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Earlier this week, Aarron wrote about the ideas that have guided our design process for New MailChimp, and one of them was ubiquity. Your work shouldn’t depend on where you are and which device you’re using—you should be able to log in to MailChimp and get to work, whether you’re accessing it from a desktop, laptop, or tablet. We’re introducing a completely responsive design, so MailChimp will work on different devices and screen sizes.
For the first peek at New MailChimp, we’ll look at the restructured navigation and search options. Account notifications are now displayed in the nav, and you can switch to Pro mode to simplify the layout, or tap the hamburger icon to expand and collapse menus on the iPhone. Search is in every part of the nav, too, so you can search for subscriber details, campaigns, lists, and reports from anywhere in the app.
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The ProDesk3D uses a multi-cartridge system to create full-color objects at home.
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BotObjects is showing off its newly unveiled ProDesk3D, which they’re billing as the first full-color desktop 3-D printer. That’s kinda debatable (depends on what you consider “desktop”), but it could certainly be the prettiest 3-D printer out there.
While most desktop 3-D printers print monochromatic objects, the ProDesk3D uses a five-color ink cartridge system that mixes hues to designers’ specifications, letting them create a colorful object out of the frequently used plastics that are 3-D printing go-tos: ABS, PVA, and PLA. Software for the printer will be included, and the company is touting ease of use as a major selling point:
Just like normal ink printers, there shouldn’t be any complex or tricky set up, the ProDesk3D arrives out-of-box complete. Plug it into the mains, quick auto software download, insert your cartridges in seconds, and load up your 3D design and print it! Our industry leading proprietary Self Calibration Software talks to the ProDesk3D, understanding the composition of your uploaded 3D design, and while it auto-sets the printer, it also self calibrates the printer bed. No more tricky software set up!
Pricing or a release date haven’t been announced yet, but BotObjects is taking early inquiries.
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We have a motto that guides our work here at MailChimp: Listen hard and change fast. We’ve been doing a lot of both in the past few months. Last year some curious patterns emerged in feedback from our customers. There was so much feedback relating to the mobile experience. Let’s be honest—mobile devices aren’t just an industry trend; they’re a revolution changing our culture. We get that, but we wanted to find out how broader industry trends were shaping our customers’ day-to-day work.
We did a lot of traveling to meet with customers, and spent hours in interviews learning how people use MailChimp. We compiled hundreds of pieces of feedback from customers and our support team, and conducted surveys with thousands of users. All of this helped us see some places where MailChimp was falling short, but more importantly, it helped us see bigger trends. We realized people are still doing the same kind of work they always have, but there’s been a shift in how they get that work done. Most people are trying to do more with less. They have a ton of responsibilities to address by the end of the day, many are accountable to a boss who tracks their work, and there are still just 24 hours in the day. They’re using mobile devices to get stuff done during what would otherwise be idle time. 9-5 just doesn’t cut the mustard anymore.
With limited time and resources, teamwork is more important than ever. 35% of our customers are working collaboratively today, and we see this statistic increasing steadily. People are passing the baton to colleagues when they’re unable to complete a task. They’re collaborating in order to do better work and get it done quickly.
So the requests for a mobile experience were just symptomatic of a bigger change. We’re all feeling extra pressure to get more things done these days, and because we can’t work any harder, we have to start working smarter. That’s why we’ve created a brand-new MailChimp that will hopefully help you do just that.
MailChimp will switch to a new look and enhanced features in June. We’ll show you our work over the next few weeks on the blog, so you can get familiar with the new look and understand why certain things changed. We want to help you work smarter, so you can focus on your customers and fans—not on our software.
Three goals have guided our design process. First, we want to make MailChimp ubiquitous, so it’s within reach whenever and wherever you need it. We also want to make the workflow more efficient, shaving seconds off of tasks, so you can get your work done and move on with life. And finally, we want to help teams collaborate so they can make better work and get consensus quickly.
Though mobile devices are outselling PCs these days, they’re not replacing the desktop experience—they’re extending it. People start a task on one device and pick it back up on another. This new behavior pattern requires a different kind of design thinking that’s focused on consistency, optimization for different contexts, and clear continuation of workflows.
New MailChimp is responsive. Whether you access it from your desktop, laptop, or tablet, the layout will reflow to fit your screen. Although fitting an entire app as sophisticated as MailChimp into a tiny smartphone screen isn’t ideal, you can still fire off a campaign in a pinch. We’ve redesigned MailChimp Mobile to extend the desktop experience to smartphones, so you can manage your lists and track campaigns when you’re away from your desk.
New MailChimp is always ready to go whenever and wherever you are. For us, making MailChimp ubiquitous isn’t just about making it “mobile-friendly.” It’s about making it work in all contexts.
MailChimp’s new design is the product of countless iterations over many months. We love great design, but not if it comes at the expense of functionality. We started redesigning MailChimp by removing any visual elements that weren’t essential to getting things done. Extraneous design elements add cognitive load that gradually erodes usability and learnability. Strong information hierarchy and clarity about what can be done on a page help new users and veterans alike move more quickly through the app.
Ok, now I’ll take off my designer hat and share a few examples of specific changes that are going to shave time off your workflow.
We had to touch every page in MailChimp for this project. That gave us the opportunity to question previous design decisions to see what could be made more efficient.
The setup page in the Campaign Builder has a lot of options, but people rarely do anything more than set a campaign name, subject line, and reply-to email. So we’ve collapsed all the advanced options, keeping them within reach if you need them, but getting them out of the way of the typical workflow.
We also spent a lot of time making improvements to the subscriber list view, one of the most visited pages in MailChimp. We’ve made it easier to scroll through columns while still seeing email addresses, and now less important columns can be temporarily hidden from view, helping you focus on the information that’s most important.
We even made small efficiency improvements to the navigation. New users see an icon and label in the global navigation that guide them to the app’s key sections. Once you’ve got your bearings, you can simply collapse the nav bar, showing icons you’ll now recognize. That creates more space for you to do your work, which improves work speed.
These improvements just scratch the surface. Many small improvements to efficiency add up to minutes saved with each session, and hours over months and years. Though we can’t add more hours to your day, we can help you spend less time on things that aren’t important.
Over the past few releases, we’ve been steadily adding features to help teams work together. Multi-user accounts let you share your account with colleagues while keeping a handle on permissions. And collaborative campaign building lets you work in tandem as you write and design. We’ve also added comment threading to campaigns, so you can give feedback from inside a campaign or by replying to a test email from any device.
We know that change is scary for a lot of people, and New MailChimp might take a little getting used to. Since rethinking MailChimp on a grand scale could be disruptive to millions of people, we’ve made an effort to avoid changing things for cosmetic indulgence alone. We really want to make our product serve your needs better. Digital lives are changing, work habits are changing, and we think MailChimp should change with you.
Starting in June, we’ll roll out New MailChimp as an optional upgrade for four weeks, so you have plenty of time to try it out when you’re not under deadline. We hope you like what you see, and we’re listening to your feedback.
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There are ever-increasing piles of 3D prints being amassed upon the earth–single-color, multicolor and a healthy amount of plastic squiggles that didn’t quite make it through the process. It’s sometimes (always) nice to know how people are going about building and creating the contraptions that lead to hours of tinkering and even more hours of creating a form layer-by-layer. While there are some companies who prefer not to show their technology or prints results *ahem*, there are others who do and want to share it with us geeky, like-minded individuals. Richard Horne, aka RichRap, goes into deep, delightful detail about his 3D printing adventures, showing you what has worked, what hasn’t worked so well with a hefty dose of 3D printer development along the way. This is his story…
When you ask someone what their adventure of choice may be, you’ll likely get a response like skiing, backpacking or a clever person quoting Yoda, “Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.” Either way, most wouldn’t put ‘making 3D printers from scratch’ on that list. Rich does and he’s dang passionate about it. Since 2010 he has documented his activities on his blog. Best of all, he provides videos where he talks about the process. (He also has a Youtube channel where you can catch all of the videos.) I asked him what sparked his interest in 3D printing and what led to the multi-color printing.
I have worked in the electronics industry for 20 years, and my background is as an electronics engineer. I work in a wide range of industries, with lots of different platforms and technologies developing electronics for consumer, industrial and military applications.
I have always had an interest in 3D printing from the early days, seeing it on TV in the 80′s then using industrial machines for product design and development in the electronics industry for various products and customers. Along with design, I do a lot of Sales and Marketing now; still in the electronics industry so DIY 3D printing helps me keep my technology edge, and gives the technical side of my brain something to do.
I’m rather passionate about all things involving 3D printing and the whole additive manufacturing industry. It started as a hobby and I greatly enjoy every aspect and challenge. It’s also fantastic to be involved in a global technology project like RepRap.
The interest in DIY 3D printing started by following the RepRap project. Around 2009, I started looking at building up a machine. (At that stage things were still in their early days of developments and many parts needed to be made by hand.) Nophead’s Blog was a real wake up call to me. When I started reading it, I immediately decided this was going to occupy any spare time I had.
I made the mistake (many still do) by thinking I needed to build a much more solid machine with industrial parts than the simple threaded rod and plastic parts used on most early RepRap 3D printers. So my first printer was more like a CNC milling machine–very slow but quite accurate–and still a long way from a really useful device. That was during the summer of 2010. That September, I started blogging my 3D printing adventure.
I admit, I’m a bit jealous of Rich’s exploration into materials, especially his detailed post on tie-dyed nylon printing. I liken the color combination to my grandma’s basket of knitting yarn and the results to a comfy, woolen sock cap. (The fashion industry is going to EAT THIS UP.) Here he talks about 3D printing with Nylon, explaining the material, best practice and how he went about dying it.
I always had a plan to print more interesting objects using more than one colour; the desire for colour 3D printing was inspired from childhood memories of doing scraperfoil artwork and colouring them with inks. From this moment the idea of colour 3D printing was getting closer to be a reality, some of the first different coloured PLA filaments were starting to come out of China and a few European manufacturers were also experimenting.
I had the idea to join together lengths of different coloured filament to allow what I called layer selective colour printing. Further examples that proved popular were the custom country specific printers; here was the UK version to celebrate British manufacturing. I also designed French and Italian versions for printing by other developers.
After that It was a roller-coaster of experiments with materials like Polycarbonate, other printer designs and getting better at the art of 3D printing, it’s still a long way from click and print that people would actually want, so you do need some dedication or interest in the technology to get the best from existing 3D printers. I experimented with Chocolate and Ceramic based 3D printing, as a side note the Chocolate printing is the second top thing I get contacted about still to this day.
A lot of people around this time were showing off nice prints and not many people were talking about the failures, disasters and general trouble you get with 3D printing, so I posted a blog about 3D print failures and we started a Flickr Group that got a lot of interest and assisted people into talking about better ways to print successfully.
In another excellent post, Rich experiments with printing multiple colors of with a 3-way extruder assembly and a hot-end he made himself with a Pillar drill, a hack saw and other hand-tools (someone get this man a new lathe!). The results are lovely and definitely adds another visually pleasing dimension to the standard monchromatic models that are the norm. Here is Rich’s breakdown on the process and a few of the prints made with, in order, one extruder running, two extruders running, three extruders running and a detail shot of the three-color build-up.
I have really enjoyed experimenting with materials, designs and electronics and still have so many more things planned to do or revise and revisit. Along with general experimentation, my focus at the moment is to get back to more RepRap related design and developments. The rise of commercial low-end and consumer 3D printing has had a very positive impact on the amount of people using and being aware of this technology. These range from very low cost kits to printers described as more ‘prosumer’ or semi-professional printers.
The RepRap project is about a self-replicating machine. We see more and more movement away from a self-replicating nature and more reliance on machining parts or whole machines using industrial manufacturing techniques to produce kits in high volumes for commercial sale. Much of this is coming from the pure market demand for more and more 3D printers, scaling up using industrial processes is an ironic nod back to the mass market manufacturing model. The RepRap project is like a virus, so any way to replicate and manufacture is valid as long as it’s in the spirit of, and hopefully with, an open philosophy. It makes me smile the think when most people started with DIY 3D printing, they had to make a machine out of wood or get 3D printed plastic parts from one of only a few sellers in the world. Now, just a few years later, it’s a very different story.
It’s always great to see this technology being used to build businesses, that’s a very important part of the growth and acceptance of making 3D printers more accessible to many more people, but it’s a general observation that the more users there are and the more printers being made does not seem to translate to more innovative RepRap-based 3D printers. Maybe we are seeing a plateau of technology in the DIY sector as many of the early developers decide to invest more time into businesses and commercial ventures than in the early days. It will certainly be interesting to see how this all evolves, what stays open and what new aspects become patented or restricted again.
What is really fantastic is that many more people are using 3D printers as a tool to do all sorts of other amazing things for hobbies and commercial new adventures. This is a clear message that 3D printing is enabling many people to be self-creative and physically supply custom items to meet the exact need. Many people doing great things contact me planning to setup businesses that would just not be possible without 3D printing.
I was a latecomer to Youtube, blogging and Twitter, and along with other sited like Thingiverse and GitHub they are now all a big part of the way the maker movement is sharing and collaborating together.
Even though this industry is 30+ years old, it’s only now getting mass market focused–it’s very exciting–with a lot of hype and ultimately some disappointment associated with the realities of what’s possible with this technology now and in the immediate future, but this time around it’s not just the very big suppliers that are getting all of the market. 3D printing spans across a wide range of interests and will find applications in both the niche and high-profile sectors of our every lives.
My kids play a very important part in my 3D printing adventures, without them many of the things I have done would simply not have happened. Kids see no boundaries, no restrictions and no reason not to try, so as long as you don’t say no, but instead ask how, all sorts of things come to mind. Along with the work published on my blog, I have designed and printed countless things for my kids, their friends, parties, clubs, rewards and awards. They value them as they had a hand in the design and creation process. It’s going to be wonderful to see what future generations use this technology for.
My 3D printing adventure continues…
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