Printing

Pressure Printing

Weightless Wonders

Written by Liz Bunn on Sat 05/02/2009 at 11:04 am

What happens when NASA combines inkjet printers and weightlessness? Teams from NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program investigated this unique question and found some interesting results.

RIT Printers and Designers Win Prestigious Award

Written by Micah Stupak on Sat 05/02/2009 at 1:04 am

The Technical Association of the Graphic Arts is the only global professional technical association for the graphic arts industries. TAGA supports student chapters as well, and most compete on a yearly basis for various awards at the annual TAGA conference.

Meetü: Social Networking With Real People

Written by Katelyn Moser on Sat 05/02/2009 at 12:34 am

The Social Networking Game was first launched at last year's Imagine RIT festival, and has since gone through some major changes. Abdul Matash, a researcher at the Open Publishing lab is excited at the direction the project has taken, exclaiming that, "the Social Networking Game takes social networking to a whole new level".

School of Print Media Blogs to Prospective Students

Written by Sean Conklin on Sat 05/02/2009 at 12:26 am

SPMetc (http://spmetc.cias.rit.edu) is a student run website designed to connect prospective and current students, faculty and staff, and alumni with what is going on in the School of Print Media. The site offers users the chance to preview our organizations, guest speakers and presentations, and activities that go on at RIT.

3D Printing

Written by Cate McNelis on Sat 05/03/2008 at 12:33 pm

Think you could create a 3-Dimensional object using a printer? The Dimension BST 768 does just that with about the same effort it takes to send a text file to a home printer.

Innovations in Book Design

Written by Ed Werner on Sat 05/03/2008 at 10:52 am

Found on the second floor of the Wallace Memorial Library “Imagination Unleashed” is a must-see display of special and inspiring artists' books from the Cary Graphic Arts Collection. A sample of what can be found there includes:

“(Poem by) Jerome Rothernberg – A Mertz Sonata” by Debra Weir (Rosendale, NY/Emanon Press and Women’s Studio Workshop, 1985)

From Paper to Pixels

Written by Ed Werner on Sat 05/03/2008 at 12:16 am

In the digital age, there is an increasing demand for assets to take the form of electronic documents that change the way in which print media is viewed and experienced. In particular, the demand for the digitization of printed books is on the rise. “Moving knowledge from books to bytes” is the motto of Kirtas Technologies, Inc., pioneers in the transition from analog to digital media.