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of Mimaki’s white ink is a significant step forward. When customers are assessing our films, the printed sample has to be an accurate representation of the finished application. We simply cannot compromise on that.” The emphasis on white ink reflects a broader shift in architectural window graphics. Early commercial applications were typically CMYK based, but demand has increasingly moved towards subtler white fades that balance privacy and openness within modern workspaces. Digital printing enables fully customised graduated fades, delivering controlled visibility exactly where required, something standard off-the-shelf frosted films cannot achieve. “In many contemporary interiors, it is the white layer that defines the design,”
Andy adds. “It controls privacy, light transmission and visual impact. For that reason, the opacity, durability and scratch resistance of the white ink are absolutely critical, particularly when printing onto hard coated films where unprinted areas are designed to remain pristine.” The UCJV330-160 will be used primarily to produce in-house samples, allowing Lintec Europe to respond quickly to customer requests while retaining full control over print quality. The installation also enhances Lintec Europe’s technical support offering. As the UCJV330-160 is widely used by print service providers producing window graphics, having the same platform in-house allows Lintec’s team to offer practical, experience-led guidance to customers working with its films. n
Andy Voss
lintec-europe.com
Vasion launches Intelligent Print Automation
Vasion has launched Intelligent Print Automation (IPA), enabling organisations to leverage the File > Print muscle memory of the workforce to keep data from going dark. Every time employees click File > Print to send documents to printers, save them to PDFs or scan them to unmanaged folders, enterprise data becomes unstructured and quietly goes dark. Dark data escapes compliance controls, bypasses AI workflow and quickly becomes a liability. IPA seamlessly integrates with any application to intelligently route documents to virtually any destination, ensuring organisations’ business intelligence does not go dark again. Gartner reports that roughly 80% of enterprise information is unstructured across documents, files, and rich content, while IDC predicted that volume is set to triple within three years. As AI accelerates document creation, the broken File > Print workflow is turning dark data into one of enterprise IT’s fastest-growing challenges. “The market that was supposed to solve
this problem was full of companies rolling up acquisitions, squeezing margins, killing innovation, and calling old hosted software SaaS,” said Ryan Wedig, co- founder and CEO, Vasion. “We took a different path: a substantial, multi-year R&D investment to build a cloud-native, multi-tenant platform with fully immutable microservices that was ready for single- click AI integration. Intelligent Print Automation is here, and we built it.” This announcement allows Vasion customers to activate IPA on the infrastructure they already have, with no migration required. For existing Vasion customers, IPA sits within their existing infrastructure. For new customers, it’s a single platform entry point that replaces what would otherwise require multiple vendors and months of integration work. The entire platform is designed with best- of-class security certifications including SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 42001:2023, ISO 27001:2022, and FedRAMP® High Authorized, with IL4 expected to follow soon. n
Ryan Wedig
vasion.com
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