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28 September 2009The proposed 12 October 2009 group afternoon visit to the Robert Opie Packaging Museum in Notting Hill, London starts at 3:15 pm with refreshments available from 3:00 pm but PGS members and guests are welcome from 1:30 pm. Details have been circulated to members and are also posted to the Group Calendar.
3 August 2009Details of 2009 student grants and the group prize added to site:
Printing and Graphics Science Group Prize 2009
Printing and Graphics Science Group Student Grant 2009
3 august 2009IS&T Archiving 2010 conference dates and venue have been set June 1 - June 4, 2010
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Sponsored by: The Society for Imaging Science and Technology with IOP PGS as cooperating society
This conference gathers a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss and explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. Attendees represent worldwide industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field. Expect a blend of invited focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display presentations.
30 July 2009Student conference details on calendar.
Call for papers
29 March 2009China Academy of Printing Technology have recently launched a journal, the China Printing and Packaging Study. Its mix of articles in Chinese and English seems to achieve a very good technical level. They are very keen to include more papers in English, so do consider this journal for publishing work or that of students. The linked PDF gives details of the ms submission and subscription information.
22 March 2009“A Pixel of Imaging Science” is a blog of interest to PGS members
22 March 2009IDTechEx Report on Gas and moisture permeation measurement for high barrier films
22 December 2008CREATE (Colour Research for European Advanced Technology Employment) Programme
Website
16 September 2008

Mr A. Hodgson’s Conference reports have been added

  1. The Imaging Science and Technology Archiving Conference
  2. The 3rd International Colloquium on Integrated Manufacture by Printing.
  3. The IOP PGS Student Conference
11 July 2008Dynamics of Printed Drops Conference. Alan Hodgson’s report now available
28 May 2008Dynamics of Printed Drops
18 May 2008Towards Greener Plastics
02 March 2008

IOP PGS student conference remaining abstracts added to site

02 March 2008

A link to Mr. A. Hodgson’s report on the 9 November 2007 2nd International Workshop Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents (CoPADD) added to the events page

06 February 2008

2007 IOP PGS student conference image and papers added to site

Ink-Jet Printing of Concentrated Polymer Solutions Desheng Xu et al
What key attributes influence image quality of a large size display? S Y Choi et al
Drop Impact and Spreading J E Sprittles, Y D Shikhmurzaev

18 January 2008The IS&T  Non Impact Printing (NIP) and Digital Fabrication conferences. Conference details and reviews of earlier conferences.
14 January 2008

Kore Technologies of Cambridge are keen to develop and promote their TOFSIMS (Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) surface analysis method in the Printing and Packaging Industries. For members of the PGS Group Kore have made an open offer of;

1) A free service for running samples on a demonstration instrument at Innovia Films - see http://www.kore.co.uk/surfaceseer.htm#demo

2) An expert seminar on the TOFSIMS instrument at your premises.

To take up this offer please contact them directly on their Website, and mention the PGS Group. http://www.kore.co.uk

06 December 2007

Toppan UK donates X-Rite 528 Spectrodensitometer to London College of Communication

Managing Director of Toppan UK, Masafumi Ozawa, and European Technology Research Manager, Neil Shepherd visited the the School of Printing and Publishing at the LCC on 6th December to make the handover and to see for themselves the kind of research projects for which the instrument would be used.

Click here for more details

12-15 November 2007

Printed Electronics USA - San Francisco

The aim of this article is to give readers a snapshot of this meeting. The PGS committee hope that it will be of interest to those who were unable to attend but who are interested in hearing of activities in this community.

Click here for more details

30 August 2007Note that British Standards have released the latest version of BS ISO 20462-2_2005, “Photography. Psychophysical experimental methods for estimating image quality. Triplet comparison method” incorporating the latest Amendment.

This is a variant on the paired comparison method that should be easier for larger sample sets.

Click here for more details.

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