Every shop has a place where problems land. Art came in low-res. The PMS doesn’t match. The proof went out with the wrong ink color. Maybe someone posts it. Someone fixes it. The message scrolls up and nobody counts. But the history is still there. °FAI: Your Art Channel Already Knows What’s Broken. Here’s how…
In September 2016, Tom Davenport posted It Glows! It was a short review of a high-solids, water-based glow in the dark ink from Allureglow. His opening verdict: “most of the glow-in-the-dark inks on the market SUCK.” His complaint was specific. Most glow inks only worked when you laid down so much ink that the print…
Once you deploy a decision tree, you can do more than run it. You can ask it why. SMEme answers from logic, not a guess, so it can tell you which facts decided a job and what would change the outcome. °FAI: Ask the Tree, Own the Tree. Part 1 covered why rules don’t belong…
In March 2015, at the end of trade show season, Rick Roth posted Reflections at the End of the Trade Show Season. Most of it is booth photos. The first paragraph is a prediction. Rick named the two big trends of the previous ten years: digital printing and environmental concerns. Then he called the next…
The Ink Kitchen is back at the Impressions Expo Dallas, October 21–23 at the Hilton Anatole, printing posters live on the show floor to benefit UpSpire in Fort Worth. This year’s poster: Stop by Poster Printing by Ink Kitchen, Booth 976, and watch Mirror Image’s Jessica Bahl and Eliot Neff printing live. Make a suggested…
You don’t write code to build a decision tree with AI in SMEme. You build it in the chatbot you already use, with prompts SMEme gives you on its quick start page. °FAI: How to Build a Decision Tree. Part 1 covered why tribal knowledge doesn’t stick in a prompt. Here, I’ll show how SMEme…
At PRINTING United in Las Vegas, I talked with two companies chasing the same goal: DTF without the powder. Steve Harpold of Brown Manufacturing Group showed me the Yet-Tee, running DuPont’s jettable adhesive. Dave Blake of DCC Group showed me the Neo Flex, with the adhesive built into the ink. Same concept, different tech. Here’s…
SMEme adds a reasoning layer to the AI chatbot you already use. A human expert builds a decision tree and writes the questions, branches, and outcomes in plain language. SMEme compiles that tree into logic and hands it to a constraint solver. When a case comes in, the chatbot finds the facts in your files…
Recently our shop Mirror Image printed a seven color print for Farm Aid. Farm Aid is a nonprofit started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp to help family farmers who were losing their land during the farm crisis. Dave Matthews later joined its board. Its best-known event is the annual benefit…
At PRINTING United in Las Vegas, I stood at the DuPont booth with Steve Harpold of Brown Manufacturing Group. He walked me through the Yet-Tee, an automated DTF line. This year it runs DuPont’s Artistri JA1100 Jettable Adhesive. The goal, in his words, is a one-operator process. Here’s the rundown, and how it differs from…
