Graphic Arts Industry News - June 8, 2020

Masks that have international success, the end of a famous packaging, the printing house of the Banque de France, the judgment of a printing house burglary... This week's news.

Masks printed with the photograph of the face

An Indian photographer based in the state of Kerala in India had the brilliant idea of using photographs of his clients' faces to sublimation print custom masks. The part of the face hidden by the mask is printed on the mask. Thanks to this process, people recognize each other more easily. Since the launch of these masks, the photographer has been overwhelmed with requests.

Intel's dodecahedral packaging disappears

With its twelve translucent blue faces, it was a packaging highly distinctive. The dodecahedron box that used to package Intel's Core i9-9900K processor will disappear with its contents by July, to be replaced by a new processor. The extravagant look of this packaging, inspired by the shape of a football, however, made shipping particularly complicated.

Almost normal production at the Banque de France printing works

After a five-week complete stoppage, a partial restart at the end of April, and a gradual recovery, the 1,000 employees of the Banque de France printing and paper mill, located respectively in Chamalières and Vic-le-Comte in the Puy-de-Dôme, resumed their duties. The two banknote production sites have returned to "?un activity level close to normale?", reports the daily newspaper The Mountain .

Trial of two people who robbed a printing press four years ago

It was at the ICBL printing works in Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire (71), that the two individuals broke into the premises during the night of 5 to 6 April 2016, stealing computer equipment and various objects. Aged about twenty years both, they were sentenced Wednesday, June 3 to 8 and 12 months in prison, reports the Journal de Saône-et-Loire . The printer's claim for immaterial damage from 30?000 euros was rejected.

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