Rod Urquhart marvels at the way web offset has met myriad challenges to become such an outstanding print process
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Rod Urquhart
Print Scientist Rod Urquhart works at Monash University where many aspects of the industry are being studied. He is based in Australia.
Finishing in front
Print scientist and awards judge Rod Urquhart says creating the perfect embellishment is all down to planning and care
A whine about Wine
Rod Urqhart outlines how the PRINT lab is helping wine label producersResearch update
Rod Urqhart explains how the current research at the Print laboratory will benefit the whole industry.A discussion of light fastness (where the answer is not 299,792,458 metres per second!)
Since returning from holidays, Rod Urquhart spoke to two of the absolute technical pillars of the inkmaking fraternity, Fred Vale of DIC Colortron and Otto Stumbras of Siegwerk, about the lightfastness of printed material. This inspired him to update one of his early articles on ink fading
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