The Print Loop - Week of October 6th

October 07, 2025

📌 Top Highlights

  • Ford uses 3D printing to break a record

  • Signarama empowers franchise owners with financial insight

  • Shasta County goes pink for breast cancer awareness

🔍 Deep Dive: Ford Flies with 3D Components

The 2025 Mustang GTD has cemented its legacy in automotive lore by becoming the first US car to complete a lap at the Nürburgring in under seven minutes. Recording a time of 6:57.685, this speeding success was achieved through real-time engineering adjustments and the implementation of 3D-printed components.

The Nürburgring, for those who don’t know, is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and dangerous race tracks on the planet; one lap consists of approximately 170 turns and just under 13 miles.

Somewhere, Henry Ford is smiling.

🖨️ Technology Trailblazers

  • MX Display has lauded the addition of the HP Stitch S1000, stating that its inclusion has been instrumental in driving business growth and supporting the company’s sustainability goals.

  • Signarama has launched a new financial benchmarking platform in conjunction with RevScale. This AI-powered tool collects and analyzes financial data, enabling franchise owners to compare their businesses with those of other franchises and make more informed decisions about pricing, advertising, and hiring.

  • Brunswick News Publishing Co. has integrated ProImage’s NewsWayX, a cloud-based workflow system, allowing the company to automate, streamline, and modernize its printing operations and improve quality and efficiency.

  • Kornit Digital LTD, known for its on-demand digital fashion and textile production technology, announced that Printeez, Inc. is the latest custom apparel company to transition from screen printing to high-quality digital printing.

  • Canon Production Printing (CPP) has introduced its Colorado XL-series platform of 3.4m printers. These printers enhance the performance and quality of Canon’s UVgel technology.

📰 Taking Mondays Off

Nebraska’s largest newspapers, the Omaha World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal Star, will cease printing Monday editions starting November 3rd, reflecting recent layoffs, the downturn in the newspaper industry, and the fact that Mondays are traditionally mundane anyway.

🏢 Movers and Shakers

  • Lincoln Electric Holdings has announced a partnership with the US Navy and General Dynamics to use 3D printing technology in submarines (the nuclear-powered kind, not the sandwiches).

  • In a step toward retail revolution, Presq, a studio dedicated to creative manufacturing, is collaborating with Bambu Lap to design wearable products, such as footwear, through 3D printing technology.

  • Snapmaker, a Chinese manufacturer of digital fabrication tools, has set a record through its Kickstarter campaign, which raised over 20 million for a U1 3D printer. This makes it the most funded 3D printer in history. 

  • Landa Digital Printing was acquired by FIMI, Israel’s biggest private equity firm, and now forges forward without its founder, Benny Landa.

  • Shasta County law enforcement has gone pink in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. On October 1st, pink vehicles were unveiled with a little help from Shasta Union High School’s graphic design class. 

🥸 Printing Ponderings

Thomas Edison is most famous for his bright idea to invent the lightbulb, but he contributed to the printing industry, too. One of his lesser-known inventions was the electric pen, which he patented in 1876. This pen punched tiny holes in paper to create stencils and eventually evolved into the mimeograph, which, FYI, has nothing to do with mimes.