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New digital

cutters by

Zünd

Zünd has always put great emphasis on producing manufacturer explains.
cutting and software solutions that are completely
modular. Zünd's user interface and workflow suite, Zünd digital cutting systems are highly modular. At
Zünd Cut Center ZCC, is compatible with all - Texprocess a Zünd S3 system illustrates how this
commonly used RIPs. To make the cutting process modularity benefits the user. The modular design
as simple and efficient as possible, a camera-based permits tailoring the cutting system to specific
registration system, in combination with ZCC, takes applications and cutting requirements, both in terms
care of matching cut to print. Ensuring accurate of tooling and material handling. This is said to allow
registration even with highly stretchy fabrics, the the user to adapt the system anytime to the exact
system can be made to capture parts of the print requirements dictated by customer demand and the
instead of using traditional registration marks, the jobs at hand.

Plastic fabric

that cools

the skin

Stanford University researchers, with the aid of the infrared radiation to pass through the plastic textile.
Comet supercomputer at the San Diego -
Supercomputer at UC San Diego, have engineered All objects, including our bodies, throw off heat in
a low-cost plastic material that could become the the form of infrared radiation. Blankets warm us by
basis for clothing that cools the wearer, reducing trapping infrared heat emissions close to the body.
the need for energy-consuming air conditioning. This thermal radiation escaping from our bodies is
The new material is said to work by allowing the what makes us visible in the dark through
body to discharge heat in two ways that would night-vision goggles. “Forty to 60% of our body
make the wearer feel nearly 4°F cooler than if they heat is dissipated as infrared radiation when we are
wore cotton clothing. The material cools by letting sitting in an office,” said Shanhui Fan, co-author of
perspiration evaporate through the material, the study and a professor of electrical engineering
something ordinary fabrics already do. But the who specialises in photonics. “But until now there
Stanford material provides a second cooling has been little or no research on designing the
mechanism: allowing heat that the body emits as thermal radiation characteristics of textiles.”