How can you know whether a flat grass plain is a cattle pasture or a virgin savanna?
When you drive into the Poptun karst area of Peten, there are many miles and lots of kilometers of flat grassland. Now these are cow pastures (so any former tre...
Using good quality drone is essential for botanical and ecological field projects
If your project has insufficient funds you will either have no drone service or a cheap low-megapixel drone. These cheap drones have lenses that produce distort...
Morning glory vine plant that is a complete tree
While driving through the departamento of Sacatepequez area of the Maya Highlands of Guatemala, I kept seeing trees that had large white flowers. We were headin...
Botanical, zoological, and ecological fieldwork in remote areas of Central America continues every month

In early 2020 the department of coordination and cooperation of the Municipio de Livingston asked FLAAR Mesoamerica (the FLAAR research institute in Guatemala) ...
New Mimaki UJV100-160, an entry-level roll-to-roll printer

Towards the end of 2020, and in context with the economic turmoil several industries experienced that year, Mimaki, the Japanese inkjet printer manufacturer ann...
Just released: Free Reports: discussion of SuperWide UV-curing Printer Options

FLAAR-REPORTS was flown to one of the many factories of efi VUTEk in February to do print samples and inspect three different series of superwide roll-to-roll U...
Helpful update from APPPEXPO organizers in Shanghai

The organizers of APPPEXPO 2020 have sent us a realistic assessment of participation from around the world at a July expo. Since drupa has also totally moved th...
Many Trade Shows postponed due to COVID-19

In light of concerns about and implications of the current international spread of COVID 19, the coronavirus, many tradeshows have decide to postpone their sche...
FLAAR-REPORTS printing samples at EFI VUTEk factory

As you can see in the reflection, Dr Nicholas (Hellmuth) is presently in the EFI VUTEk factory where the EFI VUTEK 3r+, 5r+, the EFI VUTEk D3r and D5r, and EFI ...
FLAAR-REPORTS team will attend ISA 2020

ISA Sign Expo is one of the biggest sign trade shows in the United States. FLAAR-REPORTS team has been attending for over seventeen years. As many of you may kn...
We hope all colleagues in Asia are surviving well in the midst of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

The team at FLAAR-REPORTS hope that everyone is doing well in the face of the unexpected outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Every Chinese booth at SGI Dubai 20...
SGI 2020, Sign & Graphic Imaging Middle East, Dubai

SGI Dubai is the first major printer expo each year
FLAAR-REPORTS team have enjoyed attending SGI Dubai every year for many years. Great expo, friendly people, ...