Archive for February, 2007

Introducing The Book

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Frank Romano today at WhatTheyThink.com (link is to premium content - trial account is free!) narrates a fictional exchange between Tech. Support and someone having problem with their new technology: the book! The article is entitled "Book Helpdesk". I thought you might like to see how this actually ...

Is The Machine Us/ing US?

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Today on OnDemandJournal, Noel Ward has an article about a YouTube video that has been making the rounds. I've seen it everywhere from political sites to gardening blogs. Noel says: There are flashes and snippets of ideas and concepts, and running through it all is the core message that ...

Xerox and Kodak Battle Heats Up

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article today about Xerox and Kodak entitled When Neighbors Become Rivals. The author, William Bulkeley, says the two have been friendly neighbors until recently as "digital convergence and financial travails are increasingly turning the two imaging companies into rivals." Highlights: - It "will be a ...

Superior Printing Inks mailer gets 50% response rate

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

DirectMag.com reports that Superior Printing Inks has achieved more than a 50% response on it's direct mail efforts. The campaign targets printing plant executives and managers. In the mailing, Superior Printing Inks offers to set up an on-site ink-mixing demonstration at the printing plant. Highlights - Superior used a 3-D variable data ...

WhatTheyThink.com Acquires Electronic Publishing

Monday, February 19th, 2007

I'm really excited to get to blog this after having talked about it internally at WTT all week during a recent strategy session. We are acquiring Electronic Publishing and really do look forward to serving the EP subscribers with real-time news and industry intelligence. From the release: WhatTheyThink.com, the ...

Software as a Service&; Nirvana for the Graphic Communications Firm

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Software as a Service (SaaS) is an idea whose time has come. Graphic communications service providers must embrace this idea if they hope to accelerate the delivery of value-added services and be competitive in today's high-tech market. The technical and market obstacles that once held back hosted Software as a ...

Don Goldman - Out of Africa - and Committed to a New Project

Friday, February 16th, 2007

For those of you who know Don Goldman - whether his work at Prism USA, Master Graphics, CAPVentures, or NAPL, or as a speaker and consultant - you know that he has a heart of gold. At the end of January, Don returned from a two week trip to Senegal, West ...

Production and Manufacturing Issues in 2007

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Folio's recent issue includes a column entitled Production and Manufacturing Imperatives for 2007. The article has comments from several executives about the challenges for the world of production in 2007. Highlights: David Steinhardt, President, CEO, IDEAlliance "In the postal arena, the flat-sequence sortation system is going to really change how magazines ...

Digital magazine publisher, Zinio Systems, gets new owner and funding

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Zinio Systems has been acquired by Gilvest LP and the new owners will provide new capital to fund technology advancements Zinio claims to be involved with 1,200 digital magazine titles and textbooks from more than 240 publisher partners. The company provides fulfillment services for publishers along with domestic and international ...

What’s Wrong with Color Presses?

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

No, not the presses themselves. They all do their jobs well enough. I mean their skins. The Ferrari-red of Xeikon's big boxes and the blacks of IBM's and Kodak Versamark's machines makes them stand out on a shop floor. So does the deep green of Nipson's VaryPress 400. But the ...