Archive for July, 2007

Time for Printers to Grow up and Get off Adobe’s Back?

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Gene Gable, a technology consultant and writer for Creativepro sent us his thoughts in a piece that provides an "alternate perspective" on the Adobe-FedEx deal. Gene's comments echo what many have said since the deal was announced in June, but he also takes the industry to task for not looking ...

National Media on the Adobe-FedEx Kinko’s Deal

Monday, July 30th, 2007

The mainstream business media is starting to cover the Adobe-FedEx Kinko’s Deal that has caused an uproar in the printing industry. The Wall Street Journal has a story in today's edition, Adobe-FedEx Link Pushes A Hot Button (link expires in 7 days). The WSJ article does not offer any more ...

Do you need a Bachelor’s degree to run a digital press?

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Recent articles and blog postings bemoan the fact that kids aren't going to 4 year colleges to get degrees in some area of printing or not considering printing as a career. This is not really new. Printers have long told me their biggest challenge is finding good people who ...

Industry recruitment: why “cool” come-ons have a chilling effect

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Frank Romano’s provocative article asking “Where have all the students gone?” and the equally incisive responses to it have raised enough issues to keep a thread on industry education running indefinitely. But I was particularly struck by several comments that go straight to the heart of what’s been wrong with ...

Psst…Wanna Hear How to Sell Digital Printing to the Financial Sector?

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Join us tomorrow to find out. Another from the WhatTheyThink.com Webinar Series entitled "Selling Digital Printing to the Financial Services Industry" with Frank Romano and sponsored by Kodak. “Print is a major part of financial services marketing, representing a spend in the U.S. of $7.1 billion for investment ...

Sherburne Reports on Adobe Forum

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Adobe hosted an advisory forum last week to discuss the fail out caused by an agreement between Adobe and FedEx Kinko's to include Kinko’'s proprietary web-to-print technology in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 8 software. Adobe released comments on the meeting that highlighted recommendations they received from forum attendees and ...

Romano on Printing Industry Education and Scholarships

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Frank Romano's last two WhatTheyThink.com columns (Where have all the students gone? and Where have all the students gone? Part deux ) examines one the printing industry's largest problems: the lack of new talent coming into the industry to replace those going out: The printing industry needs 60,000 new employees every ...

2007 InterTech Technology Award Recipients Announced

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

PIA/GATF has announced the recipients of the 2007 PIA/GATF InterTech Technology Awards. This year 11 innovative technologies for the graphic communications industry where selected among 31 nominations. The recipients are: :Energy Elite Dual Layer "No Bake" Plate from Agfa Graphics. Enviro Image Solutions' EIS UV Printing Blanket Refurbishment. A blanket recycling program that ...

Adobe provides comments on advisory forum

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Adobe has provided comments on the Print Industry Advisory Forum they held yesterday to address concerns raised within the printing industry after Adobe's June 6th announcement of an agreement with FedEx Kinko’s to include Kinko's proprietary web-to-print technology in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 8 software. The comments from Adobe: At today's ...

The “Greenest” Book Ever

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

The Harry Potter book series is one of the most successful ever, also making it one of the most natural resource intensive. This lead Vancouver-based Markets Initiative to approach Harry Potter Canadian publisher Raincoast Books with ideas on how minimize the impact of producing millions of copies of books. Fast ...