Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
InfoTrends Group Director Barbara Pellow started her keynote at the TransPromo Summit, held in New York City on August 22nd and 23rd, by saying, “Transpromotional applications aren’t something like trans-fats that are bad for your health and well-being!” All kidding aside, TransPromo is a hot application area, and the ...Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
The world's #2 ink maker Flint Group has announced that they will be increasing prices across product lines for inks sold in North America. Citing continuing and unprecedented rise in raw material, transportation and energy costs. The largest increase will be for Packaging (12% depending on product technology and ...Monday, August 27th, 2007
WhatTheyThink.com is holding a Webinar this week with Frank Romano on selling print services to the non-profit sector. Learn more about the opportunity for both digital and conventional print in the non profit market as Frank Romano and industry guests review the market, the products, and the trends of the ...Monday, August 27th, 2007
Joel Kramer, former publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune is starting an Internet-based newspaper for the Twin Cities area. MinnPost will use a donation model similar to public radio and television to cover its operating costs. Joel Kramer CEO and editor of the new venture has has raised $1.1 million in ...Monday, August 27th, 2007
I have to confess. I used to be a complete magazine junky. They would flood my house every month and while my wife would be happily reading some big thick book full of text, I'd be combing through page after glorious glossy page. I whittled down over the years ...Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Over at the MarketingProfs forums, Gwen Stevens aka "Lone Soldier" is looking for help on developing a new tagline for the printing company she works for: We are a 95 year old, mid-sized, web-offset printer (350 employees). For the past 20 years we have served the magazine publishing industry by printing ...Friday, August 24th, 2007
X-Rite's plan to acquire Pantone has caught the eye of Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and Moody's Investors Service. The two financial service providers placed X-Rite under review for possible downgrades based on the significant debt the company is taking on to finance the reported $180 million price tag for ...Friday, August 24th, 2007
A Waltham, MA, company called ZINK ("Zero Ink", www.zink.com) is promoting a technology that embeds heat-activated CMYK microcrystals within a durable, water-resistant paper stock. Digital images can be exposed on this stock using extremely compact printing devices—possibly compact enough to be built into camera-equipped cell phones. That's ZINK's primary target ...Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
X-Rite a provider of color management solutions has announced plans to acquire Pantone for $180 million. The deal is expected to close later this year, subject to regulatory approvals. Once the deal is closed, Pantone will operate as business unit within X-Rite. After X-Rite acquired Amazys Holding AG, the parent company ...Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
HP Labs, the research and development arm of Hewlett-Packard has released a new service to assist mobile users share and print documents. The new service called Cloudprint "allows you to share, store and print documents easily using your mobile telephone." The service works by spooling documents into a Web-based file ...
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