Archive for August, 2007

Critical Trends Affecting the Converting Industry

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER (PFFC), a monthly magazine for the converting industry has released a their findings after analyzing the critical trends affecting the converting industry. According to PFFC, "The project was very comprehensive in the sense that, to our knowledge, no other organization had ever attempted to query ...

NYT on VistaPrint’s Success; Partnership with OfficeMax

Monday, August 20th, 2007

The New York Times has an article on the success of VistaPrint and their new partnership with OfficeMax: AMONG Internet businesses, perhaps only one has managed to reach a market value of more than $1 billion by getting customers to hand out millions of promotional messages for it. The company is not ...

Kodak deploys “Print Ambassadors” at Event in Rochester

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

In diplomatic circles, an “ambassador without portfolio” is a government official who has neither specific responsibilities nor authority over a particular ministry—just a general charge to advance the interests of his or her country. In printing circles, those who promote the use of the medium with nothing more to credential ...

Improving Paper Attribute and Property Communication Between Media Specifiers and Print Providers

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

The IDEAlliance Paper Print Predictability Task Force has annouced the avaiblity of a methodology for describing paper attributes and properties that affect printed color reproduction: Digitizing the front end of printing technologies has created the need for additional information about the materials used throughout the process. Paper plays a vital role in image ...

Browse Inside on Your iPhone

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

HarperCollins Publishers has annoucned Browse Inside for the Apple iPhone, a pilot program that brings samples from 14 new titles to the Apple iPhone. According to HarperCollins, Browse Inside digitally replicates the experience of browsing the pages of a book prior to purchasing. iPhone users visiting the Browse Inside for the ...

Digital Business Review with WhatTheyThink Consultants

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

WhatTheyThink has launched a consulting service. The WhatTheyThink Consulting Service offers a convenient online access to a pool of some of the industry's leading analysts providing advisory services, custom research, and "one stop shopping" for printing companies. The service is led by Vince Naselli, who brings more than 20 years ...

Logging. An industry analogy?

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Gordon Pritchard, Kodak's Value in Print marketing manager offers an analogy to explain some of the printing industry's idiosyncrasies to newly hired Kodak engineers: "So, what is print manufacturing all about? Well, imagine the printer as a lumber mill- a very special lumber mill. This is a lumber mill that doesn't ...

Graph Expo 2007 Sold Out

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Space at this years Graph Expo has sold out: Graphic communications professionals will find a plethora of new equipment, products and services – and first time exhibitors – at this year’s sold out GRAPH EXPO to be held in Chicago’s McCormick Place South, September 9-12, 2007. Showcasing an all-inclusive ...

Amazon.com Launches Self-Publishing/Books on Demand Service

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Amazon.com has launched a new Books on Demand services that will enable authors to self-publish their work through Amazon.com. The service will be available through Amazon's CreateSpace subsidiary. In the annoucment Jeff Wilke, senior vice president, North American Retail for Amazon.com said "The new CreateSpace Books on Demand service removes substantial ...

Print in the Mix Launched

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

The Print Council has launched Print in the Mix: A Clearinghouse of Research on Print Media Effectiveness. The mission of the clearinghouse is to advocate and educate marketers and media specifiers the value of print as a viable and effective ROI in the marketing strategy media mix. The clearinghouse will ...