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Friday, September 28th, 2007
John Ganger a product manager at James Tower, a full-service Internet marketing firm in Mankato, MN recalls an experience he had with a print service provider involved in a reverse auction.
As you can imagine the reverse auction quickly went south for the printer:
Also pricing did not start coming in to ...
Posted in Printing Industry | 5 Comments »
Friday, September 28th, 2007
HP Graphic Arts Capture Business Success Program offers a collection of tools that provides printers with business and marketing tools, research, training, and other programs. HP has recently expanded the program to include a Podcast series (If you get a "Your browser cannot play the audio files." while ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Recently, Frank Romano rubbed some folks the wrong way over comments he made about a meeting he attended at Graph Expo. Frank is no stranger to controversy and consternation. It follows him around like the dustcloud around Schulz's Pigpen.
Today Frank responds to his critics by making the statement: ...
Posted in Letter to the Editor | 3 Comments »
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Science Daily is reporting this week that researchers at Duke University have developed a method for printing finely detailed microscopic images with enzymes, rather than inks. Science Daily article The technology could become another tool in the arsenal of the high-security printing and brand protection industry:
"With all the advances in ...
Posted in Ink, Substrates, and Consumables | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Journalism.co.uk is reporting that The Economist Group is turning to the blogosphere to help build buzz around political stories it will feature in upcoming magazine issues:
"In the US we identified the 100 most important political bloggers and we effectively give them content before it's published in print, so that it ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
The Newspaper Association of America Foundation has launched a video contest asking teenagers to share how they are using newspapers.
Here's NAA Foundation Director Sandy Woodcock Introduces "Driving Newspapers"
And their NAA Foundation Contest Teen Video
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
A partnership announced last week between B2B publisher Cygnus Business Media and ID Media aims to offer advertisers an ROI-focused "cost-per-action" buying platform across 67 of Cygnus' trade publications.
"We are delighted to launch this new buying platform with ID Media, a true innovator in the ROI media space. We came ...
Posted in Advertising | 6 Comments »
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Eugene Schwartz, the writer of the wonderful letter posted below, found the WhatTheyThink.com article on the history of printing districts in New York City by way of Bob Sacks’s BoSacks Reporter, which graciously picked the story up. It all got started with a PrintCEO blog post about an article on ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Eastman Kodak Company annouced this morning that Philip J. Faraci has been promoted to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer. Faraci had been President of of Kodak's Consumer Digital Imaging Group and a Senior Vice President of the company
Faraci will be responsible for the the Consumer Digital ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Be sure to sign up for Wednesday's webinar, where we'll be sorting through the the latest news and trends with our outlook for 2008, and sometimes beyond. This time of year is usually the end of business planning cycles for companies that operate under a calendar fiscal year, and the ...
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