Friday, February 15th, 2008
Newsweek online this week has an amusing item about “Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks From the Wild Web,” a new book edited by Sarah Boxer, the first and now former web critic for the New York Times. Newsweek writer Brian Braiker asks, “‘W,’ you might ask, ‘TF’? To what end this dead-tree blogroll? ...Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service an experimental non-commercial project to archive and re-publish public domain works is offering print on-demand services for book that are in the public domain. The service relies on a catalog of 2 million books from the Internet Archive and the Google Books project. Books ...Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Kodak, with their understanding of the affection print can communicate, has created a library of projects you can make at home with your desktop printer. With Valentine's tomorrow, the Valentine's Photo Candy Bar Wrappers is a perfect last minute gift. I wonder if Kodak Exec Jeff Hayzlett took advantage of the ...Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Jim Raffel, CEO of ColorMetrix Technologies, a developer of color measurement and process control systems for the printing industry recently wrote blog post on "Sustainable Green Printing," the war on waste and statistical process control. Jim's post takes a look at sustainability and some of the motivating factors companies use to ...Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
A new study released by the Printing Industry Center at RIT examines the tools, techniques, and skills required to prepare documents for variable data printing: The report details the theories and models behind database management, DAM (digital asset management), and VDP (variable data printing), looks at hands-on research trials conducted at ...Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
A new report from NanoMarkets, a provider of market and technology research and industry analysis services for the thin film, organic and printable electronics businesses has released a report that says the market for for displays, signage, lighting, RFID tags, sensors, solar panels, batteries and other products manufactured using printing ...Monday, February 11th, 2008
The United States Postal Service has announced that rates will be increasing by one cent to 42¢ on May 12: Prices for other mailing services, such as Standard Mail, Periodicals, Package Services (including single-piece Parcel Post), and Special Services will also change (see chart below). The average increase by class of ...Monday, February 11th, 2008
Is the use of paper used within our homes on the decline? Today's New York Times article Pushing Paper Out the Door provides a some clues to the diminishing use of paper in the home: Going paperless was a conscious decision by the Uhliks. But many families may be closer to ...Monday, February 11th, 2008
Xerox Exchange has an interview with Peter Crean, a research fellow at Xerox Research Center Webster (home of the DocuTech, iGen3, Nuvera, and other Xerox innovations) on the advances in color he has seen in the 38 years he has worked at Xerox. As Crean points out in the interview, color ...Sunday, February 10th, 2008
YouTube, that Google-owned cultural phenomenon, showed nine million videos in a single month last year.* Within YouTube’s ever-expanding video vortex are, believe it or not, a fair number of clips related to printing. This was noticed by Offset Guy, a participant in a thread on envelope feeding over at PrintPlanet.com. ...
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