Friday, March 14th, 2008
Henk Gianotten’s response to our initial post about the HP pre-drupa press briefing in Israel earlier this week prompts some additional comments. Throughout the program, HP had relatively little to say about end-use applications. The emphasis mostly was on the technical aspects of the new equipment, with almost none of ...Friday, March 14th, 2008
When printers improve their productivity, lots of good things happen. But there’s one very bad thing that often happens by accident: prices come down even before customers have begun beating up the printer. Here’s why: If you reduce your make-ready times or improve your running speeds, it’s logical to raise your ...Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Swedish minimalism has long been associated with spare, ash-blond furniture and space-age IKEA design, but a print ad appearing in Sweden’s Metro newspaper recently applies the creative concept to….McDonald’s Big ‘n’ Juicy Burger? According to Folio’s Josh Gordon, the double-page spread – printed on napkin paper - “uses almost no ...Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
GE Global Research, General Electric's research group announced they have successfully demonstrated roll-to-roll manufacturing of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting devices: “Researchers have long dreamed of making OLEDs using a newspaper-printing like roll-to-roll process,” said Anil Duggal, manager of GE’s Advanced Technology Program in Organic Electronics. “Now we’ve shown that it ...Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Tomorrow, March 13, we will see an annual report from Cenveo (NYSE: CVO). In a late afternoon update call on February 27, executives announced that they would be delaying their 10K filing because of accounting irregularities. An SEC filing dated February 27, provided notice that the delay was needed "to allow ...Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Environmental conservation group ForestEthics has launched a ‘Do Not Mail’ Campaign: Five years after the national Do Not Call Registry became the most popular consumer rights bill in history, conservation group ForestEthics launched its campaign for a Do Not Mail Registry today to give Americans the choice to stop wasteful, annoying ...Monday, March 10th, 2008
Benny Landa acknowledged that he might have been a little premature when he predicted, back in 1993, that in 10 years, all printing would be digital. But he's sticking by a prophecy he made more recently: two nights ago, to be precise, when he addressed a large group of print ...Monday, March 10th, 2008
Xplor 2008 XDU Global Conference, March 3-6, Boston For more than 25 years, Xplor has delivered document-industry education to tens of thousands of professionals who design, manage, publish, and deliver business and promotional documents. This year in Boston, I caught up with a few folks, to get their perspective ...Monday, March 10th, 2008
Last week Dr. Joe Webb of the WhatTheyThink Economics and Research Center reported decreased printing shipments in January: January 2008 printing shipments were very disappointing. On a current dollar basis, they were down -$228 million, or -2.8%. On an inflation-adjusted basis, they were down -$575 million, or -6.8%. Which lead to a ...Friday, March 7th, 2008
FedEx Corp announced today that CEO Ken May has resigned as president and chief executive officer of FedEx Kinkos: May assumed leadership of Dallas-based FedEx Kinkos in January 2006, and his resignation is effective March 31. In a letter today to FedEx Kinkos team members, May said, After an incredible 25-year ...
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