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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Shares of X-Rite stock dropped after the company reported further defaults on loan agreements tied to its aggressive buying spree the past two years.
X-Rite has had some troubles lately, first announcing low then expected profits, and then reports of layoffs coming out of Grand Rapids, MI.
Shares of X-Rite closed at ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
eWeek has an interview up with David Murphy, head of HP Imaging and Printing Group's Web Services and Software unit.
In the interview Murphy sheds some light on HP's acquisition of Exstream and potential for future acquisitions:
Exstream is very powerful in enterprise printing. It had already invested in Dialogue Live, a ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
In the last few months I have received some top notch print in the mail from the personalized REI Members Rewards annual divided/annual report/election ballet to a high quality rich black incase computer accessory catalog.
As I was going through last weeks mail a pattern emerged: all of the bound mail ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Coming, maybe, to your state: air-quality rules mandating the use of press solvents containing no more than 100 grams of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) per liter.
Coming, perhaps, to your pressroom: problems you didn’t anticipate with s-l-o-w press washups, funky residues, and strange chemical side effects such as “tearing” (as in ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Join us Wednesday April 30th for a free webinar “It's Good to Be Green” moderated by Barb Pellow sponsored by HP.
The printing industry like many other industries is starting to pick up steam in going "Green". From recycling paper to using soy ink, smart printing companies are starting to realize ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Printers sometimes are advised that it’s not necessary—and may even be counterproductive—to post equipment lists at their Web sites. Print buyers really aren’t impressed, this curious argument goes, by a roll call of iron that doesn’t tell them anything about the creative “solutions” that the printer is prepared to provide.
Anyone ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Last week, I attended the Kodak Graphic Users Association at the Wynn in Las Vegas on behalf of WhatTheyThink. This is one of the oldest independent users groups in our industry. Although it has undergone a few name changes, and there was some trepidation on the part of ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Are you a master of type? Test your skills on “The Rather Difficult Font Game.”
The premises of the game is simple: Name the font used.
So what font is this? Don't cha know?
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The Associated Press is reporting that Bertelsmann AG plans to print “The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedias” using the Germany version of the popular online encyclopedia:
The media company — whose units include publisher Random House Inc. and music venture Sony BMG — said Wednesday that it plans to publish "The One-Volume Wikipedia ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
RIT Professor Emeritus Michael L. Kleper sent a note on a documentary video from the BBC that chronicles the invention of the Gutenberg Press.
Michael writes:
A wonderful documentary video from the BBC. Stephen Fry travels to France and Germany on the trail of Johannes Gutenberg, and sets about reconstructing a replica ...
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