Archive for 2008

Stop Stupid PDF Syndrome Now

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Great Public Service Announcement from Adobe:

Computer to Plate (CtP) at drupa

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

While CtP has been around a long time first appearing in the 1980s, it did not really come into the spotlight until drupa 1995. At that time it shared the overall spotlight of technological advance with digital printing. 1995 was when thermal CtP from Kodak and Creo burst onto the ...

Get Prinected - Real Integration

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

One of the real highlights of drupa is to be found in the Heidelberg halls, Hall 1 and 2. Here in a superb layout all the Heidelberg and Polar products are in operation. What may not be realized is that every one of these products is linked together in what ...

Newspaper Runs Fakes Ads to Show Print Ad Effectiveness

Monday, June 9th, 2008

The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News ran a fake ad campaign within their Friday editions to "demonstrate the power of our brands in generating awareness and generating traffic for our advertisers, and put a smile on people's faces." According to Philly.com the Friday editions contained blue banners throughout the ...

Océ and High Performance Color

Monday, June 9th, 2008

In a recent post concerning Miyakoshi I stated I would come back to the subject of their inkjet technology. I am doing this now by covering how Océ is going to market with its high-speed JetStream 1100/2200 range of color inkjet continuous feed printers. This range of printers is largely ...

Its Now a Footie drupa

Monday, June 9th, 2008

This last weekend the European Football Championship started and is taking place in Austria and Switzerland. First of all for American readers football is not the game played by highly over paid very large men wearing more body armor than the troops fighting in Iraq. Instead it is the game ...

My Video View of drupa

Monday, June 9th, 2008

We are now nearing the end of drupa and I'm still having very busy days. Today Monday June 9 will be my last day touring around the show halls and I have perhaps my busiest day yet with back to back meetings throughout the day. In the course of the ...

The Real drupa

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Much has been written about drupa in the trade press but for newcomers to the event nothing really prepares you for what you find when you get here. This is now my eighth drupa and my sixth as a journalist coming here. My first two were as a vendor. I ...

Is Inkjet Green?

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Yesterday I wrote a post entitled How Green is Your Printshop that covered some of the green initiatives from suppliers that are being seen at drupa. One of the responses to this entry came from Alex Fisher The PR Officer of Ingede. His comments are printed below.

How Green is My Printshop?

Friday, June 6th, 2008

One of the key themes at drupa has been the environment. Almost every supplier has a green or sustainability approach and all have a document outlining what they are doing. This is a real difference from drupa 2004 where the green issue was hardly covered. The following shows some of the ...