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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
American Executive has an article on rebirth of WorkflowOne after it restructured and reorganized leadership after a shareholder buyout in 2004 by current president and CEO Greg Mosher.
Mosher attributes the company's success to its Dual Network Advantage, a service and manufacturing network:
“It is extremely important because today’s customer is looking ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Here's the text of a thread we've started in The Lounge at PrintPlanet. We'd love to get your input there or in responses to this post.
Graph Expo 2008 is coming. What if you could give the exhibitors a “wish list” of the new products and solutions that you would most ...
Posted in Conferences, Innovation, PrintPlanet, Printing Industry, Technology, Trade Shows | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Gordon Pritchard, Kodak's Value In Print Initiative Marketing Manager has a blog post up on Grow Your Biz in which he outlines 11 items to consider when using gray balance as a press control:
Achieving gray balance in presswork is the major mantra in today's print production world. It is the ...
Posted in Color Management | 17 Comments »
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
I'm sure by know you have either seen or at least heard of Esquire's electronic paper-based cover. Even I picked up a copy, and I have never bought Esquire in my life. (And probably never will again.) I admit, though, if you leave the issue lying around, the blinking drives ...
Posted in E-paper | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
We seek them here, we seek them there... Anyway, via the invaluable Design Tools Monthly newsletter, Pantone tells us what the top 10 fashion hues for 2009 are going to be, and what they’ll be wearing on the runways of Paris (the best I can do is wear these on the runways ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
My recent post on The Recruitment Crisis sparked some good discussion on the topic.
Dr Joe Webb points to the numbers and say there is no crisis, "There is no recruiting crisis, and why the myth persists is beyond me. Just look at the payroll data and the wages. If there ...
Posted in Printing Industry | 5 Comments »
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Forbes.com has a round up of next generation of ebook readers including the soon to be released iRex Reader 1000 and a reader under development from start-up Plastic Logic. Both devices use E Ink technology.
In the article E-ink CEO Russ Wilcox says these new devices mark a transition to larger ...
Posted in E-paper, eBooks | 7 Comments »
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Remember virtual reality? No, I don’t either, as it has not quite lived up to the hype that surrounded it almost 15 years ago. But the idea has evolved.
My print issue of Scientific American arrived yesterday, and as I was eating my bagel this morning, I read an article ...
Posted in New Media | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Monique Tremaine of Kodak has posted the results of an image quality analysis by spencerLAB, an independent digital imaging testing firm. At Tremaine's Grow Your Business blog, she writes:
Earlier this year, Kodak contracted with spencerLAB, an outside image quality laboratory, to perform an independent comparison of the print quality ...
Posted in Digital Printing | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Monday's financial markets perpetuate uncertainty in the markets when there should be none. This is what we know for certain: banks get into trouble when they loan money to people who can't pay it back; the U.S. Federal Reserve likes throwing gas on fires.
This is quite different than some of ...
Posted in Economics and Research Center | 11 Comments »