Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Adobe has made Inside the Publishing Revolution - The Adobe Story available as a free e-book in the Digital Editions Sample Library. From the description: Tech journalist Pamela Pfiffner explores the rich history behind the modern publishing revolution, as seen through the lens of one of its most important players. In the ...Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Nintendo and Fujifilm have partnered to bring a new online photo service to market in Japan. The new service will enable users of Nintendo's popular Wii video game console to order prints of photos uploaded to their console. InfoTrends has more: The so-called "Digital Camera Print Channel" (English name still tentative) ...Monday, July 28th, 2008
Forbes.com has published an article from its upcoming print edition on technology brand owners are using to stop counterfeiters. The article highlights Kodak's Traceless System, a forensically invisible authentication technology, being used by sports trading-card company Donruss to provide collectors with authenticity: "In some cases, we couldn't even tell what was ...Monday, July 28th, 2008
MinnPost, the start-up Internet-based nonprofit newspaper (my post about the launch of MinnPost from last August) in Minneapolis has decided to drop its printable edition: Beginning today, we're dropping the MinnPost in Print feature. Readers will continue to be able to print stories from the site. But as more and more ...Monday, July 21st, 2008
A month ago I covered the launch of MagCloud, an HP Labs research project that is that is evaluating the use of a Web-enabled print production workflow to streamline the publishing of magazines so small independent magazine publishers and content owners can publish custom publications without all the print and ...Monday, July 21st, 2008
Esquire will include an electronic display on the cover of its September issue. The display will use E Ink technology (the same technology used by the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle) to flash "the 21st Century Begins Now." The New York Times has the details: If it does wind up in the ...Thursday, July 17th, 2008
At drupa Frank Romano gave WhatTheyThink a video on the history of printing he created with his students a few years back. In the video, Frank walks you through major milestones in the history of printing. From Johann Gutenberg to papyrus to important contributors in the development of type ...Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
The USPS has released their 2007 Household Diary Study. The Household Diary Study is a multi-year study started in 1987 that aims to provide a "comprehensive and continuous description of the mail originating and destinating in American household." The report is available here (or as a PDF here). Print in the ...Monday, July 14th, 2008
Bloomberg.com Europe reported on Friday that Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG has hit a 10-Year Low after JPMorgan downgraded the company's recommendation from neutral to underweight: JPMorgan cut its recommendation to ``underweight'' from ``neutral,'' arguing the Heidelberg, Germany-based company lacks growth and its reorganization plan is insufficient. The manufacturer said yesterday that it's ...
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