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Kodak Releases Image Quality Study on Stream Concept Press

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 ...

Rhode Island College Drops Graphic Communication Concentration

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Rhode Island College student newspaper The Anchor reports that the College plans to drop the Graphic Communications concentration offered by the Communications department: On Tuesday, Sept. 2, notices were issued in class to Rhode Island College Students declared in the Graphic Communication concentration of the Communication degree. The notice informed those ...

A combined 3,300 positions eliminated at UPM, Stora Enso

Monday, September 15th, 2008

FOLIO has the story on the elimination of a combined 3,300 positions at UPM and Stora Enso. UPM plans to cut 1,600 jobs between 2009 and 2010 as part of a reorganization. Stora Enso announced plans for a reorganization which it said would eliminate 1,700 positions.

VIGC Study on Spectrophotometers

Friday, September 12th, 2008

The Flemish Innovation Centre for Graphical Communication (VIGC) has released a study on the accuracy of spectrophotometers used within the printing industry. “Color quality is the biggest challenge in the printing industry.”, says Eddy Hagen, managing director and trend watcher of VIGC. “Graphic arts companies will try everything to get the ...

Does HP Indigo use “toner” or “ink”?

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

George Alexander writing at Beyond Print asks, Does HP Indigo use “toner” or “ink”? This is a great question that many printers within industry ask or are confused about when evaluating digital printing systems. As Alexander points out in the article: The effort to avoid admitting that Indigo machines use “toner” seems ...

The Recruitment Crisis

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

There is not only a decline of printing industry employment (see Desktop Publishing’s Legacy: 230,000 Fewer Commercial Printing Workers, and An Explosion in Content Creation Workers, Wisconsin’s Shrinking Printing Industry, US printing employment hits new low) but also a shortage of new blood entering the industry to fill positions vacated ...

Wisconsin’s Shrinking Printing Industry

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

The Small Business Times has report on declining employment numbers within the printing industry in Wisconsin. The industry has lost about 5,000 jobs since it peaked in 1999 at 39,444 people. The report touches on many of the factors printers across the US are dealing with: difficulty finding employees interested in ...

“Over fifty percent of marketers’ budgets now spent online”

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

A new study released by Clash-Media suggests over fifty percent of marketers' budgets now spent online. The research conducted by E-consultancy for Clash-Media found: over 90 percent of marketers see Online Lead Generation as a growth area – up from 82 percent last year, and over 70 percent of those using ...

The Manchester, UK Evening News Circulation Experiment

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

To combat falling circulation numbers, the Manchester, UK Evening News began giving away 50,000 issues away downtown where circulation was weak while continuing to sell issues in the suburbs: Before the experiment the Evening News was very much a suburban newspaper with only about 7,000 sales downtown. So, the thinking went, ...

Remembering Hal Morrow

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Hal Morrow, Chief Marketing Officer of GMC Software Technology lost his battle with cancer on Friday. At WhatTheyThink.com Elizabeth Gooding remembers Hal's years of industry leadership. Following cremation, a celebration of Hal’s life will be held on Wednesday September 3, 2008 at 6:00pm in the Peabody Funeral Homes and Crematorium, 15 ...