Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
“...drupa is just an elaborate evasion for vendors who are utterly unable to explain their products satisfactorily or provide useful and relevant demos at home. Drupa also encourages hurried and half-baked decisions by users who are unable to gather their own information from other sources.” Yikes! I don’t consider myself an apologist ...Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
I don’t know if editors are more prone to pack-rat behavior than other people, but pack-rattitude has to be the reason that this editor still has in his possession an expo CD-ROM from the Seybold Seminars San Francisco Conference in 1996. It turned up by accident the other day in a ...Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
It began six years ago in a borrowed conference room with a blank sheet of paper and a cash balance of zero. It culminated last night in the theatre of the Hearst Tower in New York City with the award of nearly $53,000 in scholarships to 25 college and college-bound ...Thursday, June 19th, 2008
A prize worth $400,000 and "a truly amazing, career launching opportunity" await the creative team that wins a digital design competition inspired by a new MTV series called Engine Room. Design for print is eligible for entry into the contest, which is accepting applications in the form of digital files ...Friday, June 13th, 2008
Above: Joel Mason (right), chair of the Department of Advertising Design and Graphic Arts, New York City College of Technology (NYCCT), is congratulated by Lloyd Carr, director of the graphic arts program at NYCCT, upon his receipt of the “Person of the Year” award from the Printing Teachers Guild of ...Saturday, May 24th, 2008
A team of student researchers from the Department of Graphics and Imaging Technologies at Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, KS) is seeking responses to its online survey about color preferences in transpromotional (TransPromo) documents. The students, under the direction of Prof. Jesus J. Rodriguez, have received a grant supporting their research from ...Friday, May 16th, 2008
On May 15, Printing Industries Alliance identified most of those who will be honored at its 2008 Franklin Event on September 10. From left: Charlene McNeil (Hammer Packaging), representing recipient James E. Hammer (Hammer Packaging); Ken Lantz, DRAFTFCB; Tom Fox (American Express Publishing); Frederick K. Moss (Galvanic Printing & Plate ...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 ...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 ...Friday, April 18th, 2008
Those struggling to keep up with the issues and terminology of sustainable printing will find much of the information they’re seeking in Handbook on Book Paper and the Environment, a recent report from the Paper Issues Working Group of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The 61-page document is the ...
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