Sunday, November 18th, 2007
As the leader of a publishing group comprising 19 magazines with nearly 200 international editions in more than 100 countries, Cathie Black clearly believes in the durability of print. At a New York University awards ceremony in her honor last week (Nov. 14), she predicted that for the next ten ...Monday, September 24th, 2007
Eugene Schwartz, the writer of the wonderful letter posted below, found the WhatTheyThink.com article on the history of printing districts in New York City by way of Bob Sacks’s BoSacks Reporter, which graciously picked the story up. It all got started with a PrintCEO blog post about an article on ...Friday, August 24th, 2007
A Waltham, MA, company called ZINK ("Zero Ink", www.zink.com) is promoting a technology that embeds heat-activated CMYK microcrystals within a durable, water-resistant paper stock. Digital images can be exposed on this stock using extremely compact printing devices—possibly compact enough to be built into camera-equipped cell phones. That's ZINK's primary target ...Thursday, August 16th, 2007
In diplomatic circles, an “ambassador without portfolio” is a government official who has neither specific responsibilities nor authority over a particular ministry—just a general charge to advance the interests of his or her country. In printing circles, those who promote the use of the medium with nothing more to credential ...Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Well-expressed comments by "Nick" and Kellie Gibson in the thread about recruitment raise a legitimate issue in the debate about meeting the printing industry's present and future staffing requirements. If printers are having trouble hiring and retaining qualified people, does part of the problem lie in the fact that some ...Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Frank Romano’s provocative article asking “Where have all the students gone?” and the equally incisive responses to it have raised enough issues to keep a thread on industry education running indefinitely. But I was particularly struck by several comments that go straight to the heart of what’s been wrong with ...Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Bleed. Gutter. Knockout. Gang. They’re design terms that everybody knows—but what if they were presented as subtle visual puns in an interactive test of your ability to match concepts with images? Colle+McVoy, a marcomm agency in Minneapolis, throws down just such a challenge in “Design: Not For The Faint ...Saturday, June 30th, 2007
From a press release by International Communications Research (ICR): "A recent survey completed by International Communications Research (ICR) revealed that even in today's digital world, consumers clearly prefer mail over other communications vehicles such as e-mail for receiving new product information and offerings as well as confidential business communications, such as ...Sunday, June 24th, 2007
Don Carli, the sustainability advocate and the subject of a recent post at PrintCEOblog.com, continues to draw attention to his message about environmental responsibility for industries that produce or use print. On June 14 in New York City, he led a panel discussion sponsored by his organization, the Institute for ...Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Printing's complicated relationship with the Internet makes it easy to forget that as a medium, the Internet faces issues of its own. One of the thorniest has to do with the principle of network neutrality: the belief that Internet users, not Internet service providers, should be in control of content, ...
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