Archive for the ‘Digital Printing’ Category

HP Hits the Road to “Capture” Philadelphia

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

You may remember my post about DSCOOP in San Diego. At that event, HP announced "Capture On the Road", a program to take the tools and training of HP's Capture Business Development program to different areas of the country. The first event was held in Palo Alto on ...

Still No Word From Amazon.com/BookSurge on What They Plan To Do

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Patrick Henry's comment to Jean-Marie Hershey's blog post on Amazon.com's BookSurge unit move to shutout competing print on-demand companies by disabling the ability for "POD publishers" to directly sell books in the Amazon.com store has been spot on so far. Henry stated, "Amazon’s decision ought to provoke a reaction as ...

HP States Where It’s Going (continued)

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Henk Gianotten’s response to our initial post about the HP pre-drupa press briefing in Israel earlier this week prompts some additional comments. Throughout the program, HP had relatively little to say about end-use applications. The emphasis mostly was on the technical aspects of the new equipment, with almost none of ...

At Pre-Drupa Event, HP States Where It’s Going (the Top) and What Will Get It There (Top Technology)

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Benny Landa acknowledged that he might have been a little premature when he predicted, back in 1993, that in 10 years, all printing would be digital. But he's sticking by a prophecy he made more recently: two nights ago, to be precise, when he addressed a large group of print ...

DSCOOPing in San Diego

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Noel already scooped me on DSCOOP, but I wanted to share some of my thoughts on my recent trip out to San Diego for the annual conference event as well and also give our readers some insight with photos and video we took while there. It was nice to ...

Is Digital Printing the Greenest?

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

In Public Printer Robert Tapella's keynote at the The Business of Green Media Conference (which I wrote about a few days ago), Tapella mentioned a transition to digital printing saying, "Digital itself is a key sustainability initiative, and it is at the core of an ongoing transformation of GPO operations ...

Web Mashup Provides Service to Print Public Domain Books

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service an experimental non-commercial project to archive and re-publish public domain works is offering print on-demand services for book that are in the public domain. The service relies on a catalog of 2 million books from the Internet Archive and the Google Books project. Books ...

Why is HP buying Exstream?

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

The question is why is HP buying Exstream since at this time HP does not really participate in the markets where Exstream operates. Exstream is a software supplier to the corporate data centers principally for transactional documents. HP is the leading supplier of solutions for office printing. If HP is ...

Review of TransPromo Summit

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

InfoTrends Group Director Barbara Pellow started her keynote at the TransPromo Summit, held in New York City on August 22nd and 23rd, by saying, “Transpromotional applications aren’t something like trans-fats that are bad for your health and well-being!” All kidding aside, TransPromo is a hot application area, and the ...

The Xerox iGen3 Helps Wired Magazine Target 5,000 Subscribers with Custom Covers

Monday, August 27th, 2007

I have to confess. I used to be a complete magazine junky. They would flood my house every month and while my wife would be happily reading some big thick book full of text, I'd be combing through page after glorious glossy page. I whittled down over the years ...