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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
This is the first of my posts that will continue through to the end of drupa. I will be writing my blog entrants on a continuous basis while at drupa and hopefully this will be the first place to see the key announcements made there. It may also carry any ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
I remain in Belgium until tomorrow visiting with company executives in the area and previewing their drupa announcements. For the full announcements and press releases, visit WhatTheyThink.com’s main news page.
Alwan
I received a 2007 Pirelli Calendar from Alwan. The oversized book weighs maybe 20 pounds and is 639-pages. It compiles ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Yesterday we had a good meeting with EskoArtwork that I highlighted Monday. This morning, we went to Agfa’s headquarters and this afternoon to Punch Graphix. For the full announcements, make sure to visit WhatTheyThink.com’s main news page. (Belgium is a beautiful country. Here are pictures from around the hotel I ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I am at a special event in Belgium this week meeting with various executives from Agfa, EskoArtwork, Xeikon, HP and Canon to hear about their plans for drupa. I will report on some of the more interesting items and people I see. I will also try to summarize many of ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
As the WhatTheyThink team prepares for drupa 2008, Noel Ward Executive Editor of OnDemandJournal.com, and Director of Trade Show Coverage for WhatTheyThink.com shared a drupa fun fact with us earlier today:
As of December 31, 2006 the population of Dusseldorf was 581,858.
The total attendance at drupa 2004 was 394,478 and is ...
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