Archive for the ‘Printing Industry News’ Category

Online Publisher Drives Growth with Print Advertising

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Entrepreneur.com has the story of Jim Daniels owner of Rhode Island-based JDD Publishing. Daniels' company publishes Internet marketing books, services and software via the Internet. Not satisfied with the return electronic advertising was bringing, Daniels set out to use his database of leads and customers to create a direct marketing ...

Design Students, Graphic Artists Can Vie for $400,000 Prize In “Engine Room” Competition Co-Sponsored by MTV and HP

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 ...

HP Restructuring Imaging & Printing Group

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Jim Lyons points to a IdahoStatesman.com article on HP's plans to "streamline" it's Imaging & Printing Group. The Idaho Statesman article says HP "will shrink its worldwide Imaging & Printing Group from five to three global business units." The article says the restructuring is a cost-cutting measure. The Associated Press says the ...

HP’s Vyomesh Joshi is on a Mission to Increase Business for HP’s Printing Group

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Earlier this week BusinessWeek.com posted an article on HP's Printing & Imaging Group's Executive Vice President Vyomesh Joshi. VJ as many in the industry know him heads up all of HP's printing business: from consumer desktop inkjet to the high-end HP Indigo. Joshi's current mission is to rejuvenate a 5% drop ...

NYCCT’s Joel Mason Is Honored as “Person of the Year” by the Printing Teachers Guild of New York

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 ...

Pazazz Video is MarketingSherpa Viral Hall of Fame Winner

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

You may remember my post about the video Warren Werbitt did for his company Pazazz printing. We thought it was pretty good and so did some readers. Despite the copycat controversy with the comedy troupe, the video has been a great success for them. So much so ...

Newspaper Runs Fakes Ads to Show Print Ad Effectiveness

Monday, June 9th, 2008

The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News ran a fake ad campaign within their Friday editions to "demonstrate the power of our brands in generating awareness and generating traffic for our advertisers, and put a smile on people's faces." According to Philly.com the Friday editions contained blue banners throughout the ...

Océ and High Performance Color

Monday, June 9th, 2008

In a recent post concerning Miyakoshi I stated I would come back to the subject of their inkjet technology. I am doing this now by covering how Océ is going to market with its high-speed JetStream 1100/2200 range of color inkjet continuous feed printers. This range of printers is largely ...

Its Now a Footie drupa

Monday, June 9th, 2008

This last weekend the European Football Championship started and is taking place in Austria and Switzerland. First of all for American readers football is not the game played by highly over paid very large men wearing more body armor than the troops fighting in Iraq. Instead it is the game ...

My Video View of drupa

Monday, June 9th, 2008

We are now nearing the end of drupa and I'm still having very busy days. Today Monday June 9 will be my last day touring around the show halls and I have perhaps my busiest day yet with back to back meetings throughout the day. In the course of the ...