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Friday, September 21st, 2007
The folks at Really Strategies, a publishing technology consultancy manage a blog that catalogs the demise of print by "chronicling reports of print publications that have been discontinued in favor of sole digital delivery of the content once found on printed pages, or some other reincarnation of the print brand ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
The decision by the New York Times to discontinue the TimeSelect program has made vast amounts of content available for free. I plunked some interesting articles from the Times public domain archive:
GOVERMENT PRINTING BY CONTRACT. from June 15, 1895
From time to time the Congress is asked by members who are ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
A new study by CalPoly's Graphic Communication department begins with some unsettling thoughts. "The printing industry is in a quandary. It is in a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation. For the first time in the history of the printing industry it faces ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Excerpted below is a Sept. 11 New York Times article that reports the latest plans for commercial development by Trinity Real Estate and Square Mile Capital Management of a vacant eight-story warehouse on Hudson Street, between Charlton and Vandam in Manhattan, once the beating heart of New York City's traditional ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Over at the MarketingProfs forums, Gwen Stevens aka "Lone Soldier" is looking for help on developing a new tagline for the printing company she works for:
We are a 95 year old, mid-sized, web-offset printer (350 employees). For the past 20 years we have served the magazine publishing industry by printing ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Gordon Pritchard, Kodak's Value in Print marketing manager offers an analogy to explain some of the printing industry's idiosyncrasies to newly hired Kodak engineers:
"So, what is print manufacturing all about? Well, imagine the printer as a lumber mill- a very special lumber mill. This is a lumber mill that doesn't ...
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