Some of my more seasoned readership may remember a column I authored in 2005, in which I asked “Why isn’t there a printpod?”
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Prepress Expert Chris Heric is a US-based prepress consultant. He specialises in the area of PDF and is the track chairman for the PDF for print Conference at Seybold. Some of my more seasoned readership may remember a column I authored in 2005, in which I asked “Why isn’t there a printpod?”
In my continued commentary about the tools that currently make up the state of print production, it is time to think about a few things
Heric says printers should take note of the video advert in Entertainment Weekly and aim to get into the market, before others do
Some of my regular readers will remember that I authored a contribution for AP some time ago when the Kindle was announced.
As I watch the world of print, and begin to fear for some of the segments of our industry that have always seemed to just be there, I also see where some printeries are shining, even flourishing. As has been the topic of my column in the past, periodical printing is on thin ice already, and digital download and delivery may even impact the one real segment of growth in print... packagin
The country's biggest sheetfed printer lost NZ$140.4m (A$108.5m) in the 2008-2009 tax year, as the full weight of the GFC hit the trans-tasman printing operation. Its operating loss was NZ$55m. |
USA company Presstek says it will demonstrate its new 75DI digital offset press at the Ipex show, scheduled for May 18-25 in Birmingham, UK. |
Hannapak showed its new manroland 700 with inline foiler at an industry event this week, which attracted both sheetfed and web offset commercial printers to the Richmond factory.
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More than 150 industry delegates attended DES’s Pathways to Profit' seminars last week with organisers pleased with the stronger than expected turnout from Melbourne and Brisbane. |
Digital Print industry supplier Absolute Electronics has installed its fifth new Direct Target Mailer, since its launch to market 18 months ago. The supplier says that the new DTM 8000 creates a completely personalised envelope and letter, ready to be mailed in a single pass all from an A3 or A4 printed sheet. |