Printers: Is Your Online Portfolio Making The Right First Impression?
By now it should be pretty self evident that your website serves as the first impression of your company in many cases. While your capabilities and services are of course relevant, as a Print Producer I usually skip right over that type of information and go directly to your portfolio first. I want to see […]
1/1 Interview with Rab Govil CEO Caslon and Naehas, and President of PODi
With the PODi App Forum coming up in January I was eager to speak with Rab and provide you with some more information on the event. Not only did I receive that, but Rab as kind enough to answer a few more questions about digital printing and the industry. At the end of this interview […]
USPS To Slow Delivery of First-Class Mail
“Currently, first-class mail is supposed to be delivered to homes and businesses within the continental U.S. in one day to three days. That will lengthen to two days to three days, meaning mailers no longer could expect next-day delivery in surrounding communities. Periodicals could take between two days and nine days.” By HOPE YEN, Associated […]
Track Chairs Announced for the 2012 AppForum Digital Printing Conference
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMedia Contact: Christine DeLooze585-214-5900chrisd@podi.org Top strategists chosen to lead tracks on cross media, cutting edge digital print applications and technologies, and sales & business strategies Rochester, NY — November 29, 2011 — PODi, the Digital Printing Initiative, has announced the Track Chairs for the 2012 AppForum, January 23–25 in Las Vegas. These five prominent digital […]
Revealing Fashion Trend In Japan Sure To Be a Shocker
What does this have to do with PMC? Well, PRINTED TEXTILES of course! That, and I want to do my best to preempt any heart attacks on the subway if this ever makes it’s way to the States… These skirts are all there, and not see through. What you are seeing is printed on them… […]
MoMA's The Printed Picture Website Launches
This site is really amazing. “Richard Benson, who wrote the book and co-curated the exhibition, was videotaped for approximately eight hours in the Museum galleries.” The video’s review printing process, technology, and methods of reproducing images in print throughout history. There is a ton of content and information and you will will certainly use it […]
Meet Arachno-Bot! A Creepy 3D-printed Robot Spider
Everyone has their kryptonite and mine happens to be spiders. The the tenth degree of that, would be jumping spiders, and the tenth degree of that tenth degree would have to be giant jumping spiders. Sure, these are 3D-printed, but in the scene of the Jerry Bruckheimer movie now playing in my head… I’m trapped […]
Printed Electronic Labels Light Up Beverage Bottles
This was shared in my LinkedIn group and my comment was “COOOoooOOOooooolllll!”…. Not sure I have much to add to that! If you ever wondered how a printed circuit is created, I happen to have made a 4-part video from SGIA EXPO with Gerber Scientific Products who took me through the process on their new […]
Xplor Issues Call for Annual Award Nominations
For Immediate Release Xplor Issues Call for Annual Award Nominations Recognitions to Include Application, Innovator and Xplorer of the Year as well as Lifetime Achievement Awards Lutz, FL – November 1, 2010 – Xplor International, the worldwide electronic document systems association, today issued a call for nominations for their annual awards, presented at their 2012 […]
Win a Free VIP Pass to PODi AppForum 2012!
PODi AppForum conference is three days of innovation and ideas for making more money with digital printing. Join PODi & hundreds of our peers in Las Vegas Jan. 23-25, 2012 for the industry event of the year. Come to the AppForum in Style! VIP Pass includes: Full 3-day conference valued at $1,295 Up to $500 Airline […]
What is a Print Futurist Anyway?
by Sandy Hubbard As an industry, we’ve been scratching our heads for decades, trying to figure our what the print shop of the future is. In many ways, we are already operating the print shop of the future, filled with prepress and press automation, remote order entry, JDF and XML instructions, and other technological processes. […]
PODi AppForum Keynote Announced!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Christine DeLooze chrisd@podi.org Harley-Davidson Communications Strategist Ken Schmidt to be Keynote for AppForum How to make your brand unforgettable and outsmart the competition Rochester, NY — PODi, the Digital Printing Initiative, has announced that Ken Schmidt, former director of communications at Harley-Davidson will present the kick-off Keynote address at the […]