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Free Webinar: Price & Demand Outlook 2013 for Publication Grade Paper
Join i2live webinar presented by Verle Sutton: Price & demand outlook 2013 for publication grade paper.Wednesday,...
Cardboard Packaging That Creates A Forest Ecosystem
This is video is from March of last year but its making it's way around, or possibly back, through the packaging...
Thick and Delicious Business Cards
PMC is honored to welcome Sabine Lenz from PaperSpecs as a guest blogger! If you love paper, you'll love Sabine and...
Brew Your Coffee In This Amazing French Press Packaging
In another life, when I have more patience and math skills, I want to be a Package Designer! This is almost one of...
Are Paperless Bills and Statements Really Better for the Environment?
This week, Two Sides will launch a nationwide educational initiative to engage and encourage major U.S. corporations...
Rider Dickerson Promotional Piece Raises The Bar
I am long standing fan of Rider Dickerson because they "get" it. They get that providing education to Print Buyers...
SOLAR POWERED Annual report!
Genius! Solar energy is the main business of our client Austria Solar. We thought about how we could put this energy...
Direct Marketing Gets Eco-Friendly
In the wake of Toshiba's failed attempt for a National No-Print Day, I am going to be more proactive and help get...
Forget A Book, Now You Can Read Your Toilet Paper
This little ditty is from The Atlantic. Let's hope this doesn't become a metaphor for the industry, and just one...
Why Stopping Toshiba's National No Print Day Worked, and Why it Shouldn't Have
10 days after the announcement of National No Print Day, Toshiba pulled the plug and victory celebrations broke out...
Calling all Print-Archists: Take a REAL STAND Against Toshiba’s No-Print Day!
UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE AS OF 6/20/2012 TOSHIBA HAS PULLED THIS CAMPAIGN - PARTLY BECAUSE OF POSTS LIKE THIS AND READERS...
Ad Agency Rethinks Coffee Cup Sleeves As Newspapers
This campaign will be added to my list of things I wish I came up with. The brilliance here is that the initial...
Guerrilla Art! Paper Book Sculptures Pop Up In Libraries And Bookstores in Edinburgh
Since last Spring, and as recently as May 17th of this year, an anonymous female artist has been leaving intricate...
Sweden To Adopt World's First QR Coded Banknotes
Ok, QR codes have "jumped the shark" in Sweden. It might just be me, but I don't see ANY added value scanning money to...
IKEA Reveals A Digital Camera Made Of Cardboard
This is pretty cool! By Yi Chen At the recent Fuorisalone event, a design expo held in Milan, IKEA gave out branded...
Awesomely cool use of PAPER, Video & Education
Via Making a Home on Plesiosaurs When a whale dies, the story has just begun. Directed by Sharon Shattuck and Flora...
The Letterpress Thrives in an iPad Age
Who doesn't love letterpress? There is something so attractive about it - maybe the "intricate simplicity" of the...
VIDEO: World Record-Breaking Paper Airplane Takes Flight on Conqueror
World record-breaking paper airplane takes flight on Conqueror Combined Locks, Wis. -- The paper airplane designed by...
Your Touchscreen Can “Read” This Ink
Another technology to bridge print to digital. This one relies on Printers to embed an "invisible electronic code"...
Your Life's Work: Printing – a 1947 Vocational Guidance Film
This is pretty informative and in many ways still relevant 65 years later.
The Last Infographic You’ll Ever Need: PRINT IS BIG
via PRINT IS BIG. Printing plays a significant role in the U.S. and Worldwide economies. Despite the myths you...
What's Causing Rising Paper Prices?
via: Millcraft Paper Company: What's Causing Rising Paper Prices?. If you are at all related to the commercial print...
Trending: Metallic
Who doesnt love metallic ink and foil stamping? Below are a few cool examples The Dieline posted. And as if it were...
Playing pop music via Paper Posters with Conductive Ink
PAPER APPS!!! I like that terminology. It's also interesting to note one of the selling points the creators are using...
What Apple Didn't Announce: New App Store category for Catalogs
This is one of those good news/bad news things depending upon where you sit in the Marketing industry. For the digital...
New “Designed To Shine” Guide Spotlights Advantages of Printers and Converters Providing Metallic Effects
“Designed to Shine” is available for $39.99 through the ITW Foils web site - HOWEVER!!!!! We got in touch with...
The Paper Merchant's Brain is Yours for the Picking
I was invited to give a presentation at the Paper Distribution Council's Annual Meeting back in January of this year....
NPTA Alliance Announces 2012 Board of Directors
Thanks to Millcraft Paper for posting this in their newsletter (which I love as a Paper Person!). I was invited to...
Sorry iBooks, paper books still win on specs
Sorry PMC readers! Im a bit behind on postings after going to PODi's AppForum last week (which was awesome btw) and...
Two Sides Launches U.S. Website
Factual Information from Respected Sources Dispels Myths about the Sustainability of Print and Paper Two Sides, the...
More Than Half of Americans Think the U.S. Will Never Go Paperless
This is quite interesting - especially that 63% of the 18-29 year olds polled believe we will never be a paperless...
A History of Business Cards
This is a very cool run down of business cards from the 17th century to today and worth a look even to just see the...
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...
Reinvented Disposable Coffee Cup Eliminates Plastic Lids
Interesting concept! Good for Paper, Print, and the environment! Called Compleat, the all-paper design has a built-in...
SELF-MADE: The Mobile Letterpress and Printmaking Studio
Here is something to support during the Holidays that will support PRINT as well. This project will focus on creating...
Paper Wine Bottles Are Here!
via Paper Wine Bottle from GreenBottle. First we changed to screw caps and plastic corks. Snobs objected vehemently...
Conqueror’s "Typographic Games" poses sports-themed, global, creative challenge and poster design competition
Conqueror’s "Typographic Games" poses sports-themed, global, creative challenge and poster design competition...
Graph Expo Recap: An Opportunity to Reach Those Who Couldn't Attend
Despite the enormous amount of attendees last week in Chicago, there are people and companies out there who arent on...
If you Print, why not Print a forest?
Print a Forest is a free computer application. Our mission is to give everyone an option to have the personal...
Making Greeting Cards Cool Again
By ELLEN BYRON Faced with declining card sales, American Greetings Corp. is struggling to adapt to the digital world....
Domtar Helps Buyers Track Paper's Trail from Mill to Market
Domtar Corporation launched its "Paper Trail" online environmental tool Tuesday to let customers see the environmental...
Hungry? Try Volkswagens Edible Print Ad
Volkswagen is all about the unusual print ads lately. In Norway, the automaker recently offered test drives right...
The Recycled Paper Water Container
Designer Andrea Ponti has created an interesting concept for the Milan Expo 2015. The Life is a water container,...
MINI’s Recycled Billboards
This inventive billboard campaign called “Minimalism” was created by advertising agency DraftFCB for MINI in...
Paper and ink prices rise, but industry executives more troubled by postal hike
War and natural disasters won't slow the rise in printing costs. Conflicts in the Middle East, especially the Libyan...
2011 NY Auto Show: Paper Audi A7 By Taras Lesko
To celebrate the launch of their new 2012 A7 sedan, Audi contracted graphic designer Taras Lesko to produce a scale...
printForum the conference scores big in the Windy City!
by guest blogger Dean Petrulakis of Rider Dickerson Thank you to all those who attended our first annual conference,...
5 Ways to Increase Prices and not Lose Customers
Judith Aquino (Business Insider) At some point, every company wrestles with the question of how to increase prices...
1/1: Interview with Dean Petrulakis Senior VP, Business Development at Rider Dickerson Inc.
Dean Pertulakis is a long standing and respected member of my LinkedIn Print Production Professionals Group. I was...
New Publication Paper Price Monitor
by Terry L Choate Jr I have found, throughout the course of my career, that unless publishers have a resource to...
Q&A: Fiber Testing, Paper, and the Lacey Act
Answers to frequently asked questions about fiber testing, a technology that can help find potentially illegal wood in...
How to Use Collateral Marketing for Sales
The concept of collateral marketing—using brochures and other printed materials that you can leave with a client—can...
Linotype: The Film
We are excited to announce that we have officially started production on a...
UK: ViP conference to detail simple steps to paper cost savings
Print companies can make savings in paper costs equivalent to an average of 1.4% of their turnover through a few...
Free PaperSpecs Webinar: In the Groove: Scoring and Folding Creatively
November 18, 2010 2:00 p.m. Eastern (11:00 a.m. Pacific) PaperSpecs’ latest free webinar, “In the Groove: Scoring and...
Launch of Newspaper Extinction Timeline for every country in the world
Ross Dawson, October 31, 2010 Back in August I predicted that newspapers in their current form will be irrelevant in...
New Poly Letter Wrap Product for Catalogers
The U.S. Postal Service’s new business plan calls on customers and stakeholders to provide it with creative ideas that...
Millcraft Paper: The Recyclability Equation
The latest issue of Down To Earth (IP's look at environmental issues and trends) is out. It asks the question "How do...
Federal Trade Commission proposes revised ‘Green Guides’
The Federal Trade Commission has proposed revisions to the guidance that it gives marketers to help them avoid making...
Sappi Announces European Price Increase for Specialty Products
Sappi Fine Paper Europe said that it will increase prices for its specialty products in European and overeseas markets...
How paper recycling works [infographic]
via How paper recycling works [infographic] - Holy Kaw!.
Paper Arabia 2010 opens in Dubai
Sami Al Qamzi, Director General of the Dubai Department of Economic Development (DED) today inaugurated Paper Arabia...
New Neenah Website Advances Use of Paper Through Technology
Some might find it ironic: one of the world's leading fine paper makers using advanced digital technology [paperless!]...
US sets triple-digit duties on China paper-industry
The United States has set combined duties ranging up to 313.8 percent on coated paper from China and duties of up to...
Greener Printing for Authentic Marketing Communications
Marketing is at the heart of every small business. It is almost universally cited as the number one challenge for...
Please print this blog post to ensure the paper industry grows more trees
The frequently used email tag line “Think Before You Print “created as an environmental friendly reminder is now the...
Marketers brace for paper cost increase
Direct marketers and catalogers are preparing to face paper cost increases this fall, while also planning for a...
Industry responding to Unisource Print Council challenge
Within the first month of Unisource’s $100,000 Challenge Grant to The Print Council (see...
1/1: Interview with Jill DiNicolantonio, eBusiness Development & Internet Marketing Manager at Millcraft Paper
Hi Jill and thank you for taking the time to answer a few questions. Im especially honored to interview you since you...
How does effective print impact consumer purchases?
How does effective print impact consumer purchases? To answer this question, Appleton Coated commissioned a...
Letter to President on Chinese Subsidies
Appleton Coated LLC, NewPage Corporation and Sappi Fine Paper North America applauded the efforts of more than 100...
1/1: Interview with D. Eadward Tree, Chief Arborist at Dead Tree Edition
Mr. Tree… Thank you for talking the time to answer a few questions. Im excited to see if I will be able to remove a...
Millcraft Paper Company: Designers – Meet Your Type
This one's for all our design friends out there. While, we love paper here at Millcraft, we so appreciate all the...
4 Reasons to Expand Your Business to Brazil
Why should you do business in Brazil? I can give you 200 million reasons. That’s the number of consumers your small...
Printers claim paper supply shortages
Printers have reported a paper shortage across several sectors of the market, with many not able to get hold of some...
Neenah Paper Design Contest – Striking Every Time
It’s time to take a closer look at ESSE® and OXFORD® Premium Papers from Neenah Paper (NYSE: NP). The new “Striking...
A Glossary of Recycled Rhetoric
With all the various claims among paper manufacturers regarding the sustainability of their products, it’s hard to...
Neenah Paper is the Newest Member of The Print Council
Neenah Paper has announced that it is the newest member of The Print Council, a voluntary business development...
Print Grows Trees
In a world bombarded by electronic images and media, many forget the value of print to our society. It contributes in...
What Makes Paper Digital?
I’ve been asked about the outlook for digital papers. I’ve also read about the outlook for digital papers. One...
Direct Mail and e-Mail Working Together
A sustained marketing message is the key to any good campaign's success. Across the board, studies show that response...
Free PaperSpecs Webinar July 22, 2010 2:00 p.m. Eastern (11:00 a.m. Pacific)– “Packaging: Tying It All Together”
In this free Webinar, PaperSpecs and Neenah Paper will show designers why packaging is an essential design tool in...
The Paper Life Cycle Project
The Paper Life Cycle project is a multi-stakeholder initiative that provides key environmental information about the...
Océ Phantom Code pushes publishing to new horizons
This invisible ink technology provides added value to printed publications where information required to track and trace items with orders is greatly enhanced and where information cannot normally be viewed on a book cover
Understanding the New FSC Labels
The June PaperSpecs Webinar “Understanding the New FSC Labels” could have been called “Everything You Wanted to Know...
Finch Inkjet Pi
Specifically designed to meet the demanding needs of high-speed pigment-based inkjet applications. Finch Inkjet Pi is...
Tips for Testing: What Paper is Right for Your Catalog?
When the going gets tough, catalogers often look at changing their paper to cut costs. According to the recent MCM...
Paper vs. Computer Screen? Paper bags it!
Paper vs. computer screen - The Boston Globe. Do we read differently on the computer screen from how we read on the...
Which Certification Scheme Will Win in the Boreal Agreement?
The ink is hardly dry on the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement CBFA, and already proponents of the various...
College of Print and Paper
Green Forest University “College of Print & Paper” is offering its first workshop in partnership with Pacific...
Super-cool: Think Finishing at the Beginning
This weeks’ super-cool fold can add a lot of interest to a simple mailer. Take a look!...
Genetically Modified Paper On It's Way
ArborGen received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to plant a quarter million genetically modified...
Dead Tree Edition: Federal Subsidy For Green Printing To Be Proposed
Federal Subsidy For Green Printing To Be Proposed Dead Tree Edition: Federal Subsidy For Green Printing To Be...
Have Fun with Printable Films
If you’re not sure how to select a film substrate, GPA’s Printable Films Idea Kit can empower you with the technical...
Masterpiece Graphix Releases New Line of RIT-Certified Papers for HP Indigo and Kodak Nexpress
Masterpiece Graphix has released a new line of value-priced, RIT-Certified digital gloss papers for the HP Indigo and...
The Millcraft Group Launches "Do You Know The Facts?"
Do You Know The Facts? is an ongoing educational campaign to raise awareness about the environmental and business...
Insolvency rate shows signs of improvement for start of 2010
The health of the print industry has shown little improvement but has not significantly worsened during the start of...
FREE WEBINAR: Understanding the New FSC Labels
When: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (11:00 a.m. – Noon Pacific) Where: Anywhere – all you...
Free Webinar on New FSC Label Format from PaperSpecs and Tembec
June 15, 2010 2:00 p.m. Eastern (11:00 a.m. Pacific) Tembec Paperboard Group and PaperSpecs present “Understanding the...
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