An Amazing Example Of Customer Service: Making The Impossible, Possible

This story is really amazing. It starts with Jia Jiang, a man who set out to overcome his fear of rejection by making one crazy request a day for 100 days and  blogging about his quest. On day three, he walked into a Krispy Kreme in Austin, Texas and asked for what he was sure would […]

Dscoop, Social Media and Barcelona

It’s not everyday that print industry veteran and twitter personality X offers to represent you at an event and blog for you. I do admit, I was wondering if I would be liable for any potential international incidents, but it seems he kept on his best behavior and no Dscoopers were “harmed” during his visit. […]

Meet InfoTrends' Tim Greene, and METRICS

Ever wonder how your Print business measured up to others? Sure you have. Who doesnt want to know if they are “normal” – well as normal as Print people can be that is! Im really proud to be working with Tim Greene and InfoTrends to help introduce METRICS to all of you. It’s a FREE […]

All Roads Lead to The Printerverse

by Terri Spaulding Graph Expo is full of energy even before you step onto the showroom floor.  Oh the sights, sounds, buzzes, hums, groups of smiling people, piles of awesomely displayed swag, and endless twists and turns of carpeted booths! I have to admit I was a little overwhelmed, where does one start?  My first […]

World’s First 3D Printing Photo Booth to Open in Japan

This is brilliant! I wonder if this tech will be available for THE PRINTERVERSEtm at PRINT 13??? Since Marco (@miercs) sent me this link, I think he should also figure out how to get one to the US! If you agree, please tweet him “I want a mini-me Marco!” – and maybe he will succumb […]

A Unique E-Book Concept Merges Dead Tree Pulp With The Web

More printed electronics! And genius concept! Thanks to Jill at @MillcraftPaper for sharing this in my LinkedIn Group! WALDEK WĘGRZYN’S INNOVATIVE TAKE ON THE ELECTRONIC BOOK TURNS THE BOOK ITSELF INTO A NEW DIGITAL INTERFACE, WITHOUT ELIMINATING THE JOYS OF INK ON PAPER. The very name of the Kindle Paperwhite, the latest version of Amazon’s […]

Blippar Makes The Shortlist (Interactive)

This is a nice example of Augmented Reality from Blippar. What makes this interesting for me, is that in this magazine there are a bunch of ways to interact with print – play a video game, see additional photos, get more information, do a little shopping, make funny pictures to share with your friends, and […]

MasterCard Launches New Credit Card With LCD Screen, Keyboard

OK, this one gets a WOW. I have to admit I dont exactly get how it works, but Im loving that one of the FUTURE intended uses is to be able to check your balance right from the card… ok that freaked me out a little. I wonder if something like this falls under printed […]

Engagement Science: Making the Most of Your Social Media Strategy

Our friends over at Shawmut sent out a tweet that has thrown me for a complete loop… uconnectShawmut 10:45am via HootSuite From the Worldwide Social Media Study: Nearly 47 percent of B2B companies neither tracked nor followed up on social media leads. Im actually just staring at my computer screen because Im at a loss […]

[Infographic] Print vs Digital: Who Survives The Zombies

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If you join us for #PrintChat Wednesday’s at 4PM ET, or follow PMC with some regularity, you know we like to keep it informative and FUN whenever possible. Such is the case with our Halloween #printchat. It started out discussing disaster plans which was a topical and serious matter considering Sandy had just devastated the […]

New Paper Unveiled Made From Olives

  Leave it to the Italians to work olives and other food into paper!  The Favini site is really cool too, oh but it’s in Italian. So unless you can understand that, or have retained enough Spanish to recognize some of the words, just look at the pictures and imagine the smells of slow cooking […]

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