Pitney Bowes Launches Innovative Product at National Postal Forum

…The Connect+ Series is quite the breakthrough product.  It is modular and completely field upgradeable, from black & red to full color, as well as speeds and other capabilities.  It was developed in close collaboration with HP, who provided the industrial-grade inkjet technology.  You can see it in action here. Basically, you can program this […]

Print is not Dead, but Most of the Magazine Industry will be Digital in 2020

There is a new research report released by the analysts at mediaIDEAS, (disclosure: I am a full working partner,) that answers the ever-asked question, is print dead? The answer of course is, no, we are neither dead nor dying, but the analysis also suggests a near moment in time when digital revenues will surpass print […]

False dilemmas and forced choices making you a hypocrite?

The false dilemma is: “By using paper to print your email or by receiving paper bills you are knowingly degrading the environment, destroying forests and/or killing trees.” The forced choice is: “Eliminate your use of paper or feel like a guilty hypocrite.” In his newest report, Print vs. Digital Media: False Dilemmas and Forced Choices(download the PDF here), Don […]

Report shows U.S. book production flat in 2009

Bowker (New Providence, NJ), the global leader in bibliographic information, today released statistics on U.S. book publishing for 2009, compiled from its Books In Print database. Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that traditional U.S. title output in 2009 was virtually unchanged. Output of new titles and editions dropped less than […]

FedEx Office, Canon U.S.A. and HP Collaborate to Redefine Retail Printing

FedEx Office has partnered with Canon and HP to the sole-source providers and will deploy more than 12,000 new Canon and HP printing devices across more than 1,800 locations in the U.S. and Canada. The transition will to the new equipment will occur over the next 12 months. Read full article at: http://thedigitalnirvana.com/2010/04/fedex-office-canon-hp-deal

Augmented reality a boon for print

A diverse range of marketers, including Calvin Klein and Valpak, have recently used augmented reality ads to add interactive digital elements to their campaigns. Calvin Klein Underwear began running augmented reality ads in editions of GQ on March 23 to promote its Calvin Klein X line. The campaign allows consumers, when they hold the ads […]

Interactive print bridges traditional-digital divide

Trade show direct mail invitations too often can be ho-hum affairs, but not the one sent to physician attendees at last month’s American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ annual meeting in New Orleans. Attendees were invited to bring the innocuous-looking direct mail piece, titled “Mobile Bearings,” to the Stryker Diagnostics booth for a demonstration of the […]

AugMented TransPromo is the New Reality!

Once in a great while, the general public is endowed with technology so disruptive that it changes the very nature of how we operate. Gutenberg’s invention of movable type helped spread literacy beyond people of nobility and wealth. Six Apart’s invention of the Movable Type blogging system helped spread Web publishing to those without advanced […]

Opinion: Print Is Dying … Really?

Opinion: Print Is Dying … Really?. At a time when magazines are everyone’s whipping boy, Graydon Carter offers evidence to the contrary It’s become fashionable to proclaim that print is dying, as if a medium that has been around for more than five centuries might, like a guest who has overstayed his welcome, suddenly glance […]

Make your own newspaper

So you want to be a newspaper baron? (Haven’t you heard that print is dead?) If you insist – well, you could do work experience (for nothing) and hopefully get a part-time job at the paper. Then, after a few years, work your way to a staff position, if you’re lucky. And spend decades navigating […]

iPad stirs up change

By BoSacks I have spent hours looking for the perfect article that matches or at least parallels my first impression of the iPad. Many are laughing at the name; I say get over it. It really does not matter that people can and have made fun of it. I promise you that the humor of the name […]

The Future Of Magazines?

The Future Of Magazines? | Steffan Antonas. I came across this video demo of a digital magazine prototype on Popular Science and was ultra impressed. Hat tip to the developers in Bonnier’s R&D group and BERG Design for their work on this. This year we’ve seen escalating hype around ebook readers like Amazon’s  Kindle, as well as […]