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 […]
GRAPH EXPO Attendance Rallies for Second Consecutive Year
For More Information Contact: Debbie Vieder Phone: 703/264-7200E-mail: dvieder@gasc.orgTwitter: #GraphExpo GRAPH EXPO ATTENDANCE RALLIES FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR, GENERATING SUCCESS FOR EXHIBITORS, EXPANDED ATTENDEE NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES Buyers Up 2 Percent, Buyer Companies Up 3 Percent Reston, VA-Reinforcing its position as the industry’s largest and […]
2012 Social Media Stats and Facts [Infographic]
Some of these stats are useless, and 2012 isnt over, but TAKE NOTE of the Pinterest referral info… especially since we work in a visual medium!
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 […]
LANDA RELEASES THE NANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PROCESS WHITE PAPER
LANDA RELEASES “THE NANOGRAPHIC PRINTING™ PROCESS” WHITE PAPER Informative paper focuses on the breakthrough Landa technology that has the potential to transform mainstream commercial printing, packaging and publishing markets Israel, Rehovot, 31 October 2012 – Landa today announces the publication of […]
Landa: Nano Promises Printing Revolution
So here it is… if you, like many, take the word of Mr. Landa to be the last word on all things print, we can finally put the debate to rest… PRINT, is not DEAD. Well, not all of print. We will have some casualties but this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. In any […]
Celebrate National Print Day With A Little Guerrilla Marketing
Seems like the industry has made some lemonade from the lemons tossed at us during the misguided and failed attempt of Toshiba to create a National NO-Print Day. October 23rd is now officially National Print Day… and forever after the 4th Tuesday in October. What is National Print Day? Well, the intent appears to be […]