Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Workshop
Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Workshop – FREE Monday, May 10, 2010 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PST Adobe Headquarters 801 N 34th Street Seattle, WA 98103 With the right tools, your creative horizon changes. A tree is still timber, but suddenly in a whole new way. Old ideas germinate again, and new ideas branch into unexpected opportunities. […]
BPIF targets SME printers with environmental certification scheme
London-based printers can take advantage of a new BPIF scheme that offers a fully-funded route to environmental certification. EcoPrint London is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, which is managed by the London Development Agency, and is led by a Steering Group of London printers and stakeholders. The scheme has been set up to […]
Poster innovation outweighs new media in UK electioneering
Anyone who lives in or has visited the UK over the last fortnight or so (ash cloud permitting) couldn’t fail to notice that there’s a general election going on – the dead giveaway being saturated media coverage of the political tub-thumping. But despite initial projections that this would be the UK’s first social media election, […]
GMG ColorProof wins EDP award for Best RIP Solution for Wide Format
GMG, developer and supplier of high-end color management and proofing solutions, has won the award for Best RIP Solution for Wide Format of the Year 2010 from the European Digital Press Association (EDP). The award is presented to GMG ColorProof 5.1 for incorporating several new technical features and performance improvements, providing highest-ever achieved production reliability […]
Printing Companies are Boosting Productivity by Implementing MIS to Production Workflow Integrations
AT THE dawn of this still relatively new millennium, the printing industry was all abuzz about the concepts of computer-integrated manufacturing, the Digital Smart Factory and lights-out manufacturing. Workflow integration via the job definition format (JDF) became its quest for the Holy Grail. At the center of this automated processing was to be a management […]
New Vodka Has a Programmable LED Label
Earlier this month Medea Vodka released a new concept in product labels – a programmable LED label. Even though this venerable Dutch distiller has been around since the 18th century they are very much breaking new ground here in the 21st century. The LED label has six pre-programmed messages but you can also program your […]
IMPIKA to unveil the iEngine 1000 at IPEX
Visitors to IPEX 2010 will have an opportunity to preview the technological, graphical and economic advantages of the latest addition to the IMPIKA line of digital print engines: the iEngine 1000. The unique and innovative iEngine 1000 design is the direct result of IMPIKA’s longstanding mastery of inkjet technology. The simple, flexible and compact iEngine […]
UK Newspaper Printer Adopts Kodak Inkjet Inline Imprinter
CN Newsprint, Carlisle, England, is the first to use the new Kodak Prosper S10 imprinting system in a newspaper production environment. The company is exploring commercial opportunities for the inkjet technology, which delivers variable data, 600-dpi high-speed offset in line with an offset press. The company is testing specialty applications for Kodak’s Stream inkjet technology, […]
Print Oasis 2010
Making a Difference: New Opportunities for Purchasing Print Media 9th Annual Print Oasis Print Buyers Conference & Exhibit July 19 & 20, 2010 * National Press Club * Washington, DC PRINT OASIS IS THE PREMIER EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE FOCUSED ON THE NEEDS AND CHALLENGES OF PRINT COMMUNICATIONS MANAGERS, PRINT BUYERS, SPECIFIERS, AND PRODUCTION PROFESSIONAL Join Us […]
Reminder: ‘Basic Techniques Still Work’
or printers who are struggling to reinvent themselves amid a still-challenging economy, Budco’s Jeff Sierra offered a reminder last week that basic techniques can still be effective. The context: a question from the audience at our panel presentation at the On Demand Conference and Exposition in Philadelphia about a successful direct mail campaign Budco ran […]
Print & Paper comprises only 1.1% of the Worlds Greenhouse Gas Emissions
With so much publicity concerning the environmental impact of print and paper it is surprising how small a part the industry plays in worldwide emissions. Whilst responsible production and consumption should be the way forward for all those in the Graphic Communications Value Chain, we should be aware that our industry is low down on […]
Overview of the economy and its impact on the general and package printing business outlook
Printing Industries of America’s Ronnie H. Davis, Ph.D., vice president and chief economist, and Edward Gleeson, manager of economic and market research, provide an overview of the economy as it relates to general and package printing. Where will the U.S. economy, print, and packaging trend over the course of 2010 and 2011? The answer to […]
