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Archive for May, 2007

“Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us”

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

At its Imaging and Printing Conference in New York City this week, HP is detailing "Print 2.0": a broad business strategy based in part on the assumption that the Web will generate sharply increasing amounts of printed output. Some of the inspiration for Print 2.0 comes from an enormously popular ...

POC Green Girls

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Pictorial Offset "Green Girls" Use Youtube.Com To Promote Personal Environmental Responsibility Carlstadt, NJ, May 30, 2007 - Pictorial Offset Corporation, the largest privately-owned, single-facility commercial printer in the United States, recently had two of its employees post a public service ad on YouTube to promote environmental responsibility. The video is ...

Wake Up, Smell the Coffee, and Taste the Power of Personalized DM

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Would you go to the trouble of completing an online survey in return for a $10 coffee gift card? You say you're not a big coffee drinker? Well, what if the mailed invitation spelled out your first name in chocolate sprinkles on the froth of a cup of latte ...

President to Nominate Bob Tapella to be Public Printer

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

In an announcement from the White House today: The President intends to nominate Robert Charles Tapella, of Virginia, to be the Public Printer. Mr. Tapella currently serves as Chief of Staff of the United States Government Printing Office. Prior to this, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the United ...

VDP: The suppliers have screwed the entire system up!

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

This video went up on WhatTheyThink.com today: Thoughts? See more video in the WTT Video Center.

The Little “Secret” of Process Color at Press: Printing to Gray Balance

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Here's a printing lesson we found so helpful that we're posting it in full even though it's a bit longer than usual for a blog entry. Entitled Printing to Gray Balance,it was written and submitted to PrintCEOBlog.com by Dan Remaley, Senior Technical Consultant in Process Controls for PIA/GATF. He invites ...

Webinar: Profitably Implementing Value-Added Services

Monday, May 21st, 2007

On Wednesday, there will be a free webinar (thanks to Printable for their sponsorship): Profitably Implementing Value-Added Services The one hour event will will describe the various options and alternatives for leveraging hosted services, often called Application Service Providers (ASPs) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Barb Pellow will host and ...