Monday, December 29th, 2008
As my next Tribute's Tuesday column is not until mid January I am putting this subject on the blog as I feel there are points to be made now. The majority of suppliers today are having a hard time and few are meeting the market projections they made around the ...Friday, December 19th, 2008
As 2008 draws to a close and, to most publishers, the world’s future seems somewhat dark or at the very least uncertain, we are all looking for shafts of hope and light in the current financial storm. That hope and that brightness are still here if we look ...Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Back in the late 1990s, when I was with Micro Publishing News and Digital Imaging magazines, I got to experience the takeoff and growth of wide-format graphics firsthand. Our magazine(s) used to hold an annual digital art contest, sponsored by some of the leading vendors at the time, and got ...Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Dutch marketing and communications company Spranq has developed a typeface they claim can save up to 20 percent of ink costs by reducing the amount of ink used on a page. Here's what it looks like: the developers say: The Ecofont is developed by SPRANQ, based on a hunch of Colin Willems. We ...Friday, December 12th, 2008
Jim Cohen Executive Vice President Mergers & Acquisitions at Consolidated Graphics passed along a recent article he wrote on the benefits of selling your company to Consolidated Graphics. Mr. Cohen's article can be download here (PDF). In the article Mr. Cohen provides ten reasons why Consolidated Graphics is the buyer of ...Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
In the past two weeks have we have seen a good deal of announcements about staff reductions from companies big and small. The announcement from the NFL about a 10% staff reduction was interesting in that it specifically noted a reduction in printing: So far, NFL fans haven't noticed the cutbacks, ...Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Finding Real Magazines on Google Book Search Is this the shot heard around the world for the printed magazine business? Google has announced a new program that will deliver back issues of magazines to the internet public at large. Take it from me this is huge. It is not the ...
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