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Archive for September, 2008

WorkflowOne Corporate Spotlight

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

American Executive has an article on rebirth of WorkflowOne after it restructured and reorganized leadership after a shareholder buyout in 2004 by current president and CEO Greg Mosher. Mosher attributes the company's success to its Dual Network Advantage, a service and manufacturing network: “It is extremely important because today’s customer is looking ...

Let WhatTheyThink know what’s in your Graph Expo “wish list”

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Here's the text of a thread we've started in The Lounge at PrintPlanet. We'd love to get your input there or in responses to this post. Graph Expo 2008 is coming. What if you could give the exhibitors a “wish list” of the new products and solutions that you would most ...

Gray Balance as a Pressroom Metric

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Gordon Pritchard, Kodak's Value In Print Initiative Marketing Manager has a blog post up on Grow Your Biz in which he outlines 11 items to consider when using gray balance as a press control: Achieving gray balance in presswork is the major mantra in today's print production world. It is the ...

Hacking [at] Esquire’s E-Ink Cover

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

I'm sure by know you have either seen or at least heard of Esquire's electronic paper-based cover. Even I picked up a copy, and I have never bought Esquire in my life. (And probably never will again.) I admit, though, if you leave the issue lying around, the blinking drives ...

Dedicated Followers of Fashion

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

We seek them here, we seek them there... Anyway, via the invaluable Design Tools Monthly newsletter, Pantone tells us what the top 10 fashion hues for 2009 are going to be, and what they’ll be wearing on the runways of Paris (the best I can do is wear these on the runways ...

Discussing the Recruitment Crisis

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

My recent post on The Recruitment Crisis sparked some good discussion on the topic. Dr Joe Webb points to the numbers and say there is no crisis, "There is no recruiting crisis, and why the myth persists is beyond me. Just look at the payroll data and the wages. If there ...

Next-Gen E-Readers Arrive

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Forbes.com has a round up of next generation of ebook readers including the soon to be released iRex Reader 1000 and a reader under development from start-up Plastic Logic. Both devices use E Ink technology. In the article E-ink CEO Russ Wilcox says these new devices mark a transition to larger ...