Friday, September 19th, 2008
Remember virtual reality? No, I don’t either, as it has not quite lived up to the hype that surrounded it almost 15 years ago. But the idea has evolved. My print issue of Scientific American arrived yesterday, and as I was eating my bagel this morning, I read an article ...Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Monique Tremaine of Kodak has posted the results of an image quality analysis by spencerLAB, an independent digital imaging testing firm. At Tremaine's Grow Your Business blog, she writes: Earlier this year, Kodak contracted with spencerLAB, an outside image quality laboratory, to perform an independent comparison of the print quality ...Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Monday's financial markets perpetuate uncertainty in the markets when there should be none. This is what we know for certain: banks get into trouble when they loan money to people who can't pay it back; the U.S. Federal Reserve likes throwing gas on fires. This is quite different than some of ...Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Rhode Island College student newspaper The Anchor reports that the College plans to drop the Graphic Communications concentration offered by the Communications department: On Tuesday, Sept. 2, notices were issued in class to Rhode Island College Students declared in the Graphic Communication concentration of the Communication degree. The notice informed those ...Monday, September 15th, 2008
FOLIO has the story on the elimination of a combined 3,300 positions at UPM and Stora Enso. UPM plans to cut 1,600 jobs between 2009 and 2010 as part of a reorganization. Stora Enso announced plans for a reorganization which it said would eliminate 1,700 positions.Friday, September 12th, 2008
The Flemish Innovation Centre for Graphical Communication (VIGC) has released a study on the accuracy of spectrophotometers used within the printing industry. “Color quality is the biggest challenge in the printing industry.”, says Eddy Hagen, managing director and trend watcher of VIGC. “Graphic arts companies will try everything to get the ...Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
George Alexander writing at Beyond Print asks, Does HP Indigo use “toner” or “ink”? This is a great question that many printers within industry ask or are confused about when evaluating digital printing systems. As Alexander points out in the article: The effort to avoid admitting that Indigo machines use “toner” seems ...
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