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Archive for March, 2009

Kodak’s ‘Print and Prosper’ Campaign

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Kodak has kicked off a new campaign to market its line of all-in-one inkjet printers. The global Print and Prosper campaign exposes the issue of high-priced ink and urge consumers to switch to Kodak. Kodak estimates consumers overspent $5 billion on ink jet printing in 2008 based on U.S. annual desktop ...

Let Us Know What You Think at On Demand

Friday, March 27th, 2009

WhatTheyThink will be at the On Demand Conference & Expo next week, and we want to hear from you. We will be writing and shooting video interviews out of our show floor studio located at MR2653. Stop by and let us know what you think: what brought you to On ...

Newspaper Readership Stable in Canada

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Newspaper readership - and the financial health of the newspaper publisher - has been in the headlines for the last several weeks. Papers across the US have folded, merged, or moved online. Things seem to be a little more under control "up north." NADbank (Newspaper Audience Databank), the research arm of ...

From Print to Pixels – Redux

Friday, March 20th, 2009

In my piece, From Print to Pixels – The Seattle P-I, I make a comparison between the Capital Times, Madison WI, and the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle WA. Both were major print newspapers and both have moved to online delivery. The year since the Cap Times has gone to "mostly" online ...

Print Franchises Leadership Address HP MarketSplash

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Last month I wrote about the launch of HP MarketSplash, a Web-based service HP has started to provide “the industry’s lowest prices and fastest delivery times for brand marketing services such as professional-quality design and print fulfillment.” In that post I asked, “Will this make HP Graphic Arts customers question HP’s ...

Printers Get Sociable – Using Social Media Marketing

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

More and more businesses are experimenting with social media as a marketing channel; and there are quite a few printers dabbling in it. I took the opportunity to ask a number of printers how they have been using applications like Twitter and Facebook. Read what seven of them had to ...

From Print to Pixels – The Seattle P-I

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Today’s closure of the Seattle Post Intelligencer - fondly called the P-I here in Seattle – sends the second major print newspaper online in a year. The Capital Times, Madison Wisconsin, made the move in April 2008, and now the P-I, a much larger circulation paper, has moved from print ...