Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
This is a paper slicer, circa 1845, and it’s but one of the relics to be found at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco, CA. The collection of bookbinding equipment and artifacts, profiled in a story in the San Francisco Chronicle, recalls a time when that city had the ...Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
In partnership with Amazon.com, Princeton has been conducting a pilot program to put Kindle's in the classroom as part of a sustainability initiative to conserve paper. Yesterday the Daily Princetonian reported, Kindles yet to woo University users: But though they acknowledged some benefits of the new technology, many students and faculty ...Monday, September 28th, 2009
In a SEC 8-K filing on Friday, RR Donnelley stated it has agreed to end its contractual relationship with a significant customer: On September 24, 2009, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company (the "Company") entered into a termination agreement (the "Termination Agreement") with a significant customer pursuant to which the parties ...Monday, September 28th, 2009
Today, Xerox announced its intended acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) for $6.4 billion in a combined cash and stock deal. Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, described this acquisition as “game changing.” She positioned it as different from some of the earlier services acquisitions by IBM, Perot Systems by Dell ...Friday, September 25th, 2009
One of the nicer moments at Print 09 occurred when Heidelberg saluted John Litwinowicz (center), the high school winner of the Gold medal for graphic communcations in the 2009 SkillsUSA Championships. He’s seen here with, from left, Bernhard Schreier, board chairman and CEO, Heidelberg Druckmaschinen AG; Mike Stinnett, his printing ...Friday, September 25th, 2009
As Print 09 was wrapping up, Michael Makin, President & CEO at Printing Industries of America sent out a memo to members about a consolidation proposal it had made to NAPL: Recently, with the full blessing of the national board of directors of Printing Industries of America, Chairman Ken Kaufman formally ...Thursday, September 24th, 2009
There was an interesting panel of media executives this week titled “Are Legacy Media Going the Way of the 8-Track” These panels serve many purposes and are a necessary but sometimes tedious step in our transformation from what we were to what we will become. It is very hard when you are in the trenches ...
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