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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
The Postal Service, facing what they called "unprecedented volume declines" and a projected $238 billion shortfall over the next decade announced an aggressive plan of cost cutting yesterday.
Among the items in the cost cutting plan was a bullet point to "adjust delivery days to better reflect volumes and ...
Posted in Mailing, Marketing | 3 Comments »
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher for the past 8 years posted a tweet tonight saying that E&P had indeed found a buyer instead of the magazine going under. The twist was that he was not being retained as editor. He also posts at his blog that senior editor ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
We received a "Special Announcement" from PIA President & CEO Michael Makin that outlines further progress in cooperation with NAPL. The message was sent to PIA membership this morning and discusses a recent meeting by top leaders in both organizations. The full statement is in the extended post.
Posted in Printing Industry News | 5 Comments »
Friday, November 6th, 2009
We've been getting many calls and emails about a post over at Prepress Pilgrim. Rumors were swirling that Kodak was shutting down Prinergy development and laying everyone off at the Willingdon Avenue plant in Burnaby British Columbia, Canada.
We received the following statement from Kodak yesterday:
To set the ...
Posted in Premeida and Workflow | 13 Comments »
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
I have to admit that I merely scanned a recent announcement by XMPie about a Twitter promotion they are running to highlight their presence at MediaPro 09. It wasn't until I received an email from a reader this morning that I took a closer look.
Details on how the campaign ...
Posted in Social Media, Web 2.0 | 22 Comments »
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
I recently attended TEDxColumbus. TEDx are regional events that are local in nature and self-organized versions of the original TED conferences. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. The basic idea is to share ideas from different disciplines in order to both honor and inspire knowledge and ...
Posted in Newspapers | 20 Comments »
Monday, September 14th, 2009
The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that UPS is entering the web-to-print market.
UPS is rolling out marketing Monday to highlight a push into Web-based printing, in which clients can send documents such as business presentations to UPS retail stores via the Internet to have printed copies made. FedEx already ...
Posted in Printing Industry News | 7 Comments »