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HP Plays for More of the Marbles

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The announcement that Hewlett-Packard has signed an agreement to acquire MacDermid ColorSpan shows, lest there be any doubt, that HP is continuing to play for all the marbles in digital printing. Nothing wrong with that, and no one can say HP doesn't focus on its primary markets. This move increases the ...

Do you need a Bachelor’s degree to run a digital press?

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Recent articles and blog postings bemoan the fact that kids aren't going to 4 year colleges to get degrees in some area of printing or not considering printing as a career. This is not really new. Printers have long told me their biggest challenge is finding good people who ...

When Direct Mail and PURLs Don’t Work

Monday, July 16th, 2007

It stood out in the shipment of direct mail that accumulated during last week's road trip, a glossy, over-sized postcard touting the power of personalized URLs. It was digitally printed, used first-name personalization in the copy on the address side, had a PURL, and a postal bar code. But there ...

What’s Wrong with Color Presses?

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

No, not the presses themselves. They all do their jobs well enough. I mean their skins. The Ferrari-red of Xeikon's big boxes and the blacks of IBM's and Kodak Versamark's machines makes them stand out on a shop floor. So does the deep green of Nipson's VaryPress 400. But the ...