Like Mother Always Told Me, “Be Careful What You Wish For.”

Monday, April 5th, 2010

Last Friday's article by Frank Romano at WhatTheyThink discussed the impending release of an ISO standard for variable data exchange - PDF/VT.  Frank sees this as a boon for variable data printing.  He writes, "The use of variable data (or document) printing has been retarded over the last decade ...

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SGP, FSC, SFI – Do We Need Another Certification Program?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

“Green” certification is turning into alphabet soup and we’re all getting lost in the acronyms! Confusion is swirling around not only the SGP guidelines, but also FSC and SFI certification. What does this all mean? Should my company consider one or all of these certifications? Let’s do a quick comparison of ...

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PDF to Become ISO Standard

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

The Portable Document Format version 1.7 is set to become ISO Standard 32000 after the approval of the 32000 Draft International Standard. James C. King, a Principal Scientist at Adobe, has the details on his Inside PDF blog. Earlier this year, Adobe announced that AIIM - The Enterprise Content Management ...

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