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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
I admit it: I am becoming iPhone app-happy. I hadn’t intended to, but gradually—no, check that; actually pretty rapidly—I have become obsessed with mobile phone applications. iPhone apps were something that had been at the very periphery of my radar, but as I was researching my new WhatTheyThink primer report, ...
Posted in Marketing, Media, Media Preferences, New Media, Technology, Web-enabled Print | 4 Comments »
Friday, May 1st, 2009
After more than a decade and surely more than $100 million, Kinko’s (by whatever name they are known today) may have found the solution to their “online print” problem.
Outsource it to VistaPrint!
VistaPrint announced that the company has a “multi-year strategic alliance” with FedEx Office – formerly FedEx Kinko’s formerly Kinko’s. ...
Posted in Print, Printing Industry News, Web-enabled Print | 33 Comments »
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
While nearly every digital printer is looking to photo books for revenue, it's not an easy business to be in. RPI, located near Seattle's SeaTac airport, has perfected the process and will make more than $28 million this year selling 1.3 million photo books and more than 1 million units ...
Posted in Books, Digital Printing, Web-enabled Print | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Industry report after industry report tells us that printers of all sizes want to become photo book printers. Frank Romano and his students at RIT authored a report commissioned by Canon, The Insight Report: Digital Printing Directions (PDF Link), which indicated photo book printing is a key application for digital ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
A month ago I covered the launch of MagCloud, an HP Labs research project that is that is evaluating the use of a Web-enabled print production workflow to streamline the publishing of magazines so small independent magazine publishers and content owners can publish custom publications without all the print and ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
HP Labs has launched a new project called MagCloud that aims to make anyone with an internet connection and the tools to generate a PDF a magazine publisher. According to HP Labs, "MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
HP continued to evangelize their "Print 2.0" strategy at last weeks Web 2.0 Summit. Sarah Milstein blogged some of the notable factoids on the O'Reilly Radar blog:
Web pages comprise 48% of printouts on home printers; word processing documents run a distant second--the reverse of just a few years ...
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