From the monthly archives: May 2011
Don’t know your CSS from your FTP? Don’t worry about it. Most Web designers don’t know the difference between offset and digital printing. Its tricky to hire a web designer on staff or on a contact basis. Conveniently, our print company’s owners are the developers, but we’re growing enough to realize that hiring someone else [...]
Magazine publisher Condé Nast has agreed to relocate its global headquarters to 1 World Trade Centre. Condé Nast announced May 17 that it had agreed to move its corporate headquarters to New York’s Freedom Tower, the skyscraper being built on the site of “Ground Zero,” where the World Trade Center’s twin towers were destroyed on [...]
The first actual product to come out of Lady Gaga and Poloroid arrangement is finally hitting retail shelves in June. Marrying the convenience of today’s digital images and the original Polaroid instant experience, the 15-ounce printer works from most mobile phones wirelessly via Bluetooth and from most digital cameras, Windows PCs and Macs via a [...]
Japanese office equipment and digital camera maker Ricoh said Thursday it plans to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide over three years to turn around sagging business operations. Ricoh was hit hard by the 2008-09 global financial crisis and the strong yen and has struggled to recover in the face of stiff competition. The cuts from a [...]
A couple years ago, I received a new Kindle for Christmas and hated it. It was (and still is) supported by a lagging interface that makes me want to rip out the little hair I have left. Sure, the Kindle has come a long way since then, but I’ve got more so many devices in [...]
Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books. By July 2010, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com. Today, [...]
Wow, according to AAP Publishers’ March 2011 Sales Report, print books show growth while e-books continue climbing, according to Both print and digital formats of books enjoyed revenue gains in March 2011 vs last year according to the monthly net sales report of the Association of American Publishers, the industry’s national trade association. In the [...]
COMPUTEX TAIPEI has become the largest computer exhibition in Asia and the second largest in the world, next to CeBIT in Germany. Each year, key global businesses come to this event to launch their new products. Since a large portion of the businesses in the world have research and deployment centers or production facilities in [...]
For Vistaprint, old media are something new. The company, which prints and sells customized business cards, brochures and calendars over the Internet, will spend $200 million on advertising this year to expand its online branding into television, radio and print. To make the transition from Internet advertiser to a traditional media buyer, Vistaprint is expected [...]
Alltrade Printers has invested in “the right press with the right quality” after becoming the first company to buy a Ricoh digital printer through Heidelberg UK. The Birmingham-based company has taken delivery of a Ricoh Pro C901 graphic arts edition press to complement its brace of five-colour Heidelberg Speedmasters. Dilu Mukadam, finance director at Alltrade [...]
Don’t worry if you’re in the dark when it comes to typefaces and fonts since this seems to be a common area of confusion with many print professionals. Although, you probably could’ve asked your graphic designer for clarification. So what is a typeface and what is a font? Are they interchangeable terms? The short answer [...]
Google on Wednesday began fixing a security flaw that affects some 97% of Android smartphones. The fix, which addresses a hole allowing hackers to access the contacts, calendars and photos on an Android phone connected to an open Wi-Fi network, will take a few days to cover every phone, a Google spokesman said. Unlike a [...]
HP announced financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2011. Net revenue of $31.6 billion was up 3.0 percent from the prior-year period as reported and up 1.0 percent when adjusted for the effects of currency. Second quarter gross margins and operating margins were up 1.0 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively, year [...]
Instant is back! The new Polaroid 300 Instant Camera has everything you loved about instant photography back in a fun and one-of-a-kind Polaroid way. With four lighting settings and an auto-flash, your photos will be perfect every time. Take the 300 Instant Camera with you to capture the fun instantly. Choose red or black. – [...]
A while back we revealed that a Wonder Woman TV show may be on the way, but Chairman Robert Greenblatt of NBC Entertainment announced that he didn’t greenlight Wonder Woman. Greenblatt was fairly diplomatic about the reboot provided by Warner Bros. TV and David E. Kelley. “I hate to disappoint anybody. I know there are [...]
Tigers. African and Asian elephants. Rhinos. Great apes. Marine turtles. The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a stamp today on Capitol Hill at the Annual Association of Zoos and Aquariums reception that could help save them all. When issued in September, net proceeds from the sales of the Save Vanishing Species semipostal stamp will be transferred [...]
Thousands of print companies aspiring to participate in the much hyped and arguably essential realm of social networking are using Twitter. Some print companies, like @stickermule and @zazzle, use the social networking platform well, while others…not-so-well. Whether Twitter helps the bottom line or not, we’ve drafted 12 ways your business could implement Twitter as a [...]
Rumors continue to flow concerning the upcoming iPhone 5, and now an analyst, Peter Misek, claims he has new information about Apple’s highly anticipated smartphone. While most are now in agreement that Apple will not unveil its new iPhone until September this year at the earliest, thereby breaking its annual summer release cycle for the [...]
