From the monthly archives: June 2011
The Gold Ink Awards is the print industry’s most prestigious print competition. Basically, its the Oscars for print companies. Print companies, large and small, can apply in multitudes of categories. Applications for 2011 considerations ended on June 10th. Good luck to all that applied! Gold, Silver and Bronze award winners in each category receive a [...]
This year, Lytro will debut the first light field camera for everyone. The team at Lytro is completing the job of a century’s worth of theory and exploration about light fields. Lytro’s engineers and scientists have taken light fields out of the lab – miniaturizing a roomful of cameras tethered to a supercomputer and making [...]
GGTracker is a Trojan (a malicious program concealed within otherwise harmless software). Its creators lure unsuspecting Android users via ads that appear in other Android apps. So far, those ads have been touting free apps for optimizing your phone battery or adult content. But that could easily change, so consider any in-app ad for a [...]
Apple Inc. (AAPL), maker of the iPad tablet computer and the iPhone, was sued by New York publisher John T. Colby in federal court today for trademark infringement over its use of the term “iBooks.” Colby bought in 2006 and 2007 the assets of various entities owned by New York publisher Byron Preiss, who had [...]
When an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis hit Japan earlier this year, the result was a devastating blow to the country, its residents, and one of the world’s largest economies. “Supplies are lower than usual, and prices keep creeping up,” said Alan Ward of Ward’s Systems, a Morrisville-based equipment supplier. “Our suppliers are telling us [...]
Cafepress, which allows users to design, buy and sell merchandise such as t-shirts, hats, bags, mugs, bumper stickers and more. The company just filed itsS-1 today, and aims to raise as much as $80 million in an IPO. Launched in 1999, Cafepress essentially crowdsources designs from its community and allows users to sell these designs [...]
Sure, this is a little late, but I had to wait until I actually saw the movie. In the end, if you’re an X-Men fan like me, then you’re going to like this movie. Its reminiscent of the original X-Men and X2 rather than Brett Ratner’s dumb-downed X-Men: Last Stand, which isn’t surprising since Bryan [...]
Apple previewed iOS 5, the latest version of its mobile operating system, and released a beta version to iOS Developer Program members. The iOS 5 beta release includes over 200 new features that will be available to iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users this fall. New iOS 5 features include: Notification Center, an innovative way [...]
HTC had an incredible month in May 2011 with sales reaching 1.42 billion which is more than double May 2010 sales for the company. We just learned that HTC recently released a new tablet, the Android-based Flyer. Here are some things HTC boasts about the Flyer. Sync your ink Capturing ideas is great. Being able [...]
HP and DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. united once again to create the action-packed 3-D film “Kung Fu Panda 2,” which hits theaters today. For ultimate performance, production artists at DreamWorks Animation relied on powerful HP Z800 Workstations to achieve industry firsts while designing everything from whirling water and lush green lands to battle scenes filled [...]
Like any other high-performance, high-quality product, a little conditioning goes a long way with digital paper. It can make the difference between “okay” and outstanding when it comes to results! Find out what steps you can take to get the most out of digital papers including Xerox paper. For optimum conditioning, follow these storage guidelines: [...]
Building on its strategy of delivering high-quality printing and paper products nationwide, Envelopes.com announced its recent move to its first company-owned facility located at 5300 New Horizons Blvd. in Amityville, NY. The online company’s growth over the past few years has been evident in more ways than one. Its number of employees, number of products [...]
As printers, we should stay on top of photo-sharing apps as the movement is changing how photographers (professional and less adept) are interacting with the world and how they share their images. Many new print companies are taking advantage of the photo-sharing movement by building apps for the printing side. Below are a few popular [...]
