From the monthly archives: July 2011
A few months ago, I offered some tips to move your print business online (these tips could work for many business types.), and I’ve posted 11 tips for a printer’s e-commerce website, but I wanted to talk more about key items we felt played a MAJOR role in our shopping cart’s success. Take away all [...]
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Wow, in the wake of Border’s demise and a world leaning towards digital booklets, the #1 book retailer is slamming company records. For fiscal 2011, total sales increased 20% to a record $7 billion. Sales growth was fueled by inclusion of a full year of sales from Barnes & Noble College Booksellers (“College”) as well [...]
You’re probably familiar with the saying “you are what you eat,” but you are what you tweet? That’s the idea behind the “Printing Dress,” a high-tech frock designed to explore the impact of wearable text on fashion and social identity. Built almost entirely of paper (irony alert!) by Asta Roseway, a senior designer at Microsoft [...]
I recently read an article that not only slammed Netflix on their recent price increases, but gave five things to consider when raising prices. Its easy to look back and raise prices when cash flow turns sour and profitability spirals downward. This print market is tough; People want low prices, fast turn and free shipping. [...]
A click charge is an agreed-upon charge per “click” or piece of paper that runs through your machine and are a common charge incurred during the lease of digital printing equipment such as copiers, printers or digital presses. My experience with click charges is based on three digital machines with Xerox including the Docucolor 240, [...]
For the last couple weeks, our print company, PrintKEG, opened up two new positions – a graphic designer and finisher. We turned to our local newspaper and CareerBuilder (which was less helpful). We got tons of applications (and still are) and used some obvious tactics to help us sift through potential new hires. We demand [...]
Bryan Singer’s original opening for the film has hit the web — it’s a deleted scene extra on the Superman Anthology Blu-ray edition. This scene is just plain weird. It chronicles Superman’s trip back to the remains of his home planet of Krypton, and, well, check it out for yourself: 2006′s Superman Returns may be [...]
Revelation Print & Design recently put out a press release, and I have responded to bits and pieces. Owning a low priced print company myself, I tend to closely monitor print companies that boast such discounts. Revelation Print & Design claims they are aiming to change the industry practice by simply charging up to 75 [...]
Flipboard and Condé Nast bring brand advertising to the popular social magazine for iPad with Web content from The New Yorker, Wired and Bon Appétit, with additional titles coming to Flipboard throughout 2011. American Express will be first to launch its campaign starting today in The New Yorker with Lexus following suit in October in [...]
One of the largest gripes with developers, publishers and designers concerning the Apple’s App Store is the 30% cut Apple demands from all app and in-app purchases. Is it fair? Is it inhibiting innovation? Is it evil? First, for all of you who are unfamiliar with the situation. Basically, every app you purchase, Apple gets [...]
I’m very fond of the Kindle app and use it across many devices (iphone, ipod, ipad and droid), so any news on it is important. Apparently, Apple infringes a 30% fee for any purchases made through an in-app web store. Most companies have simply removed sign-up forms and e-commerce from the Apple apps (which seems [...]
Photoshop & You experience at 550 Sutter Street in San Francisco. Open to the public through August 6, Photoshop & You is a place for visitors to explore the innovative world of digital imaging with leading photographers, renowned teachers, industry influencers and the Adobe® Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® and Adobe Photoshop Elements teams. “The Photoshop [...]
The Droid 3 doesn’t have much to do with printing, but many of us printers love techy stuff right? I personally have the Droid, which I depise; its clunky, thick and awkward, but my son has the Droid 2 and he loves it. I still don’t feel like I would want the Droid 2 or [...]
GRAPH EXPO 2011 will take place in McCormick Place South, in Chicago on September 11 – 14. GRAPH EXPO is where top executives come to learn, network and make informed intelligent purchasing decisions. From design to delivery you’ll see the full spectrum of equipment, products and services for: Commercial Printers In-Plant Printers Transactional Printers Digital [...]
The Iphone 5 rumors are stacking up! I’m excited about the September launch. To calm my anxiety, I thought it be nice to lay out the rumors. A better camera – moving from the iphone’s 5 Megapixel to 8Mpx? No home button? The home button could disappear, but its the only button on the front [...]
This week Captain America opens, and my son went to see a midnight showing. I was too tired to ask him how the movie was, but he was persistent in revealing that The Avengers teaser trailer is available at the end of the credits. I was able to find a decent video here, Avengers Teaser [...]
In the midst of the famous Comic-Con this week, there’s just tons of comic book movies to report on. (image is Henry Cavill, the new Superman) 2010 is expected to become the year for super hero movies including The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man (spidey updates) and The Avengers will battle for 2012′s supremacy. [...]
A while back we discussed how explosive 2011 and 2012 comic book movies would be. Two days after Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows Part 2 gave us a glimpse of the next Batman movies by Christopher Nolan, Columbia pictures releases a trailer for Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man. I was surprised the writers were contempt on [...]
