Xeikon’s recently introduced 3500 digital colour label press has been a live topic on GenesisNews all of this week, and has attracted a lot of attention. The new wider format label press gained quite a lot of interest on its IPEX debut, but if you have yet to see it take a look at the video here.We made mention last week of PrintWeek’s Power 100 chart. Full details were announced to an assembled crowd at Stationers Hall in London on Wednesday night, are now available on the printweek.com web site, and will be published today, June 30, in print in the latest edition of PrintWeek magazine.
Also in the world of print, we note that Wootton Bassett based print business H&W Print has switched to Fujifilm's Pro-V violet plates following its acquisition of a Screen PlateRite 2055Vi-S platesetter, purchased through UK reseller Apex Digital Graphics. These low chemistry plates are really taking off with printers who are keen to promote their green credentials.
This week’s creativity points go to Arjowiggins Creative Papers for its introduction of a free iPhone game app to promote its Curious Collection of papers. Aimed at designers, the game takes the player on a girl’s journey through different, colourful worlds into imagery by French fashion photographer Grégoire Alexandre, peeling back the scenery to access the application’s central menu. Brought to our attention by the good folk of Digital Printer magazine, this app has to be one of the best bits of iPhone based promotion in the print industry – unless you know different; mail us at PIND.editor@gmail.com with the details!UK software developer Wave2 has been making waves this week with details of Version 5 of its Wave2 Publishing Platform making the news on printweek.com. Wave2 is best known for its ability to provide web based self-service ad solutions, which can provide copy for a newspaper and/or web site. More information here.
Newly announced to increase the e-reader market, and at a price that has to appeal: for what is rumoured to be just £109 you can get a wi-fi only Kindle, rising to £149 if you want 3G capability built in. That is going to further expand the market for this device, which fans claim to offer a significantly better screen appearance than trying to read books on a phone.
Did you Safari browser update yesterday? That will be version 5.0.1 then, which finally opens the door to the Safari extensions gallery; you will remember about that for sure – we told you back in edition 9 dated June 11. For all its market leadership in phone apps, Apple is now chasing from rear in terms of browser extensions, with the likes of Firefox and Chrome streets ahead. Be interesting to see how Apple gets on with this. Will the approach bring Safari back into the frame in the browser wars?Google is helping you to get your favourite fancy font on the web! Google Font Directory has been back in the news this week, and those nice chaps over at Mashable have given you implement the system on your web site.
QR codes: never been a great fan. Sometimes they don’t seem to work, often they look big and ugly, and all too frequently one wonders how to best use the technology, even though you can see that it has some potential. Well here is one fine example from the good ol’ US of A, where the concern over the oil that those awful British Petroleum people went and spilt has forced people power into action. It’s a pretty creative use of QR codes for sure.PIND016
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