Following a week full of rumour and conjecture about CPC Packaging, a move into administration was finally announced on Thursday. The packaging supplier with facilities in Bristol and Kings Lynn employed some 162 personnel and the two facilities had a joint turnover in excess of £23 million. Industry talk suggests a management buyout might still be on the cards, reality might be less positive! Competitors are already helping customers to jump ship, as might be expected in this highly competitive sector.
Whilst I have no idea of the full reality, this US company offering what would appear to be cardboard self-assembly smart-phone stands came to my attention earlier this week, and it just suggested to me a printer with a good designer coming up with a great use for cardboard. The stand is offered as a “flat pack” and is available in a number of eye-catching designs. This is just the sort of thing that smart printing is all about!Talking about cutting edge: it was good to recently an announcement from TimeHarvest regarding a release of its digital MIS software for both the iPad and iPhone. The app is now in use at Purely Digital in Derby.
Details of the Single Source company’s new pre-press installation courtesy of Marlowe Graphic Services makes the headlines at PrintWeek.com today. The used Stingray imagesetter has been combined with the flexo-friendly StudioRIP product to provide an affordable film creation system for flexo platemaking.UK Bad Weather Antidote: I am sure that we have featured the great artwork of The Oatmeal here before – probably in quite an early PIND edition. This one is my favourite so far, and will have a strong appeal both for those involved in some way with a customer service department, and as one of the many millions that suffer at the hands of same every single day! Take a look if you haven’t seen it before: I defy you not to laugh! I bring you this entertainment with some apologies for the rather punchy title!
We have all been there: you hit the send button and, on a good day, you have forgotten to mention one more vital piece of info; on a bad day, you have included the one person you were moaning about in the CC list! Well Google Labs have created an undo send facility for Gmail that you might want to include in your set-up!
On the subject of Google, big news this week from the Google Voice camp, with the announcement that it is now possible to make phone calls via Gmail. It’s already proven popular with some 1 million calls being made in the first 24 hours. Have you tried it yet? Any good? Tell PIND.editor@gmail.com your views and experiences.More fonts on the web: a partnership between Typekit and Adobe should help to provide a more font-tastic web with the availability of a wide range of popular high-quality typefaces now available to web designers.
To-do-list lovers with an iPhone can, as of this week, get hold of the popular to-do list application Remember The Milk for free. The iPhone app had previously only been available to premium account users (££$$). This latest version of the app is available free but will only sync once per 24-hours. Well, that’s enough for me!PIND019
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