Recyling issues have been very much in focus this week, with keen debate and hot story on PrintWeek.com featuring de-inking problems with liquid toner waste. This has been billed as PrintWeek.com “most read” for the last couple of days, so you really should have a read!With an even greener focus, our friends at Marlowe Graphic Services have announced details of an environmentally friendly upgrade for existing HighWater Platinum users. The “Platinum Green” replaces the original laser in the device to allow the CtP unit to expose the current crop of low-chemistry plates from the likes of Fujifilm, Agfa and Kodak.
Also in the pre-media world, we understand that Mitsubishi – now under the UK guidance of M Partners – has added new B1 format Agfa CtP kit to its Leeds showroom, and European HQ. Seems a reasonable guess then that a B1 press will follow shortly: PrintWeek confirms this thought.Self-service advertising continues to grow for UK software house Wave2, with details released this week of further activity in the US, where the company has added another deals with Hearst Newspapers. This latest addition serves the real estate market for the Houston area.
In the world of digital print we see that MGI has found itself a new and hopefully more suitable distribution channel for the UK. The French manufacturer has many fans throughout the world for both its digital print and finishing products, and the UK does appear to have missed out a bit to date.In the tab world, are we allowed to crow the “we already told you that” line re the pricing of the Samsung Galaxy Tab? It seems that somebody has realised it’s overpriced anyway; news this week that both Amazon and Dixons have reduced the cost of this device to make it more competitive with iPad pricing. We still say it’s too small . . . anybody listening to that?
More positive tablet talk comes from those nice chaps at the Financial Times, where it appears that staff are being given financial support to get themselves kitted out with an iPad in order that they can easily stay in touch with the latest news and views. Now there is an employer with vision . . .On the subject of iPad, we are told that iOS4.2 will be with us November 24.
Meanwhile, US web site What They Think is telling us all about a publication that details the impact that the iPad will have on the printing industry. It certainly sounds an interesting read, but the only problem is that this market is just so dynamic. Such a publication is surely already out of date! At $195 it’s also a touch pricey to my mind (compared with the weekly PIND update, which is also guiding along a similar path for $000!!).
Interestingly, however, The Wall has posted an article detailing how a survey says that UK consumers will not pay £400 for an iPad, and that magazine apps are a low priority for them. Some 80% of respondents considered the unit poor value. In addition, up to 95% of surveys phrased their questions to achieve specific objectives!The good people of Engadget tell us that the HP 500 slate certainly is in demand, and that’s comfortably over £400 worth, even before tax. They did only originally decide to manufacture 5,000 units, it would seem, so it’s not likely just yet to impinge on Apple’s market share.
Google Voice is back in the app store says Lifehacker, so that’s probably worth investigating and having a fiddle with, whilst Engadget reviews the iPod Nano as a watch! Looks good on the face of it, but still needs that Bluetooth enhancement to make it appealing we think. Having a headphone string from your wrist is not going to look great is it.PIND031
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