Plenty of post-Northprint, spring/early summer mini-shows going on in print-land in the UK over the coming weeks: it’s just that time of year! Our focus is on the forthcoming Morgana “evolution” event taking place at the company’s Milton Keynes showroom and HQ. The UK’s leading manufacturer for finishing equipment focused on the digital print sector will be showing off a comprehensive range of product, including four new devices, and featuring the new DocuFold Pro, which will be exhibited for the first time. The event will also showcase product from DI press specialist Presstek and digital MIS company, TimeHarvest. It takes place next week on June 8 and 9.
Following on from our focus on QR code extravaganza last week, the Morgana invite happens to include one on the front cover! It takes you to the relevant page of the company’s web site where you can register for the above “evolution” event. In a more general QR sense, we are offered from other sources 12 steps to create your own successful QR code campaign.We also made mention of the Starbucks/Gaga promotion last week (but got the link wrong - apologies; this one is good!): this week QR codes come to cans of Coca-Cola, with a music promotion in Germany. Perhaps they are beginning to catch on?!
Whilst we have mentioned this concept before, Blippar is a new name on the block as far as we are concerned. The company expects to move on from QR codes by making a specific object recognisable to your phone.
Talking of technology, the next time you think that things are moving a bit quick for you, refer back to this link: it details the creation of the originals for The Musalman newspaper, which are handwritten! It is the job of four urdu calligraphers to create this publication in India on a daily basis. As the link says, don’t go asking for an iPad app just yet.Referencing our recent thoughts on cloud storage, you might remember that we are keen on Dropbox. So are quite a few others by the look of things: Dropbox users now save 1 million files every five seconds! Mind you, there are some 25 million users now, which helps to explain the big numbers. Users have saved a total in excess of 100 billion files. If you need an enhanced user interface for Dropbox on your Mac, by the way, Dropin is just such a tool available from the Mac app store. Looks well worth checking out.
In tablet talk, HP is certainly not shy in making big claims for its forthcoming TouchPad. News from this week says that they are suggesting that it will be “better than number one. We call it number one plus.” Plus what we are not sure. One wag recently suggested that this might mean number one plus five, equating to the TouchPad actually sitting in 6th position in the tablet world (roughly where it sits right now!). With Computex imminent, the guys at Asus are telling us that they plan to break the rules with a new tablet. We will watch this introduction with interest, and report just as soon as we work out what they mean!If you fancy a bit of a refresher course on where we have been in recent decades, why not check out this great infographic on the History of the Internet. It’s a great story with a huge cast!
It must be time for a new miracle material. How about giving graphene a go and see if it fits the bill. Certainly sounds interesting enough: a mobile phone the size of a credit card? Worth investigating!Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 55. Details of our next edition will be added to this link during the course of the week. For an RSS feed of PIND, copy this link into your feed reeder; and for the GenesisNews Print Daily, take a look at the link and take out a free subscription!
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