So, plenty of big news from the world of print this week – but then “big” is always a relative term. For starters, the team at JR Press have been making news with the installation of a Ryobi 524GE press – the company’s first four-colour machine. GenesisNews offered up the story; PrintWeek.com provided its version of the news; and then PackagingNews.co.uk added some more detail on the packaging focus that owner Geoff Fone is targeting for his new kit.In terms of independently owned print businesses Pindar certainly comes under the “big” banner, and we learnt this week that it was up for sale. The £55.3 million turnover business employs some 480 people. Whilst the business is active in sheetfed and digital it is the web operation likely to be the main area of trouble, as the web printing sector across Europe has been in turmoil in recent years, with players cutting prices to ludicrous levels in order to win business.
When it comes to UK newspapers, they don’t come any bigger than the News of the World. As everyone surely now knows, the 168-year-old publication is to close as of tomorrow, Sunday July 10, following the unbelievably “big” phone hacking scandal that has dominated every news channel throughout the week. The cynical side of me says that this was quite possibly on the cards for some time. The Sunday Sun will effectively takes the place of the paper, whilst the business as a whole will be able to lose two hundred or so employees – scaling back a publication that has seen real circulation, ie number of copies, slip from over 4 million to some 2.7 million.It might have been “big” until some of the above came along, but PackagingNews.co.uk told us earlier in the week about how Paragon is planning to relocate label printing business Sessions of York to Lincolnshire.
Least surprising news of the week might be that owners of tablets are also the most frequent readers of printed newspapers. Take a read of the story and let us know if you think this is news or not!Other “big-ish” news can kick-off with browser info: OK we simply haven't had the time yet this week to put this one to the test, but 360 Web Browser for iOS claims to have the old flash thing sorted, offer tabbed browing, and is friendly with Firefox syncing and Dropbox. Sounds great. We will test and get back to you, but you might want to give it a go too - you can tell us how you get on with it by emailing PIND.editor@gmail.com
Wired has only this week championed Zite, and iPad application that we featured here on PIND sometime in the recent past. Nice to see that we are ahead of some of the leading names in the techie sector! Zite is a personalised magazine for the iPad and one that we believe works really well. Take at look at Wired's comments and take a look at the app if you have an iPad - it makes for a good read, as you can constantly update the software with feedback on the stories that it delivers to you.Still on the subject of tablets, Sony waved its hand again with the S1 and S2 coming out for photos. The Engadget team managed to get some video of Sony in action interfacing with PlayStation – take a look if you’re the gaming type!
It's nice to be able to feature a bit of news that has both print and technology angles in the same pair of trousers. This is one such beast, with some great technology being able to track down a stolen laptop computer. The print element comes into the equation when it transpires that the thief was one of a group handling counterfeit dollars: some $1 million worth!Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 61. 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 reader; and for the GenesisNews Print Daily, take a look at the link and take out a free subscription!
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