Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 70, providing a summary of major news items from the printing, packaging, digital and communications technology sectors. PIND incorporates brief summaries and links to the week's key news stories so that you can look up that all important detail, digging deeper behind the headline. Do also take a look at our automated Twitter-based GenesisNews Print Daily publication; why not take out a free subscription for a daily digital delivery!
Times are hectic at HP – whilst tablet products come and go before you can catch your breath, CEO’s look as if they are doing the same now, with Leo Apotheker looking less than likely to survive a full 12 months as share prices drop through the floor.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, HP is said to be eyeing new horizons in the world of print, with the 120 billion page Indian print market in sharp focus.
Talking of real world, KBA has not been sat on its hands during the recent years of limited sales – no, it has been developing the new double-width Commander CL web press which will be officially released at next month’s IFRA Expo, taking place this year in Vienna, Austria. Just what the world needs right now I guess: a new page hungry web press should go flying off the shelves (British sarcasm!).
In the UK, MGi has been busy releasing the DP 8700 XL digital press to a gathering assembled by UK dealer M Partners. The high-quality output unit is gradually winning more fans in the UK – a market that is catching up with many areas of the world, where the MGi technology is already a firm favourite.
We have never attempted to cover phones here at PIND in any great depth: there are plenty of good tech sites that are far more qualified to talk iPhone or Android product than us. It is therefore with more of a marketing hat on that we focus on recent stats detailing a 90% brand loyalty declared for the iPhone – a figure way beyond that of other makes of phone. This is the sort of figure that marketing managers from any walk of life have excitable dreams about!
Still on stats, more numbers this week from the US regarding the ever growing market for e-books. The top claim is that Americans using an e-book reader have doubled in the last twelve months, and it is swiftly followed by the information that one in six that do not have an e-book reader intend to buy one in the next twelve months.
It seems only natural to follow this news with details of the release, expected to be this coming Wednesday, of the Amazon Kindle Tablet, a seven inch Android product that will see the light of day in New York on September 28.
Talking of Android, The Guardian asks the question: is Android really free? The answer is too detailed to get me excited, but if you are an Android lover, you may well want to find out more.
How exciting to see some very positive news coming out with the world “print” in close proximity! The chaps at Print Monthly in the UK have been detailing this week how a 3D printer is being used to create artificial blood vessels.
Waste Management World gives us an interesting insight to the UK’s re-use of computing equipment. It suggests that just 14% of IT decision makers are sending working computers for re-use.
In closing for this week, Mashable comes up with an interesting collection: eight current technologies that will shape our future. It sounds like it could be an interesting bar room debate, but you certainly can’t argue with number one on the list: smartphones!
Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 71. We aim to add details of our next edition this link during the course of the week. For an RSS feed of PIND, copy this link into your feed reader; and click here for the GenesisNews Print Daily – you can even take out a free subscription for this daily news update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology!
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Times are hectic at HP – whilst tablet products come and go before you can catch your breath, CEO’s look as if they are doing the same now, with Leo Apotheker looking less than likely to survive a full 12 months as share prices drop through the floor.Meanwhile, back in the real world, HP is said to be eyeing new horizons in the world of print, with the 120 billion page Indian print market in sharp focus.
Talking of real world, KBA has not been sat on its hands during the recent years of limited sales – no, it has been developing the new double-width Commander CL web press which will be officially released at next month’s IFRA Expo, taking place this year in Vienna, Austria. Just what the world needs right now I guess: a new page hungry web press should go flying off the shelves (British sarcasm!).In the UK, MGi has been busy releasing the DP 8700 XL digital press to a gathering assembled by UK dealer M Partners. The high-quality output unit is gradually winning more fans in the UK – a market that is catching up with many areas of the world, where the MGi technology is already a firm favourite.
We have never attempted to cover phones here at PIND in any great depth: there are plenty of good tech sites that are far more qualified to talk iPhone or Android product than us. It is therefore with more of a marketing hat on that we focus on recent stats detailing a 90% brand loyalty declared for the iPhone – a figure way beyond that of other makes of phone. This is the sort of figure that marketing managers from any walk of life have excitable dreams about!Still on stats, more numbers this week from the US regarding the ever growing market for e-books. The top claim is that Americans using an e-book reader have doubled in the last twelve months, and it is swiftly followed by the information that one in six that do not have an e-book reader intend to buy one in the next twelve months.
It seems only natural to follow this news with details of the release, expected to be this coming Wednesday, of the Amazon Kindle Tablet, a seven inch Android product that will see the light of day in New York on September 28.Talking of Android, The Guardian asks the question: is Android really free? The answer is too detailed to get me excited, but if you are an Android lover, you may well want to find out more.
How exciting to see some very positive news coming out with the world “print” in close proximity! The chaps at Print Monthly in the UK have been detailing this week how a 3D printer is being used to create artificial blood vessels.Waste Management World gives us an interesting insight to the UK’s re-use of computing equipment. It suggests that just 14% of IT decision makers are sending working computers for re-use.
In closing for this week, Mashable comes up with an interesting collection: eight current technologies that will shape our future. It sounds like it could be an interesting bar room debate, but you certainly can’t argue with number one on the list: smartphones!Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 71. We aim to add details of our next edition this link during the course of the week. For an RSS feed of PIND, copy this link into your feed reader; and click here for the GenesisNews Print Daily – you can even take out a free subscription for this daily news update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology!
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Want to read issue 69, including an interesting promotional push from the press? Then simply click here!
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