Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 71, 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!
It’s the Autumn show and open house season, with LabelExpo taking pride of place this last week, and Xeikon capturing plenty of attention with an order from Mercian Labels for a 3300 digital label press. The machine will bolster the Cannock based company’s range of production facilities that are being used to create an exciting array of specialised label products, including LabelLock®™ seals, Gammatex®™ radiation indicators, high volume variable data and barcode labels, bespoke high security label seals and short-run custom printed labels. Printers: do note these bespoke printed products! Whilst Mercian Labels print labels, they have opened a number of specialised niches for themselves with these highly focused (and copyrighted!) label products.
Coming this next week, UK print businesses might like to put Tuesday or Wednesday in their diary for a visit to the Apex Digital Graphics Autumn Open House taking place in Hemel Hempstead. Perhaps the offset press of the year for 2011, the SRA1 format Ryobi 920, will feature, along with a wide range of other print related product, such as the ECRM DPP1200 colour digital printer. This unit is being showcased alongside Morgana’s CardXtra Plus small format trimming device. This pair of products can provide printers with a turnkey solution to making instant print money, with call-and-wait business being produced in minutes. The event will also feature the production of limited edition Japanese artwork that will be sold to raise money for tsunami victims.
The week just gone can be noted for the announcement from Amazon of its Kindle Fire tablet device. The 7-inch Android based machine (as mentioned last week in PIND) is likely to be offered in the UK at around £120 – a bargain buy compared with other recent tablet introductions. Why so affordable? Amazon is looking for follow-on business: they have products that are highly suited to a tablet device, including music and books. They also have a huge volume of credit card detail in their system already, as well as wonderfully sophisticated database information on what you have purchased from them. A tablet can glue all of that together. Many see the model as providing the most credible competition to Apple yet.
Certainly many tech companies have struggled to keep pace with the likes of Amazon and Apple. Nokia is one that appears to have fallen seriously behind. Further fuel to these rumours this week with news that some 3,500 jobs are going.
In the magazine world Next Issue Media has been shouting about the fact that putting magazines into tablet form is not just about sticking some words on the web. The important thing is to create differentiation: get the page doing things that can’t be done in print. Focusing on this point moves publishing on to produce better products for consumers, not just consider making better margins for themselves!
With regard to real-world production inkjet kit, the important point of focus is on the printhead technology being used. This link to Digital Publishing Solutions focuses on just that point.
Best browser? We regularly offer readers the very latest test results from leading tech blog sites on browser performance. Not wishing to break such a good habit, the latest such results from the good folk at Lifehacker are here, and they indicate that Opera 11.51 is now stealing a march on its rivals.
Nearly lastly, another set of info worth keeping tabs on is what other folk include in their top iPad apps list: this top 50 is from the tech team at The Guardian newspaper.
Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 72. 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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It’s the Autumn show and open house season, with LabelExpo taking pride of place this last week, and Xeikon capturing plenty of attention with an order from Mercian Labels for a 3300 digital label press. The machine will bolster the Cannock based company’s range of production facilities that are being used to create an exciting array of specialised label products, including LabelLock®™ seals, Gammatex®™ radiation indicators, high volume variable data and barcode labels, bespoke high security label seals and short-run custom printed labels. Printers: do note these bespoke printed products! Whilst Mercian Labels print labels, they have opened a number of specialised niches for themselves with these highly focused (and copyrighted!) label products.Coming this next week, UK print businesses might like to put Tuesday or Wednesday in their diary for a visit to the Apex Digital Graphics Autumn Open House taking place in Hemel Hempstead. Perhaps the offset press of the year for 2011, the SRA1 format Ryobi 920, will feature, along with a wide range of other print related product, such as the ECRM DPP1200 colour digital printer. This unit is being showcased alongside Morgana’s CardXtra Plus small format trimming device. This pair of products can provide printers with a turnkey solution to making instant print money, with call-and-wait business being produced in minutes. The event will also feature the production of limited edition Japanese artwork that will be sold to raise money for tsunami victims.
The week just gone can be noted for the announcement from Amazon of its Kindle Fire tablet device. The 7-inch Android based machine (as mentioned last week in PIND) is likely to be offered in the UK at around £120 – a bargain buy compared with other recent tablet introductions. Why so affordable? Amazon is looking for follow-on business: they have products that are highly suited to a tablet device, including music and books. They also have a huge volume of credit card detail in their system already, as well as wonderfully sophisticated database information on what you have purchased from them. A tablet can glue all of that together. Many see the model as providing the most credible competition to Apple yet.Certainly many tech companies have struggled to keep pace with the likes of Amazon and Apple. Nokia is one that appears to have fallen seriously behind. Further fuel to these rumours this week with news that some 3,500 jobs are going.
In the magazine world Next Issue Media has been shouting about the fact that putting magazines into tablet form is not just about sticking some words on the web. The important thing is to create differentiation: get the page doing things that can’t be done in print. Focusing on this point moves publishing on to produce better products for consumers, not just consider making better margins for themselves!With regard to real-world production inkjet kit, the important point of focus is on the printhead technology being used. This link to Digital Publishing Solutions focuses on just that point.
Best browser? We regularly offer readers the very latest test results from leading tech blog sites on browser performance. Not wishing to break such a good habit, the latest such results from the good folk at Lifehacker are here, and they indicate that Opera 11.51 is now stealing a march on its rivals.Nearly lastly, another set of info worth keeping tabs on is what other folk include in their top iPad apps list: this top 50 is from the tech team at The Guardian newspaper.
Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 72. 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 70, including a view on the iPhone’s enviable brand loyalty? Then simply click here!
Get Your Print News Every Day!
Got friends that might like GenesisNews? Tweet them now: click here!
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