Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 79, 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!
Following on from last week’s headline news regarding Manroland, some updates, some general opinion, and some slightly “ship steadying” news from the team at PrintWeek, along with a news release from Manroland USA.
The good news is that some litho presses are being sold! Coventry Building Society has detailed the installation of a Ryobi 784E B2-format four-colour offset litho press which will enable it to cut out some £300,000 worth of outsourcing. That sounds like a quick payback!
Perhaps of more significance to Manroland was the news that Richard Desmond and team fired up its KBA kit in Luton for the first time this week, rolling off full colour copies of the Daily Star for all to enjoy.
Meanwhile, at Manroland user GMG some interesting alliances have been announced during these last few days. The Guardian is now proudly showing off its digital connections with both Spotify and Facebook as it continues to struggle with the question – detailed last week – as to whether it should continue to print its own paper copies or subcontract the work.
For publishers seeking to get the online payment solution sorted, why not take a look at what the Economist is doing? It has claimed this week that digital subscribers now top 100,000 whilst operating profits have jumped by 6% to £26.2 million.
Trader Media Group has also released figures this week regarding double-digit growth in its digital revenues. The Auto Trader owner has reported an operating profit of £63.6 million in the six months to October 2nd 2011. Hopefully this is due in no small part to the use of Wave2 software technology to drive its automation of ads!
One of our other regular favourites, the QR code, has been wonderfully summed up this week by print buying expert Matthew Parker. He offers a number of positives on the subject along with his own acronym: TIM. It stands for Tell, Incentivise, and Measure. If you want to incorporate some QR code action in your customers print, have a read: it should certainly give you some new ideas.
We have told you about Microsoft’s SkyDrive before: a big chunk of cloud storage space that is yours for free. Well, we are told this week that Microsoft is overhauling that offering. This includes better file management and “app-centric” sharing.
We were delighted to see that Engadget was promoting a Braille label printer this week (no pun intended!). The machine can actually be operated by the visually impaired to print out their own labels. An intriguing move forward in a very stagnant market.
Still fascinated by the potential of Apple’s Siri product (as regular readers can testify), we were further intrigued this week to see the launch of a new web site dedicated to Life with Siri. Want to feel at home with Siri? Check out LifeWithSiri.com
Almost finally, in case you are still trying to work out the answer, TechCrunch told us all recently how to be the best entrepreneur in the world. The author has unearthed what he describes as the “10,000 hour rule”. The suggestion is that if you have clocked up more than 10,000 hours of work in a particular field you should be pretty damn good at it! He might have a point.
Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 80. 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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Missed Issue 78, including alarming news regarding Manroland? Then simply click here!
Issue 77: Siri, Kindle Fire, and your CV
Issue 76: PUR binding for digital print
Issue 75: In my command? Apple’s Siri
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Following on from last week’s headline news regarding Manroland, some updates, some general opinion, and some slightly “ship steadying” news from the team at PrintWeek, along with a news release from Manroland USA.The good news is that some litho presses are being sold! Coventry Building Society has detailed the installation of a Ryobi 784E B2-format four-colour offset litho press which will enable it to cut out some £300,000 worth of outsourcing. That sounds like a quick payback!
Perhaps of more significance to Manroland was the news that Richard Desmond and team fired up its KBA kit in Luton for the first time this week, rolling off full colour copies of the Daily Star for all to enjoy.Meanwhile, at Manroland user GMG some interesting alliances have been announced during these last few days. The Guardian is now proudly showing off its digital connections with both Spotify and Facebook as it continues to struggle with the question – detailed last week – as to whether it should continue to print its own paper copies or subcontract the work.
For publishers seeking to get the online payment solution sorted, why not take a look at what the Economist is doing? It has claimed this week that digital subscribers now top 100,000 whilst operating profits have jumped by 6% to £26.2 million.Trader Media Group has also released figures this week regarding double-digit growth in its digital revenues. The Auto Trader owner has reported an operating profit of £63.6 million in the six months to October 2nd 2011. Hopefully this is due in no small part to the use of Wave2 software technology to drive its automation of ads!
One of our other regular favourites, the QR code, has been wonderfully summed up this week by print buying expert Matthew Parker. He offers a number of positives on the subject along with his own acronym: TIM. It stands for Tell, Incentivise, and Measure. If you want to incorporate some QR code action in your customers print, have a read: it should certainly give you some new ideas.We have told you about Microsoft’s SkyDrive before: a big chunk of cloud storage space that is yours for free. Well, we are told this week that Microsoft is overhauling that offering. This includes better file management and “app-centric” sharing.
We were delighted to see that Engadget was promoting a Braille label printer this week (no pun intended!). The machine can actually be operated by the visually impaired to print out their own labels. An intriguing move forward in a very stagnant market.Still fascinated by the potential of Apple’s Siri product (as regular readers can testify), we were further intrigued this week to see the launch of a new web site dedicated to Life with Siri. Want to feel at home with Siri? Check out LifeWithSiri.com
Almost finally, in case you are still trying to work out the answer, TechCrunch told us all recently how to be the best entrepreneur in the world. The author has unearthed what he describes as the “10,000 hour rule”. The suggestion is that if you have clocked up more than 10,000 hours of work in a particular field you should be pretty damn good at it! He might have a point.Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 80. 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!
PIND079
Missed Issue 78, including alarming news regarding Manroland? Then simply click here!
Issue 77: Siri, Kindle Fire, and your CV
Issue 76: PUR binding for digital print
Issue 75: In my command? Apple’s Siri
Get Your Print News Every Day!
Got friends that might like GenesisNews? Tweet them now: click here!
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