Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 86, providing a summary of major news items from the printing, publishing, 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!
The big news this week in print has to be Manroland's sheetfed business being purchased by a UK company. The news came the day after the sale of the Manroland web business to German company Possehl - a deal that had been previously reported and therefore came as no surprise to anybody. Thursday February 2 however delivered news of the sheetfed operation very much from left-field. Langley Holdings, Retford, Nottinghamshire, were the surprise name behind the early morning PrintWeek headline. Along with the Offenbach factory the Langley deal reportedly includes the press suppliers 40 international sales operations. A new UK business, Manroland Sheetfed Holdings, has been registered at Companies House.
The news as officially delivered in a joint press release from the Langley Holdings web site is here, and a take on the story from What They Think? is also included.
In the world of print finishing Morgana Systems detailed a deal with Vivid Laminating Technologies to sell its Matrix single-sided, mid-range laminating kit in the UK.
The the world of tech, the long held belief that netbook sales were taking a dive in favour of tablets and smartphones has been very much confirmed with numbers being released on the state of all tech hardware sectors.
By way of confirmation of the stats, Tablet Crunch offers a view on the huge surge of tablet sales in 2011, which it calculates as a 260% increase. No surprises that Apple continues to top the chart with shipments of 15.4 million units, calculated as 57.6% of the market.
One major competitor in 2012 is surely going to be the Kindle Fire. Best estimates suggest that some 6 million of these Amazon devices were shipped in Q4 of 2011. One to keep a close eye on in 2012 for sure!
Aiding these sales tablet figures are ever cheaper products, though Lifehacker agrees with our own PIND findings that sub-$100 hardware generally isn’t up to the standard required for those that really want to work! Cheaper but significantly less responsive resistive screen technology is the main dividing line in our opinion, along with early Android variants that were never up to the demands of a tablet.
Almost finally, one great piece of tech that all male iPhone users will want to get their hands on came to our attention this week: Hot Wheels radio-controlled vehicles that you can control from your phone! Go on then: all rush out and buy one today!
Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 87. 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 85, including Kodak update; used presses; and ultrabooks? Then simply click here!
Issue 84: Manroland break-up; Kodak Chapter 11
Issue 83: tech snippets and software
Issue 82: Kodak news and publishing topics
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The big news this week in print has to be Manroland's sheetfed business being purchased by a UK company. The news came the day after the sale of the Manroland web business to German company Possehl - a deal that had been previously reported and therefore came as no surprise to anybody. Thursday February 2 however delivered news of the sheetfed operation very much from left-field. Langley Holdings, Retford, Nottinghamshire, were the surprise name behind the early morning PrintWeek headline. Along with the Offenbach factory the Langley deal reportedly includes the press suppliers 40 international sales operations. A new UK business, Manroland Sheetfed Holdings, has been registered at Companies House.The news as officially delivered in a joint press release from the Langley Holdings web site is here, and a take on the story from What They Think? is also included.
In the world of print finishing Morgana Systems detailed a deal with Vivid Laminating Technologies to sell its Matrix single-sided, mid-range laminating kit in the UK.The the world of tech, the long held belief that netbook sales were taking a dive in favour of tablets and smartphones has been very much confirmed with numbers being released on the state of all tech hardware sectors.
By way of confirmation of the stats, Tablet Crunch offers a view on the huge surge of tablet sales in 2011, which it calculates as a 260% increase. No surprises that Apple continues to top the chart with shipments of 15.4 million units, calculated as 57.6% of the market.One major competitor in 2012 is surely going to be the Kindle Fire. Best estimates suggest that some 6 million of these Amazon devices were shipped in Q4 of 2011. One to keep a close eye on in 2012 for sure!
Aiding these sales tablet figures are ever cheaper products, though Lifehacker agrees with our own PIND findings that sub-$100 hardware generally isn’t up to the standard required for those that really want to work! Cheaper but significantly less responsive resistive screen technology is the main dividing line in our opinion, along with early Android variants that were never up to the demands of a tablet.Almost finally, one great piece of tech that all male iPhone users will want to get their hands on came to our attention this week: Hot Wheels radio-controlled vehicles that you can control from your phone! Go on then: all rush out and buy one today!
Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 87. 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!
PIND085
Missed Issue 85, including Kodak update; used presses; and ultrabooks? Then simply click here!
Issue 84: Manroland break-up; Kodak Chapter 11
Issue 83: tech snippets and software
Issue 82: Kodak news and publishing topics
Get Your Print News Every Day!
Got friends that might like GenesisNews? Tweet them now: click here!
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