Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 89, 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!
Open house season is upon us in the UK and the Apex Digital Graphics event is already in place - the Spring Open House takes place on March 13 and 14. As well as the expected Ryobi press products, the event will feature a host of other equipment suppliers, and a free to attend seminar on ISO12647-2 accreditation being hosted by Sun Chemical and BPIF. You can follow the build-up and the event via the #ApexMarchOpenHouse hash-tag on Twitter.
The exhibition season is starting even sooner, with the packaging world descending on the UK’s NEC this coming Wednesday/Thursday for the annual Packaging Innovations event. Benson Group will be taking centre stage with its Split-it green packaging product.
As an update regarding the recent Manroland coverage, the web operation is singing loudly about the products that it will focus on for Drupa. In the UK, however, the administrators of Manroland GB have announced a number of high profile redundancies as talks stall re a sale.
We note with interest the news from Print Monthly that the digital pricing for The Times and The Sunday Times is to double this week – as of March 1st. Get in quick if you want to subscribe at the cheaper price!
Are you talking to me? Intelligent ads are about to hit the streets of the UK. A poster that can “read” who is passing by is beginning to sound a bit spooky to us!
Apps take over the world: the Guardian takes a look at how apps are now the way forward for software developers. Apple’s web site has a rolling total of its app sales that increases by 500 a second!
Our favourite syncing software, Dropbox, has been spending some of the $250 million it recently raised with the further development of its Android app. If auto syncing your photos from your Android phone causes you sleepless nights, this is the software for you.
Meanwhile Microsoft’s syncing solution, SkyDrive, is also upping its game, with a desktop app imminent. This might even enable it to catch up with the above Dropbox. There is also talk of very reasonable costs for expanding the already handy 25Gb of free space.
Lifehacker offered us a real neat little hack for showing up to the minute search results on Google. Give it a try: it will certainly cut out those tiresome suggestions from last century!
Almost finally, we have found the ultimate kitchen-based product for every geeky college student: our friends at Engadget have shown us the way for the next Apple product – an iPhone branded gas stove!
Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 90. 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!
PIND089
Missed Issue 88, including details on The Sun on Sunday? Then simply click here!
Issue 87: More info on Manroland Sheetfed
Issue 86: Manroland Sheetfed sale
Issue 85: Kodak update; used presses; ultrabooks
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Got friends that might like GenesisNews? Tweet them now: click here!
Open house season is upon us in the UK and the Apex Digital Graphics event is already in place - the Spring Open House takes place on March 13 and 14. As well as the expected Ryobi press products, the event will feature a host of other equipment suppliers, and a free to attend seminar on ISO12647-2 accreditation being hosted by Sun Chemical and BPIF. You can follow the build-up and the event via the #ApexMarchOpenHouse hash-tag on Twitter.The exhibition season is starting even sooner, with the packaging world descending on the UK’s NEC this coming Wednesday/Thursday for the annual Packaging Innovations event. Benson Group will be taking centre stage with its Split-it green packaging product.
As an update regarding the recent Manroland coverage, the web operation is singing loudly about the products that it will focus on for Drupa. In the UK, however, the administrators of Manroland GB have announced a number of high profile redundancies as talks stall re a sale.We note with interest the news from Print Monthly that the digital pricing for The Times and The Sunday Times is to double this week – as of March 1st. Get in quick if you want to subscribe at the cheaper price!
Are you talking to me? Intelligent ads are about to hit the streets of the UK. A poster that can “read” who is passing by is beginning to sound a bit spooky to us!Apps take over the world: the Guardian takes a look at how apps are now the way forward for software developers. Apple’s web site has a rolling total of its app sales that increases by 500 a second!
Our favourite syncing software, Dropbox, has been spending some of the $250 million it recently raised with the further development of its Android app. If auto syncing your photos from your Android phone causes you sleepless nights, this is the software for you.Meanwhile Microsoft’s syncing solution, SkyDrive, is also upping its game, with a desktop app imminent. This might even enable it to catch up with the above Dropbox. There is also talk of very reasonable costs for expanding the already handy 25Gb of free space.
Lifehacker offered us a real neat little hack for showing up to the minute search results on Google. Give it a try: it will certainly cut out those tiresome suggestions from last century!Almost finally, we have found the ultimate kitchen-based product for every geeky college student: our friends at Engadget have shown us the way for the next Apple product – an iPhone branded gas stove!
Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 90. 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!
PIND089
Missed Issue 88, including details on The Sun on Sunday? Then simply click here!
Issue 87: More info on Manroland Sheetfed
Issue 86: Manroland Sheetfed sale
Issue 85: Kodak update; used presses; ultrabooks
Get Your Print News Every Day!
Got friends that might like GenesisNews? Tweet them now: click here!
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