Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 104, 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.
In what might appear to some to be taking a leaf out of the British bankers books, Kodak executives seem, according to reports this week, to be keen to pay themselves nice chunky bonuses for jobs well done (while creditors remain unpaid,
of course). Do please read right though to the comments section at the
bottom of the page: you will surely find it tremendously entertaining.
Thoughts and comment in e-mail form to PIND.Editor@gmail.com by all means.
Following up on last week’s news on printed electronics, PrintWeek has reported on the funding package that has been secured by The Centre for Process Innovation.
It was a great pleasure in early July to be present at a PrintWeek briefing delivered by the legendary Frank Romano,
professor emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Whilst
Drupa focused, Frank also offered his thoughts on the various sectors of
print production: where they are right now, and where they were
heading. A summary of the event now appears on the PrintWeek web site.
In the same vein as Frank’s industry snapshot, a report that came to our attention this week summarising the current state-of-play in the business-to-business magazine sector. Whilst there are, of course, problems, the report focuses on the changes that have had to be made in order for success. One b-2-b publication in the print world that still manages to hold its head up high is Labels & Labeling, so it was good to see this week that the chairman of publisher Tarsus Group, Neville Buch, has been recognised.
The big number crunchers at Nielsen have provided data this week to support all of that: magazine advertising down 1.4%; internet ads up 12.1% in Q1. Meanwhile Next Issue
has delivered a new digital magazine package for readers, providing a
great big chunk of publications for your pleasure at an all in price.
The New York Times meanwhile highlights the fact that time really is running out for newspapers to change their game and get on the digital boat before it sails.
At
PIND we love positive news, and there can be little more on the plus
side than this story from Austria, where a town has effectively created
its own library
through the use of QR codes. It is suggested that the QR code near the
local police station could wiz you off to the text of Arthur
Schnitzler's The Killer, but we suspect that this is just journalistic imagination!
In tablet talk you just can’t get away from the Google Nexus 7 as the first orders start to arrive. The Guardian provides this week’s review of the product. We have managed to keep our money in our pocket here at PIND for now.
The big comms story of the week – though we do try to steer clear of phones here at PIND – has to be the serious outage at O2. The reasons
are focused on here, but, in a more general sense, this has to be a
major concern as we rely more and more on our digital kit. It follows
hot on the heels of the serious bank computer problem at Nat West. Reliable and effective back-up solutions, with a tried and tested disaster recovery plan, have to be top priority.
And nearly finally, we feel the need to make mention of Microsoft again. They tell us this week that late October is the likely time-frame for the official release of Windows 8. Can’t wait.
Finally, 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 update on print, publishing, packaging news and associated technology!
PIND104
Missed Issue 103, including printed electronics developments? Then simply click here!
Issue 102: British banking
Issue 101: Microsoft Surface
Issue 100: newspaper news
Updated daily, get Tech News as it relates to print and publishing.
Got friends that might like GenesisNews? Tweet them now: click here!
In what might appear to some to be taking a leaf out of the British bankers books, Kodak executives seem, according to reports this week, to be keen to pay themselves nice chunky bonuses for jobs well done (while creditors remain unpaid,
of course). Do please read right though to the comments section at the
bottom of the page: you will surely find it tremendously entertaining.
Thoughts and comment in e-mail form to PIND.Editor@gmail.com by all means.Following up on last week’s news on printed electronics, PrintWeek has reported on the funding package that has been secured by The Centre for Process Innovation.
It was a great pleasure in early July to be present at a PrintWeek briefing delivered by the legendary Frank Romano,
professor emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Whilst
Drupa focused, Frank also offered his thoughts on the various sectors of
print production: where they are right now, and where they were
heading. A summary of the event now appears on the PrintWeek web site.In the same vein as Frank’s industry snapshot, a report that came to our attention this week summarising the current state-of-play in the business-to-business magazine sector. Whilst there are, of course, problems, the report focuses on the changes that have had to be made in order for success. One b-2-b publication in the print world that still manages to hold its head up high is Labels & Labeling, so it was good to see this week that the chairman of publisher Tarsus Group, Neville Buch, has been recognised.
The big number crunchers at Nielsen have provided data this week to support all of that: magazine advertising down 1.4%; internet ads up 12.1% in Q1. Meanwhile Next Issue
has delivered a new digital magazine package for readers, providing a
great big chunk of publications for your pleasure at an all in price.The New York Times meanwhile highlights the fact that time really is running out for newspapers to change their game and get on the digital boat before it sails.
At
PIND we love positive news, and there can be little more on the plus
side than this story from Austria, where a town has effectively created
its own library
through the use of QR codes. It is suggested that the QR code near the
local police station could wiz you off to the text of Arthur
Schnitzler's The Killer, but we suspect that this is just journalistic imagination!In tablet talk you just can’t get away from the Google Nexus 7 as the first orders start to arrive. The Guardian provides this week’s review of the product. We have managed to keep our money in our pocket here at PIND for now.
The big comms story of the week – though we do try to steer clear of phones here at PIND – has to be the serious outage at O2. The reasons
are focused on here, but, in a more general sense, this has to be a
major concern as we rely more and more on our digital kit. It follows
hot on the heels of the serious bank computer problem at Nat West. Reliable and effective back-up solutions, with a tried and tested disaster recovery plan, have to be top priority.And nearly finally, we feel the need to make mention of Microsoft again. They tell us this week that late October is the likely time-frame for the official release of Windows 8. Can’t wait.
Finally, 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 update on print, publishing, packaging news and associated technology!
PIND104
Missed Issue 103, including printed electronics developments? Then simply click here!
Issue 102: British banking
Issue 101: Microsoft Surface
Issue 100: newspaper news
Updated daily, get Tech News as it relates to print and publishing.
Got friends that might like GenesisNews? Tweet them now: click here!
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