Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 124, 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.
Océ has teamed up with manroland web systems to provide a digital solution for newspaper and book production. The JetStream 5500 full-colour inkjet press
combines manroland web systems post-printing know-how with an Océ
engine. Output is on 762mm wide material, with up to 254 meters per
minute (mpm) of print being produced at 600 x 480dpi. “Quality mode”,
which images at a perceived 1200dpi, can produce up to 200mpm.
Kodak claims improved lending terms, but still paying a chunky rate of interest. Conditions include a resolution re the company’s UK pension obligations.
John Dickinson envelopes has detailed its end-of-days for Washington, Tyne and Wear, factory: will close by the end of this year.
Messe Dusseldorf, the German exhibition centre, has pulled the plug on the digi:media 2013 trade show. It blames cancellations and a lack of commitment from potential exhibitors.
Ever needed to scan in a hard copy book to create a digital version? This robot will do so at up to 250 pages a minute! Should make digitising the Bodleian Library a swift job then . . .
So 3D printing is coming to a Staples (US for now!) near you? Is this the future of “printing”? Mashable and others look at the potential for this technology.
Window 8 reception still unclear! This week we are told that US consumers are not excited, whilst Surface is still suffering from weak demand. Not sure that the prices for the Windows 8 Pro version of the tablet are going to get things moving either.
The mysterious Nexus 7 dock has reappeared in Japan: release to the rest of the world likely to happen soon!
What’s all the fuss about Evernote:
Lifehacker pools usual answers. Could shout louder about the excellent
syncing across devices: we use it over iPhone, iMac, PC, Nexus 7, and
other Android tablets. Sync is swift and reliable.
Using Google Drive as a cloud service? If you are a Mac user, you might like to try the interface offered by ArchyApp.com – it offers a cleaner, easier to use way of working with Google Drive. You will need to create a new Gmail account to use the service, but it does seem quite a friendly way to work with the cloud. A new account means of course another 5Gb of Google Drive storage space.
Mashable offers us its top 25 tech happenings of 2012. Surprised not to see mention of the Google Nexus tablets, yet Kindle Paperwhite comes in at 5? On the subject of important tech, a happy 20th birthday to text messaging! If that was of interest, then you might also like to know that some 144.8 billion emails are sent each day!
Keep your finger on the pulse: grab an RSS feed of PIND (copy this link into your feed reader); click here for the GenesisNews #Print Daily to get the latest daily stories; or click here for regular Tech & Comms updates in blog or RSS form. You can also connect to a free subscription of the Print Daily for an update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology delivered straight to your in-box every day! For details on Genesis Marketing – publishers of PIND – click here.
PIND124
Missed Issue 123, including manroland web systems? Then simply click here!
Issue 122: manroland sheetfed update
Issue 121: Useful packaging
Issue 120: Random Penguin publishing
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
Océ has teamed up with manroland web systems to provide a digital solution for newspaper and book production. The JetStream 5500 full-colour inkjet press
combines manroland web systems post-printing know-how with an Océ
engine. Output is on 762mm wide material, with up to 254 meters per
minute (mpm) of print being produced at 600 x 480dpi. “Quality mode”,
which images at a perceived 1200dpi, can produce up to 200mpm.Kodak claims improved lending terms, but still paying a chunky rate of interest. Conditions include a resolution re the company’s UK pension obligations.
John Dickinson envelopes has detailed its end-of-days for Washington, Tyne and Wear, factory: will close by the end of this year.Messe Dusseldorf, the German exhibition centre, has pulled the plug on the digi:media 2013 trade show. It blames cancellations and a lack of commitment from potential exhibitors.
Ever needed to scan in a hard copy book to create a digital version? This robot will do so at up to 250 pages a minute! Should make digitising the Bodleian Library a swift job then . . .So 3D printing is coming to a Staples (US for now!) near you? Is this the future of “printing”? Mashable and others look at the potential for this technology.
Window 8 reception still unclear! This week we are told that US consumers are not excited, whilst Surface is still suffering from weak demand. Not sure that the prices for the Windows 8 Pro version of the tablet are going to get things moving either.The mysterious Nexus 7 dock has reappeared in Japan: release to the rest of the world likely to happen soon!
What’s all the fuss about Evernote:
Lifehacker pools usual answers. Could shout louder about the excellent
syncing across devices: we use it over iPhone, iMac, PC, Nexus 7, and
other Android tablets. Sync is swift and reliable.Using Google Drive as a cloud service? If you are a Mac user, you might like to try the interface offered by ArchyApp.com – it offers a cleaner, easier to use way of working with Google Drive. You will need to create a new Gmail account to use the service, but it does seem quite a friendly way to work with the cloud. A new account means of course another 5Gb of Google Drive storage space.
Mashable offers us its top 25 tech happenings of 2012. Surprised not to see mention of the Google Nexus tablets, yet Kindle Paperwhite comes in at 5? On the subject of important tech, a happy 20th birthday to text messaging! If that was of interest, then you might also like to know that some 144.8 billion emails are sent each day!Keep your finger on the pulse: grab an RSS feed of PIND (copy this link into your feed reader); click here for the GenesisNews #Print Daily to get the latest daily stories; or click here for regular Tech & Comms updates in blog or RSS form. You can also connect to a free subscription of the Print Daily for an update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology delivered straight to your in-box every day! For details on Genesis Marketing – publishers of PIND – click here.
PIND124
Missed Issue 123, including manroland web systems? Then simply click here!
Issue 122: manroland sheetfed update
Issue 121: Useful packaging
Issue 120: Random Penguin publishing
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
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