Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 127, 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.
It
seems staggeringly hard to keep the manroland name out of our
headlines: similar to 12 months ago! Late this week we heard that the Plauen
site was to be closed by the administrator following the breakdown of
negotiations with potential investors. Earlier in the week the Print Business had told us of the departure of the CEO for the sheetfed business, though his role was always of a temporary nature. The web systems business, however, continues to go from strength-to-strength.
The Kodak patent sale went ahead, with a group of 12 involved: a veritable who’s-who of the tech world, including Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe Systems, and FujiFilm. In what might be termed the sale of the century, the group managed to purchase the intellectual property rights for a reported $525 million; one “very special price” from an initial valuation of $2.6 billion.
Digital Twin: a potential boost for the printed magazine page? US-based Netpage is hoping that its augmented reality software can provide a connection between the mobile device and the printed page.
Sales of Morgana’s PUR binding kit are beginning to take off: the latest install is at leading Xeikon digital printer The Digital Press, where a DigiBook 150 has been selected to replace hot-melt perfect binding kit.
One or two end of year software snippets that you might enjoy, or find vaguely useful: we made mention recently of Archy, a great Mac way of displaying your Google Drive contents. You should find that you can use Archy as well as a Google Drive
that you already have loaded on your system: access to two different
Google accounts from one Mac! You will find a use for it! Don't forget
to check out third-party apps for Google Drive too . . .
Tripped over a useful function in Simplenote this last couple of days too: to simply share a note with others, add their email address as a “tag”. They will not only be copied, but their adjustments (from within Simplenote) will be incorporated into your document as they make changes, and your updates into their document too! Care should be taken of course, but this could be a great way of getting a number of opinions gathered quickly. Give it a try.
Only just in time for Christmas: Raspberry Pi fans can spend their festive cash in the Pi Store! Perhaps that’s a post-Christmas place for any Xmas monies received?
Right. It’s that festive thing again. Getting short of wrapping paper at the last minute? PIND to the rescue! Print some out!
Then it will be time for New Year plans and resolutions. As a starting point I loved this great quote: “Being Realistic is the Most Commonly Travelled Road to Mediocrity”.
Perhaps we could all use this thought as a springboard to creating some
exciting New Year’s resolutions that will really empower us all.
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.
PIND127
Missed Issue 126, including Fuji’s JetPress? Then simply click here!
Issue 125: Death of The Daily
Issue 124: Océ inkjet
Issue 123: manroland web systems
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
It
seems staggeringly hard to keep the manroland name out of our
headlines: similar to 12 months ago! Late this week we heard that the Plauen
site was to be closed by the administrator following the breakdown of
negotiations with potential investors. Earlier in the week the Print Business had told us of the departure of the CEO for the sheetfed business, though his role was always of a temporary nature. The web systems business, however, continues to go from strength-to-strength.The Kodak patent sale went ahead, with a group of 12 involved: a veritable who’s-who of the tech world, including Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe Systems, and FujiFilm. In what might be termed the sale of the century, the group managed to purchase the intellectual property rights for a reported $525 million; one “very special price” from an initial valuation of $2.6 billion.
Digital Twin: a potential boost for the printed magazine page? US-based Netpage is hoping that its augmented reality software can provide a connection between the mobile device and the printed page.Sales of Morgana’s PUR binding kit are beginning to take off: the latest install is at leading Xeikon digital printer The Digital Press, where a DigiBook 150 has been selected to replace hot-melt perfect binding kit.
One or two end of year software snippets that you might enjoy, or find vaguely useful: we made mention recently of Archy, a great Mac way of displaying your Google Drive contents. You should find that you can use Archy as well as a Google Drive
that you already have loaded on your system: access to two different
Google accounts from one Mac! You will find a use for it! Don't forget
to check out third-party apps for Google Drive too . . .Tripped over a useful function in Simplenote this last couple of days too: to simply share a note with others, add their email address as a “tag”. They will not only be copied, but their adjustments (from within Simplenote) will be incorporated into your document as they make changes, and your updates into their document too! Care should be taken of course, but this could be a great way of getting a number of opinions gathered quickly. Give it a try.
Only just in time for Christmas: Raspberry Pi fans can spend their festive cash in the Pi Store! Perhaps that’s a post-Christmas place for any Xmas monies received?Right. It’s that festive thing again. Getting short of wrapping paper at the last minute? PIND to the rescue! Print some out!
Then it will be time for New Year plans and resolutions. As a starting point I loved this great quote: “Being Realistic is the Most Commonly Travelled Road to Mediocrity”.
Perhaps we could all use this thought as a springboard to creating some
exciting New Year’s resolutions that will really empower us all.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.
PIND127
Missed Issue 126, including Fuji’s JetPress? Then simply click here!
Issue 125: Death of The Daily
Issue 124: Océ inkjet
Issue 123: manroland web systems
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
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