Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 137, 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.
Further to last weeks stories of new litho installations, there is one more new press to focus on: Geerings Print has become the latest print business to do its calculations and realise that its not, in the main, a B1 printer but an SRA1 printer! Check out the massive savings that the directors calculated prior to placing an order for a Ryobi 925 with coater. In the digital world The Langham Press has unveiled its MGI Meteor device.
IPEX 2014 continues to make the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with Canon becoming the latest heavyweight to pull out. One digital supplier is going to open their eyes soon and realise that they could make serious mileage out of being the star of this show.
Want a brighter printed future?
The team at Duo Media has detailed the results of a survey of industry
consultants who were asked for their predictions of the future. One
aspect of future print, 3D printing, has taken some interesting turns
this last week: 3D print production of a piece of human skull, for example, or a vending solution for small sized 3D printed parts.
I wonder if it includes newspaper publishers getting into education? That’s exactly what News Corp. appears to be doing: tablets for education from Mr Murdoch. Interesting! And if you’re one of us in the over 50 bracket, you might want to know what teenagers get about the internet that us grown up don’t.
Are you a cloud storage
fan as yet, or does it still give you an uneasy feeling. Dan Gillmor
gives voice to his concerns in an article from the Guardian.
By the way, if you have a tablet that let’s you choose your own favourite browser, you might want to take a look at the latest Opera (available in the Play store). It’s much neater then previous versions and extremely swift in our experience.
Android Tips: Nexus 7 fans have been anticipating the arrived of a dedicated, purpose built docking station for several months from Messrs Google & Co. The good news? It has this week been posted as available for order on Google Play.
The even better news [for us at PIND, at least!] is that our order has
already arrived - just two days after being placed. Most impressive -
especially when the site said to allow at least two weeks from time of
order. The less than good news? Word is that stock has already run out!
OK, so now we have your attention at least. A brief hands on review, with as little gloating as is possible, is the least we can do for other Nexus 7 fans. The summary: it's just fine. It does what it says on the tin. It supports the Nexus 7 in landscape mode, charging as it goes if you plug in your standard charging lead into the rear of the base. This does actually leave the original USB-mini socket free and available. Plug an OTG link in there to accommodate a standard USB stick, a keyboard with a wire, or (as in our picture) the business end of a cordless mouse. Presumably it would be possible to connect up a USB hub and plug in all three at one: we don’t have one right now, so we can’t try it.
Enough
said I suspect. It is fine, appears to be just as well built as the
Nexus 7 itself, and helps to extend the ability of the tablet, giving a
pretty reasonable impersonation of a laptop when coupled with said
cordless mouse and our favourite Apple Bluetooth keyboard (other
keyboards are available!). Any questions?
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.
PIND136
Missed Issue 136, with news of offset installs? Then simply click here!
Issue 135: PUR binding
Issue 134: Digital publishing
Issue 133: Hard times for heavy metal
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
Further to last weeks stories of new litho installations, there is one more new press to focus on: Geerings Print has become the latest print business to do its calculations and realise that its not, in the main, a B1 printer but an SRA1 printer! Check out the massive savings that the directors calculated prior to placing an order for a Ryobi 925 with coater. In the digital world The Langham Press has unveiled its MGI Meteor device.IPEX 2014 continues to make the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with Canon becoming the latest heavyweight to pull out. One digital supplier is going to open their eyes soon and realise that they could make serious mileage out of being the star of this show.
Want a brighter printed future?
The team at Duo Media has detailed the results of a survey of industry
consultants who were asked for their predictions of the future. One
aspect of future print, 3D printing, has taken some interesting turns
this last week: 3D print production of a piece of human skull, for example, or a vending solution for small sized 3D printed parts.I wonder if it includes newspaper publishers getting into education? That’s exactly what News Corp. appears to be doing: tablets for education from Mr Murdoch. Interesting! And if you’re one of us in the over 50 bracket, you might want to know what teenagers get about the internet that us grown up don’t.
Are you a cloud storage
fan as yet, or does it still give you an uneasy feeling. Dan Gillmor
gives voice to his concerns in an article from the Guardian.By the way, if you have a tablet that let’s you choose your own favourite browser, you might want to take a look at the latest Opera (available in the Play store). It’s much neater then previous versions and extremely swift in our experience.
Android Tips: Nexus 7 fans have been anticipating the arrived of a dedicated, purpose built docking station for several months from Messrs Google & Co. The good news? It has this week been posted as available for order on Google Play.
The even better news [for us at PIND, at least!] is that our order has
already arrived - just two days after being placed. Most impressive -
especially when the site said to allow at least two weeks from time of
order. The less than good news? Word is that stock has already run out!OK, so now we have your attention at least. A brief hands on review, with as little gloating as is possible, is the least we can do for other Nexus 7 fans. The summary: it's just fine. It does what it says on the tin. It supports the Nexus 7 in landscape mode, charging as it goes if you plug in your standard charging lead into the rear of the base. This does actually leave the original USB-mini socket free and available. Plug an OTG link in there to accommodate a standard USB stick, a keyboard with a wire, or (as in our picture) the business end of a cordless mouse. Presumably it would be possible to connect up a USB hub and plug in all three at one: we don’t have one right now, so we can’t try it.
Enough
said I suspect. It is fine, appears to be just as well built as the
Nexus 7 itself, and helps to extend the ability of the tablet, giving a
pretty reasonable impersonation of a laptop when coupled with said
cordless mouse and our favourite Apple Bluetooth keyboard (other
keyboards are available!). Any questions?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.
PIND136
Missed Issue 136, with news of offset installs? Then simply click here!
Issue 135: PUR binding
Issue 134: Digital publishing
Issue 133: Hard times for heavy metal
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
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