ommentators have suggested that print is struggling to find its rightful place in the marketing mix and will continue to decline. At Konica Minolta, they see it differently. Successful printing companies continue to embrace the new opportunities coming alongside digitalization. Read article by Olaf Lorenz, GM, DX Branding Division, Konica Minolta.

University of Houston’s Digital Media students develop transmedia skills across eleven digital media disciplines. XMPie’s software donation empowers students to integrate print with video and social media. The result is sophisticated, data-driven, personalized, multi-channel business communications. 

Each of us has customers and clients who want a more committed, long-term working relationship. Yet, few recognize the multitude of “mutual benefits” that tend to go begging from neglect of this condition.

Commercial printers depend on their OEM supplier for printers capable of meeting their customers’ ever-growing requirements for short-run, high-impact, specialized print output. Unmet customer needs mean lost business to both the printer and their OEM supplier. To meet commercial printers’ requirements, Memjet’s OEM partners are integrating the Dur...

Toppan Forms, a user of KODAK PROSPER Presses, achieved a major milestone when they returned a jetting module built with KODAK Stream Inkjet Technology for refurbishment after more than 34,000 hours of operation. This equates to printing non-stop for almost four years and printing enough A4 pages to reach the moon three times over.

We need to make changes to some of our electronic forms, but we have not been able to find the source code. We have the object code, is there a way to go from object code back to source code? The programmers don’t want to start from scratch recoding all the forms. So, what are our options?

Too many print companies have no or nearly no printed self-promotion literature that explains the superior value of Print, what economic benefits, and beneficial services our companies can provide our customers and prospects. We ask our customers to spend money on printing; maybe we should too.

Printing solutions have gone through many exciting advances over the past 25 years. While the basic technologies behind inkjet and laser printers were invented in the 1960s, these systems have been refined to meet today’s challenges. Printers themselves have become far more technically advanced, and they can handle a greater volume of work with bet...

November 26 Update: This began as an HP/Xerox Dance, became an aggressive tango, and now almost fisticuffs. In its November 25 letter to Xerox, HP stated that “…we are not dependent on a Xerox combination” and “We will not let aggressive tactics or hostile gestures distract us…” Where will it all end? Read the full text of Xerox’s Nov. 26 letter.

In Sunday’s letter, HP rejected Xerox’s “intent on forcing a potential combination” by issuing threats. The response was, “We will not let aggressive tactics or hostile gestures distract us…” HP’s response let Xerox know that ‘It’s YOU, not us’ who are responsible for stalling the deal. Then HP provides a long list of reasons why. Click through for...