Canon said this week that it will soon open a new boutique at the famous New York boutique Willoughby's. The "boutique-within-a-boutique," the company said, "will carry the full array of Canon products in a branded setting."
"There is a drum beat in Congress to cut printing," declared U.S. Public Printer Bill Boarman on Wednesday, speaking to a crowd of about 80 government and higher-ed printers, consultants and vendors. He was addressing the INTERQUEST Digital Printing in Government and Higher Education Forum in Washington, D.C. His task, he stressed, as leader of the Government Printing Office, is not to preserve printing at all costs, but to make sure reductions are done in a way that doesn't hurt the legislative process.
Today it is becoming much more common to find printers using more than one printing technology. The trend in the future will be for much of the work to be done using a common workflow and for the output technology to be selected at the time of production.
To survive and prosper in these difficult economic times, in-plant managers need to ask themselves some soul-searching questions to establish why the department exists and confirm what it offers its host organization, both now and in the future.
THE IN-PLANT industry, like many other industries, has been knocked off balance by the economic turmoil of the past several years. As companies have been forced to cut costs, print has been identified as an area of potential cost savings. Gone are the days of 500-page, end-of-year reports and formal printed presentations. These major drivers of print volume have been replaced by documents housed on SharePoint sites and PowerPoint decks to be presented digitally. And now that companies have made this behavioral change, they are unlikely to change back.
Office Depot revealed its Black Friday specials Tuesday, and will emphasize the Amazon Kindle Fire in its holiday sales. In addition, the company will offer a 32GB HP TouchPad for $149.99 along with any HP PC, while supplies last.
hhgregg this week released a list of products that it calls hot gifts for the holidays.
CEA said this week that the PMA@CES program has added several new exhibitors, including Liberty, Lucidiom, Noritsu America and Tamrac.
When it comes to a pro-level camera, Canon’s 1D Mark and 1Ds Mark II cameras have been the king of Canon line up for quite some time now. Canon now deems it the right time to introduce a new mighty digital SLR, so let’s all welcome the Canon EOS-1D Digital SLR camera. From the outside, this camera might seem pretty familiar especially for those who’ve owned previous 1D models.
Petra Industries' annual golf tournament this year raised a record amount for a pair of area charities, the company said Monday.
Petra Industries' annual golf tournament this year raised a record amount for a pair of area charities, the company said Monday.
The Canon imagePRESS C7010VP series digital production press has received the IDEAlliance Digital Press Certification. The certification signifies that digital print systems comprised of a digital press, front end and a specified paper stock conform to GRACoL and its underlying G7 appearance matches within specific colorimetric tolerances.
IN A CLASSIC "Peanuts" comic strip, Schroeder confronts Charlie Brown with scores of numbers to illustrate the ineptitude of their eternally winless baseball team. He builds quite a case, and when he finally finishes recounting the team's blundering exploits, Charlie Brown offers a curt reply.
JUDGING BY the number of in-plant managers walking the Graph Expo show floor last month, there are quite a few in-plants itching to leave the recession behind and get busy adding equipment. The show gave them plenty to ogle, too, particularly in the inkjet arena.
Wide- and grand-format printers really stood out around the show floor, with the size of some devices giving them the impression of being the new “heavy iron” in the industry. Even the new crop of inkjet presses for high-volume page production was overshadowed a bit by their wider brethren, as fewer vendors elected to bring machines to Chicago.
Sony Corp., Japan’s largest exporter of consumer electronics, said it expects a "huge impact" on earnings from the weaker euro, underscoring the company’s vulnerability to the European debt crisis. Sony doesn’t buy many components from Europe while its Asian suppliers settle in dollars, limiting its ability to hedge against the euro’s decline, Hiroshi Kurihara, corporate treasurer at Sony, said in an interview in Tokyo yesterday. "There are no countermeasures that we can take for the moment," he said. "There is a huge impact on our earnings."
Many printer manufacturers have been adding AirPrint support recently, and another to join in is Canon. The company has announced that three of its all-in-one PIXMA printers now support Apple’s AirPrint. The three models are the MG8220, the MG6220, and the MG5320. Canon has posted more information regarding updating your PIXMA printer(s) in order to add the new support feature, as a firmware update may be required in some cases in order to be able to now use AirPrint.
EFI concluded a very successful GRAPH EXPO 2011 last week, with high visitor attendance, strong orders on the show floor, hundreds of qualified leads, and the most awards won by a single company in the Must See ’em award program’s history.
Graph Expo was noticeably more busy this year, due in part to a surge in attendance by in-plant managers. These videos will give you a sense of what it was like.
IPG checked out the most innovative products at Graph Expo 2011. Here, Editor Bob Neubauer chats with Frances Cicogna of Canon about the new imagePRESS C7010VPS, which teams Canon's offset-like 1,200-dpi resolution with Océ PRISMAsync workflow, and offers up to eight hours of plan-ahead production.
