• PGSF continues to fuel tomorrow's print industry

  8/26/2008 12:00:00 AM

  The Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF) announced a new scholarship named in honor of industry veteran Brian W. Gill. This scholarship, funded through a donation from the Employing Printers Education Trust (EPET), will allow current and future graphic arts students and employees to develop skills. The scholarship is funded with a gift of $100,000, and will provide more than $5,000 financial assistance to a deserving student each year. Congratulations to PGSF and EPET for helping fuel tomorrow's print industry!

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• Goss, manroland settle patent suit

  8/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

  Press manufacturers Goss International and manroland resolved a U.S. patent infringement case involving web offset press sleeve blanket technology. Goss began the case five years ago, claiming that manroland’s Rotoman S press infringed on three of its U.S. patents for sleeve blanket technology used in its Sunday web offset press models. (Heidelberg Web Systems, acquired by Goss, filed the suit in 2003.)

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• One company up, another down

  8/23/2008 12:00:00 AM

  Interesting financial news today: Hewlett-Packard's Q3 net earnings increased 14% over the same period last year, and Vertis Communications' quarterly earnings fell 40%. Check out the GCW Industry Financial Report for a full lineup of financial news.

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• Good Transpromo description

  8/21/2008 12:00:00 AM

  Just saw this from a Xerox press release, and thought it worthy of posting (a good description of Transpromo):
  
  "Consumers today are bombarded with too much information, much of which is not relevant to them.  At the same time, marketers are trying to cut through the clutter and reach their customers with relevant information, versus blanketing their customer based with generic offers and messages.  According to InfoTrends, 63 percent of customers prefer promotional pieces over purely transactional documents, so incorporating promotional messaging in transaction documents can both boost the appeal of a transactional document and generate a higher read rate for the marketing message."
  
  Mike Salfity, vice president of Workflow Solutions Business Unit at Xerox, recently spoke at the InfoTrends TransPromo Summit in NYC.

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• In libraries...no books?

  8/19/2008 12:00:00 AM

  Recent proof that technology is changing the way books are sold, stored and consumed: Students attending the University of Texas will find something missing from the undergraduate library this fall—books. By mid-July, the university says, almost all of the library’s 90,000 volumes will be dispersed to other university collections to clear space for a 24-hour electronic “information commons.” Similar digital library centers have been built at Emory University in Atlanta, the University of Georgia, the University of Arizona and the University of Michigan.

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• Affordable 3-D printing?

  8/14/2008 12:00:00 AM

  A company called Shapeways aims to bring customized manufacturing to the masses by allowing consumers to submit digital designs of products that are then printed, using 3-D printers, and shipped back. Currently, such 3-D printers—in which successive layers of different polymers are sprayed gradually, building up a 3-D object—are very expensive and used mostly by commercial firms familiar with rendering designs in software suitable for 3-D printers. The next issue of the Greensheet has more...

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• Some mailers are mighty upset

  8/9/2008 12:00:00 AM

  Much of the mailing community is upset because the U.S. Postal Service might not support a price incentive beginning in 2009 for mailers who adopt the full-service Intelligent Mail barcode (IMB) option. That option will require mailers to use unique IMBs on mail pieces as well as trays and containers, plus submit postage statements and mailing documentation electronically before mailings are inducted, among other requirements. Stay tuned...

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• Political printing is primary biz

  8/6/2008 12:00:00 AM

  The John McCain and Barack Obama campaigns are spending $250,000 to $300,000 per day on advertising, according to TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Analysis Group. And PQ Media reports that political ad spending is expected to climb 43% to an all-time high of $4.5 billion during the 2008 election cycle. In an election year, political marketing is a primary concern. A great deal of spending by campaign managers is for direct mail, but they also need leaflets, brochures, signage, bumper stickers, yard signs and promotional products.
  
  Check out the next Greensheet for more, and feel free to share your opinions on political printing.

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