Podcast #Printerverse: University of Houston’s Digital Media Program with Andy and Julie Plata
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A New Platform For a Better Communication Workflow: The Ricoh Communications Manager
Last year, Ricoh unveiled their Ricoh Communications Manager, a centralized software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enhances visibility and efficiency of print and digital communication workflows. The scalable and secured Communications Manager is a standardized platform used to manage, view and report on job status and activity.
Continue ReadingIs It Possible To Redefine Print in a Digital Era?
In our digital era, it’s getting harder for brands to capture their consumer’s attention. The days of one-dimensional campaigns and classical multimedia strategies are slowly coming to an end in favour of omnichannel communications allowing to redefine print in a digital era.
Continue ReadingThe digital transformation of industrial printing
Since ancient times, people around the world have been looking to beautify their environment and enrich their lives using decorations. They have used decorative glyphs, paintings, and written words in monochrome and color to reflect their lifestyles and to communicate functional messages. Still today, innovators on worldwide basis always seek solutions for the deposition of decorative and functional materials on everyday objects and surfaces. The driving force behind these developments is the need to mass-produce printed items like books or packaged consumer goods from leading industry brands.
Continue ReadingTamoco connects print ads to the digital world
New technologies have the opportunity to change print advertising profoundly in the next few years. For example, Tamoco developed a print ad with an NFC-tag for BMW that allowed readers to download the BMW i app and access valuable content simply by placing their mobile phones next to the ad. According to the company, NFT engagement was three times that of QR despite German consumers being supposedly less familiar with NFC than some other global markets.
Continue ReadingA History of drupa Global Trends: Key Financial Measures for Printers
The recent history of the print industry is very much a success story of digital printing. In 2014 we started our drupa Global Trends Report in a challenging time for our industry but we are happy to report a positive trend as print embraces the new and exciting technology of digital print.
Continue ReadingPrint Has Got its Mojo Back: 4th drupa Global Trends Report 2017
The 4th Global Trends report was conducted in October 2016 following a very successful drupa amongst 1.200 participants with a good cross section from all the main market sectors and regions.
Continue ReadingCrossing the finish line – a Cinderella story
Post-press binding and finishing in commercial print, packaging, sign & display graphics and other sectors will be a key attraction at drupa 2016. As they say, it isn’t finished until it is finished … and for many companies, there are still significant opportunities for improving throughput and productivity as well as reducing costs in their post-press departments.
Continue ReadingTouch the future – Applications that can create growth
In spring 2015 we asked the printing company members of our drupa expert panel to participate in a survey on the implementation of fresh print applications. Our objective in this report is to identify how digital technology is both changing the demand for print but also allowing fresh print applications to create growth opportunities. Here's a summary of the results.
Continue Reading1st results – Applications that can create growth
The first results of the 2nd drupa Global Insights Report “Touch the future – Applications that can create growth” are out now. It spells out what that good management practice should be and gives case studies to demonstrate the results in practice.
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