May 5th, 2015
Posted in Book Printing | Comments Off on Why Students Prefer Print Textbooks
I was overjoyed to find an article on www.washingtonpost.com entitled, “Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading in Print. Yes, You Read That Right,” by Michael S. Rosenwald. I was even happier to find the same article on my list from the Goggle Alerts aggregator. And when I Googled the first few words of the story, I found (what turned out to be an Associated Press story) in about six Google pages of listings. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 27th, 2015
Posted in Book Printing, Magazine Printing | Comments Off on Custom Printing: Reviewing Magazine Printers’ and Book Printers’ Samples
I just received three boxes of samples from commercial printing suppliers. Somehow the boxes look bigger in the condo than they used to look in the house, where I had a whole room for samples.
The three boxes contain specific samples from three separate printers for three separate print brokering clients. Here’s why I requested them, what I’m looking for, and why they will be beneficial to my work. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 20th, 2015
Posted in Catalog Printing | Comments Off on Catalog Printing: Views on an Upscale Bath Catalog
One of the major benefits of rebuilding a house after a fire is looking through all the print catalogs of things you might want to buy for the house. (Another is being able to see through all the wood studs with no drywall in the way—it makes the house look like one big room.) Read the rest of this entry »
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April 16th, 2015
Posted in Brochure Printing | Comments Off on Brochure Printing: Deconstructing a Promo Brochure
A friend of mine is a print book designer. She designs almost exclusively the multi-column, regularly spaced and formatted print books various government organizations publish to document their work. The consistency of her design is noteworthy, but she also has a flair for simple, elegant page construction that facilitates reading. When I was an art director, I would have hired her in a minute. And I am actually somewhat envious when she sends me page spreads to critique. She is that good at it. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 13th, 2015
Posted in Magazine Printing, Newspaper Printing | Comments Off on Printing Periodicals and Textbooks on Inkjet Presses
I read an intriguing article in Print Week India last night (an online printing-trade publication) by Rahul Kumar entitled “Digital Inkjet Printing in Newspapers Must Cross the Hurdle of Feasibility” (dated 2/6/15). Read the rest of this entry »
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April 10th, 2015
Posted in Book Binding | Comments Off on Book Printing: Short-Run Perfect Binding Equipment
I just saw a video of the new Muller Martini Mitabook, a short-run digital perfect binding machine. I personally think it’s the wave of the future. I think it also says a lot about what we want in our print books at this juncture of publishing. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 7th, 2015
Posted in Packaging | Comments Off on Commercial Printing: Deconstructing the Carton
Throughout my reading in the print and online trade journals, I have seen a handful of themes regarding the present state of commercial printing: Read the rest of this entry »
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April 2nd, 2015
Posted in Standees | Comments Off on Large Format Printing: Standee Gluing Options
I was on my hands and knees today assembling a standee (large format printed promotional display) for a new movie. It was a simple standee, just a flat card with an easel, but as I was carefully folding the corrugated board that had been spot glued to the back of the flat card to accept the easel backing, I thought about the importance of glue. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 30th, 2015
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I had mentioned about nine months ago that my fiancee’s house had burned. Now we are in the rebuilding phase after the house fire, so I am reviewing more samples of flooring than I really want to see. Ironically, many of them have looked like wood but have been a manufactured, inkjet printed flooring product. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 23rd, 2015
Posted in Printing | Comments Off on Custom Printing: A Map Maker or a Printer, or Both
In business, it is a truism that if you can do one thing really, really well, you will be successful as long as that primary service or product you offer is a necessity. Techna-Graphics, Inc., in Washington, DC, seems to fit this business maxim to a “T.” Read the rest of this entry »
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