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FESPA Fabric visitors Talk Textiles in Barcelona

FESPA Fabric visitors Talk Textiles in BarcelonaNEWS: The return of the FESPA Fabric show-within-a-show at this week's FESPA Digital trade show demonstrates 'the continued significance of garment printing as a sector', according to the organisation's managing director Neil Felton, who has highlighted the 30 exhibitors and the Textile Talk Theatre.

Young people invited to enter Print Futures Awards

Young people invited to enter Print Futures Awards

NEWS: Entries are now being accepted for the Print Futures Awards 2012. The scheme is open to people aged between 16 and 30 who work in the graphic arts, printing and publishing industries.

Second HP Indigo 5500 for J Thomson Colour Printers

Second HP Indigo 5500 for J Thomson Colour Printers

NEWS: Glasgow-based J Thomson Colour Printers has installed an HP Indigo 5500 press, its second purchase of the model.

Canon scores big at Best awards

NEWS: Imaging solutions developer Canon has won six 2011 Best awards from industry body BERTL.

Newad hopes to warm hearts of Canadians with dryer ads

NEWS: Newad has launched a campaign promoting Victoria as a winter holiday destination to the residents of Alberta, using hand dryers to highlight Victoria's warmer climate.

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Clarity Professional v4.1 to make debut at FESPA Digital

Clarity Software will introduce Clarity Professional v4.1 at FESPA Digital 2012 in Barcelona.

Stora Enso expands Graphical Board range with MediaCard

Stora Enso has added a new a single layer board with a double silk coated surface called MediaCard to its Graphical Board range.

BPIF supports National Apprenticeship Week at Barking printer

BPIF chief executive Kathy Woodward showed the organisation's support for National Apprenticeship Week by visiting the apprentices working at Precision Printing.

Fujifilm continues PrintIT! support

Fujifilm will continue supporting the PrintIT! initiative aimed at educating young people in print.

Lenstar Lenticular Print Award 'bigger in 2012', says DPLenticular

DPLenticular has praised the inaugural Lenstar Lenticular Print Award  as a 'great success' and expects this year's scheme to be 'a much bigger event'.

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EFI releases Fiery solution for Konica Minolta document system

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PaperlinX expands YoYo recycling scheme into Europe and includes more materials

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New developments in Shuttleworth MIS on display at drupa

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Greece and Italy still valuable markets, says Autobond

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What next for high-volume print as manroland falls?

Laurel Brunner: This terrible news is all the more terrible because of its sad inevitability. Manroland, and Heidelberg too, have long been trapped behind walls of such height and impenetrability. Their limited efforts to reach out to alternative technologies have merely added to their isolation because they have not been part of a wider strategy. I guess it is hard to have a strategy or make a cultural change when the wolf is at the door. These two companies cultures are unfortunately incompatible with markets and technologies that thrive on immediacy and Moore's Law. How can companies that make machines that last 50 years even begin to appreciate a digital mindset? As I see it Manroland and Heidelberg's errors begin with the following: massive investments into amazing technologies that don't wear out particularly fast so there is a long and expensive wait for replacement markets; investments in marketing and sales without recognising the implications of overcapacity or up and coming digital marking technologies; failure to invest into a company-wide understanding of digital technologies, production models or markets. Sadly both companies behave as if they are bigger than the market, and that they are too big to fail. In considering the collapse of traditional printing press manufacturers we do well to remember that the dynamism of invention is often at odds with its own legacy.

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Entrepreneur Sean Brickell named as BAPC keynote speaker

Mary Smith: I have had the pleasure of Sean hosting an event I attended. Very smartly turned out, good speaking voice, if the PA failed he would not need a bullhorn. Unfortunately from the get-go I found the repetition of "beastly and beguiling" followed by what my nieces would call "cheesy" stories, tainted the day. Expect to hear, tall stories of being held at gunpoint, how being ticklish gets you through security. A Kind of lame David Niven , with some flim flam James Bond for good measure. Never quite understood the entrepreneur approach, I thought more freelance jounalist.

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Misconceptions and myths of green vol 1, pt 2

Verdigris examines some of the myths and misconceptions preventing printing companies from adopting a more aggressive environmental strategy for their businesses.

Going large with XMF

Fujifilm has introduced XMF Print Centre, and is once again in the vanguard of workflow management.

Being there: IMI's European Ink Jet Printing Conference

Sophie Matthews-Paul attends IMI's 19th annual European Ink Jet Printing Conference in Lisbon and declares it unmissable.

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What next for high-volume print as manroland falls?

James Matthews-Paul comments on the broader significance of the insolvency petition of sheetfed and web offset printer manufacturer manroland.

Beware false prophets, or: when is a journalist not a journalist?

Each publication has its own editorial voice, and we turn to the voice we like to hear because it informs, educates or challenges us.

Kodak on the brink of collapse?

What a terrible start to the year. The venerable Eastman Kodak Company is getting ready to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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