Category Archives: Printing

Printing Industry Jobs Keep Going Away

For those who wish to know my opinion, I officially don’t like it. In case you couldn’t tell.

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The Shocking Tale of BookLocker v. Amazon

In which Lazerus describes an incredible David vs. Goliath story, and how freedom of the press could actually cost you $300,000 in legal fees.

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Where have I been?

In which Lazerus describes his first movement away from Ink-on-Paper.

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The Degradation of Prepress Employment, Part 1

Prepress employment is going away, and it’s being replaced by the content creation side. Not only are content creators doing more of the prepress part of the job, but automated systems are also replacing human beings in the workplace. Yes, a robot has taken my job. Seeing this was kind of a shocker for me. [...]

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Just When I Thought Twitter Was All Noise

Dr. Joe Webb, print industry economist at whattheythink.com tweets some pretty dramatic news:

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Why Printing Matters

Again and again I am going to post articles about why I think printing is important, until the internet swells at its seams and finally realizes that it is NO MATCH for the superior power of ink on paper! The book you see to the left was one of the biggest jobs I ever had [...]

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Validation: Why Good Design is Good Business and More About Newspapers

Image via Wikipedia My new friends at Tunicca have a post about Jacek Utko with a video of his presentation at the TED conference. Utko’s presentation is in itself worth watching, and once you are on the TED site check out some others as they are ALL very thought provoking. Assuming you want to think, [...]

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New Media is Replacing Old Media: DON’T JUST SIT THERE, GET ON IT!

A rare cohesive and and cogent argument with hopefulness, new and improved: NOW WITH FEWER TYPOS!

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How Printers can Integrate New Media

Image via Wikipedia A semi-anonymous person commented on the blog regarding printing and prepress job trends recently, and since it wasn’t a spammer, I went to their website. If you haven’t already, check out the link. What I saw shocked and amazed me, for some reason. They had an ad for their Google AdWords service! [...]

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mine magazine issue #2 works, still boring

Image by Liutao via Flickr If I didn’t do variable data printing for a living, I would probably be more impressed by the Lexus ad disguised as a magazine called “mine”. Still don’t like the enforced hipness with the lowercase, call me a curmudgeon. Unlike the first edition, they got this one formatted correctly, having [...]

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