Gannett Publishing plans to close Johnson City printing facility

Gannett Publishing plans to close Johnson City printing facility: The publisher of the Press and Sun Bulletin will consolidate its printing operation to Rochester, effective in the middle of June.

New Editorial Director Named at NAPCO Media

New Editorial Director Named at NAPCO Media

Industry thought leader Denise M. Gustavson has been tasked with leading NAPCO Media’s Printing, Packaging, and Publishing Group, which includes Printing Impressions, packagePRINTING and In-plant Graphics magazines, among other brands, as Editorial Director.

“I’ve always admired and loved the creativity and the entrepreneurial spirit print providers in the visual and graphic communications industries exude,” says Gustavson. “As Editorial Director, I’ll be engaged with all market segments of print and look forward to working closely with many of the top market editors including Mark Michelson, Bob Neubauer, Cory Francer, Patrick Henry and many other editors at NAPCO Media. Additionally, I’ll have the opportunity to work closely with the PRINT United team which is very exciting.”

With 20 years of experience in the visual communication markets, Gustavson has in-depth knowledge of the issues, challenges and technologies of the industry. During her career, she steered and implemented major brand updates for several industry publications; coordinated successful multi-year award programs with the top sign franchises; for eight years managed the Graph Expo/Print Show Daily, which featured a complete multi-channel approach including print, digital editions, online website content/microsite, social and video; and successfully launched the first multi-channel SGIA Expo Daily in 2017. Gustavson also managed a team of more than 20 contributors, columnists and staff to support these brands.

"Denise has been an amazing addition to our team in the last year she has worked with us, and this is a natural step forward. She has proven she can tackle any project, of any size, across any brand, and make it more successful than anyone thought possible, which will be greatly important as we continue to expand and build new brands. Stepping up her role in the Printing, Packaging, and Publishing Group will ensure we can continue to grow all of our brands in new and exciting ways in the years to come,” says Mark J. Subers, President/CRO of NAPCO Media's Printing, Packaging, and Publishing Group.

In addition to her role as Editorial Director, Gustavson will continue her current role of leading the Printing, Packaging, and Publishing Group’s Custom Publishing initiatives.

Based out of her office on Long Island, Gustavson can be reached by email at dgustavson@napco.com and by calling (215) 238-5096.

Source: NAPCO Media.

Disrupting the book publishing industry

Book Printing in 2017; The Offset vs. Digital Dilemma





Did you know? According to InfoTrends, books are one of the fastest-growing applications moving from offset to digital. The institute expects no less than 22.7 billion book pages will be printed digitally by 2019.

rich set of intellectual property

Every person in your business solves challenges every day with the tools they have at their disposal and the tools they are comfortable deploying. There is a rich set of intellectual property buried there which can be retrieved by listening and understanding how humans looks for ways to build trusted systems.

By Jennifer Matt

whattheythink.com/articles/86077-intellectual-property-buried-your-print-business/ublished: July 19, 2017

One of my favorite parts of my work is sitting down talking to people who work in various roles in a print business, at their desks, without their managers, in their comfort zone.
When you go to where people are comfortable, confident, and you listen more than you talk – you get a chance to really learn how the company runs. It is very hard to find out how a print business runs if you stay in conference rooms full of hierarchy.
Like most businesses, most print businesses are running using outdated tools, ideas, and processes. The management often has an idea of “inefficiencies” that are resulting in “lower margins.” What I’m interested in is how are the people in their various roles solving the challenges that come at them every day. This is fascinating because many of these people have been solving these challenges on their own for years, sometimes decades.
Management often does not know the details of the challenges or the complexity of the solutions. I recently watched this workflow:

Platforms like Facebook's Instant Articles and Google AMP are making it harder, not easier, to publish to the web - Recode

Platforms like Facebook's Instant Articles and Google AMP are making it harder, not easier, to publish to the web - Recode: Platforms like Facebook's Instant Articles and Google AMP are making it harder, not easier, to publish to the web

Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize, Redefining Boundaries of Literature

Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize, Redefining Boundaries of Literature

A Fascinating Film About the Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times | Colossal

A Fascinating Film About the Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times | Colossal: A Fascinating Film About the Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times  by Christopher Jobson on September 7, 2016

Digital printing is the alternative to minimum order quantity - The Noel D'Cunha Sunday Column – PrintWeek India

Digital printing is the alternative to minimum order quantity - The Noel D'Cunha Sunday Column – PrintWeek India: Digital printing is the alternative to minimum order quantity - The Noel D'Cunha Sunday Column

By Noel D'Cunha,

10 September 2016

Ajay Joshi of Penguin Random House India, a major trade publisher in India, works with three print partners, two conventional and one digital. In this Part II of the series on digital print in publishing, he says, digital printing has enormous potential in India. For this to succeed, publishers, printers, and technology providers have to come together under one platform; teamwork is the mantra.

In this Sunday Column, Joshi discusses moves that can make digital printing key to a nimble publishing industry.

The Future of Publishing in a Data-Driven World - Digital Book World

The Future of Publishing in a Data-Driven World - Digital Book World

Print-on-Demand, Climate Change, and the Future of Publishing

Print-on-Demand, Climate Change, and the Future of Publishing



 

Publishing on Printing - Scientific American Blog Network

Publishing on Printing - Scientific American Blog Network

Do Digitally Altered Photos Represent Fact or Fiction? - WSJ

Do Digitally Altered Photos Represent Fact or Fiction? - WSJ: Tamina-Florentine Zuch had just won an international photography contest with an arresting image of a young woman in the open door of a Mumbai train when online critics began descending on her: The picture was a composite. The colors were doctored. The photo couldn’t be trusted.

The Advance it’s not simple

The Advance
Ivan Hoffman, B.A., J.D.

Must read article called “The Advance” (it’s not as simple as you would believe) and you can read this article at http://www.ivanhoffman.com/advance.html

Designing with LibreOffice

Reviews |: Designing with LibreOffice

“Byfield’s thoughtful book on design using LibreOffice can help improve the quality of both online and print material you create with LibreOffice. “Designing with LibreOffice” solidifies his position as one of the world’s top writers about FOSS.” – Robin, “roblimo” Miller, Editor in Chief, Slashdot and Linux.com.

“An outstanding contribution to help people bring the full power of LibreOffice into their documents. Bruce synthesises his deep experience of both LibreOffice, writing, and typography into a significant text to help users and designers use the software most effectively. The descriptions of the core document concepts will continue to be extremely valuable to users, even as the LibreOffice interface improves to make designing good documents Bruce’s way even easier.” – Michael Meeks, Director of The Document Foundation, creators of LibreOffice.

“Bruce Byfield is a man who practices what he preaches. A fierce advocate of free and open source software (FOSS), Bruce has made it his mission to share his love and knowledge of free software in a way that helps his readers make the most of what FOSS can offer. Nowhere is this more obvious than in “Designing With LibreOffice”. The book is well laid out, easy to understand, and, as the title would suggest, very well designed. With this book in your hands, Bruce’s helpful, guiding voice, and plenty of easy to follow tables and images, you will learn to love and appreciate what LibreOffice can do for you. Learn from a master and you too, will master LibreOffice.” – Marcel Gagné, Writer of The Linux Journal‘s popular “Cooking with Linux” column

“LibreOffice is the publishing world’s best-kept secret. It is called an office suite, with word processor, spreadsheet, and slideshow modules, but it’s really an advanced desktop publishing system. It is used by commercial publishers to create source documents, and to convert from source documents created with other tools, such as LaTex, to the final print-ready format.

The secret to getting the most out of LibreOffice, the powerful open source office suite and desktop publisher, is understanding styles and templates. Author Bruce Byfield is our reliable guide to mastering its rich feature set and understanding how to design an efficient, powerful workflow. LibreOffice styles apply simple to complex formatting to documents, and allow rapid global changes. Templates store all the information for replicating a particular document design. When you work with styles and templates, your time is invested in writing your content rather than fighting with its appearance.

“Designing With LibreOffice” teaches everything you need to know about document production: chapters, footnotes, citations, indexes, outlines, cross-references, incorporating images and spreadsheets, and controlling the appearance of your documents. It is well-organized and contains abundant examples, and suitable for beginners to wizened old pros, who will probably discover things about LibreOffice that they didn’t know. – Carla Schroder, Author of The Linux Cookbook, The Linux Network Cookbook, and The Book of Audacity.

” “What an incredibly thorough, useful book!” – Lee Schlesinger, Ex-editor at Linux.com, Managing Editor at Spicework.

PV Nano Cell’s nanometric silver conductive ink enables non-contact digital inkjet printing | PV-Tech

PV Nano Cell’s nanometric silver conductive ink enables non-contact digital inkjet printing | PV-Tech: Sicrys inks are highly adaptable, with 2D and 3D applications including metallization of solar photovoltaics as well as printed circuit boards, sensors, RFID, smart cards, antennas, advanced packaging, and touchscreens.

Platform

Sicrys inks enables metallization of solar cells with inkjet printing. The silver loading is said to be higher than that of other inks on the market, and comes with exceptional conductivity and low viscosity, ideal for digital inkjet printing applications, while also offering the longest shelf life in the industry, according to the company. PV Nano Cell offers both silver and copper conductive inks; Sicrys copper conductive offers a unique, low-cost replacement for silver ink. The production of the Sicrys inks involves low energy consumption and yields no hazardous wastes, a ‘green’ and efficient process.

Anti-Counterfeit Packaging Market 2016-2021 - Technology (RFID, Coding, Printing, Holograms, Taggants, Surveillance, Security Labels) & Feature (Tamper Evidence, Forensic Markers) Analysis - Research and Markets | Business Wire

Anti-Counterfeit Packaging Market 2016-2021 - Technology (RFID, Coding, Printing, Holograms, Taggants, Surveillance, Security Labels) & Feature (Tamper Evidence, Forensic Markers) Analysis - Research and Markets | Business Wire: The anti-counterfeit packaging is broadly divided into several technologies such as RFID, Coding & Printing, Holograms, Security labels, packaging designs, bar code, ink & dyes and others. RFID technology is further classified into types such as low frequency, ultra-high frequency, high frequency.

Critical Thinking: How Can Publishers Change the Perception That Print is Dying? – Editor & Publisher

Critical Thinking: How Can Publishers Change the Perception That Print is Dying? – Editor & Publisher: Alex Delaney-Gesing, 21, senior, Kent State University (Kent, Ohio)

Delaney-Gesing is a magazine journalism major. She is currently serving as the summer editor for Kent State’s student-run newspaper, The Kent Stater, and writes for the university’s student magazine, The Burr.

Where did this notion that print is on the decline come from? The rise of the digital age? Newspapers and magazines’ formatting has now expanded to include Web and mobile. However, that doesn’t mean these mediums are replacing the original. In fact, a study conducted by Nielsen found that 51 percent of newspaper readership is exclusively in print.

Today’s digital age consists of instantaneous news. The latest topics and events are now just fingertips away from the average reader. In response, the content of print has had to change. The hard, breaking news that used to grace the front pages and had readers grappling to get ahold of the daily newspaper is no longer possible.

NOOK Press | Barnes & Noble

NOOK Press | Barnes & Noble

Sticking to Core Competency - Core Publishing Solutions

Sticking to Core Competency - Core Publishing Solutions: Production Inkjet Printing
June 20, 2016
A Look at Thomson Reuters' Printing Division, Core Publishing Solutions

 

What Brexit Means for Book Publishing

What Brexit Means for Book Publishing

• In the wake of Brexit, Publisher’s Weekly has early thoughts on the implications for book publishing. It ain’t pretty.
• And Publisher’s Lunch has a more fine-grained analysis
  behind their paywall, if you’re a member. They specifically note that
  “the issue of English-language rights for continental Europe will once
  again become contentious.” In other words, with the UK out of the EU, US
  publishers may try to seize this opportunity to distribute US editions
  of their books throughout Europe, rather than leaving European sales
  territory exclusive to the UK.
• At the Atlantic, Emily Anderson discusses the emotional restraint of the Little House books. Remember when Ma scolded Laura for slamming the door because that was “wooden swearing?”

Instead of following Oprah or Sheryl Sandberg, I have—for better and worse—heeded the stoic wisdom of Wilder, who writes in Little Town on the Prairie that
“grown-up people must never let feelings be shown by voice or manner.”
In other words: I’m passive-aggressive, I secretly pursue my own agenda,
and—the greatest of self-care sins—I hide my feelings.