I recently read four “end-of-the-year” articles noting trends in industrial custom printing and book printing (or magazine printing). I thought you might find their content both intriguing and encouraging.
My fiancee and I installed two more standees over the past few days. These were for the new movie X-Men. I was surprised to see more versioning, and I have given thought over the past few days to the goals the movie studio might have had when creating two versions of the large format print standee.
I read an article in MyPrintResource tonight called “House of the Future = On-Demand Architecture.” (www.myprintresource.com, 12/11/13, Ron Gilboa and Arianna Valentini). I found the title intriguing, in light of recent advances in 3D custom printing. In the recent past, I had also read articles about fantasy environments created with the new additive manufacturing jet printers, but I had not realized that digital custom printing has such a bright future in so many different aspects of architectural design.
I've read a number of articles recently that dispute the fact that print—and the printed book, in particular--is dead. I wanted to share some information from the articles because I find this new trend toward the coexistence of electronic media and print media to be heartening.
I just found three articles on current trends in digital printing that I'd like to share with you. The news is most heartening.
Article #1: “Newsweek Print Edition Is Returning”
The first article is from The Huffington Post (12/04/13, by Joanna Zelman) and is called “Newsweek Print Edition Is Returning.” While one article on one news entity does not confirm a trend, I think in this case the information in startling, provocative, and reflective of the still surviving love of ink on paper.
I was reading NewPage's This Is Ed #8 Digital Variables tonight, and I saw some important distinctions related to digital printing that I wanted to bring to your attention. First of all, as I've noted in prior blogs, print books like New Page's This Is Ed series are free. They not only showcase paper companies' best design work, but they also provide a wealth of information on various aspects of commercial printing. I encourage you to contact New Page or any other paper company and get on their mailing list for educational publications like this.