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  • Friday, February 10, 2012 Press release from the issuing company PRIMIR, the Print Industries Market Information and Research Organization, announces the publication of its newest study “Impact of Electronic Technologies on Print.” 
 
 ‘Early in 2011, PRIMIR commissioned I.T. Strategies to investigate electronic communications technologies and provide insights into how and why the printing…

  • About Franklin Imaging Franklin Imaging has been a fixture in the Columbus community for decades. You may remember us as Franklin Blueprint & Supply, one of the first reprographic companies in Columbus. In 1998, we changed our name to Franklin Imaging in order to reflect our commitment to electronic document management and digital imaging. As…

  • This is just the beginning of the article… By Dr. Joe Webb on February 6th, 2012 U.S. commercial printing shipments for December were $6.96 billion. This was down -$207 million compared to December 2010, a decrease of -2.9%. On an inflation-adjusted basis, shipments were down -$395 million, or -5.4%. The full year was $83.65 billion,…

  • Electrical (sub-) contractors exchange notes about whether to print or not print plans and, if not print, doing “electronic take-offs”. Interesting back and forth exchange; here’s the link: http://www.electriciantalk.com/f15/bid-drawings-printer-mail-self-print-33617/

  • Financial Outlook Survey: We Need Your Input As a graphic imager, we need your input about the year ahead, what equipment you purchased or plan to purchase, and how you plan to position your business for success in 2012. As a thank-you for your participation, we will send you the full survey report as soon…

  • In order to truly appreciate this new imaging technology, I think one has to actually “touch and feel” prints produced by the Scodix 1200 Digital Press. In other words, for this one, “a picture may not be worth 1,000 words!” Can you imagine printing a photograph of a basketball where you can actually feel the…

  • John Boos of AXSA Engineering Products (Winter Park, FL …. and Winter Park FL is a suburb of Orlando, FL) needs to get rid of some OCE equipment, fast, and, apparently, he’s ready to deal! Here’s what he said in a post on LinkedIn this morning: “I have some Oce equipment to sell ASAP- low…

  • From OCE’s “global” web-site (http://global.oce.com/) For those of you who are “metric-challenged”, there are approximately 10.7 sq ft in a sq meter. Press Release: Océ launches innovative portfolio for technical document systems Venlo, The Netherlands, 8 February 2012 – Océ, a Canon Group company and an international leader in digital document management and delivery, today…

  • …..INDUSTRY’S 17.7 PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT RATE REMAINS DOUBLE OVERALL RATE Read this article now up on AGC’s web-site: Date: February 3, 2012 Mild Weather Means Some Gains May Be Temporary, Construction Economist Cautions; Association Officials Urge Lawmakers to Complete Bills to Fund Infrastructure, Support Private Investment http://www.agc.org/cs/news_media/press_room/press_release?pressrelease.id=1020

  • From the Google-Analytics reporting attached to my blog, I am aware that my blog is visited, quite frequently, by OCE team members from several different countries. To those visitors: If any of the information that appears below is incorrect/inaccurate, please kindly e-mail me to let me know what to correct. Thank you. This evening, when…