HP WallArt is an easy-to-use, cloud-based web service that helps simplify the design, visualisation and production of customised wall decoration applications. It is free of charge for HP Latex customers and is already in use by more than 2,400 customers in 81 countries. Link to article: http://www.largeformatreview.com/business/business-news/5298-hp-wallart-3-0-helps-latex-customers-grow-interior-decoration-business 0 0 1 96 549 Proactive Management 4…

Links to the caricatures/cartoons that led to the cowardly murders of 12 people in Paris earlier today.  http://gawker.com/what-is-charlie-hebdo-and-why-a-mostly-complete-histo-1677959168 Old stuff related to this: Fox News: Bill O’Reilly South Park Muhammad Death Threats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqouaQVA6Hc Bill Maher on Muslim Censorship in South Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt9SNmk07Ds 0 0 1 97 555 Proactive Management 4 1 651 14.0 Normal 0…

A few short years ago, Al Rank, a true veteran of the large-format imaging (i.e., reprographics) business and industry, closed down Precision Imaging (which was formerly called Precision Blueprint years before).  PBI’s business was restarted by Elmer Rhoades (Elmer is the owner of three repro companies and Elmer recently joined the IRgA Board.)  Anyway, Al…

THE GOOD NEWS: Real Estate Prices. Since 2009, real estate prices, in many parts of the U.S., have risen significantly.  In 2011, you could have purchased condo properties in CdM, CA (part of Newport Beach, CA) for around $600 per sq ft.  By now, prices have increased to $900 – $1,000 per sq ft.  Prices…

There was a very, very interesting article, yesterday (Sunday) in the “review” section of the New York Times about “ransomware”. Can you imagine what would happen if, suddenly and without any warning, every (every!) file on your laptop or desktop got “locked”?!!! Well, that’s what ransomware does.  It locks-down access to your files.  Then, you…

See post about this on AE Graphics’ blog!: http://aegraphics.com/index.php/2014/12/18/texas-plumbers-old-truck-resurfaces-in-syria-mounted-with-terrorists-guns/ 0 0 1 63 360 Proactive Management 3 1 422 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} And,…

I made my annual trip to Art Basel Miami earlier this month.  Art Basel Miami has grown into a humongous event, and, if you’re into art, it’s an event that you don’t want to miss.  At my age, I don’t have any wall space left to fill, but, even though that’s the case, …..it’s still…

Article from the web-site of the Committee to Protect Journalists: Not surprising, but certainly disheartening, to find such a barbaric act in this day and age.   In Mauritania, blogger sentenced to death for apostasy (For those of you who may be a bit geographically-challenged, the country of Mauritania is located in the northwest part of…

For Reprographics 101, I do a fair amount of research on Google. Yesterday, while doing that – Google research on the Internet – I found links to a reprographer’s “order” files.  With this link, I found that I could view every order this company processed.  I could not only view the orders, I could print…

Recently noticed this on BLI’s web-site: November 18, 2014 – Hackensack, New Jersey – Wide format devices from Canon and HP were honored today with Pick and Outstanding Achievement Awards from Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI), the world’s leading independent authority in the document imaging industry. BLI’s prestigious Pick awards acknowledge the best-in-class devices in each category…