Printing Industry Commentary & Analysis

David Watson

Published June 3, 2008

Is this the Inkjet drupa?

Published June 3, 2008

HP and Light Production

Published May 31, 2008

Changing the Dynamics of Digital Printing

Published May 30, 2008

The Battle of the B2s

Published May 29, 2008

New Branding for MAN Roland

Published May 28, 2008

HP Prints Wider Measure

Published May 28, 2008

Fujifilm – The Inkjet Company

Published May 27, 2008

Fujifilm Introduces First B2 Format Digital Sheetfed Press

Published May 24, 2008

Color Measurement in Operation

Published May 20, 2008

CtP at drupa

Published May 19, 2008

Romano and Tribute in Zagreb

Published May 15, 2008

Graphic Arts Standards

Published May 15, 2008

Offset to Digital Transfer – Is it Happening?

Published April 29, 2008

X-Rite with Pantone. A View of the Future

Published April 8, 2008

What’s Happening at Agfa?

Published April 3, 2008

Heidelberg – Peak Performance

Published March 25, 2008

40 Years of Digital Prepress - Part 3

Published February 26, 2008

Konica Minolta Holdings and Oce: Another Big Challenge in Printing

Published February 19, 2008

Romano is Found Down Under

Published February 18, 2008

Transpromo Printing, Is This Relevant for Printers?

Published February 12, 2008

40 Years of Digital Prepress - Part 2

Published January 29, 2008

Why is HP buying Exstream?

Published January 23, 2008

Four Months to drupa: Comments on Kodak, Screen, Xerox, Ricoh

Published January 22, 2008

Kodak’s New Inkjet Strategy

Published January 17, 2008

Building a Transpromo Business

Published December 11, 2007

New Drop on Demand Inkjet to be a drupa Highlight

Published November 27, 2007

Kodak Makes a Pitch for Flexo

Published November 20, 2007

No Process & Chemistry Free Plates – The Future is Violet!

Published November 13, 2007

Xerox Moves into High-Speed Color

Published October 30, 2007

Advanced Vision Technologies buys Graphic Microsystems Inc: Is This the Future for Press Control?

Published October 23, 2007

Sun Chemical SmartColour - Backwards or Forward Looking?

Published October 16, 2007

LabelExpo – A Preview For drupa 2008

Published October 9, 2007

GE07: Building a New Digital Business from the Ashes of the Old

Published September 4, 2007

FREE: X-Rite/Pantone – The New Force in Color

Published August 28, 2007

Slowing the Rise of Counterfeiting

Published August 21, 2007

Broken HIPs

Published August 14, 2007

A High Price for Market Dominance, Commentary on the Esko & Artwork Systems deal

Published August 7, 2007

Video Reflections: Thoughts from the WhatTheyThink.com Video Center

Published July 31, 2007

What is Workflow?

Published July 17, 2007

Fuji Xerox Moves into High-Speed Color

Published July 10, 2007

HP's Print 2.0 and the Graphic Arts

Published June 5, 2007

OEM Inkjet – A New Challenge?

Published May 22, 2007

Is the Virtual Trade Show Coming?

Published May 15, 2007

FFEI – After the MBO

Published April 3, 2007

Increasing Acceptance of Digital Book Printing

Published March 27, 2007

Another Nail in the Coffin!

Published March 13, 2007

Oce Poses Questions over the Move to Color

Published March 8, 2007

Who’d Buy a Printing Company? A look at Quebecor World

Published February 20, 2007

All Change for High-Speed Digital Color

Published February 13, 2007

A Better Way to Preview Complex Print

Published February 6, 2007

The Power of Print is Protecting the Environment

Published January 23, 2007

What’s Happening with Newspapers?

Published January 16, 2007

Digital Books Switching to Color

Published January 9, 2007

Debt-Saddled Polestar Loses and Regains Its Bearings, Leaving the Rest of Europe’s Printing Industry All at Sea

Published December 12, 2006

Esko Gets It Right by Thinking Inside and Outside the Box

Published November 28, 2006

Is Xaar for Sale? Could the Buyer’s Name Start with “A”? “K”?

Published November 21, 2006

FREE - Situation of Print Education in London Raises A Question: Do UK Printers Know A Good Thing When They See One?

Published November 14, 2006

Management Buyout of Fujifilm Electronic Imaging as FFEI Raises Strategic Question: Just Where Is Fujifilm Headed?

Published November 7, 2006

Belgium's Punch Graphics Punches Well Above Its Weight With Impressive Developments in Digital Printing and CtCP

Published October 3, 2006

HP Scitex Knows What It's Doing When It Throws A Party - And When It Rolls Out Next-Generation Inkjet Technology

Published September 19, 2006

The Business Press Discovers An Industry Called “Printing”

Published September 12, 2006

Advances in Workflow Are Bringing Us That Much Closer To 100 Percent Automated,

Published September 5, 2006

DI Printing: Still Competitive with Digital for Short-Run Work, Or Just a Technology with a Great Future Behind It? (Part 2)

Published August 30, 2006

DI Printing: Still Competitive with Digital for Short-Run Work, Or JDI Printing: Still Competitive with Digital for Short-Run Work,

Published August 29, 2006

Demand for Aluminum

Published August 15, 2006

Is Digital Killing Four-Color Offset Printing? Maybe It Is, Now That Nobody Has Time To Wait for the Ink To Dry

Published August 8, 2006

Consortium Pursues an Alternative to Monochrome Output In a Common Architecture Standard for Transactional Color

Published August 1, 2006

The World's Largest Order for Xerox’s iGen3 Digital Press Delivers

Published July 25, 2006

As HP Ponders Its Future Printing Options, The Question Is: Does It Really Understand Where Its Best Opportunities Lie?

Published July 18, 2006

Through Strategic Acquisitions, Fuji Photo Film Equips Itself For Technological Dominance of Inkjet Consumables Market

Published July 11, 2006

How Digital Printing Is Creating Its Own Best Opportunties By

Published June 27, 2006

How Digital Presses Streamlined a United Nations In-Plant

Published June 20, 2006

Does Franchise-Based Quick Printing, A Child of the 1970s, Have Any Viability as A Business Model in the 21st Century?

Published May 30, 2006

FREE: Digital Postage Stamps

Published May 23, 2006

FREE: OnDemand - Get Set - Go

Published May 16, 2006

When Buying CTP, Technology No Longer Matters - But Relationships with CTP Suppliers Are Everything

Published May 2, 2006

Printed Electronics – A Future Printer’s Market?

Published April 25, 2006

Advances in Inkjet Herald New Capabilities, Broader Markets

Published April 18, 2006

IPEX Wrap-up: Much To See, and Even More To Think About

Published April 11, 2006

The Digital Production Color Market Is About To Change As New Challengers Throw Down the Gauntlet to Xerox

Published April 4, 2006

The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring Are the Violets of CtP

Published March 28, 2006

Living with - and Possibly Even Profiting from - Print Management

Published March 21, 2006

Breakthrough Technology from Heidelberg Checks Color on Every Sheet, Hastening the Advent of Full CIM Capability for Offset Litho Production

Published March 15, 2006

How Offset Is Fighting Back To Gain Respect As the Best Solution for Short-Run Color Printing

Published March 7, 2006

How Offset Is Fighting Back To Gain Respect As the Best Solution for Short-Run Color Printing

Published February 28, 2006

Printed Electronics: Just Another Disruptive Technology, or A Sterling Business Opportunity?

Published February 21, 2006

As DHL Global Mail Moves into Document Outsourcing, the Stakes Rise Yet Again

Published February 14, 2006

For Vendors, the Game Is Either Catch-Up or Catch-Me-If-You-Can

Published February 7, 2006

IPEX To Raise Curtain on Notable Advances in Digital Print

Published January 31, 2006

IPEX: Best Guesses as to What Might We Expect

Published January 24, 2006

There's Still No Short Answer to the Short Run Color Question

Published January 17, 2006

A Monster of Our Own Making: The “WEEE Man” Casts His Shadow over the Environment

Published January 10, 2006

Printing Books Where People Buy Them: A Real Opportunity at Last?

Published December 6, 2005

Has Thermal CtP Passed its Sell by Date?

Published November 29, 2005

Speculation and Raising the Bar

Published November 15, 2005

China – A Growing Print Market

Published November 8, 2005

Whose Afraid of CtCP?

Published October 25, 2005

Williams Lea, A World Leader in Business Process Outsourcing

Published October 18, 2005

Commercial Digital Printing – Can Canon?

Published October 11, 2005

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