Simian invests 3.5 million Euro in production

Door Marco den Engelsman | 28/08/2017

The company behind online printers Reclameland, Drukland and Flyerzone, saw its turnover grow by 25% in the past year, to more than 20 million euros per year. This is the reason that the printer will extend production capacity and double the number of machines. Simian bought a second new 8 colour Komori press which will…

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Print fills hole

Door Rob van den Braak | 18/08/2017

Organiser Frazer Chesterman of tradeshow Pure Digital, which will take place in Amsterdam next April, has an interesting vision on the function of print. In his column he says that people experience an overload of information which gives print an increasingly important role. Read his column here:   Fraser Chesterman – Print fills the hole…

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Ghent Workgroup welcomes new member Stuttgart Media University

Door Rob van den Braak | 09/08/2017

With bringing together the combined know-how of the former University of Printing and Media, and the University of Librarianship and Information, Stuttgart Media University covers a broad spectrum of media expertise: from printed to electronic media, from mass media and media theory to production, and from design to making media available. As an established academic…

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Bell and Howell Sells Sorting Business to Fluence Automation

Door Rob van den Braak | 02/08/2017

Bell and Howell announced that it has spun off its mail-sorting business and certain parcel-labeling technologies to a new company named Fluence Automation. The newly formed company is owned by a group of investors that includes members of the Bell and Howell sorting-leadership team. “This strategic move is part of our plan to accelerate Bell…

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A Spanish First: Fujifilm Jet Press 720S at La Trama

Door Rob van den Braak | 20/07/2017

Start-up digital print business La Trama selects the Fujifilm Jet Press 720S to sit at the heart of its operations Founded five months ago to provide fully customisable short to medium run length commercial print jobs of outstanding quality, La Trama Digital Print is a dynamic, modern digital print business. Based in Zamudio, Spain, the…

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Founders want to buy back Layar

Door Marco den Engelsman | 19/07/2017

The co-founders of Layar, world´s first augmented reality companies, have plans to buy back their brainchild from current owner, suffering Blippar. Raimo van der Klein and Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald confirmed to Emerce the story which ran in Business Insider that they are in talks to buy back Layar. Investors put in about 100M$ into Blippar over…

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Quark Acquired by Parallax Capital Partners

Door Rob van den Braak | 14/07/2017

Quark, known from their desktop publishing software Xpress, has been acquired by private equity firm Parallax Capital Partners. The new owner wants to invest money to make Xpress more popular. Parallax is a software focused investor who, although it does not rule out other investments in this particular area, wants to put more marketing power…

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European privacy laws meaningless for SMEs

Door Jolanda van Drie | 06/07/2017

Six out of ten SMEs say they are not up-to-date on the European privacy laws which will come into effect in 11 months time. Nor are they up-to-date on the enormous penalties for non-compliance. This according to research by MKB (SME) Servicedesk among 3200 companies. They say there is hardly any information by the government.…

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Canada looking for printers and binders

Door Arthur Lubbers | 04/07/2017

Toronto and the South Western part of Canada are faced with a shortage of personnel for the graphic arts industry. The biggest jobsite www.printjobs.ca shows a steady growth in job advertisements for binders and printers over the past three years, whilst the number of people looking for a job in the graphic arts sector is…

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