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PLATNUM: international online market place for visuals
Finding a unique and affordable visual has become much easier with PLATNUM. The platform connects a wealth of visual artists to potential clients. The PLATNUM site offers a source of visual masterpieces which can be selected by colour, style or other criteria. It is also a source of inspiration and an indication of what is…
Lees meerScodix: Digital relief, varnish and foil enhancement
One of the drupa surprises was Scodix which showed its digital polymere print technique which they call Digital Enhancement. The Scodix B2+ presses, 720x520xmm, were used to print amazing examples of relief, high gloss varnish and foil applications. Scodix Sense is inkjet technology using patented polymere and has a speed of 1,200 sheets per hour.…
Lees meerFacebook pays for livestreaming
Live sharing of videos with your smart phone became big about a year ago. Facebook has been following this trend and has been paying celebrities and media companies in the US for their livestreams. The Wall Street Journal recently uncovered the exact numbers for these deals. According to the newspaper Facebook is paying more than…
Lees meerSnapchat presents Real Life magazine
“I’ve argued that “online” and “offline,” like “body” and “mind,” aren’t like two positions on a light switch—a perspective I’ve called digital dualism. Instead, all social life is made of both information and material; it’s technological and human, virtual and real. Together with friends and colleagues, I’ve theorized an experience of the internet based less…
Lees meerThe making of the Blokboek Drupa Magazine
How do you transform web content into a responsive online magazine suitable for any computer platform? That was our challenge when we wanted to make a digital magazine for drupa 2016. The search for a simple and affordable solution took us to the Netherlands where we found Instant Magazine, a Software As A Service…
Lees meerEurope on the wrong track with tax on hyperlinks
Protection of intellectual property is a good thing. Writers are happy with the copyright laws which protect their work. Europe wants to adjust these laws and tax the use of hyperlinks in digital content. Reason being that, just like with film and audio, the producer needs to be protected if money is made on content…
Lees meerTwitter and emoji targeting: social media has definitely lost its innocence
With the announcement of Twitter using emojis for targeting the Web has lost its innocence. After the announcements of Facebook drowning its users with commercial messages, linkedin’s commercialisation accelerated by the takeover by Microsoft this spells the end of independent social media apps. The market’s response seems predictable. Users will switch to advert and content…
Lees meerKBA offers a novel, interactive exhibition experience
At Drupa 2016, too, KBA offers visitors to its stand an impressive exhibition experience to do with the exhibits. This year KBA has expanded on how customers’ experience its stand with a new factor. This includes an innovative showroom concept implemented by the press manufacturer together with a leading German telecommunications supplier, T-Systems, and…
Lees meerArjowiggins and Ricoh to showcase recycled and sustainable papers at Drupa 2016
Arjowiggins Graphic is teaming up with Ricoh to demonstrate the high performance of recycled and sustainable papers. The showcase will take place at Drupa. Arjowiggins Graphic will provide Cyclus Offset, Cocoon Silk 100% recycled paper along with Satimat and the newly launched Teknocard virgin fibre paper, to be run live demonstrations on the Ricoh Pro™…
Lees meerDalim introduces version 5 of its integrated media production platform ES
Integration with Adobe Creative Cloud, perfect colour proofs with Dalim Dialogue and a 3D media view are but a few of the new functionalities in version 5 of Dalim´s ES. ES 5 will be introduced at drupa 2016. Below is a list with more important new functionalities. As part its collaborative brand management capabilities, DALIM…
Lees meerMittelrhein-Verlag still believes in a printed newspaper
With an investment of over €42M, German media house Mittelrhein-Verlag shows that there is still a future for printed newspapers. The heart of the investment is a KBA Commander CT equipped with two 6/2 towers and a maximum width of 210 centimetres. The Commander has a rated output of 45,000 full-colour, 48-page copies per hour.…
Lees meerBlookUp: blogs as books
French company BlookUp – a combination of blog and book – offers a unique new service. Consumers can publish there blogs in the form of a book. Especially women seem to like this to turn their travel blogs into a lasting memory. A personalized BlookUp is also a great gift. To transform blogs into books…
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