The Seybold Report

NeoMedia Technologies Releases Self Service 2-D Barcode Solution

NeoMedia Technologies has released a self service 2-D barcode solution called QodeScan. NeoMedia says the addition of QodeScan to the company's barcode management solution portfolio provides businesses with an affordable way to create and deploy barcodes and QR codes. more

PRIMIR Releases Study on Integrated Marketing

PRIMIR has released a new study, entitled Impact of Integrated Marketing on the Printing Industry." The research, conducted by InfoTrends, provided exclusively to PRIMIR members, identifies marketing trends in integrating various media into marketing campaigns and discusses print's role in integrated marketing. The research report also identifies the key vertical markets where integrated marketing plays an essential role for promotion.

According to the study, integrated marketing spend in 2011 was $15 billion in the top five vertical markets: automotive, retail, food and beverage, financial services, and healthcare. Based on projected growth at an average of 11% CAGR, integrated marketing spend will reach $25 billion in 2016. more

RR Donnelley Introduces Cloud-based Document Management Platform

RR Donnelley has announced Roundtable, a Cloud-based document management platform. According to information provided in the news release, Roundtable is designed to be a robust collaboration and file sharing tool for companies requiring a level of security and guaranteed availability not found in other, more general, file sharing systems. more

GMG Releases GMG ColorServer 4.8

GMG has released GMG ColorServer 4.8, an updated version of its color management software. The company says the latest version has numerous new features, but notably includes number of other features including improved conversion of PDF files, new RGB-to-CMYK separation profiles, as well as optimized performance. more

Web2Print Experts Announces Web-to-Print Software Provider Research Resource

Web2Print Experts, a technology-independent Web and print consulting company based in San Francisco, has created a free online research tool, W2P Finder, to help printers and to Web-to-print software providers find each other. According to the press release, in order to create the resource, Web2Print Experts collected information about vendors and the software offerings. The user may opt to use a simple search tool to find the set of Web-to-print software providers that best fit the user's requirements. more

The Ghent Workgroup Releases Ghent PDF Output Suite v 4.0

The Ghent Workgroup has released the Ghent PDF Output Suite v 4.0, a group of test files designed to check a workflow's ability to support up-to-date PDF/X-4 functionality and the latest standards. This latest test suite introduces additional PDF/X-4 patches for testing new PDF/X-4 features. more

OKI Data Americas Announces PaperCut MF

OKI Data Americas has announced the availability of PaperCut MF, a print job accounting and management software which works with OKI single (MFPs), and open platform MFPs. The company says PaperCut MF helps organizations accurately and conveniently account for, and recoup the costs of, printing and copying and also Papercut MF can be combined with a variety of card reader systems available through OKI. more

RadTech Europe Issues a Call for International Innovations Awards Entries

RadTech Europe, an industry association supporting UV and EB curing technology, has issued a call for entries for its bi-annual and 6th edition of its international Innovations Awards. The competition is open to companies creating innovative applications using UV or EB curable inks, coating or adhesives and/or produced in any printing, manufacturing or construction application using radiation curing technology. Deadline for entry submission is September 15, 2013, and the awards will be presented during RadTech Europe's 25th Jubilee Conference and Exhibition in Basel, Switzerland October 15. more

Quick Printing Magazine Readers Choice Award Winners Announced

The winners of the 2013 Quick Printing Magazine Readers’ Choice Top Products Awards competition have been announced. The competition had 21 categories including color management, ink and toner, digital presses, and more, and only one winner per category was allowed. more

EFI Acquires printLEADER

EFI has acquired the assets of privately held printLEADER. a provider of print MIS (management information systems) software products for the printing industry headquartered in Palm City, Florida. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed by either company, but EFI stated in the press release announcing the purchase the company does not expect the expense to be material to EFI's Q2 or full-year 2013 results. In addition, the release noted EFI intends to integrate printLEADER's MIS products into EFI's PrintSmith vision product line, part of EFI's EPS group. more

SGIA Opens Registration for 2013 Printed Electronics and Membrane Switch Symposium

SGIA is now accepting registrations for the 2013 Printed Electronics and Membrane Switch Symposium, to be held in conjunction with the 2013 SGIA Expo  scheduled for October 23-25 in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center. The events will be held in conjunction with the IFAI Specialty Fabrics Expo. more

Staples to Sell 3-D Printers

Staples, an office supply chain based in the United States, has announced it will sell the Cube Systems 3-D printer in some of its stores starting in June. The device is available for order now on the Staples Web site. The printer is priced at $1,299, comes with templates, and works with Macs or Windows-based computers. The device even has WIFI. more

PRIMIR Releases Study on Selling Print Online

PRIMIR has released a new study, eCommerce & Print Business Models, based on research conducted by InfoTrends. The study examines how printers can use e-commerce to increase sales. The press release announcing the study says e-commerce (orders placed via the Web) shipments will increase from $17.4 billion in 2011 to $29.7 billion in 2016, for a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.3%. The study is available to current PRIMIR members. more

SGIA Opens Registration for its 2013 Expo

SGIA is now accepting registrations for this 2013 Expo, to be held October 23-25 in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center. The event will be held in conjunction with the IFAI Specialty Fabrics Expo. more

Interquest Announces 2013 London Digital Book Printing Forum

Interquest has announced the 2013 London Digital Book Printing Forum will be held on June 20 and will focus on trends and opportunities in digital book manufacturing. The event will be held at the Royal Society, Carlton Terrace, in London. more

Atlantic Zeiser Launches DIGILINE Compact for Variable Data Printing

Atlantic Zeiser has released the DIGILINE Compact system for use in printing and encoding variable data on flat carton boxes, cardboard blanks, and single sheets. The company is introducing the system at Grafitalia, which is being held this week in Milan. The company says the DIGILINE is an entry-level, standalone system for late-stage short-run printing of serial numbers, codes and logos on carton boxes, cardboard blanks and single sheets, such as sleeves and labels. more

Kodak Launches New FLEXCEL NX System Users Certification Program

Kodak has announced a certification program for FLEXCEL NX System Users. Certified users will be able to display a logo attesting to the certification on Web sites and marketing materials. To qualify, a user must submit print samples and client recommendation letters. more

InfoTrends Releases Study on the On Demand Printing Market in India

InfoTrends has completed a new study entitled Print on Demand: India which, the company's press release says, "sheds light on the current usage of print equipment in conjunction with digital applications, and on future requirements and trends in the on demand printing market in India." more

President Obama to Nominate Davita Vance-Cooks for Public Printer

The Government Printing Office (GPO) has announced United States President Obama intends to nominate Davita Vance-Cooks, currently the Deputy Public Printer, for the post of Public Printer, the GPO's chief executive. If her nomination is successful, Vance-Cooks would become the first woman to serve as Public Printer. more

Adobe Moves Creative Suite Software 100% to the Cloud

Earlier this week, Adobe announced it would no longer sell Creative Suite as discreet products available for purchase in boxed or download form. Instead, the company will sell access to Creative Suite software in the Creative Cloud form. Users will be able to access one software program for $19.95 a month or the entire software collection for $49.95 a month. Existing Creative Suite owners (CS3 and later) will pay less, initially. Details on this announcement and several other signicant ones Adobe also made this week will be in the next issue of the Seybold Report, which publishes next week. more

Agfa Graphics Launches :Apogee StoreFront 1.3

Agfa Graphics has released Version 1.3 of :Apogee StoreFront, its Cloud-based Web-to-print system. The company says Version 1.3 makes it easier for print buyers to customize print and offers the ability to create "microstores." Other new features in :Apogee StoreFront 1.3 include support for real-time UPS shipping cost quote, alarm levels for stock products, and an image library shared across all the customizable documents in the store. more

Kodak Makes Deal With Largest Creditor

Eastman Kodak Company has announced a comprehensive settlement agreement with the UK Kodak Pension Plan (KPP), its largest bankruptcy creditor. Under the agreement, which will be filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court, Kodak’s Personalized Imaging and Document Imaging businesses will be spun off under new ownership to KPP. According to the press release announcing the deal, the settlement agreement provides, among other things, for the spin-off of Kodak’s Personalized Imaging and Document Imaging businesses to KPP for cash and non-cash consideration of $650 million. Certain proceeds will be used to support the emergence of Kodak from Chapter 11 and the growth of its Commercial Imaging business. The agreement also settles approximately $2.8 billion in claims by KPP against Kodak and certain of its affiliates. more

GMG OpenColor Receives 2013 FTA Technical Innovation Award

The Flexographic Technical Association has awarded GMG OpenColor a Technical Innovation Award in the category of Prepress-Graphics. The Technical Innovation Award recognizes companies and/or individuals whose visions and perseverance bring new products and technologies to the flexographic marketplace. more

Quark XML Author Supports Japanese

Quark has extended its Quark XML Author tool to support Japanese-speaking content creators as well as users from around the world who create Japanese-language materials. The company says, in addition to a fully-localized and integrated user interface, Quark XML Author now supports Microsoft IME and Microsoft Office IME (2007/2010) for Japanese, including keyboard and IME Pad support. more

SpotOn! Press and RPimaging Announce Distribution Agreement

SpotOn! Press has announced RPimaging is now a North American reseller for the  for the SpotOn! suite of tools. more

Contex Expands PageDrop App

Contex has expanded PageDrop, an app designed to process wide format scans, to its IQ 4400 series scanners. The company says the free mobile app bypasses computers and scanning software for single page scans, enabling smartphone and tablet users to send Contex-scanned documents directly to destinations including Dropbox, HP ePrint, and e-mail. more

RR Donnelley Expands Services Provided to Northern Tool and Equipment Co.

RR Donnelley has announced the company has signed a multi-million dollar agreement expanding its relationship with Northern Tool and Equipment, the Sportsman's Guide and the Golf Warehouse. Northern Tool and Equipment acquired the Sportsman's Guide and the Golf Warehouse in December 2012. Under the terms of this agreement, RR Donnelley will provide a comprehensive range of catalog and direct response production services, retail inserts, co-binding, co-mailing, and logistics services. more

RR Donnelley Signs Agreement with AmeriMark Direct to Provide Catalog Services

RR Donnelley has announced the company has signed a awarded a multi-year multi-million dollar agreement to provide catalog services to AmeriMark Direct and its Dr Leonard's Healthcare Corp. business. RR Donnelley will provide catalog production, co-binding, co-mailing and logistics services. Multiple RR Donnelley facilities will coordinate to deliver gravure and offset production resources as well as to provide logistics capabilities. more

Enfocus Expands Latin America Presence

Enfocus has announced the company will expand its presence in Latin America, starting with Brazil and expanding into the surrounding region. The company has also appointed Heysler Hey as Business Development Manager for Latin America. more