Rich Internet Printing

BERG Cloud revitalizes the whole idea of printing with Little Printer

2011-12-01T07:09:00.000-08:00

BERG, a design studio in London, UK, is focused on product invention. For the last year or so, they've been working on a new concept they call Berg Cloud. BERG Cloud is their technology to "move the smarts" of (apparently physical) products onto the internet. On their website, you'll read a bunch of grandiose statements about their plans for BERG Cloud, but meanwhile, the exciting announcement

Printfriendly.com Makes Web Pages "Print Friendly"

2011-09-26T04:57:00.000-07:00

I’m always on the lookout for interesting applications that combine print and the internet in unique ways. There are many unique web 2.0 applications emerging, adding value to both the web and print. I recently stumbled upon a cool site, called Printfriendly.com, and I tried it out. With Printfriendly, you can create a nicely print-formatted version of a web page, and instantly print it or turn

Breakthrough Open Source JDF Toolkit

2011-08-25T04:25:00.000-07:00

Recently, On Point On Demand, a small company in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, did something none of the larger industry vendors have yet done. They took source code from currently relevant commercial software, and made it available as Open Source. The company has several popular commercial products and is led by Tom Cabanski, who was previously a partner in the well regarded and pioneering JDF

Facebook is a Publisher

2011-08-05T04:27:00.000-07:00

There has been a lot of press around the recent acquisition by Facebook of Push Pop Press, an iPad book creator founded by two former Apple employees, Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris. They are best known for publishing Al Gore's recent Our Choice, a book about climate change. I was actually surprised to hear about this particular acquisition. The company is very young, and while the technology

EFI Acquires Entrac - Money at the Edge of the Print Cloud

2011-08-01T05:01:00.000-07:00

It's so great to see EFI on the move and their stock price strong! But I better find some other companies and technology to write about here soon, or this will start looking like an EFI-centric Blog!EFI wasted no time in putting their brand on Entrac's minimalist www site, but it looks like a very complementary story coming out of this low-key Toronto company. According to Toby Weiss, EFI Fiery

EFI Direct Mobile Printing

2011-07-15T04:43:00.000-07:00

Today, EFI is in the news announcing that Canon is now supporting EFI's direct mobile print technology in their imageRUNNER ADVANCE lineup of color and black & white office systems utilizing Fiery-based imagePASS and ColorPASS controllers. EFI's direct mobile print technology enables printing directly from Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices. Read the entire release regarding the Canon

Cisco, Xerox and Cloud Printing

2011-06-15T05:15:00.000-07:00

Back in January, at the Consumer Electronics Association's venerable CES show, an “Innovation Power Panel" took place, featuring Cisco CEO John Chambers, GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt, and Xerox Chairman and CEO Ursula Burns. Among other topics, the CEOs talked about how their respective companies innovate. Things like decentralized management; investing in R&D, focusing on human resources

More on PrintMe, and Xerox Cloud Mobile Print

2011-05-16T04:43:00.000-07:00

Over at Whattheythink.com today, another great video interview by Cary Sherburne with Toby Weiss, EFI Fiery GM. Cary must have been very busy at Connect, I bet we're going to see many hours of great footage over the next few weeks! Good stuff.The new interview, which you can see here, has additional information about PrintMe that I hadn't heard prior to writing my post last week.Notably, Toby

EFI PrintMe Emerges From Obscurity

2011-05-10T07:15:00.000-07:00

Those of you who read this blog on a fairly regular basis may know that David and I have written a bit on the subject of mobile printing, notably from Smart Phones and Tablets. Our colleague Kin Lane, who is Mimeo's API Evangelist, joined forces with us this past winter to write a paper for TAGA, the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts, that provides an inventory of Cloud Printing

Lulu API Launches

2011-05-04T08:10:00.001-07:00

I read a press release early this week that Lulu.com's API, which delivers it's Open Publishing Platform is now ready for prime time with the addition of two major components. Lulu's APIs enable publishers, Website builders and entrepreneurial content owners to easily publish the books they and their authors have created. According to Lulu, their Open Publication APIs enable publishers,

Bruce Watermann Talks About Blurb.com Technology

2011-04-12T05:27:00.000-07:00