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Friday, January 24, 2003
Graphic Arts Trends
TrendWatch Graphic Arts has released a new study profiling major trends and business statistics in the graphic arts. Among the key findings:- Digital color print is up. Traditional offset print is down -- 38% of design and production firms say their digital color printing jobs are increasing. The same number (38%) say that their traditional offset printing jobs are decreasing
- Number of printing establishments is down -- The number of small commercial and quick printing establishments hit a high point in 1990 at 37,352 U.S. establishments. That number has been declining ever since
- Cross-media is up -- 42 percent of graphic design firms surveyed reported cross-media as being strategic keys to the success of their business.
The report is available for $1,595 from TrendWatch.
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Thursday, January 23, 2003
Scalable Vector Graphics Roadmap
As an XML language for describing graphics, SVG is a potentially important standard in the future of print -- it is already supported in some Adobe applications. According to the SVG Roadmap the first draft of print specifications is scheduled for March 2003.
Draft Roadmap for SVG announced. The SVG Working Group has released the first public version of the SVG Roadmap. It's a draft which is missing details on some of the expected new work, but should give an indication of the general direction. Also, the Working Group has made a public version of their charter available for informative and historical purposes. [Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)]
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Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Now Living at a Printer Near You
Wow, this really is Future of Print stuff...
Inkjets "print" living tissue. Inkjet printer technology doesn't get enough credit. From vendors who fill the reservoirs with edible inks and lay down photorealistic images on sheet-cakes to "Napster fabbers" who lay down successive layers of goop to make three-dimensional images, and let's not forget the doomed odorama startup that mixed perfumes in inkjet carts and vaporized them to create aroma-on-demand tech for PCs. Now, though, we have "tubes of living tissue" coming out of inkjets.
Many labs can now print arrays of DNA, proteins or even cells. But for tissue engineers, the big challenge is creating three-dimensional structures. Mironov became interested when Thomas Boland of Clemson University, also in South Carolina, told Mironov how he could print biomaterials using modified ink-jet printers.[Boing Boing Blog]
JDF Development Tools
JDF is the emerging XML standard for open workflow and connectivity in the print industry. OAI's JDF Development Platform is the first third-party toolkit to become available, and it simplifies the complex JDF architecture through the use of visual programming tools.
Objective Advantage Releases Initial Version of the JDF Development PlatformObjective Advantage, Inc. has released the first version of its JDF Development Platform (JDP), a programming toolkit designed to help print industry software and equipment providers integrate Job Definition Format (JDF) and Job Messaging Format (JMF) capabilities into print workflow products. A demo version is available from Objective Advantage. [...] [WhatTheyThink]
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