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The company was so chuffed with its exposure at this year’s prestigious awards in sydney that it backed up right away to dig deep for next year. The nifty footwork has left local printers and suppliers flatfooted after at least one prominent printer declared last year that such overseas piracy could not be tolerated.
Never mind, president Janice Barbi still has some platinum, gold, silver and bronze sponsorships available for the 26 June 2006 awards. Contact Janice on president@galleyclubsydney.org.au
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You don’t often hear much abut IBM in the printing space these days, but that may be about to change. According to a press release the company is renewing its focus on the printing business in Australia and NZ with a high speed, continuous printer, the Infoprint 4100. As these press statement things go there are some great statistics abounding. For instance the printer can:
Pretty impressive, but what can you make of the claim that it is 20 times faster than the fastest state-of-the-art HP office printer available today?
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Black and white printers can be used to reproduce colour images, but only in shades of grey. Confused?
At the Society for Imaging Science and Technology's annual Colour Imaging Conference in Brazil, Braun and Ricardo deQueiroz, from the faculty of the Universidade de Brasilia in Brazil, presented a paper called Colour to Grey and Back: Colour Embedding into Textured Grey Images. While trying to figure out how to retain the information conveyed in colour graphs and pictures, the researchers came up with a method that turns each colour into a microscopically different texture or pattern in the grey parts of an image. It makes it easy to identify colours with similar luminance value, making the pictures more pleasing and the graphs more useful.
An unexpected benefit is that colour to textures mapped in this way can later be decoded and converted back to colour.
Thus the recipient of a black-and-white fax could recover the colours of the original. It would also allow colours to be retrieved from a printed black-and-white hardcopy. Xerox has applied for a patent on the technology.
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Gary Knespal over at GASAA continues his pioneering webinars with an online, interactive WEBINAR on the Power of Digital Print on Tue 22 November 11am to 12pm EST.
Direct marketing guru, Malcolm Auld, who knows more about digital printing marketing results than anyone else, will present on Digital Print Success stories. He’s a great speaker and the webinar is an easy, convenient way of attending quality seminars without leaving your desk. But you better hurry, because they have to limit places to ensure places the webinar process is managed effectively.
Cost is $15 for GASAA members and $30 for Non members.
To register Click: Webinar
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And finally … here’s one that tickled Norman K’s funny bone.
An Amish boy and his father were in a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again.
The boy asked, "What is this Father?" The father (never having seen an elevator) responded, "Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is."
While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat old lady in a wheel chair moved up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls close and the boy and his father watched the small circular numbers above the walls light up sequentially. They continued to watch until it reached the last number and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order.
Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous 24-year-old blonde stepped out.
The father said quietly to his son.… "Go get your mother."