Digital newspapers in Réunion: Green print out in the blue
Located in the Indian Ocean, just east of Madagascar and 6000 km west of Perth, Réunion Island has had its own newspaper since 1773, but it has taken until this year for locals to read the rest of the world’s papers on the day they are published.
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Squirt business starts in earnest
So vain, they probably think this race is about them*, two heavily-backed thoroughbreds line up for the chase of a lifetime... but some think it is already underway, and at least one more entrant reckons they can catch up for a place.
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Kodak-manroland printhead relationship localised in ANZ
The relationship between Kodak and manroland which has seen the two work together to develop digital printheads on high-speed web-offset presses has led to a local distributor appointment in Australia and New Zealand. No corresponding announcement has yet been made for Asia.
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Better iPad viewing experience gets closer
The technology clash between Flash and Apple’s iPad may be moving closer to a solution with the announcement of two new Adobe technologies which will result in a better viewing experience on the tablet computer.
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Mono inkjet extends Screen’s web-fed reach
Japanese digital newspaper press vendor has announced a mono version of its Truepress Jet 520 – aimed at the 'read for pleasure' book market, claimed to be growing at 14 per cent a year.
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Apple's game changer gains support
It’s amazing the way an impending deadline concentrates minds: When Apple founder Steve Jobs unveiled his company’s iPad device in January, there was yawning ambivalence on the part of some publishers (writes Peter Coleman).
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Océ's Frisch on the opportunities in digital
Imagine newspapers printed directly from PDFs, which can carry your birthday greeting on the front page and change their editorial and advertising from city to city, area to area, suburb to suburb.
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Upgrade logic for better control
If capital restraints don’t allow a new press, upgrades of control and systems technology can be a way of addressing productivity and safety needs, writes Peter Coleman.
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Inert UV has a way to go, 'Le Monde' finds
Major European inert UV newspaper site, ‘Le Monde’ in Paris, is producing good quality semicommercial work in a range of formats. And the publisher believes the technology is “no where near its limits” at the press speed of 80,000 cph.
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Browsing towards a systems nirvana
A ‘massively-scaleable‘ upgrade of its editorial and advertising systems could change perceptions of Australian software developer Pongrass, writes Peter Coleman
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Source code
Two new response systems are set to exploit growing use of internet-enabled mobiles to make a stronger connection between print and online.
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