By Patrick Henry on February 1st, 2010 - Comment
The upper image shows the effect of lighting on an offset lithographic print when illumined at an angle of 45º. Underneath is the same image lighted straight on at 0º. It’s one of a number of visual comparisons that can be performed at the Graphics Atlas, an online resource in development at the Image Permanence…
By Patrick Henry on January 25th, 2010 - 8 Comments
“Adobe Systems helped to build the modern printing industry and now, it appears, they are hellbent on destroying it—not by willful action, but by neglect.” (Frank Romano)
“We are not turning our back on printers; we continue to be committed to the print segment and it is really important that people don’t think Adobe doesn’t care…
By Patrick Henry on January 18th, 2010 - Comment
Here’s the start of an anecdote with an apt lesson in bilingualism from Joe Ray, the founder and president of Estudio Ray in Phoenix, AZ:
“A few years ago, my friend Flaco, who has been a Court Interpreter for many years, told a group of us the following story.
“He (Flaco) had some time to kill (no…
By Patrick Henry on January 12th, 2010 - Comment
A Printing Office has a weekly newsletter offering a quick-read summary of our latest posts. There also are links to the other WhatTheyThink blogs and to WhatTheyThink on Twitter. Keep abreast of all of this great content by signing up free of charge here. Scroll down to “Printing Office Newsletter”, check the box and hit…
By Patrick Henry on January 6th, 2010 - 1 Comment
The WhatTheyThink blogs A Printing Office, PrintCEO, and Going Green are among the “Top 10 Print Blogs” named by Ryan McAbee in M-Bossed, his review of print media. Our sincere thanks to Mr. McAbee for the kind words. We’re also happy to see Michael J’s Tough Love for Xerox and Gordon Pritchard’s Quality in Print…
By Patrick Henry on January 5th, 2010 - 1 Comment
The “Experience Necessary” feature in today’s New York Times profiles Robert Warner, master printer at Bowne and Company Stationers (an installation of the South Street Seaport Museum). Self-taught, Warner is the working curator of what is said to be New York City’s oldest continuing business—a letterpress printing shop established by Robert Bowne in 1775. Under…
By Patrick Henry on January 4th, 2010 - Comment
BritishLetterpress.co.uk has to be one of the best destinations on the Web for letterpress hobbyists or anyone else with an interest in the art of printing with handset type on hand- or treadle-operated iron presses. Although intended primarily for practitioners in the U.K., the site’s wealth of practical material is a valuable resource for letterpress…
By Patrick Henry on December 11th, 2009 - 5 Comments
The following was submitted as a comment to the post entitled, Andrew Tribute Asks: “Do We Need Graph Expo Each Year?”. The writer is Gene Gable, the former president and publisher of Publish magazine, president of Seybold Seminars, and publisher of The Seybold Report. Because of its length and relevance, we are presenting it as…
By Patrick Henry on December 8th, 2009 - 12 Comments
It’s provocative stuff:
“I feel it is time that the Graphic Arts Show Company changed the way it operates. I think that there is no longer sufficient demand for an annual USA national trade show…PRINT should become the major North American based international and national trade show and should be cycled every four years to align…
By Patrick Henry on November 30th, 2009 - 4 Comments
Litho Clubs are alive and…well, hanging in there as gamely as any membership organization can be expected to do in these difficult days.
Time hasn’t been kind to the printing industry’s once-thriving communities of small clubs and groups—the ones that operated mostly locally, often with a focus on a particular business niche or occupational category. (Anyone…
