Print Samples: Xplor and The Personalized Magazine

Personalized Magazines for organizations and associations _print media centr

Have you been following the stories of innovation in magazines and catalogs? Articles will spotlight personalization and targeting, often implying that the techniques are new. But they are not! Twenty years ago, I was working with the team at Xplor International to curate the Xploration magazine and looking for ways to walk the talk of […]

Do You Ask For Print Samples? I Do, Now!

by Chloe Mahendra-Fuji, Print Diva Hi! I’m Chloe! I have been working on a bunch of print jobs that have complicated set ups and an interesting set of finishing requirements. Some of the pieces need complete perforations and others need to be finished as book blocks even though they aren’t technically books – more like […]

HP Powers Up Publishing!

I started sharing a link to HP’s new publishing focused site the other day because I LOVE when companies get aboard the “let’s find new ways to help you grow your biz, and keep the presses pumping” train. This is the first time I had come across a focus specifically for publishers, who have been […]

Sandy Hubbard joins PrintMediaCentr as Print Futurist

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE + sharing, posting, tweeting, and congratulating! Sandy Hubbard joins PrintMediaCentr as Print Futurist October 14, 2011The Printerverse, and Beyond PrintMediaCentr, a global communications platform providing information and resources to the Print and Integrated Marketing industry, today announced the addition of Sandy Hubbard as Print Futurist, to the management team. Hubbard has spent […]

Year-End Roundup: Mag Ads Up, But Well Off '07 Peak

After a brutal ad downturn, magazines finally turned a corner in 2010. But total ad pages are far off their pre–ad recession peak and the spending outlook is uncertain, tempering optimism for the medium. Ad pages grew nearly 5 percent to 141,938 across the 168 titles tracked by the Mediaweek Monitor. But to give a […]

Magazines on the iPad? HP's MagCloud Makes it a One-Click Deal

Magazines on the iPad? HP’s MagCloud Makes it a One-Click Deal. Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick Gorgeous, image-rich magazines with long-form content, published periodically. Sometimes it feels like that’s what the iPad was made for. On its second birthday from inside HP Labs, the do-it-yourself magazine publishing service MagCloud is launching a new feature that lets any magazine […]