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From the editors of American Printer | A Penton Media Property November 18, 2009   



Table of Contents
I’d like a half caf on-demand book
Fujifilm merges U.S. companies
NAPL, PIA to collaborate & combine conferences
Canon to acquire Oce
Agfa Graphics to acquire assets of Gandi Innovations
Ricoh launches Business Process Automation Group
Can we be Facebook friends?
Big doings in December for Wisconsin printers
Creative paper
Best costume ever
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From the Pressroom...

I’d like a half caf on-demand book
Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park, WA) recently installed an Espresso Book Machine. The on-demand machine essentially lets the book store add two million titles to its inventory via Google Books.

“Google's two million book titles are very old — all at least 86 years, most hundreds, and some thousands of years,” notes AP columnist Steve Johnson. “Yet, the printing is new. The vast majority of these books aren't in print right now. If all goes as announced, the printing will be done on demand, in a bookstore, without any of us being involved.”

Our challenge, as print providers, says Johnson, is to get involved. See americanprinter.com/how-to/printing-involved-print-evolution-1009.

Here’s what Wired magazine had to say: www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09/google-books-publish-on-demand.

You can see a video of the Espresso machine in action here: www.thirdplacebooks.com/node.

As always, thanks for reading!

Katherine O’Brien, editor, AMERICAN PRINTER (KOB@americanprinter.com)

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Top Headlines

Fujifilm merges U.S. companies
americanprinter.com/news/syndicate/fujifilm-merges-fujifilm-north-america-1118

NAPL, PIA to collaborate & combine conferences
americanprinter.com/news/syndicate/napl-pia-combine-conferences-1117

Canon to acquire Oce
americanprinter.com/news/syndicate/canon-to-acquire-oce-1116

Agfa Graphics to acquire assets of Gandi Innovations
americanprinter.com/news/syndicate/agfa-graphics-gandi-innovations-1116

Ricoh launches Business Process Automation Group
americanprinter.com/news/syndicate/ricoh-business-process-automation-1116

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Editor's Notebook

Can we be Facebook friends?
Want a steady feed of interesting industry news? Follow AMERICAN PRINTER on Twitter or Facebook. Find our handy links at americanprinter.com.

Here are some recent tweets:

Reuters: manroland has swapped debt for equity, CEO talks mergers, cost savings and sees longer order books in FAZ interview bit.ly/1SSIjd

Flickr outsources printing to HP’s Snapfish, reports TechCrunch: j.mp/2peUEw.

Are QR codes more popular in Europe than the U.S.? Here’s Infotrends’ take: ow.ly/BTEe.

VIGC-study researches reliability of myPANTONE on iPhone: Not so much. See www.graphicbrain.com/studies-by-vigc/mypantone-on-iphone.

Harlequin wants you to upgrade your RIP: www.harlequin.com/upgrade.

Print sales vet Linda Bishop offers practical tips for growing sales in a down economy in “Selling in Tough Times”: www.ttbooks.biz/.

MarketWatch: Sweeping credit card reforms are impending. Credit issuers have largely put their direct mail solicitations on hold. See bit.ly/2JYPaM.

Facebook group “celebrates the extreme cheesiness of the songs that commemorate the Drupa Trade Fair”: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7507453622&ref=mf

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Mark Your Calendars

Big doings in December for Wisconsin printers
Wisconsin Print Production Seminar: Production Technology Update, Part II will take place Tuesday, December 1, 2009, at the Country Springs Hotel (Pewaukee, WI). Speakers include execs from Quad, Donnelley, SPC, Strategic Paper and A.M. Mailing. See www.wppc.org.

The Institute for Graphics and Imaging (Pewaukee, WI) presents Facebook and Twitter for Business: Hands-On! on Wednesday, December 02, 2009. See www.igi.org.

Trim Out

Creative paper
Two decades of French Paper Promotions by Charles S. Anderson Design Co.: See vimeo.com/7072726.

Best costume ever
Someone dressed as “low-res” for Halloween! (Thanks to Dave Hultin.) See kindacarsick.com/post/230881676.

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