On 14 and 15 March 2024, the Online Print Symposium will enter its 11th round at the Science Congress Center Munich with more than 300 participants from all over the world! After a brilliant anniversary event, the Online Print Symposium now presents itself in a new look. The new logo and design can already be seen on the website: https://online-print-symposium.de/en/
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Amazon wants a piece of the growing direct-to-consumer (D2C) trend. The world’s largest online marketplace is pleased with its “Buy with Prime” feature, which has been available to U.S. third-party sellers for several months. So satisfied, in fact, that the company is now even teaming up with Shopify to establish the new function across an even broader market.
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If you ask me which people have impressed me the most in my professional life, it’s not Steve Jobs or Bill Gates – it’s the “silent” pioneers. John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Systems, was one such “quiet pioneer” for me. On Saturday, the inventor of PostScript and PDF passed away at the age of 82. Thanks for everything, John!
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The restructuring and investments of recent years are taking effect: Cimpress has once again reported record figures for fiscal year 2023 (July 2022 to June 2023) – and achieved significant growth in sales and profits across all business units. No wonder the world’s largest online print provider is starting the new fiscal year with optimism.
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Months after announcing its intention to do away with printed brochures for sustainability reasons, Rewe is still facing opposition from a number of sides. No wonder, because print is being unjustly made the bogeyman by the company when it comes to climate friendliness. We have compiled the facts on the sustainability of print.
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How artificial intelligence could change the online print industry was the topic of the first AI bootcamp of the Initiative Online Print (IOP). The content included possible applications of AI in practice: in small groups, the IOP members were also able to work together on initial, practical projects that should also be implemented in their own companies.
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The summer is slowly getting underway, and we’ve waited long enough for it. Just in time for the summer vacations in North Rhine-Westphalia, we are also taking a break – and this time we are following the example of the schools and taking a few weeks off! Thus, we will be back to you from the beginning of August and will publish as usual interesting news and critical-questioning blog posts.
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You might think that the hype surrounding ChatGPT has not only pushed the topic of the metaverse out of public discussion but sent it straight into irrelevance. So why are we still talking about it? “Because there are two long-term trends that will be driving this topic in very significant ways,” explains Björn Ognibeni, Strategic Director XRLab-MCM at the University of Münster.
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Is artificial intelligence more of an opportunity or a threat? The market and opinion research institute YouGov and Statista have just dealt with this question – and to put it in a nutshell: Germans are divided in their opinion. But no matter what your personal answer to this question may be: AI is changing the way we work – and is not stopping at the C-level, i.e. the management level. It’s high time to get to grips with the topic.
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The trend of recent months is continuing: average online print prices for flyers have also risen in the first quarter of 2023 and are once again reaching record levels for some suppliers. This means that online print prices appear to be decoupling from graphic paper prices again for the first time – after all, these have slightly fallen recently. The ZOPI shopping cart is somewhat different.
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