Understanding web growth … and what it means in the printing process
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Heat-set web paper changes during the printing process due to moisture content. Typically used for text pages, web paper may expand outside its sheetfed cover after final trim in the bindery. Why it happens: Paper is hygroscopic — meaning it...
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Heck Yes, We Still Want Paper in the Office
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Digital overload. It was a “thing” going into 2020, with more than half of workers surveyed by the Paper & Packaging Board saying they felt digital overload at work. Then the pandemic forced millions of people to work, learn and...
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If History Goes Paperless, History Goes Away
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Vint Cerf is widely recognized as one of the founders of the internet (he co-developed TCP/IP with Bob Kahn). Now at age 76 he’s focusing his attention on the interplanetary internet, so we can stay connected no matter where humans...
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Heck Yes We Want Paper in the Office
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Productivity apps, voice memos, PDF readers, Slack, Trello, MS Teams, IM … all these are seemingly indispensable to life in the office as we know it. Yet a new survey shows that workers turn back to basics when they need...
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Congratulations, PAPERbecause, for 10 Years of Good Stuff
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It’s hard to imagine, but 10 years ago we didn’t have the Amazon app on our phones, the iPad hadn’t launched yet, and Pinterest was brand new. Yet digital was already having a massive impact on the paper industry. It...
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Using Better Paper Can Cut Customer Acquisition Costs
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Eastbay, the Wisconsin-based athletic shoe brand owned by Foot Locker, has always operated under its vision to be the go-to resources for pro-grade gear. In pursuing that mission, they are always on the lookout for anything that provides an “edge”...
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Australian School Bans iPads… Does Educational Science Agree?
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When Reddam House Private School outside Sydney, Australia got rid of iPads, they did so based on feedback from the students. The school had been using iPads to access e-textbooks for the past five years, according to Jenn Ryan writing...
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Paper and the Art of the Comeback… a Global Perspective
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“It’s a vital tool that’s evolved over thousands of years,” notes the narrator in this BBC video How Paper is Making a Comeback, “enabling the world to share stories, news and religious scripture. The video is part of a BBC...
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Let’s Just Stop the Greenwashing Guilt Trip
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It’s a new year, a new decade, well into the 21st century … so we basically want the majority of our information online, right? Well, not according to U.S. and Canadian consumers, notes this article in the Porterville Recorder. Independent...
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From Google with Love (and Grins) …. a Paper Phone
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Google’s Experiments division has launched an app designed to make it possible to leave our phones at home, one day at a time … and still have what you need from your phone close at hand. “A lot of people...
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