See post about this on AE Graphics’ blog!:
Monday, December 29, 2014
Reprographers, advise your customers to remove all graphics from their vehicles when they trade-in or sell their vehicles!
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Large-format printing for the arts community
I made my
annual trip to Art Basel Miami earlier this month. Art Basel Miami has grown into a humongous
event, and, if you’re into art, it’s an event that you don’t want to miss. At my age, I don’t have any wall space left
to fill, but, even though that’s the case, …..it’s still fun to look! Art Basel Miami was based at the convention
center in Miami Beach, but there were exhibitions at multiple venues spread
across the Miami (Design District) and Miami Beach areas.
I’m not an
artist, nor am I a photographer, but I do carry an iPhone and like to take
photos with my iPhone.
At the
convention center, I wandered into a booth that had on the wall a high-quality
black and white photographic print of a person’s faces – reflecting different
moods. There were 18 different shots of
that person, all collected into one photographic poster-print. Since, the day before, I had given as a gift
to a friend a framed “faces” poster-print, I just had to walk over to the person
hosting the booth to ask, “what’s the price of that piece?” I was shocked, absolutely shocked, when the
person casually said, “$180,000
USD”. The first thought that popped into
my mind was, “UFB!”
I’ve placed
in my Google Drive library a file that shows the “faces” poster print I made
and gifted to my friend the day before.
I, of course, dragged my friend over to that booth to show him the
$180,000 “faces” photographic poster print …. so he could see, first hand, the
value of the gift I gave him! As to the
“faces” poster print(s) I made, I took the photos on various days a couple of
years ago (at a prior Art Basel Miami event), and a friend who’s a very
talented graphic designer compiled the photos I took into one “poster”
(actually, there are two separate posters, one in b/w the other in color), and
another friend, a reprographer in Tampa, was very kind to print the files for
me (at no charge.)
Okay, here’s
the link to the “faces” poster print(s) I gifted to my friend:
Reprographers
who offer large-format printing services; consider promoting this type of
“faces” poster print to your customers.
All your customers have to do is take multiple photos of the same
individual at different times. Makes for
a great gift. I’m going to do “faces”
poster prints of my kids and grandkids (un huh, as that saying goes, “when I
get a round tuit”. Note, I actually have
a “round tuit”; it is a round wooden block with the letters TUIT burned into
the top.)
Blogger sentenced to death
Article from
the web-site of the Committee to Protect Journalists:
Not surprising, but certainly disheartening,
to find such a barbaric act in this day and age.
In Mauritania, blogger sentenced to
death for apostasy
(For those of you who may be a bit geographically-challenged,
the country of Mauritania is located in the northwest part of Africa. I had to look that up, since I had no idea
where it was.)
New York,
December 26, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the
death sentence handed down Wednesday to Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould
Mohamed on apostasy charges in connection to an article he published a year
ago.
Mohamed was
arrested on January 2, 2014, for his December 31, 2013, article, called
"Religion, religiosity and craftsmen," which said that followers of
Islam interpreted the religion according to circumstance. The article
criticized Mauritania's caste system, an extremely delicate subject, Reuters
reported.
In court,
Mohamed said he had not intended to insult the Prophet Muhammad and had
repented, according to news reports. However, the court proceeded to sentence
him to death, a first on apostasy charges in Mauritania, the reports said.
Local news
reports suggested there were political and religious motives behind the case. A
fatwa was issued to kill Mohamed, and nationwide demonstrations led his family
to denounce him and his lawyer to drop him. No other lawyer other than those
assigned by the court then came forward to take up his case, the reports said.
"We call
on authorities in Mauritania not to carry out this sentence," said Sherif
Mansour, CPJ's Middle East and North Africa program coordinator. "Mohamed
Cheikh Ould Mohamed should be freed and his safety protected."
The trial
began Tuesday but was postponed to Wednesday by the judge after an altercation
broke out in court when the prosecutor admitted to being a member of the caste
that the blogger criticized in his article, according to news reports. Mohamed belongs to a lower
social class.
Local news reports also said the trial was attended
by several religious leaders who insisted on monitoring the proceedings to
ensure Sharia law was carried out. When the defendant was brought to court, the
crowd cheered "Allah Akbar," and then celebrated the verdict,
according to the same reports.
News reports
did not say whether the blogger would appeal. However, the defendant is
eligible to be pardoned by the Supreme Court if his repentance is verified,
according to article 306 of the Mauritanian penal code.
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Reprographers, are your Internet-connected servers secure?
For Reprographics 101, I do a fair amount of research on
Google.
Yesterday, while doing that – Google research on the
Internet – I found links to a reprographer’s “order” files. With this link, I found that I could view every order this company processed. I could not only view the orders, I could print
them! The orders showed names of
customers, services provided, and unit prices for each service. If I’d wanted to, I could have spent hours
and hours building a customer list, including information about unit prices
offered to each customer!
After I realized what I’d found, I e-mailed the CEO of the company
whose order files I found open on the Internet, to let him know what I
found. Shortly after I did that, I
received an e-mail acknowledging my "alert".
This morning, I was unable to access the order files, so,
evidently, fixing the problem was done very quickly.
Which brings to mind the question - - are your servers,
those connected to the Internet – secure?
You might want to check that periodically!
Happy New Year!
Canon and HP Wide Format Devices Win BLI Pick and Outstanding Achievement Awards
Recently noticed this on BLI’s web-site:
November 18,
2014 - Hackensack, New Jersey - Wide format devices from Canon and HP were
honored today with Pick and Outstanding Achievement Awards from Buyers
Laboratory LLC (BLI), the world’s leading independent authority in the document
imaging industry. BLI’s prestigious Pick awards acknowledge the best-in-class
devices in each category based on their performance in BLI’s rigorous
laboratory tests. Outstanding Achievement Awards acknowledge products or
capabilities that stand out for attributes such as innovation, energy
efficiency or value.
The 2015 Wide
Format Pick and Outstanding Achievement Award winners are: (click on link):
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