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I learned how to run a Lithographic press with a Ryobi 3200 in the early 1970s. As user experiences go it was a fairly simple, albeit a frustrating one from an emotional point of view.

January’s Economic Forum in Davos, where the world’s leaders from government, economics and business gather in Switzerland to share ideas and concerns, will apparently feature several sessions on what some are calling the next industrial revolution – the circular economy.

I must admit I am the last person in the world to rely on for financial advice and if you ever came to a Nottingham Forest football match with me and followed my example of betting on the final score you would be significantly out of pocket by the end of the season.

I have just read an article in Publishing Executive which suggests that web-based media companies are increasingly turning to the printed medium as an extension of their web publishing activities. Now before we all get carried away and say that the days of “print is dead” are over, we need to see what the web based media companies are doing and why they are doing it. The answers could be a good pointer to the way that printed publications can better serve their markets.

By the year 2020, it’s estimated that some 20 to 30 billion “things” could be connected to the Internet. It’s called the “Internet of Things” – or, “IoT,” in tech talk. Hyped widely as the “next megatrend” and the “third wave” of the Internet, IoT is expected to produce an effect similar to the first “fixed” Internet, which ultimately connected one billion users. The second “wave,” the mobile Internet, added two billion more users.

It’s that time of year again, when the large supermarket chains make a play for the householders Christmas spending budget by some very high profile advertising and marketing campaigns. In the UK we are used to seeing television advertisements tugging at our heartstrings with scenes of family joy and celebration, but Sainsbury’s have gone one better this year.

Standing astride a Landa S10 Nanographic Printing^® Press when it is printing is an exhilarating experience. The stream feeder is thundering at one end. At the other end, where I was positioned between the inline coater and the dryer unit, full sized B1 (41 in.) prints were stacking onto the delivery pile, each one full of vibrant colour and each one different from its predecessor in a way that only digital printing can deliver.

Well, it’s December again. Where has the time gone? Hard to believe that another year has passed… and even harder to believe that we now are only 18 months from Drupa! For me, the past two and a half years since Drupa 2012 have zipped past like Road Runner on steroids!