Future Of Printing Research Articles

The future of print: rightsizing the physical collection to meet the research, learning and teaching needs in a community college

PurposeRecognizing the magnitude of disruption the pandemic caused for academic libraries, this study considers past collection development approaches considering a new post-pandemic landscape. It questions tried-and-true best practices held at our institution for decades with the purpose of seeking clarity and a way forward. Through this collection development self-study, our goal is to identify a new collecting model that meets our students “just-in-time” information needs while also maintaining fiscal responsibility. Our hope is that other institutions of similar size and purpose can apply these new models in their collections.Design/methodology/approachThis study utilizes collection analysis data obtained through the Bowker Book Analysis System (BBAS) to compare our existing collection against Resources for College Libraries (RCL) in addition to EZProxy Analytics and existing circulation data. The qualitative data helped inform conversations among the librarians with collection development responsibilities and sparked conversations and decisions on how to best move forward to rightsize a print collection.FindingsInformed by data from the Bowker Book Analysis System, this article discusses a new approach to collection development which includes a focus on leasing books, rethinking when to permanently add a print title to our physical collection, and the expanded use of demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) to offer students the largest possible access to research.Originality/valueWhile the library and information science literature include discussions of collection analysis, the originality of this proposed article is the focus on a collection analysis post-pandemic in a community college environment with new approaches to building a collection with limited financial resources.

Indian Newspaper Readership and The Impact of COVID-19: A Case of Dainik Bhaskar

The following paper looks at the question of readership and the future of print in a post pandemic scenario. While keeping the broad framework of that future of print in mind, the paper looks at the journey of the newspaper Dainik Bhaskar which is one of the top five daily periodicals by circulation in the world. The effect of the pandemic on the newspaper industry in general and Bhaskar’s particular response to it help us nuance the picture of the future of print through the lens of access to capital, resources etc. The question of diverging trends when it comes to newspaper readership in India and the world are also taken up.

Utilizing of Digital Printing Techniques to Create Customize Designs for Textile Floor Covering

Industry researchers estimate that the global Textile covering flooring market size was estimated at USD 84.49 billion in 2018 and expected to register a CAGR of 3.2% from 2020 to 2025. Rising demand for carpet tiles on account of availability in a range of colors, patters, and textures is expected to drive the growth. Textile covering flooring manufacturers are involved into production of different products including carpets and area rugs which such as roll goods, carpet tiles, bath mates, and broadlooms among others. Carpet tiles and broadloom are the majorly used Textile covering floorings on account of superior attributes, such as flexibility and dimensional stability. While tufting covering floor about 90% share of this volume, and 7% needle punch covering floor 50% of tufting and needle punch covering floor printed.    While digital printing currently amounts to about 2% share of this volume, digital printing continues to expand with the movement from mass-production to mass customization of printed goods.  Offset/gravure to inkjet/laser printing technology, digital carpet printing offers new creative possibilities for printing over traditional screen-printing. As a result, digital printing enables a shift from printing in large scale manufacturing facilities to smaller cottage businesses focusing on specialty printing Applications. In today’s digital technology age, there is greater demand for better technology and faster turnaround cycles in terms of mass production, mass customization and cost effectiveness for the textile, apparel and printing sectors, and will be in carpet also. (THE FUTURE OF PRINTING @ ITMA 2019). Some reasons for why digital printed is suitable for carpet customize. Short run printing advantage: Digital Textile floor covering printing efficiently produces designs at run lengths as low as one yard of carpet without the need for screen changes. Lower water and power consumption: Digital Textile floor covering printing eliminates the substantial amount of water and electrical energy one requires for rotary screen or chromo jet preparation, printing and cleanup. Even greater water and power savings can be achieved with disperse/sublimation and pigment Digital Textile floor covering inks, which only require a heat-fixation step for post treatment. Less chemical waste: Digital Textile floor covering printing results in significantly less ink usage and waste Relative to screen and chromo jet -printing. Taking into account the additional chemistry and chemical waste from Screen production, printing digitally offers a greener advantage for printing. Large repeat sizes: Digital textile printers can print large designs (e.g. cartoon characters on Runners and Area Rug) on roll wall to wall carpet without the usual rotary screen-printing limitation in pattern repeat size. Reduced production space requirements: By not having to prepare and store customer screens for future use, the production footprint for digital printing is a fraction of the size one requires for a rotary screen print facility. Less printed inventory needed: Digital Textile floor covering printing permits the option to print a design at will. This means that manufacturers with an integrated digital printing system in their production chain can keep a stock of unprinted textiles on hand to print as required. This reduces the need for pre-printed inventory of Textile floor covering that may or may not be used. Sampling and production done on same printer: By being able to print samples (strike-offs) on the same printer one uses for production, digital Textile floor covering print shops can present their customers with proof samples of designs that will exactly match the final printed material. Print flexibility: Printing houses utilizing all-digital, chromo jet and screen technologies can choose to print a small quantity of designs with different color combinations (colorways) first with their digital Textile floor covering printing solutions for test the market. They can later opt to print higher volumes of the most desired color designs using chromo jet or rotary screen technology. Variety of creative design choices for printing: Digital Textile floor covering printing provides the option to print photographic/continuous tone images, spot color pattern designs or a combination of both. This expands the creative printing alternatives for carpet and interior designers. Low capital investment: The relatively low capital investment to setup a digital Textile floor covering print shop, especially compared to rotary screen-printing production, makes it possible to start small and expand as business grows special in scatter rug, bath mat and tiles. The research deals with the following axes: Definition of digital printing and its uses. Comparison between traditional and digital printing methods Conducting many technical experiments of digital printing on different types of textile floor covering. The use of digital printing of textile floor covering in the field of small industries

The Art of the Maker — Craft, Design and Technology in the 21st Century

Invention, innovation and insight are keywords for any technologist and designer working in the academic or commercial sector. In the twenty-first century, a wealth of new and emerging materials, alongside digital methods for the manufacture of products and services are transforming and enhancing our lives. But there are also the age-old techniques and crafts traditions that demonstrate fundamental benchmarks in material culture that are the foundation for high-quality printing and fabrication today and in the future. And without these benchmarks in quality, we have no assurance as to diversity and quality over the ubiquitous and inadequate.Exploring the future of printing and fabrication, new ways of thinking and working, alongside traditional methods of making, this paper sets out the shifting field of Homo Faber and the human condition, and how digital technologies are transforming craft and design.The presentation includes multi-disciplinary research undertaken at The Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR). Researchers are exploring and researching new transformative technologies, working and communicating across disciplines and industries. The Centre is at the forefront of craft and digital fabrication, combining knowledge of traditional and new tools, sustainable materials as part of the circular economy, robotics for practice-led design, exploring physical and tactile surfaces for human engagement, and historic methods for cultural reconstruction.

Whither print? Staying nimble in the face of uncertainty

ABSTRACTThe American Meteorological Society (AMS), a medium‐sized nonprofit society publisher, found in 2005 that many institutional subscribers were still receiving one or more of its nine journals in print format only. Since the future of print is increasingly uncertain, the AMS recently implemented a pricing strategy that encourages the migration of institutions to electronic, or at least electronic‐plus‐print, subscriptions. The change has had the desired impact, with most institutions activating online access; however, a large number have continued to receive the journals in print despite an increasing price differential between online‐only and online‐plus‐print subscriptions. Given this, the AMS plans to continue to offer the print option as long as it is economically viable to do so, and is working toward a pricing structure in which online‐only subscribers do not subsidize the print product.

Print Vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence

In this collection Sul Lee brings together eight papers that discuss the future of print and electronic publishing in relation to libraries and how coexistence, if any, might be achieved.The most c...

The technology of journalism: cultural agents, cultural icons

Patricia L. Dooley proposes a history of the news that heeds the social and cultural environments in which both technology and the press emerge and exist. Dooley explores the effects of changes in social, economic, and political systems and the impact of war, assessing the legacy and future of print and the shift toward digital and Web-based journalism.

Committee on the Future of Print and Electronic Publishing Appointed

Committee on the Future of Print and Electronic Publishing Appointed

From Print to Online to Print

ABSTRACT The author interviews Ander Monson, the editor of DIAGRAM and New Michigan Press. Monson discusses his work with print and online literary journals, his upcoming projects, and the future of print and online literary journals.

印刷の未来(第四部 印刷の未来を予測する,<特集>現代情報社会を支える印刷を理解する)

印刷の未来(第四部 印刷の未来を予測する,<特集>現代情報社会を支える印刷を理解する)

Benjamin Franklin, Writing by Hand: Manuscript, Print, and Political Imagination

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, WRITING BY HAND: Manuscript, Print, and Political Imagination Ann C. Dean Several images ofBenjamin Franklin holding a quill pen found ready markets during his lifetime.1 More recently, however, it has become difficult to imagine the Philadelphia printer using such an archaic object, rather than his bifocals, his electrical apparatus, or his printed newspaper. It is worth caUing up an image of the printer writing with a quiU, however, because it can help us see an important distinction in his work, a distinction between his uses of media to distribute his writing and his uses of media as metaphors within his writing. In executing his lifelong project ofrepresenting the future ofprint, Franklin often used a quUl. Scholars of print culture have fruitfuUy examined Franklin's visionary experiments with print's capacities for representing the abstract nature of a republican polity. Michael Warner and Mitchell Breitwieser both see Franklin 's work as a project ofconstructing a representative personality. They point to his use ofprint and republican theory to explain his writing as a concerted project of presenting his readers with an image of "representational legitimacy " (Warner 73; Breitwieser 173). On Franklin's desk, however, drafts of pieces destined for anonymous newspaper publication sat next to personal letters and diplomatic dispatches destined to remain in manuscript and to circulate only among smaU groups of family, friends, and political allies. This scribal work has provided much ofthe evidence for a group of recent books THE JOURNAL FOR EARLY MODERN CULTURAL STUDIES Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2004) © 2004 90 E THE JOURNAL FOR EARLY MODERN CULTURAL STUDIES on Franklin by historians: A LittleRevenge, The Devious Dr. Franklin, and Benjamin Franklin and his Enemies. These books, whose titles promise to show us a darker side of the affable Franklin, document his quests for patronage, his angry break with his son WiUiam, and his careerist self-promotion. The gap between this historical Franklin and the representative personality described by Warner and Breitwieser has been produced in part because Franklin's scribal writing has generaUybeen read by historians, whUe literary critics have focused on his printed writing. It is worth reading the two groups oftexts together , with an eye to the generic conventions and metaphorical resonances of each. Doing so reveals Franklin's detailed awareness ofthe political and social relations imaginable through work with differing media: oral, scribal, and printed. In aU media, Franklin consistently presents the relation between narrator and audience as a rhetorical construction that signifies a political possibUity . The conventions of scribal writing provided language for negotiating aUiances, promising and coUecting favors, and testing and displaying loyalty. The conventions ofprint, as Franklin practiced them, provided language for critique, analysis, and the questioning ofclaims to legitimacy. The political relationships implied by these languages were the subject ofFranklin's work in the 1750s and 60s. Franklin spent these years in London, employed as the agent of the Assembly of Pennsylvania and those of several other colonies to lobby for pro-American policies with the British government and people. He did so through addresses to powerful individuals in the government, addresses he made both oraUy and in writing, and through a flood ofnewspaper pieces concerning questions important to Americans. In his work as agent, Franklin found himselfworking between two different systems of conceptualizing colonial administration. His aUies in the colonies were arguing for a strictly republican theory of representation, and practicing something close to it in their colonial assemblies. The administration ofthe colonial government in London, however, treated the colonies as sources ofpatronage jobs for ministers and governors, and thus as part ofthe court administration that republican theorists found most suspicious. These two different understandings of colonial administration were related to two sets ofconventions for writing about politics: those ofscribal writing , which emphasized relationships, aUiances, the influence and importance ofthe great; and those ofprinted writing, which emphasized the general good, rational analysis, and the universal grounds ofvalue. The writing Franklin did for print in the 1750s and 60s consistentlyaddresses a public ofrational, critical newspaper readers. His scribal, or manuscript, communications written dur- DEAN ft 91 ing the same period, such as diplomatic dispatches and personal letters, on the other hand, exploit the medium...

The End of the Press Subsidies ‘Experiment’ in Sweden?

Debates about media ownership concentration have continued in Australia over the past half-century, and particularly in the last decade since Murdoch's News Ltd took over the Herald and Weekly Times group of newspapers in 1986–87. At the time, and at the subsequent 1991 Lee print media inquiry, the press subsidies system operating in Sweden received some attention from researchers and policy-makers alike as a possible solution to further increases in media ownership concentration in Australia. In light of recent inquiries into media ownership in Australia, particularly the Productivity Commission, it is now timely to consider Sweden's approach to media policy in the late 1990s. In particular, this paper will focus on the 1999 report by the Media Concentration Group in Sweden, which examined issues such as the future of print and broadcast legislation, and the impact of convergence on media policy. As Sweden — and indeed the Scandinavian region — has long held one of the most diverse media ownership environments in the Western world, their future policy directions may provide some options for Australian media policy researchers and policy-makers.

Literacy and the Future of Print

Literacy and the Future of Print