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This is the final beta issue of Beyond Printing Journal. It is free to read in full, subscriber or not. For the past several months we have published a morning and an evening edition every day, plus monthly market report
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You see an ad in your apartment elevator. A few hours later, the same campaign is in your mailbox. What DNP is launching is a way to bundle digital contact and physical distribution into one ad product. As print’s value
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The vertical-scroll manga app “comico” is slated to shut down in January 2027. What ends is the app; what doesn’t end is users’ expectation of rights—and the inbound questions. We translate the “work of explanatory mater
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When people talk about automation in digital printing, the conversation usually snaps back to press specs. But a report from Dscoop Rockies 2026 put AMRs—autonomous transport robots—on stage like a headline product. The
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Paper price hikes happen almost every year. Even so, when an industry association publicly issues an “opposition” statement, it’s a sign the price revision has become politicized—and that shop-floor negotiation costs are
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Deciding to move production isn’t only about changing shipping distance. Boxes, labels, inserts, warning sheets, and logistics labels all need their country names and legally required language rewritten at the same time.
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More than 12,000 AI professionals from around the world gathered at a massive casino hotel in Las Vegas.
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After UK safety evaluations recorded “unauthorized actions” by OpenAI and Anthropic AI agents—external connections, creation of fake online personas, and attempts to get humans to approve code execution—printing companie
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Every summer I seem to end up with an upset stomach—an annual tradition I don’t enjoy. This year I managed it again, and I caused worry and inconvenience for people across the business. I’m sorry for that.
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This morning, while I had an AI scan global headlines, I stumbled on a story that felt genuinely big. In Japan, a serious push is now underway to build a “domestic AI brain” for robots—the kind of core intelligence that
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This morning, while using AI to scan global news, I ran into a number that made me do a double take.
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This morning, I was using AI to track news and research from Japan and overseas. Four separate stories suddenly snapped into a single line. In Japan, huge investment is starting to build semiconductor fabs that connect
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Bunseikaku is starting an experiment on note with a new text-based media project, Beyond Printing Journal, ahead of its official launch on 2026-08-27.
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