Here are just a few of the gems you might’ve missed in social media this week…
- Salmat shares finishing the day 9.9% higher after the $375 million sale of its mail arm
- China becoming Heidelberg’s largest market
- EFI selling its 500th Vutek GS wide-format printer
- Serious print accidents “decreasing dramatically in the last 10 years” in the UK
- The Ricoh fit-out that is expected to save a college $760,000
- Homer Simpson costing the US Postal Service $1.2 million after it prints too many souvenir stamps
- A study finding biscuits seem tastier when they come in fancier packaging
- The “sexy” outdoor ad that’s wooing the ladies
- Heineken’s new packaging resembling a milk carton
- The mammoth 3D printer that may save Australian manufacturing
- What are the cleverest forms of diversification you’ve heard of?
- Do you use supplier references when you choose a printer?
- How hard is it to enter a totally new market?
- Does your love of print influence your use of electronic media, or are you as much a fan of the iPad, Kindle and smartphone as everyone else?
Our top five stories this week were…
1) Salmat sells BPO to Fujifilm for $375m
2) Former Salmat and Fairfax man buys out $14m Victorian printer
3) Sydney firm ‘puts everything on the line’ with $400,000 investment
4) Loss-making PMP sheds capacity with plan to cut press fleet by 30%
5) Good news for Paperlinx as iPhone app storms charts
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