Seattle Bindery Newsletter: Issue #20. We welcome your comments.

1. Noosh news: This first-out-of-the-gate e-commerce solution has been having its share of ups and downs. On the upside, the company announced in May that it had an agreement with GE Capital to provide enterprise-wide use of noosh.com for print procurement and management. On the downside, top executives are fleeing Noosh, as reported in the 7/20/00 issue of Industry Standard. Finally, we understand that a top print buyer at Cisco Systems revealed in a recent PIA affiliate meeting in San Francisco that, contrary to Noosh’s oft-touted claim that Cisco is a noosh.com user, they in fact do NOT use the service, since they’ve developed their own networked solution.

2. Wired: Yes, Seattle Bindery is wired for the mechanical binding future. Our Wire-O and spiral binding services include state-of-the-art punches, automatic inserters/closers and five coil spinners, making our operation the fastest in town. We’d be happy to show you the samples of different colors and types of mechanical bindings, as well as examples of finished projects. Just give us a call at 425-656-8210.

3. Wired: IBM’s Corporate Strategic Design Program announced in this month’s issue of Wired magazine that the development of electronic media devices like the eNewspaper “will start invading the turf of traditional papers in four to five years.” Using digital “ink” made of tiny, mutable pixels half the width of a human hair, the device would receive content during the night through the Internet, then get wireless updates throughout the day. Resembling a 3-ring binder with eight flexible, double-sided pages bound by an aluminum spine, the product contains a “circuit board, battery, USB port and a slot for a matchbook-sized 300 MB Microdrive large enough to store hundreds of newspapers.”

4. Know when (and who) to fold ‘em: Just a reminder that Seattle Bindery is the only trade bindery in our market that can fold 30 x 50-inch press sheets. Between our MBO folders and folder-gluers--including the new Moll Marathon folder-gluer complete with two glue heads, two Kleenstick heads, bump and turn and final fold units--we can handle virtually any folding job.

5. New opportunities for commercial printers: A 7/27/00 WSJ Interactive Business Bulletin suggests that printers investigate the “new” technologies being developed to stem the recent counterfeiting tide. GATF will co-sponsor a conference this month with the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing to discuss applications of anti-counterfeiting technologies to “meet the growing demand for secure documents.” They write that products ranging from “concert tickets to motor oil containers “ are prime counterfeiting targets. Motor oil containers?


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