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The company I work for, Océ , has a clear track record as a sustainable company. Way before it became the hot topic it is in these days. Every year we have a Sustainability Week to focus even more on this topic. During this week an interesting whitepaper was released. It is about 'All in Balance. Océ's eco-efficient and eco-effective approach to analog and digital document'. Reference is made to a paper I wrote with others about (personal) document processes. I hope you enjoy the whitepaper. If so leave a comment below or here .

As you (may) know I work for a company that makes printers (and copiers and scanners too). I was browsing around on the Wired website . Then I wanted to print (to pdf) one of their articles and I saw this: That's a very interesting and innovative way to advertise! --- If You Read This and Like It, Tweet This to your Followers: Wireless Printing http://is.gd/qzJY Tags van Technorati: printing , oce

It's been a while ago since I found this, however I didn't have time to listen to it until yesterday... An interesting talk by Tim O'Reilly on Publishing in the new Web 2.0 world . Really interesting to hear how his company, a book publishing company, is keeping up with this new world and how traditional (paper) and modern (digital/web) publishing complement each other.

Jim Lyon also got the email. I'm really disappointed about this. HP is discontinuing their blog printing service... As you may have noticed, I also used it for my blog and it works/worked wonderfully. I really hope someone else will help us bloggers with a new blog printing service. For now, back to using Aardvark ...?

This post "Who Says Print is Dead?" by ReadWriteWeb is interesting! It shows nicely how online media is slowly taking over, but does not (totally) kill printed media. Printed and online media seem to amplify each other.

Interesting Xerox whitepaper titled "The Less Paper Office: How to reduce Costs, Enhance security and be a Better Global Citizen" . I agree with the statement made in the whitepaper that paper is becoming "a more temporary medium". I see that people still like to read from paper, comment on the paper, but after they process the comments in the digital document, they throw away the paper document. In the whitepaper I missed why “paperless” is so hard (or what the real affordances of paper are). I appreciated the part on what Xerox is doing w.r.t. environmental issues.

Printing web pages is always a hassle. Yes, I do still print web pages when I really want to read them and think about what is being said and comment on it on my blog. I also print web pages to be able to easily read them in my carpool and the train. Using Firefox solved many of my printing problems. The reformatting of web pages is done pretty well. However, I still have a hard time printing some web pages and blogs. When you print them you get loads of extra printed pages with no information on them. I don't like that due to environmental reasons. A friend of mine advised me to use the Aardvark Firefox addon . This works OK, but is kindof geeky and not very easy to use. Then I ran into something even better on Jim Lyon's blog . HP has two sites: one dedicated to web page printing and the other to blog printing . As you can see on my blog I now use both the browser plugin and the blog addin. Both work wonderfully well, are easy to use and solve all my web page and blog prin...

Some time ago I posted about the 'future of printing' and 'printing the web' . ReadWriteWeb has an interesting post today on this topic . It says: HP acquired Tabblo with the aim of making printing from the Web easier. For example, webpages are sometimes difficult to print (R/WW is guilty on that count!). In terms of the big picture, Antonio explained to me that the print business is huge, but that HP is starting to think in terms of digital devices now - rather than the old model of [paper] pages. So in terms of products, HP's Print 2.0 strategy is about delivering products and services such as the Tabblo Print Toolkit - which enables publishers to provide template-based PDFs of their webpages for easy printing. HP also wants to get into the on-demand printing business, where it will face competition from the likes of Amazon.com and Lulu.com. Antonio told me that the vision is for a self-serving site to create books. However he said that there are practical iss...

Techcrunch has an interesting post on the fact that more readers are trading newspapers for web sites, following a NY Times article on this topic . At the Web 2.0 Summit similar things were said (refer to the O'Reilly coverage on this topic ). I pointed to and commented on them here and here . What I was wondering was: does the decline in printed media also imply that printing is declining? Or do people, when they read online newspapers and magazines, still print the (longer) articles to read them (this is called "convenience printing")?

A couple of days ago I posted about an O’Reilly Radar post on printing webpages . One day later, they had another interesting post on “The Future of Printing” . It was based on a talk by HP . HP says: Photo printing … provides a lesson: when you get the cost and quality of home printing on par with commercial printing, and you bring the speed to a reasonable level, people will switch over. He emphasized, “What happened to photos will happen to books, magazines and newspapers." If you look around on the Web, you’ll see he’s right. O’Reilly also mentions that there are “home binding kits”, to bind your home printed books. Furthermore HP has some interesting numbers: Speaking of computer printers, Joshi noted that while 70% of desktop machines are connected directly to printers, only 30% of laptops are. And laptops are gaining on desktops. So HP is shifting their business model from printers to printing, from unit to pages. Which means that HP is heading toward a printing-agnostic fu...

As you may know, I work for Océ . Just to give you an idea what Océ is about and where my company came from, please watch this video . We're celebrating our 130th anniversary this year!

O'Reilly Radar 's Sarah has an interesting post on the problem of printing web pages. She pointed to HP's Tabblo which addresses this issue. However, there are more competitors of HP that also offer comparable tooling. Canon also offers a tool with their printers, called 'easy web print' . Lexmark also has a toolbar to support webprinting . And OKI has one too: 'webprint utility' . (Jim Lyons has an older, but insightful post on this topic.) Furthermore, I'm a Firefox user. And one of the things I like about Firefox is how it handles web page printing (- if you want all the web pages you have open ). Firefox almost always reformats the pages in such a way that it's printed nicely (readable).

Wow this is really exciting. I was reading an article on bnet about "How to run an effective meeting" . (Got there again by a tip from Joost 's blog.) The last lines of that article are: The easy way to preserve whiteboard ideas Say you and your colleagues had an intense whiteboard session and came up with a complex diagram that will solve all your problems. But copying it onto a notepad will take hours, and another group is standing outside waiting to use the conference room. What do you do? Take a picture of the board with a camera phone and e-mail the photo file to wb@scanR.com. They'll clean up the image, improve the contrast and legibility, turn it into a PDF, and e-mail it back to you can forward it everyone on your team (all the while securing the confidentiality of your file). This looks wonderful! They give some examples on the website. When I've tried this, I'll let you know. By the way, on the scanR blog they make an interesting statement about ...