Uniic cancels its Graphic Industry Congress
The Union Nationale des Industries de l'Impression et de la Communication was to hold its annual congress at the Institut Lumière in Lyon, France, today, Friday, September 25, by streaming. The day before, Uniic announced its cancellation. "The participation, despite the circumstances, was so brilliant in content and in keeping with the trends of our previous events." but "faced with the inconsistencies and inaccuracies of recent decisions taken by the Rhône public authorities which impact the host establishment we had chosen, it is unfortunately not possible for us to carry out this event in optimal conditions"
The program, which promised to be particularly rich (read the description in the virtual events agenda of the graphic arts 2020) should be shared in new forms yet to be defined.
A drawing by Hergé valued at 2 and 3 million euros put up for sale
A drawing by Georges Rémi dit Hergé, estimated at between 2 and 3 million euros, will be auctioned on 21 November in Paris, announces the organiser of this sale, Artcurial.
This work in Indian ink, watercolour and gouache on paper was created for the initial cover of Tintin's album Blue Lotus dating from 1936, an important title in the collection.
"Too expensive to reproduce at the time because of the colorization technique used, four-color process, this cover was refused in 1936 by the publisher Casterman. (...) This drawing was offered by Hergé in person to the young son of the publisher Louis Casterman who kept it in a drawer after having carefully folded it into six" ...reports the auction house.
International Print Media Launches Campaign to Preserve the Future of Journalism
UNI Global Union and the International Federation of Journalists, representing 21 million workers worldwide, are calling on national governments to tax the Internet giants and support the print media (journalism, publishing, printing and distribution).
Amazon, Google and Facebook "are diverting advertising revenue from the media." they say in a press release.
"The covid-19 crisis has accelerated a long-standing decline in media advertising revenues. This year alone, these revenues are down 20 per cent. Much of this money has been captured by the technology giants. For example, in 2018, Google earned $4.7 billion from news - money that was not shared with the journalists who produced the news."
"If no action is taken, thousands of media outlets could be shaken and hundreds of thousands of jobs could be lost due to media consolidation and loss of advertising revenue."
An order for 26 HP Indigo
HP will install 26 HP Indigo digital presses at ePac, the digital flexible packaging giant ($100 million in revenue expected by 2020). ePac is the first company to install the new HP Indigo 25K press at its sites. This order will bring the worldwide fleet of HP Indigo presses to 78 machines by 2021. ePac has nearly 20 sites in Europe, the United States, Canada and Asia.
