Category Archives: Business

The business of graphic arts

Finally!

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Brian Lawler

I started writing The Blognosticator in July, 2011. At the time I was unable to acquire the domain blognosticator.com. That belonged to a nice woman who had bought it and was holding it, hoping that someone foolish enough to create … Continue reading →

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A grateful message to all of you

Posted on October 25, 2021 by Brian Lawler

This is my occasional update on traffic to The Blognosticator with statistics and commentary on my art of blogging. In an era when podcasters are doing fabulously, I have to face facts: I am a print guy. I tried video, … Continue reading →

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A hole in future history

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Brian Lawler

I took over 400 CDs and DVDs to the shredding company this week. This was a collection of old System disks, software that won’t run anymore, and 828,000 photos in an archive that I once thought to be impregnable. Optical … Continue reading →

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The most exciting thing I saw at GraphExpo 2014

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Brian Lawler

I troll the hallways at GraphExpo, looking at the many booths showing exciting technologies to potential customers. There are people selling software, hardware, firmware, middleware, and usually – pretzels. This year there was no pretzel vendor, nor an ice cream … Continue reading →

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80,000 readers and growing

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Brian Lawler

Good day! The Blognosticator reached 80,000 readers this week, thank you. When I started this version of the blog, 33 months ago, I didn’t know how many people would visit the site, and how many would return many times. Writing … Continue reading →

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Crafting a graph in Adobe Illustrator CC

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Brian Lawler

The Graph tool in Adobe Illustrator has been around a long time, and has not been improved much since it was first released. It’s a strange tool because it is capable of generating some lovely visual information, but it’s frustrating … Continue reading →

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Dear Blognosticator readers – all 60,000 of you

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Brian Lawler

We have reached a milestone on this 31st day of December, 2013: 60,000 readers! Your continued interest in the blogs has been inspiring to me, and I thank each and every one of you. A lot of interesting topics have … Continue reading →

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China, day four-point-three

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Brian Lawler

We awoke yesterday and boarded a big green bus, heading north from Hong Kong into mainland China. Our objective was to visit three of China’s largest commercial printing companies, each known for quality and high volume. Crossing the border from … Continue reading →

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ePrint is setting records in Hong Kong printing community

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Brian Lawler

It’s VistaPrint for Hong Kong. But less aggressive and irritating. On our tours yesterday of printing plants in Hong Kong, we visited a company called ePrint, which is a largely web-based commercial printing company. They specialize in – everything. Their … Continue reading →

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Hong Kong Day Two

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Brian Lawler

On my outings on Sunday in Hong Kong I had a chance to take the Star Ferry across Victoria Harbor to Hong Kong Island where my friend John Seymour and I had lunch. The weather was tempestuous, and we watched … Continue reading →

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