Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: tom b on November 25, 2013, 03:02:16 am
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Rcently I read an article about a print on demand magazines in Sweden. Apparently you can go to a few selected newstands and select a magazine and have it printed on the spot in two minutes. Information here (http://www.meganews.com/).
Just another example of how technology is changing.
Cheers,
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Interesting...
Mike.
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One would wonder about the standard of paper and photo reproduction, not that magazines care much about that sort of triviality nowdays (OK, unfair to the higher end glossies, but plenty don't). The endearing beauty of magazines is that they are an object that you like to handle and hold and to attain this sort of quality you need a proper press with proper offset printing, not digital squirting. It betrays the belief held by many IT type people that it is purely content that matters rather than content and form when it comes to spreading the printed word. But then, there are so many media outlets filled by shallow and insipid content that one wonders if even the actual words matter, just so long as there is a collection of them in the appropriate dialogue boxes on the site.
The other point is that magazines are often browsed before purchase, tricky with this system.
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Reduces the magic of magazines to buying a doughnut.
Rob C
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One would wonder about the standard of paper and photo reproduction, not that magazines care much about that sort of triviality nowdays (OK, unfair to the higher end glossies, but plenty don't). The endearing beauty of magazines is that they are an object that you like to handle and hold and to attain this sort of quality you need a proper press with proper offset printing, not digital squirting. It betrays the belief held by many IT type people that it is purely content that matters rather than content and form when it comes to spreading the printed word. But then, there are so many media outlets filled by shallow and insipid content that one wonders if even the actual words matter, just so long as there is a collection of them in the appropriate dialogue boxes on the site.
The other point is that magazines are often browsed before purchase, tricky with this system.
I agree. There are a few magazines I regularly take - photography and cycling, which are beautifully presented (and relatively expensive) and have a great tactile quality to them. The rest could just as easily be viewed on a tablet and I could not see the point in printing something at a lower quality.
Jim