Businesses like Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard that focus on transforming print documents into digital data are beginning to exploit a largely untapped market.
On a recent visit to the company's headquarters in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, most employees were in front of their computers dealing with the technical and creative challenges of transforming print comics into digital ones.
The buyout will give the company "greater flexibility" to transform its print, Internet and broadcasting businesses, "with an eye toward long-term growth," he said.
Don Logan, the chief executive of Time Inc. from 1994 to 2002, noted just how challenging a task it was to transform a print magazine division for the digital age, even for Time Inc., which has such strong brands.
Jason Wu's was a mosaic of states in different shades of blue, seen not only on the runway but also on Ms. Wintour (who had the designer transform the print into a short-sleeved A-line dress) and on Ms. Abedin, who paired the T-shirt with an orange skirt by Chris Gelinas.
She wants to transform its printing and services businesses.
The technique, which could transform 3D printing, works up to 100 times faster than current methods and produces objects that are considerably stronger.
BEFORE the personal computer, and before the Web, there was Theodor Holm Nelson, who almost half a century ago understood how computers would transform the printed page.
The VRA is now an obstacle to that ideal.David Mayger Alexandria, VirginiaSIR – Your briefing looking at the ways in which three-dimensional printing could transform manufacturing mentioned printing devices that cost between $20,000 and $250,000 ("The printed world", February 12th).
The thinking goes like this: Both Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson were endlessly futzing with their movies until the very last second – the final copies were still wet as of Nov. 30 – and the process of transforming the print into a finished DVD that could be put in the cold hands of Academy members takes three weeks.
