From the Editor: Rise of the Trolls
A number of small businesses have reportedly gotten hit with similar shake-down letters from an assortment of shell companies with six-letter names like AdzPro, GosNel, and FasLan, effectively stopping them from using a common, popular, store-bought technology.
PIC also says the firm Brennen Mashoff, working on behalf of SkipPrint LLC, was suing Rastar and Quad/Graphics for infringing patents involving variable data printing online services, inventory management services and preflighting services. The patents in question were sold off by Kodak in December 2012 as part of its bankruptcy proceedings, PIC says.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
