PAPER:
AMERICAN FOREST & PAPER ASSOCIATION (AF&PA)
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the national trade association of the forest, pulp, paper, paperboard, and wood products industry. We represent member companies engaged in growing, harvesting, and processing wood and wood fiber, manufacturing pulp, paper, and paperboard products from both virgin and recycled fiber, and producing engineered and traditional wood products. AF&PA's mission is to influence successfully public policy to benefit the U.S paper and forest products industry.
PAPER U
Paper University: Where Students and Teachers explore the World of Paper.
PULP & PAPER RESOURCES ON THE WEB
Pulp and Paper Resources on the web is your ultimate information site. More than 1600 sites of Paper Manufacturers, Pulp Manufacturers, Paper Chemicals, Machinery and Control System Manufacturers, Paper Converting, Consulting, Testing, Repair, Recruitment, Trading, Distribution, Education, Waste Management Service Providers are listed. The site also carries largest list of Abbreviation & Acronyms related to Paper, the best and largest Paper Dictionary, list of Pulp, Paper & Waste Paper Grades, Paper ISO Sizes, Chemical used in Pulp and Paper Manufacturing, common Basis Weight, Density of Paper and Bleaching Stages. The site is updated every week.
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GRAPHIC ARTS INDUSTY:
AIGA | THE PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DESIGN
AIGA is committed to furthering excellence in design as a broadly defined discipline, strategic tool for business and cultural force. AIGA is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice. AIGA now represents more than 16,000 designers through national activities and local programs developed by 55 chapters and more than 150 student groups.
PRINTING INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA / GRAPHIC ARTS TECHNICAL FOUNDATION
Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF) is the world’s largest graphic arts trade association, representing an industry with more than $161 billion in revenue and 1.2 million employees. Along with its affiliates, PIA/GATF delivers products and services that enhance the growth, efficiency, and profitability of its members and the industry through advocacy, education, research, and technical information. The 1999 consolidation of PIA and GATF brought together two powerful partners — the world’s largest graphic arts trade association, and a technical, scientific, and educational organization dedicated to the advancement of the graphic communications industries worldwide.
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FONTS:
ADOBE TYPE LIBRARY
Providing stunning, elegant, and beautiful typography since 1985, Adobe Type offers more than 2,200 typefaces. With support for more alphabets in Pro fonts, and typographic refinements like swashes, small caps, and old–style figures, designers can find whatever they need for any project. Best of all are Adobe Originals, exciting new fonts and updated classics from the world’s leading type designers.
FONTS.COM / MONOTYPE IMAGING
Monotype Imaging provides fonts and font technologies to graphic professionals, software developers and manufacturers of printers and display devices. Formerly Agfa Monotype Corp., the company also provides print drivers and color imaging technologies to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Monotype Imaging is home to the Monotype® typeface library, a collection that includes widely used designs such as the Arial®, Times New Roman® and Gill Sans® typeface families. Monotype Imaging offers fonts and industry–standard solutions for most of the world’s written languages.
EMIGRE
Emigre, Inc. is a digital type foundry, publisher and distributor of graphic design related software and printed materials based in Northern California.Founded in 1984, coinciding with the birth of the Macintosh, Emigre was one of the first independent type foundries to establish itself centered on personal computer technology. Emigre holds exclusive license to over 300 original typeface designs created by a roster of contemporary designers. Emigre’s full line of typefaces, ornaments and illustrations is available in Type 1 PostScript and TrueType for both the Macintosh and PC. Emigre is also the publisher of the critically acclaimed design journal Emigre magazine which was published between 1984 and 2005.
HOEFLER & FRERE–JONES
Since 1989, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere&ndashJones have helped some of the world’s foremost publications, corporations, and institutions develop their unique voice through typography. Their body of work includes some of the world’s most famous designs, typefaces marked by both high performance and high style. In 2004, The Hoefler Type Foundry entered its sixteenth year as Hoefler & Frere&ndashJones. H&FJ continues to work with brand leaders in every sector, developing original typefaces and licensing fonts from its library of nearly 1,000 designs, and it publishes fonts exclusively through its New York sales office and its web site at typography.com.
INTERNATIONAL TYPEFACE CORPORATION
An international leader in typeface design and marketing for over 30 years, ITC collaborates with world–class designers to provide a library of more than 1,500 classic typefaces and innovative new designs. ITC has also helped to raise the standards of design quality, and focused attention on the ethical issues related to design protection and licensing.While renowned for classic designs, ITC has aggressively expanded the scope of its type library to include more contemporary designs, including distinctive display faces and inventive illustration fonts (called DesignFonts). Further expanding the spectrum of its type collection, ITC is now developing and releasing approximately 30 new typefaces each year.
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SOFTWARE:
ADOBE
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. The company’s award–winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and developing content that engages people and anywhere at anytime.
MICROSOFT
At Microsoft is motivated and inspired every day by how customers use their software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. Microsoft is committed long term to the mission of helping their customers realize their full potential. Just as they constantly update and improve their products, they want to continually evolve their company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.
QUARKEXPRESS
Named after the subatomic particle proposed as the building block for all matter, Quark’s goal was to create software that would be the platform for publishing. QuarkXPress introduced precision typography, layout, and color control to the desktop computer, and delivered those features to designers at a fraction of the cost of proprietary typesetting systems. Today, Quark maintains its industry leadership with a product line that ties together traditional print publishing with enterprise content management, personalization, and tools for creating collaborative, cross–media workflows.
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GOVERNMENT:
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
Get started today creating a Direct Mail campaign that will make a lasting impression on your customers. By integrating Direct Mail into your overall marketing campaign, you will be able to directly target your customers while reinforcing your existing marketing efforts. A simple Direct Mail piece can be the motivation that gets current and potential customers to your place of business.
U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE
The Copyright Office is proud to be part of a long tradition of promoting progress of the arts and protection for the works of authors. Their goal is to make major improvements in our public services. As a key part of this initiative, they offer online registration via their website.
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