It's September. The month when most people's gas bills hit rock bottom. Kids are back in school, harvest is still just sweat and fury in the future. Closed are the pools, open are the schools, and life is good. Too good. So, those wonderful conference organizers have nothing better to do than make us travel. Last week and this, I had the pleasure to present at ACM Doc Eng 2009, IS&T NIP25, and IEEE BIdS. I've already posted the ACM DocEng paper and plugged it a few times on this, my blog, but just to complete the trifecta, it's here:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2009/HPL-2009-177.html

This blog focuses, however, on one of the NIP25 papers. It's about how to extend the information you add to packaging by using "semi-covert" variable data printing (VDP) driven layout variability, and it's with my long-time friend and colleague Margaret Sturgill. You'll find the PDF here:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2009/HPL-2009-316.html

Thanks to Omer Gila for the invitation to present this work,

Steve