著者

鷲巣 敏行

出版者

The Japanese Society of Printing Science and Technology

雑誌

日本印刷学会誌 (ISSN:09143319)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.46, no.3, pp.131-136, 2009-06-30

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Recently in Japan, aging of population structure has been going on, and then people with impaired vision, such as presbyopia or cataract are rapidly increasing due to physical depression, accompanied by aging, as well as low vision or impaired color vision which are typical visual impairments. These social situations have resulted in the requirement for the development of "Universal Design Font".The Universal Design Font differs from any other conventional fonts in its design concept, which focused on its usage as display font and designed it with a due consideration to the concept of universal design.

著者

小野寺 尚希

出版者

The Japanese Society of Printing Science and Technology

雑誌

日本印刷学会誌 (ISSN:09143319)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.50, no.1, pp.16-23, 2013

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Japanese newspaper publishers have been tackling the digital media business since the 1980s. However, these were based on news feeds that were not run in the newspaper. They were mainly treated as breaking news because they were easy to handle, and it was able to avoid a cannibalization of newspaper circulation. But the e-newspaper concept introduced by Roger Fidler in 1994 strongly impacted publishers. Although e-newspapers could not be realized due to less advanced technology at that time, publishers were inspired by future business prospects and a standardized structure for exchanging articles. After that, the web was thought of as an e-newspaper. It failed as an e-newspaper business, however, because charging via the PC was not standard practice. When smartphone and tablet devices finally emerged, the e-newspaper business might be realized. Although there are still some issues, if newspaper publishers could solve them, e-newspaper business would move forward to next step.

著者

藤原 雅弘

出版者

The Japanese Society of Printing Science and Technology

雑誌

日本印刷学会誌 (ISSN:09143319)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.52, no.1, pp.42-45, 2015

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Modern times have been called a sudden increase period of media. Services like Facebook and Twitter led to the spread of social networking services (SNS) , dramatically reducing the cost and difficulty of sending information: people now send information for free and share that information widely. Since the establishment of SNS on the country, enterprise, and group levels, individuals are able to offer information which, until now, was the realm of the newspaper "oligopoly," putting information on a home page immediately without letting major media through. Whenever there is a society that can be connected to the Internet, the individual now collects and spreads the first information on a subject or event. The individual becomes a target of interest and even maintains the sending power over the information, a condition previously only enjoyed by the conventional press industry. This has left the traditional media in a situation that cannot be ignored and must be changed to meet the times.

著者

矢口 博之

出版者

The Japanese Society of Printing Science and Technology

雑誌

日本印刷学会誌 (ISSN:09143319)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.49, no.4, pp.252-257, 2012

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This paper discusses the potential substitution of paper media with digital media from the perspective of usability and legibility through a comparison of the characteristics of digital media and paper media. Various media have been digitized throughout the progress of information technology. Therefore, it is important that digitized media be improved in terms of their usability and costs. Current paper media are not digitized and hence they have low usability, high costs, and poor display qualities. Recent digital media such as tablet PCs, e-books, and smartphones have been developed using advanced information technologies, and thus they may substitute for paper media. This study investigated digital media from three perspectives, i.e., their physical characteristics, screen display size, and screen resolution. Our investigation and analysis showed that paper media cannot be substituted with recent digital media in the near future. However, some digital media have noteworthy features that are comparable with paper media. These digital media features are their high-resolution screens, large screen size, and writable screens. In the near future, new products or services that focus on user experience will be developed by integrating digital media and paper media.