There’s a running joke in the publishing industry that the more tenured you have been with your job, the easier it is for you to identify paper stock by mere touch. Mike Boyle told me his favorites are the Japanese papers. As a fountain pen enthusiast, I could wholeheartedly agree. “Tomoe river paper,” I said, was one of them. “Almost like onion paper but the lifespan of the machines are reaching its end.” And in a way this set the tone for the discussions that afternoon. Mike Boyle is HP’s newly appointed Managing Director for Greater Asia, and has seen […]... Keep on reading: How AI is affecting the printing industry