By Richard Romano, Industry Analyst
Students of printing history likely know the name Johannes Trithemius. He was a German abbot in the 1490s, about 40 years after the invention of the printing press. By Trithemius’ heyday, the printing revolution was in full swing, automating the process of reproducing documents and replacing the earlier method that involved hand-copying by scribes, monks cloistered and copying documents in scriptoria. After the printing press, demand for scribes...
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What! You’re not Using Web2Print?
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What! You’re not Using Web2Print?
By Noel Ward, Editor@Large
Raise your hand if you remember jobs coming in on CDs or DVDs. Thanks!
Now raise your hand if you remember jobs coming in on Zip Drives? A few more. Very good!
How about on SyQuest drives? Excellent! (How does if feel to be that old?)
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New Affordable, Short-Run Finishing Systems:
A Competitive Edge for Commercial Printers?
by Sean O'Leary
Chief Technology Officer, PrintPlanet
One of the hidden problems with the digital revolution is that it opens up new business opportunities for everyone – not just you. For example, you may have thought that a high volume inkjet press investment was a strategic move that would put you one step ahead of the competition, but in reality it turned out you’re just keeping up with the pack. For small-to-medium... -
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No Jackets Required
By Noel Ward, Editor@Large
Taking the jackets off your offset presses is the first advantage of adding LED-UV dryers to your press. After that, things get even better, putting an end to conventional drying methods while eliminating environmental concerns associated with old-school UV curing.
Back in the day—and much of that day is still here—drying inks after printing required hot air or heat lamps. Forward-thinking printers who opted for UV inks had to add mercury-arc... -
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You Won’t Survive by Printing Alone
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You Won’t Survive by Printing Alone
By Noel Ward
In the mid-90s I was going into print shops, setting up internal networks, training prepress people on using QuarkXPress and dragging many shop owners kicking and screaming into the tenuous new world of digital file prep and digital printing. Some embraced the new technology while others were skeptical or resistant. Suffice it to say that those who survived were not the skeptics or resisters. A couple years later I was an active advocate for digital printing, editing a... -
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Smart Inks: A Tsunami On The Horizon
It’s usually the printing presses and other hardware that fire hype and imagination in the printing world. This is partly because we can actually watch the latest print machinery at work and (often) admire the convergence of design and function as the big iron cranks out the product.
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Targeted Direct Mail Without a Postal Permit—Yes!
Every Door Delivery (EDDM) Is the Door to Saving Time & Money on Direct Mail
By Richard Romano, Industry Analyst
As any mailer can tell you, acquiring mailing lists for direct mail campaigns is perhaps the biggest challenge in marketing. Sure, lists can be purchased, but they’re expensive, and mailing lists can go out-of-date quite easily as people move, switch jobs, get married, and are otherwise on-the-go.
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Pay Attention to the Machine Behind the Curtain
By Noel Ward, Editor@Large
They served champagne. It was a product launch, after all.
About halfway through the afternoon, at the far end of a meeting room deep within the Boca Raton Resort, Canon pulled back the curtain on the Océ Colorado 1640. Rolling out an entirely new set of technologies, the new roll-to-roll large format printer opens up new opportunities for Canon–and its customers–in the fastest growing segment of the large format market.
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Managing Multiple Order Acquisition Pathways–All Roads Should Lead to Rome
By Richard Romano, Industry Analyst
ALEXI DARLING:
Your footage of the riots: a-one
Feature segment-network-deal time,
I’m sending you a contract
Ker-ching ker-ching
Marky, give us a call 970-4301
Or at home try 863-6754
Or my cellphone at 919-763-0090
Or you can email me at darlingalexi@newscom.net
Or you can page me at–
–“Voice Mail #3,” from the Broadway musical Rent
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So. You Want to do Label and Package Printing
By Noel Ward
You’ve been doing a nice mix of commercial printing and have a host of satisfied customers. A digital press or two have been taking up some real estate on your shop floor for a couple of years, helped expand your reach, and now you’re looking for more opportunities. You’re thinking labels and folding cartons seem like a fairly natural transition into packaging. After all, how hard can it be?
Labels and folding cartons are often seen as the low hanging...
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