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  How to Stop Chasing Color and Increase Profitability

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  • Published: 06-12-2018, 03:56 PM
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  How to Stop Chasing Color and Increase Profitability

  By Noel Ward, Editor@Large
  
  Chances are, you’re seeing more and more jobs that require full color—it may be even most of the ones coming in, given the rapid increase in digital short-run printing. With that demand comes the need for color consistency, reliability and predictability, so you have to set and satisfy customer expectations for how colors will look on the printed page. And that is not always easy. Some familiar color reproduction challenges include:

  • Repeatability (matching

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  You, the Tax Man and Section 179

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  • Published: 06-07-2018, 12:53 PM
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  You, the Tax Man and Section 179

  By Noel Ward, Editor@Large
  
  Owners of small to mid-size businesses—meaning just about any type of print provider—know first-hand how tough it can be to keep a business profitable and moving forward. You’re always looking to get the most favorable returns on every deal and you try not to leave any money on the table. And when it comes to taxes, it’s especially important to know how to work the rules. And right now, one of the best of the bunch is called Section 179. Your tax guy...

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  SGIA and NAPCO Media Engineer an Inclusive Trade Event for an Evolving Market

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  • Published: 05-21-2018, 09:59 AM
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  SGIA and NAPCO Media Engineer an Inclusive Trade Event for an Evolving Market

  Sean O’Leary
  
  
  
  
  In October 2019, the Specialty Graphics & Imaging Association (SGIA) and NAPCO Media will launch Printing United, a trade show and conference envisioned to reflect the dynamics of a convergent printing industry. The move is the most recent development in a process, first announced in February, that began with a split between Printing Industries of America (PIA) and the Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies...

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  You've Been Hacked!

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  • Published: 05-06-2018, 11:35 AM
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  You've Been Hacked!

  By Noel Ward, Editor @Large
  
  Well, maybe you haven’t been hacked (that you know of), but chances are one or more of your customers has, whether or not they are willing to admit it.
  
  I was getting a glass of wine at the One Canon event a few weeks back when Carlos Fernandes the head of Agile Cybersecurity Solutions came up and introduced himself. He asked how familiar I was with the issue of cyber security. I said that to be honest, I’d thought of data security as something...

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  The Light Stuff:

  • Created by: MyWildIrishProse
  • Published: 03-21-2018, 11:37 PM
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  The Light Stuff:

  GTI’s Illuminating thoughts on ISO 3664.:2009 and color viewing environments
  
  Sean O’Leary
  
  As printing technology gallops like a runaway stagecoach along the digital trajectory, one critical production facet persists as decidedly analog and human: the dream of universal color viewing environments. Especially for higher value creative projects, the standardization of color evaluation supply chains is essential across the creative/production continuum. Designers, brand...

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  Why Inkjet?

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  • Published: 03-12-2018, 12:22 PM
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  Why Inkjet?

  By Noel Ward
  
  When the first high speed inkjet machines, all roll-to-roll devices, began reaching the market there was a lot of skepticism. Even some of the journalists and analysts with whom I swap perspectives weren’t sure inkjet was going to be a real player. Some thought (or maybe hoped) electrophotographic (EP) systems would go on forever. EP was, after all, their comfort zone. Many remained skeptical about inkjet.
  
  Why would anyone want cutsheet inkjet?
  A couple...

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  Of Piggly Wiggly, CHILI Publish and the Fourth Wave of the Industrial Revolution

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  • Published: 03-01-2018, 12:25 PM
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  Of Piggly Wiggly, CHILI Publish and the Fourth Wave of the Industrial Revolution

  by Sean O’Leary
  CTO, PrintPlanet
  
  It is not every day that one has the privilege of attending an event that kicks off with a discussion of how the Fourth Wave of the Industrial Revolution traces back to the 1916 self-service grocery innovations of PigglyWiggly. Nevertheless, that was how CHILI CEO Kevin Goeminne opened his talk at the Spicy Talk ‘18 Chicago Workplace on February 15. CHILI, of course, is the creator of a surging browser-based document editing platform that allows...

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  Wtp

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  • Published: 02-11-2018, 02:32 PM
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  Wtp

  by Noel Ward, Editor@Large
  
  What do you do when things go sideways? What does your team do? Who decides? And how do people feel when it’s all over? Successful? Or maybe like everyone just dodged a bullet?
  
  When things don’t go according to plan, there are usually a few people in any organization who fall apart, operating under a policy that goes something like, “when wracked by fear, or deep in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.” Meanwhile, cooler heads usually...

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  Accelerating Delivery for Parts & Service

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  • Published: 01-26-2018, 04:53 PM
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  Accelerating Delivery for Parts & Service

  by Noel Ward, Editor@Large
  
  Ask yourself a question: How dependent is your business on the support available for the equipment and technology on your shop floor? If your company is like most others in our industry the answer is probably something like, “More than I’d like it to be.”
  
  To minimize the stress and moments of panic that come with an unexpected equipment failure, you probably have a series of procedures in place to help ensure you can still meet deadlines...

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  Chasing the Holy Grail of Inkjet Printing * Third of 3 Parts

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  • Published: 12-11-2017, 11:55 AM
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  Chasing the Holy Grail of Inkjet Printing * Third of 3 Parts

  Episode 3: Ink and Substrates Matter
  
  by Noel Ward, Editor@Large
  
  So you know inkjet is the game changer and has a lot of room to grow and change, and that an inkjet press running coated or glossy paper offers more paths to profitability. Priming fluids may have helped, but are not necessarily essential. So it sill comes down to putting the ink on the page, which is why Ink and Substrates Matter.
  
  Inks and Substrates Matter
  On any flavor of press, substrates...

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