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The FSC Chain of Custody Certification is part of a "guarantee" where anyone can track the paper (or furniture or building product) from end user to the actual sustainably managed forest from which it came. If I were a print shop that went to the expense and effort of becoming an FSC Certified...

Continue outsourcing Litho. Business for those guys is bad enough already, why take more away? Glad your business is booming, but you are under the impression that the "digital printing" you do is somehow similar to traditional high-end litho? You're already talking here about hiring at LEAST...

And that is what Kodak is banking on, that customers won't care as long as it works. The reason it works as well as it does is that there is a core group of developers and service people, born from the crucible of Creo, who have been with the project from its inception. The Kodak move is to...

I've had this problem, here's how we solved it. (You will have to do some extra work yourself. You're not trying to be lazy are you ;) ? ) 1- Measure the amount of time it takes to interpret instructions coming from email, time to track down the docket this belongs to, note the amount of time...

You're trying to acquire a company with an Indigo 3050? I thought the usual way to acquire companies was with some kind of financial arrangement! My advice? DO NOT get into the print biz unless you want to lose money. Digital and VDP have become commoditized faster than anyone in the industry...

Tobias, A couple years ago I was responsible for creating a connectivity workflow between some print customers and our HP front end, known at that time as the "Production FLow Server". Through the HP developer network, I was able to obtain an SDK specifically for file format creation. Everything...

The "ecofont" is considered ridiculous by serious people and should have NO IMPACT on professional commercial printing. There's a hole in my typeface, dear Vera, dear Vera | Typophile Regular Guy's Experiments in www

mmmmmmmmkay.... congratulations?

Polish up your resumes, my prepress friends Polish up your resumes, my prepress friends According to US Government sources (o*net and the dept of labor) as well as my own findings from job aggregators like indeed.com and simplyhired, not only are wages going down but you can expect a 25% drop...

Why don't you contact an HP Indigo sales rep? They will help you analyze your business and find the right machine for the volumes you expect. Not something you can "estimate" without more info.

We are having a debate about paper grain direction, whether it really makes a difference to prevent cracking, or whether digital presses in general "prefer" grain short or grain long, and why. Ideas?

CSimpson is right. There are plenty of hungry printers out there right now who will be happy to help you.

There is no variable printing (that I know of) that is recyclable in the traditional paper recycling stream. Like Internal_R&D_Analyst says, there is a consortium working on the de-inking process. On the other hand, machines like this create virtually NO VOCs, making them greener on balance.

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Bad news from Denver, CO. One of (if not THE) oldest and most respected printers here, National Hirschfeld, abruptly shut down a few weeks ago. Meanwhile, my own shop, Spectrographics, told us Monday that they were closing. 250 humans out of work. A side note: if this happens where you are, and...