Recent content by Mark H

Forget salary reports, they reduce your position to a commodity and give you the going rate for it. Like asking how much a pound of bacon should be. Forget this route. Instead, figure out how much you're worth to the company and work backwards from there. You work both pre and post sales...

Who holds the lease on the machine? In most cases it's a 3rd party financier with little or no ties to either the servicing organization, the manufacturer, and in some cases the seller. Your best bet is to seek legal advice pronto. Mark H

I'm looking for anyone using a Ricoh 751 in a production environment for variable data work who can speak to overall speed, up-time, quality, etc. Thanks, Mark H

Standards can be great for setting a minimum level of quality or expectation. However, I often find that my production team, my management, my customer, or even myself can (and do) set higher standards and expectations for the work we produce. In the end isn't that what matters - making sure...

Does anyone have a copy of, or can point me to an online reference for the equipment warranty on a Ricoh Pro c900? Thanks, Mark H

Dear Grafika, It sounds like you have many of the checks and balances you should have for a print production process in place already. What doesn't seem to be happening is your employees aren't learning from their mistakes. You said you meet every morning to discuss the day's jobs, set...

Here's a fantastically detailed (and easy to read) overview of the history of health insurance in the US: Health Insurance in the United States | Economic History Services

Dencen, Well, with all things contractual I would start by reviewing the contract, and then go from there. Mark H

Gordon Geckko would have undercut his competition to grab their business then sold the company at a profit and walked before it imploded. Or, Bain Capital might simply have outsourced (sorry, off shored) the printing, fired the employees, and sold the business assets.

Everyone's rushing to the cloud. It's the new panacea, the silver bullet of the moment. But how many are really thinking and understanding what it is, is not, and can do for the end user? Too few, I think. Unfortunately, the big joke is on us.. just as soon as we retool, buy new licenses and...

What a mess Photoshop's built-in effects can make of a font... And to think, someone actually LIKES this.

Book 5... been waiting what, six years? Then George kills off more main characters, introduces even more convoluted plot lines (and characters to support them), and doesn't close any loops....

The series matches the pace of the books, and the books make both Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter seem like whirlwind stories. Not to burst your bubble, but don't get too invested in the characters; everyone you like ends up dead.

If violent video games, or even parodies of violent video games, were responsible for school or workplace shootings we would see more of them world wide. Unfortunately, the US leads the world in school and workplace violence, including homicides. This would suggest a cultural link, rather than...

Stupid question, but are you fanning the paper before you load it? Mark H