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Kudos to the cartoonist. It's not everyone who can extract humor from M. Scott Peck.

Advancing Productivity and Service Delivery By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Back in the day when I was buying and managing a lot of print I’d get daily calls from my two favored print shops, sometimes even the in-plant, updating me on the status of my jobs. The calls to me took each shop only a few...

Navigating the new Customer Landscape By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Do you fully understand your customers’ needs and have ways of managing their expectations? The reason I ask is because printing has become just one part of many customers’ media choices. A new study (LINK HERE) by NAPCO...

Print in the Eye of the Buyer (Episode 4) By Noel Ward, Editor@Large DOWNLOAD PAPER HERE If you’re like any other print provider you spend some time each day wondering if you and your team are keeping customers happy. You wonder about the one who stormed in at 10:22 this morning, spent 20...

BindRite Opens A Virtual Trade Show Online The BindRite Dealers Association has opened the doors to the BindRite Virtual Trade Show™ (VTS), an online interactive trade show experience. The organization, which represents independent graphic arts dealers, created the free web-based expo as an...

Ultimate TechnoGraphics Helps Cober Gain Unmatched Productivity Building an automated workflow from imposition to finishing propels Cober Printing to new levels of success, delivering hundreds of short-run orders per day. Erwin Driever, VP Technology, and Jeff Sider, Senior Development...

by Noel Ward, Editor@Large Back before I knew better, I asked a purveyor of finishing systems what the company had to offer for finishing systems for digital presses. His response was not unlike the scene in Star Wars when Obi Wan Kenobi told the Star Troopers, “These are not the droids you’re...

Chris Travis and Eric Frank discuss a wide range of topics, from automation to digital printing.

"Brand extensions are a fact of life these days, giving rise to a host of challenges. CHILI is making it easier for companies to manage a range of branding and product information for multiple products in their portfolios. CHILI’s Fabian Prudhomme and Flora Nkuranga-Gaju explain what the...

[SPECIAL TO PRINT PLANET FROM XEROX] By Dennis Beck, Commercial Printer, North Palm Beach, Florida I’ve been in printing for almost 30 years, and I’ve taken many risks. Some didn’t work out, but most did. It’s sort of like buying stocks; not everyone is a winner, but most are if you’re careful...

Print customers’ needs and priorities continue to evolve. They demand cost-effective solutions, convenience and flexibility. Expected turnaround times get shorter, along with run lengths. The most profitable print shops remain agile and respond to their customers’ demands while keeping inventory...

Novatech Graphics in Little Silver, NJ has been in business for 40 years, producing full-color CMYK envelopes for commercial clients. The company works on tight margins with clients who are primarily print brokers and other printers who outsource to them. In order to stay profitable and...