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    The Profitability of Living Large

    The dollars are there. But like most things, you have to know your market and work at it. But any printing pro can do this.
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    The Profitability of Living Large

    The Profitability of Living Large By Noel Ward, Editor@Large How wide can you go? Some commercial print shops I’ve visited have inkjet printers that print sheets up to 72-inches wide. Such wide or large format machines are one of the easiest ways for print providers to increase their offerings...
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    Just When you Least Expect It

    Just When you Least Expect It By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Meetings of print providers have one thing in common: that there’s stuff missing. While many print providers talk about the equipment they have, the good and bad of various software, relate anecdotes about customers, and complain about...
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    Be All You Can Be

    Be All You Can Be Is Diversifying a Strategy for You? By Noel Ward, Editor@Large All you can do is all you can do. After all, working hard and using a sharp pencil on quotes both work fine. Until they don’t. Some shops are in that moment right now. I’ve been in and out of print shops for...
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    Do Vendors Know Anything?

    Do Vendors Know Anything? Get smarter by asking questions By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Long story short, the CEO of a company I know (not a client) related how a customer was costing him serious dollars. He ran the problem past one of his vendors who suggested a solution that required playing...
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    Why Would Anyone Want to Work in Printing?

    Why Would Anyone Want to Work in Printing? Maybe it’s time to pull a Gretzky By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Raise your hand if any of the following situations sound familiar. You have placed ads, endured career fairs, talked with placement people at high schools and community colleges and still...
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    Are You a Grown Up?

    Thanks! Good tip! I've done that too. I usually ask, "so what are you thinking?" And let them solve their own problem. Still, over 35 years in various businesses/companies it's amazing--scary, actually--how few people I've worked with seem to be adults.
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    Are You a Grown Up?

    Are You a Grown Up? By Noel Ward, Editor@Large You’re out of the office on a Friday morning sales call when your production manager learns that the guy running your Baltindicoh 8600 XL is moving to another state and the Baltindicoh is having major problems. Downtime is about to occur. The...
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    Got Endpoints?

    Got Endpoints? Cyber-threats are coming to get you By Noel Ward, Editor@Large A few months back I was talking with the CTO of a company that prints and mails a couple billion bills, statements and direct mail pieces every year. I called him because I was writing a story on cyber-attacks and...
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    Because Listening Matters: An Exclusive Interview

    Because Listening Matters An exclusive interview with Canon EVP Francis McMahon By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Interviews are a great way to hear how people in our industry think because listening matters. I managed to catch up with Francis McMahon, EVP at Canon Solutions America in Boca Raton...
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    A 30-day Fix for Managed Chaos

    A 30-day Fix for Managed Chaos By Noel Ward, Editor@Large The only thing I would have done differently was doing it sooner,” said Chuck Frymark, looking back over the recent installation of PressWise software from SmartSoft USA at Heritage Printing in Brookfield, Wisconsin. The installation...
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    The Direct Mail Opportunity

    The Direct Mail Opportunity By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Direct mail gets a bad rap. Sometimes it’s deserved, like those generic monthly mailings from cable companies, cell phone novelists, banks, utilities, and more. Same offer every time. If I did this back when I was a marketing director I’d...
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    Turning Sustainability into Cash

    Turning Sustainability into Cash Your press may be costing you money By Noel Ward, Editor@Large It is always interesting to talk with people who do different things for a living. Builders, fishermen and ski patrollers, for example, spend most of their time outdoors and have different...
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    It’s Still About Making Money

    It’s Still About Making Money by Noel Ward,Editor@Large Back in the days of film and plates, mechanicals and Rubyliths, my assistant Diane and I were having lunch with Hal, sales guy for the printer where we spent nearly a million bucks a year. Hal was talking about an employee in his shop, a...
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    Cutting Costs with a Smart Workflow

    Cutting Costs with a Smart Workflow By Noel Ward, Editor@Large We print everything from business cards to flyers to stickers to banners to signage,” relates Chad Sims, CEO and co-founder of Prima Printing in Atlanta, Georgia, a shop that runs about 250 jobs each day. “We print most jobs the...

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A 30-day Fix for Managed Chaos

As any print professional knows, printing can be managed chaos. Software that solves multiple problems and provides measurable and monetizable value has a direct impact on the bottom-line.

“We reduced order entry costs by about 40%.” Significant savings in a shop that turns about 500 jobs a month.


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