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OK, so I can't get glossy paper. So how about you print on some nice 20-pound bond and put a flood coating on it? It'll be the same, right? The way things are going, in a few more years 20- and 24-pound bond will be about all you can easily get. (On allocation, of course.) Maybe 110 cover if...

Print quality. And I have edited the copy to reflect this. Thanks for catching this. I should have seen that before I uploaded! I have not gone into a detailed definition because it would get too far into the weeds and is actually a subjective topic.

Propelling Your Business Forward—Part 2 Enhancing In-Plant Product & Service Offerings By Noel Ward, Editor@Large One of the more interesting points in the latest Canon USA study is that the most successful in-plant operations seem more like well-run commercial print shops and may even compete...

Steps to Efficient Post-Press Know your customers’ needs today and the future By Noel Ward, Editor@Large When it comes to finishing, the balance between sheet-fed offset or digital presses has to be weighed to ensure optimum throughput. Knowing this, I was not expecting die-cutters and...

Cloud-powered Print Production Business intelligence you can see… and use By Noel Ward, Editor@Large With almost everything that takes place on a computer landing in “the cloud” these days, it’s no surprise that your print workflow can go there too. After all, the cloud is fast, reliable...

Still Rollin’ After All These Years Xeikon Café shows versatility in both packaging and graphic arts By Noel Ward, Editor@Large With the arrival of the new normal the big players in the world of digital print are wasting no time in communicating with existing customers and attracting new ones...

Give Customers More How a Print MIS Adds Value for Customers and for You By Noel Ward, Editor@Large In case you haven’t noticed or are ignoring the problem and hoping it will go away, customers expect more than they once did. And are not shy about asking for or even demanding new levels of...

What about zombies?

My, my. Aren't we being hypersensitive! News flash for you: Dead people don't read. At least I don't hide behind a screen name.

Ha ha. Get a life.

Propelling Your Business Forward—Part 1 Print 2022 and Beyond By Noel Ward, Editor@Large The next twelve months offer great potential despite labor shortages and supply chain disruptions. Print providers and in-plants are planning growth and investing in people and technology, while chasing...

Don't be so sensitive. I have two daughters who think that's funny. But then they have a sense of humor.

Finger-Licking Good! Packaging that works from store through recycling By Noel Ward, Editor@Large “This just doesn’t taste right.” Those are the last words a company wants to hear a customer saying about any edible product. To help avoid this the U.S. government (primarily the FDA), followed...

What about Profitability? Offset yields new advantages By Noel Ward, Editor@Large A couple years back I spent time talking with C-level print business owners in several states. They had three things in common: one, many had large, productive inkjet presses; two, they had a few toner presses...

Pink? Yep. Pink. It’s not just for girls anymore By Noel Ward, Editor@Large I’ve always been a fan of wide and large format printing. Even in the bad old days when it was only suitable for viewing at a distance, to my biased eye it was still doing stuff that was impractical with offset or...

How’s the Cloud Working for You? Look for solutions that deliver the value your business needs By Noel Ward, Editor@Large One of the leading buzzwords of the decade is “Cloud.” The Cloud is not some magical satellite where all your data is secure. It’s just some servers someplace (good luck...

You Want it When? Supply chains and the printing business By Noel Ward, Editor@Large I was at a conference of print providers a couple of months back that opened with the line, “This session would be a lot shorter if we talked about what was not going wrong.” Yeah, that was real encouraging...

Enhancing the Customer Connection—Part 5 Strengthening the Value of the In-Plant By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Inhabiting a niche in the world of printing in-plants have more in common with commercial print shops than many print pros are willing to admit. While in-plants’ business and operating...

Has it occurred to anyone that the trackers informed a computer system that these packages were being tracked and needed "special handling?" On a related note, I am still yet to receive 2 pieces of First-Class mail that Informed Delivery told me about in February. They have never arrived. One...

Empowering an In-plant with Print MIS By Noel Ward, Editor@Large Arthur Paré, Assistant Managing Director for General Services at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), is quick to point out that in-plant print operations are not always considered essential parts of the...