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    What brand paper do you run?

    Question just popped into my head, how many types of stock do you use regularly and how many do you special order for certain jobs? This might be different from company to company of course, my own company has I believe three different paper companies that we order from and way too many...
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    Procedure for printed work

    Hey all: Thanks for the replies! To comment on Rich Apollos post, you pop up in the weirdest ways, This has to mainly do with "aesthetic" issues. Different terms, a pet project from up high, yay for bosses. I have been instructed to find a way to "protect" jobs after they are off the press...
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    An experiment in Lean?

    Good stuff, now all you gotta do is get with Erik and make it happen. Good luck! :):)
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    An experiment in Lean?

    Again, if we are continuing the discussion concerning Erik's idea about this experiment I believe this could be achieved. Problem is there needs to be someone in the college who can manage it. You need someone within the college to communicate with all the local printers and on top of that...
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    An experiment in Lean?

    The Print CEO Blog - Printing Industry News - Rhode Island College Drops Graphic Communication Concentration RI college is dropping their Graphic Communications major. I think it has to do with the economy and to use the resources of the major in other areas. One of the teachers is Dr...
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    Procedure for printed work

    Hey all: I know this subject might not specifically deal with type of press technology, but since my company is printing on a sheetfed press it kind of fits :P Anyway, we have a Komori SX29 sheetfed press. Our procedure is as follows for paper: 1) Paper is recieved, goes to pre-press cutter...
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    HP DesignJet 2000CP Printer

    # C4703A Good condition, will include the following: 1) All manuals and printed material regarding the printer 2) HP DesignJet CP Ink System Cartridges a) C1809A - Yellow - 1 cartridge b) C1808A - Magenta - 2 cartridges c) C1807A - Cyan - 1 cartridge d) C1806A -...
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    Shipping Area Re-Work: 5S in the works

    Hey all: Just wanted to give an update to my own 5S initiative. With our new press, a Komori X29; 5C with varnish/aqueous, we got rid of our old Heidelberg 5C and have a specific area setup for our ink section. I don't have pictures of that, but that's what is in the works so far. I wish I...
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    Multi-channel media campaign tools?

    Another question might have to be, is all these specific type of tools proprietary to companies or is there a specific open ended tool that a lot of companies use?
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    Multi-channel media campaign tools?

    I was just wondering if anyone knew of any specific tools out there that specifically deals with the ideas of multi-channel media campaigns? I have been looking for more information concerning this topic, but haven't found much of anything.
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    The change has started: Where will it end up?

    David, when you say "super efficient", I think of many ways that phrase can be defined. Do you mean a company that has very little waste within their workflow or do you mean a company that has constrained their parameters in order to make every job basically the same as the next? I know some...
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    The change has started: Where will it end up?

    Over the past few months I've seen an explosion of change within the print industry. Primarily dedicated to a few key areas: 1) Change from just printing to cross-media style of business a) i.e. - Printing company with its own mailhouse, or printing company with...
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    Account Manager

    Still looking for an individual to fill this position.
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    How to motivate sales people in the printing industry

    Alright, rebuttal time: Oh you got me there, love the pressman reference! The wierd thing is, the company I work for now, all the pressman are actually pretty straightforward dudes. Granted, courier isn't the best way to send off proofs to customers. However, if you want the sales team...
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    Lean vs. TQM, BPR, TOC, Six Sigma, Etc.

    Not necessarily. Think about it: TOC looks for a constraint in the workflow in order to improve on that specific process. Once it is resolved or managed, it will change and pop up as something else. There will always be, according to TOC, at least one constraint in the system. Sure, both...
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    Lean vs. TQM, BPR, TOC, Six Sigma, Etc.

    You always have to break down a process to the basics. In any type of improvement methods you need to see the basics in order to understand what is going on in the whole process. Lean takes it a step further by focusing on how the individual tasks affect the grand scheme of things. Its all...
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    Whatever happened to......

    Ox, I completely understand. In a business setting you expect individuals to speak at a certain level of cohesiveness. Sadly there are a lot of schools that are basically dealing with problems that should of been dealt with at lower levels of the education system. For example: High school...
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    Polar-Mohr Cutter Question

    Hey there. My company has a Polar-Mohr 115 ML and we have had some issues come up recently from it. I have tried to contact Polar-Mohr concerning our issues, but they have not gotten back to me yet. This cutter is mainly a backup, as we have two newer cutters that work just fine. If we need...
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    How to motivate sales people in the printing industry

    After re-reading LoweringTheBar's response I've had to redefine the stance I take in this argument. Call me crazy, but I think people have two different ideas of sales right now. One of which is the hands on approach. These sales people do cold calls, deliver proofs, do press checks and so...
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    How do you convert saved travel distance into $$$

    micromanaging: Bad example, but its what I could come up with. Lets say you pay someone 20 dollars an hour. This person does X, and to set up the process he has to take 30 steps to get the job done. Each step takes about .5 to 1 second. Now lets say we figured out how to reduce his steps to...

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