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PitStop Pro 19 Delivers the Tools Users Asked For The PDF editing platform we know as PitStop Pro has become a ubiquitous industry standard since it was introduced in 1993, embedded in the commercial printing industry like a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As the dominant preflight product...

This web to print integration case study describes how the State of Oregon, Publishing & Distribution decided to simultaneously replace its aging online job submission software with RSA WebCRD and its Print MIS system with Avanti Slingshot. The Web to Print Integration Challenge Publishing &...

More and more printers are re-charging their revenue by complementing their print offerings with marketing services that take advantage of the personalized data and immediate responsiveness of digital communications. Among the top offerings: triggered direct mail, a service that when done well...

Few observers of the commercial print industry have missed the fact that the industry now changes at hyper speed, even as it continues to consolidate. These days, most of these technology innovations fall under the aegis of automation, as efficiency becomes ever more critical to competitiveness...

How to choose the printer that best fits your needs Randy Paar Marketing Manager, Display Graphics Canon Solutions America UV curable rigid board printers, commonly referred to as “flatbed” printers have been around for over a decade and continue to be an area of growth for print service...

Al Boese, Executive Director and longtime spirit guide of the BindRite Dealers Association, prefers the term “Green Button Technology” to automation. “It tells a better story,” explains Boese. Al likes stories and he is good at telling them. As a longtime player in the post print segment, Boese...

Print Embellishment Goes Straight To The Bottom Line InfoTrends reported that interviews with more than 100 print customers demonstrated an appetite and willingness to pay premiums of 24% to 89% for special effects, over CMYK-only printing. They also indicated embellishment could apply to a...

Working with a supplier that provides more than technology smoothed the company’s transition “The days of black-and-white bills are gone.” So said Harold Howard, operations manager at Arista Information Systems, Duluth, Ga., a leading high-volume transactional print provider serving clients...

Anyone feeling challenged by running a printing business in the digital age may be interested in getting to Chicago mid-May to check out Xeikon Café North America (May 14-16, 2019). This multi-vendor educational & networking event follows on the heels of a record-breaking Xeikon Café Europe in...

by Sean O’Leary The transition from electrostatic/toner printers to inkjet printing continues apace, with few observers doubting that inkjet platforms will prevail in the long term. The latest generation of production inkjet presses from Xerox, KM, and Ricoh are faster than toner-based (EP)...

Most printers are very comfortable buying print equipment, but less comfortable buying software – especially Print MIS systems. Buying a MIS system is a significant decision affecting every aspect of your operation, so it should be well planned, thoroughly thought through, and backed by a...

By Sean O'Leary screen-grab1.jpg As 2019 kicks off, CHILI publish will begin rolling out a new Illustrator Plug-in for its Universal Graphics Engine platform. That news is bigger than it sounds at first. The “native AI document conversion utility” is particularly targeted to the packaging and...

WIN a 1-year Ultimate Impostrip® Automation subscription Ultimate TechnoGraphics celebrates the new year by holding the second edition of the Ultimate Toon Contest. This contest allows Print Planet’s community to select the 2018 winner of Gordon Pritchard’s RE:Print series cartoons between the...

Sean O'Leary In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down, the Little Mermaid swam into our hearts and desktop publishing was a fresh new thing. Platforms like PageMaker, QuarkXpress and Photoshop were still novel and the PDF protocol was a future gleam in Adobe’s eye. But as I was writing this post, I...

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https://printplanet.com/video/chris-eric-final-replace.mp4 Eric Frank and Chris Travis chat about the latest technology line up for commercial printers

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It’s no secret that Konica Minolta has been on a mission to grow its presence across the spectrum of printing markets, even as these markets amalgamate and transition. Indeed, the printing industry as a whole is in a unique condition, simultaneously stagnant in terms of overall revenue, but also...

https://printplanet.com/video/eric-jurgen-print-v6.mp4 Eric Frank and Jurgen Gruber discuss the RotaJET's surprisingly versatile lineup at Print '18.

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