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    FSC approved paper - YOU CAN'T CALL IT THAT!

    The FSC Chain of Custody Certification is part of a "guarantee" where anyone can track the paper (or furniture or building product) from end user to the actual sustainably managed forest from which it came. If I were a print shop that went to the expense and effort of becoming an FSC Certified...
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    Digital printer looking to take on litho

    Continue outsourcing Litho. Business for those guys is bad enough already, why take more away? Glad your business is booming, but you are under the impression that the "digital printing" you do is somehow similar to traditional high-end litho? You're already talking here about hiring at LEAST...
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    Prinergy is NOT dead

    And that is what Kodak is banking on, that customers won't care as long as it works. The reason it works as well as it does is that there is a core group of developers and service people, born from the crucible of Creo, who have been with the project from its inception. The Kodak move is to...
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    The email flip to prepress....? ugh!

    I've had this problem, here's how we solved it. (You will have to do some extra work yourself. You're not trying to be lazy are you ;) ? ) 1- Measure the amount of time it takes to interpret instructions coming from email, time to track down the docket this belongs to, note the amount of time...
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    Due Diligence HP Indigo 3050

    You're trying to acquire a company with an Indigo 3050? I thought the usual way to acquire companies was with some kind of financial arrangement! My advice? DO NOT get into the print biz unless you want to lose money. Digital and VDP have become commoditized faster than anyone in the industry...
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    Am I an idiot if I do my PPML's by hand?

    Tobias, A couple years ago I was responsible for creating a connectivity workflow between some print customers and our HP front end, known at that time as the "Production FLow Server". Through the HP developer network, I was able to obtain an SDK specifically for file format creation. Everything...
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    Ecofont....real potential to do good? or just another FSC fiasco?

    The "ecofont" is considered ridiculous by serious people and should have NO IMPACT on professional commercial printing. There's a hole in my typeface, dear Vera, dear Vera | Typophile Regular Guy's Experiments in www
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    President

    mmmmmmmmkay.... congratulations?
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    Have we reached the end of prepress evolution?

    Polish up your resumes, my prepress friends Polish up your resumes, my prepress friends According to US Government sources (o*net and the dept of labor) as well as my own findings from job aggregators like indeed.com and simplyhired, not only are wages going down but you can expect a 25% drop...
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    HP Indigo Charges

    Why don't you contact an HP Indigo sales rep? They will help you analyze your business and find the right machine for the volumes you expect. Not something you can "estimate" without more info.
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    Grain direction on digital presses

    We are having a debate about paper grain direction, whether it really makes a difference to prevent cracking, or whether digital presses in general "prefer" grain short or grain long, and why. Ideas?
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    Research

    CSimpson is right. There are plenty of hungry printers out there right now who will be happy to help you.
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    RR Donnelley to offer Fully Variable Offset Printing

    There is no variable printing (that I know of) that is recyclable in the traditional paper recycling stream. Like Internal_R&D_Analyst says, there is a consortium working on the de-inking process. On the other hand, machines like this create virtually NO VOCs, making them greener on balance.
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    DAM service for hosting images?

    Call Jeff Kazanow at Onus, LLC Onus LLC 1127 Auraria Parkway Suite 601 Denver, CO 80204 Phone / Fax 303.459.4900 General inquiries: [email protected] Make sure you tell him Jeff Lazerus referred you. They have a killer hosted solution for you, scalable, easy to use...
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    Economy and Printing companies

    Bad news from Denver, CO. One of (if not THE) oldest and most respected printers here, National Hirschfeld, abruptly shut down a few weeks ago. Meanwhile, my own shop, Spectrographics, told us Monday that they were closing. 250 humans out of work. A side note: if this happens where you are, and...
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    Variable Print Software Suggestions

    FusionPro Desktop from Printable technologies is another good option. It has lots of functionality for a pretty low price. This decision depends on a few factors, including: Input volume Input format choices (e.g., xml, csv, txt, or proprietary db sources, or all of the above) Output format...
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    Adobe lays off 900 staff - CS4 slow seller

    I posted this message on the ZDnet comments for this article also: Sincerely, Regular Guy's experiments in www
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    Top 5 reasons I couldn't work in Pre-press

    DUDE! what about sales... #5: Don't golf #4: I can't make my hair do that #3: Shorter than 6'0" #2: Can actually figure out how to use my computer #1: I can still do my job, even if "the market sucks"
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    Indigo Training

    Scott, I have been managing and doing that job for several years. Here's my take on it: 1- ALWAYS find the smartest person available. 2- ASK for volunteers. Some people may be interested and enthusiastic, others will be obstructionists. You want someone open to constant technological change...
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    maintaining line breaks with Quark/YoursTruly

    There's not much you can do about this directly in quark. You possibly could write a rule that adds a return in the middle of the string, but you'd be limited to a number of characters... I second RickWhiteman's advice. You're going to have to get into the database file somehow. Or get the...

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