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On Demand Conference & Exposition - Highlights

Posted on March 5, 2008 at 11:08am, written by Jeff Grill, VP Marketing

The On Demand Conference and Exposition (March 3 - 6 2008 in Boston) has been my home for the last several days. 

It’s striking how the printing industry is undergoing dramatic change with the transition from traditional offset printing to digital.  For those not intimately familiar with offset vs. digital, offset presses produce large quantities of printed materials at relatively low cost.  It requires long lead times and standardization of message.  Think about 1 million plus direct mail...read more

Tags: carbon footprint, digitial printing, offset printing, on demand conference and exposition, xerox

             

Is Print Dead?

Posted on October 3, 2007 at 1:08pm, written by Charlie Corr, VP Corporate Strategy

In response to this question, Frank Romano a guru in the field remarked that “print isn’t dead it just looks dead because it doesn’t move.”  While the direct question was not addressed at the Chief Learning Officer Fall Symposium held this week in Tucson, Arizona it was implied. There was a great deal of focus on “new learning” styles, “generational” changes and the meaning of Web 2.0 as it related to leaning.

Despite the impact of “new media” most learning occurs from...read more

Tags: chief learning officer, clo fall symposium, frank romano, social media, web 2.0

             

Binding: The Rodney Dangerfield of Printing

Posted on September 12, 2007 at 9:53am, written by Charlie Corr, VP Corporate Strategy

Binding is the Rodney Dangerfield of the printing industry. It never gets any respect. A veteran paper cutter once told me that in all his years nobody had ever come up to him and said, “Great cut Jim.”

The bindery has lagged the rest of the industry in terms of automation. The average finishing piece of equipment in the US is eight years old. While there is a standard for bindery automation (Universal Printer, Pre- and Postprocessing Interface UP³I) its existence is a widely held...read more

Tags: bindery, binding, binding automation, case bound books, graph expo, laser die cutting, workflow

             

Updates From Graph Expo: Will Print Buyers Sacrifice Quality for Lower Costs?

Posted on September 12, 2007 at 9:35am, written by Charlie Corr, VP Corporate Strategy

Graph Expo is one of the large printing industry trade shows. The event is held annually in Chicago, with every fourth year being a Print Expo that is designed to be a more global event. This year the event ran from September 8 to the 12th. Production digital color roll-fed devices were prominent.

There are two primary technologies used in digital printing. One uses toner made of plastic (electrophotography) and the other special inks (inkjet).  Most digital printing uses toner but inkjet is...read more

Tags: fuji xerox, graph expo, ibm, inkjet, kodak, oce, print expo, ricoh, versamark

             

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