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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Perry Judd's is one of North America's most respected magazine and catalog printers. Based in Waterloo Wisconsin, the firm is known for its great service and name-brand clients. Graphic Arts Monthly recently published an article about the company's investments in technologies that cut production costs while integrating their customers into ...
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Cenveo's attempt to buy Banta drew out a bit of information that Senior Editor Gail Nickel-Kailing pointed out in a report today at WhatTheyThink.com. The report is entitled "Cenveo Board Waived Its Ethics Code During the Takeover Attempt of Banta: The Question Remains, Was This Ethical?" (Subscription Required) Here are ...
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Inflation or a worse-than-expected housing slump could slow the economy even more said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke today. Bernanke says the slow down has been expected and that this should ease inflation. "A failure of inflation to moderate as expected would be especially troublesome," he said. (See more from ...
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
(UPDATE: Today, Xerox released an official press release on this topic.)
The New York Times reported last week that Xerox is working to develop an "erasable paper" system. The goal is to recycle paper documents produced by a company’s copiers potentially an unlimited number of times.
How? Without getting too technical, the ...
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
Dick Gorelick, industry consultant and a columnist for American Printer, recently penned a very good article entitled Detoxifying an organization. Gorelick describes the situation at many printing firms - Sales reps blaming slow production, production blaming sales, customer service reps blaming sloppy job specifications etc. The article discusses ways to ...
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
The Newspaper Association of America says advertising expenditures for newspaper Web sites increased by 23% to $638 million in the third quarter versus the same period a year ago. It is the tenth consecutive quarter of double digit increases for online newspaper advertising. Spending for print ads in newspapers totaled ...
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
VistaPrint went public on September 30, 2005. The stock price closed at $15.25 that day. On Friday November 17, 2006, the price closed at $34.30 - a hefty gain and a rich valuation. The company had annual revenue of $152 million in fiscal year 2006 but a current market cap ...
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
Allied Capital Corp. has committed $210.5 million to support the management-led buyout of EarthColor. EarthColor, based in New York City, also has facilities in New Jersey, Florida, Texas and Arizona. Founded in 1982, EarthColor is a full-service commercial printer.
"Allied Capital's decision to invest in EarthColor reflects our high degree of ...
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
VistaPrint, a publicly traded online printer, held an event last week for investors - its first annual investors and analysts day. VistaPrint had annual revenue of $152 million in fiscal year 2006 and a current market cap of nearly $1.5 billion. In October, the company reported that revenue in the ...
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
Frank Romano's column today at WhatTheyThink.com offers some serious takes in his review of Graph Expo - North America's largest tradeshow in the printing industry. He also adds humor with some predictions for 2007 and beyond: Here are a few...
- October, 2006: Xerox introduces image enhancement software. People start to ...
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