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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
It may sound a bit like a matchup from the card of a WWE event, but it actually was the title of more elevated clash between two print media experts at the Publishing Executive/Book Business conference and expo in New York City last week.
BoSacks is Bob Sacks (www.bosacks.com), the iconoclastic ...
Posted in Printing Industry News | 3 Comments »
Monday, March 5th, 2007
Of all the compelling reading in the new 2007 PIA/GATF Forecast: Technology, Trends, Tactics, nothing is more urgent than the essay titled, "Whose Job Is Training? An Open Letter the Graphic Arts Community." The author, Larry Kroll, vice president of print media relations for Heidelberg USA, warns that the industry ...
Posted in Printing Industry News | 6 Comments »
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
The whopping price tags on many print industry research reports bring to mind the old joke about the guy selling apples on the street corner for $10,000 apiece. A far better deal is Supplier and Service Provider Priorities: 2006 Survey Results from InfoTrends, the Department of Graphic Communications at Clemson ...
Posted in Printing Industry News | 2 Comments »
Saturday, February 10th, 2007
Last year, PC World published a roundup of what it roundly denounced as "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time." To make this ignominious list, the software or the gadget had to have been among "the worst of the worst - operating systems that operated badly, hardware that never ...
Posted in New Media | 2 Comments »
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Mention "waste" in printing, and what most people probably will think of first is a percentage of sheets discarded as the press comes up to color. That kind of "waste" is inherent in the process, and when held to a practical minimum, it's an acknowledged element of production. But "waste" ...
Posted in Lean Manufacturing | 2 Comments »