Archive for the ‘Voice of the People’ Category

Where Have All the Students Gone? (Part 3)

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Printing industry educator Annette Wolf Bensen sent her thoughts on the state of industry education: I am grateful to Frank Romano for his articles on this important subject, and I am gratified by the passion of the responses. I applaud all the educational funding efforts. It’s obvious that prospective students ...

Pat Berger of Mercer Color Corporation Shares Environmental Regulatory Resources

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Pat Berger, vice president of Mercer Color Corporation shared a link to environmental regulatory resources the Printing Industries of Northern California (PINC) has published since last May in their PIC Government Affairs Watchdog newsletter. Berger writes: The Control Techniques Guidelines for Offset Lithographic Printing and Letterpress Printing (PDF Link) are the a ...

We Are The Press?

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Recently, Frank Romano rubbed some folks the wrong way over comments he made about a meeting he attended at Graph Expo. Frank is no stranger to controversy and consternation. It follows him around like the dustcloud around Schulz's Pigpen. Today Frank responds to his critics by making ...

VIGC’s Eddy Hagen Takes of A Closer Look at Pantone Goe

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The new Pantone Goe color system has been getting a lot of buzz within the industry. Some hail it for its vast improvements over the PMS system, others are weary that the Goe system provides no real incentive over the current PMS product. Eddy Hagen managing director and trend watcher at ...

Time for Printers to Grow up and Get off Adobe’s Back?

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Gene Gable, a technology consultant and writer for Creativepro sent us his thoughts in a piece that provides an "alternate perspective" on the Adobe-FedEx deal. Gene's comments echo what many have said since the deal was announced in June, but he also takes the industry to task for not looking ...