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| Big Press Making Decisions |
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Press manufacturers have seen this digital
communications environment coming
for years, in terms of overall market
shrinkage and in the ongoing potential
for offset. Granted most offset press makers
were taken off guard with the degree
of change underway, because of the huge
financial fallout, but the situation has
been hovering like a dark cloud for nearly
two decades. |
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| Reflection On America |
The past two years has certainly been chaotic and
perilous for many companies, particularly for printers,
but we have really just been dealing with a correction in
the global economy. |
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| Printers Cannot Afford To Cut Prices |
| 79 years ago this appeared in Canada’s flagship printing magazine The Printing Review. Before television and before the world-wide-web, our industry faced constant pressure to maintain profitability |
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| Print In A Changing World |
| North America, the greatest market for consumerism, has changed. Bailouts to large integrated companies are in the spotlight. Retirement savings are in jeopardy. How it has all happened is not clearly understood. |
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| Empowering Staff For Productivity |
| Training – Who, where, when, how much does it cost? Large or small, every shop has employees, and formal or otherwise, those employees need training. |
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| Creative Challenge |
| We have to come up with new ideas and reduce costs to produce them. If we don't, the conventional idea of printing on paper will slowly be eaten away by other technologies. |
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| World Class Efficiency - For Free |
| A lot of printers ask me about efficiencies - what to do to implement the latest tehnologies and reduce my times from getting a job to shipping a job. |
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| Perfecting The Perfector |
| More and more we are asked about 4 over 4 technology. The pre-owned marketplace reflects this growing trend. I talked to printers who have this technology and the comments are somewhat varied. |
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| Industrial Revolution 101 |
| Nice to see the doomsday crew is hard at work. We are constantly bombarded with narrow visioned media. On one side, we have the “sky is falling” naysayer and on the other we have the group telling us that we’re simply in a dip. |
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