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The printing industry must rally 'round graphic arts education to (a) provide the support--financial and 'in kind'--that local, state, and federal agencies have eliminated in recent years, and (b) send [...]

In the drive to push down costs, federal, state, and local agencies are aiming the budget ax at such bastions of American stability as health care, defense, social services, and [...]

With regard to news, the second week of January wasn't really that unusual; it was dotted like so many recent weeks with file drumbeat of announcements involving electronic media: partnership [...]

An informal, on-the-spot survey of participants at the Graph Expo equipment show in Chicago revealed some useful information about printers' perceptions of the likely acceptance and use of some new [...]

Amid the mind-numbing blizzard of product announcements, technology demonstrations, association activities, and business initiatives swirling around Graph Expo '93, this two-part question recurred: how to explain the huge turnout of [...]

New technologies and changing customer demands are rushing graphic arts companies farther and faster into an uncharted future. In response, some progressive large firms are readying themselves for events that [...]

In a hotel auditorium in midtown Manhattan early last month, I glimpsed one man's vision of the future of office automation. What I saw was a digital office ideal that [...]

The industry's long-accepted set of standardized production guidelines--devised for the preparation and printing of magazines, but a de facto standard for general printing operations--has been completely updated to reflect recent [...]

An ambitious, far-reaching, but well-funded government/industry program, with the unwieldy title of The Project to Develop Business and Education Standards for the Printing Industry, is picking up steam after a [...]

This is shaping up as the year of the traveling seminar--targeted training taken to the printing industry's provinces and directed at its grassroots levels. A crescendo is building in small [...]

As a printer, you should be watching the change of command in Washington this month more closely than most other businesspeople. After all, you help comprise the nation's second-largest small-business [...]

The European heatset web offset industry is poised today for the kind of explosive growth by the year 2000 that characterized the U.S. web industry over the past 10 years. [...]

Our August issue had barely been in the mail for a week when I received a handwritten response to my editorial that appeared in the issue. That page had been [...]

The way I see it, the printing industry in the United States, particularly its larger companies, specialists, and plants in border states, stands to benefit significantly from the North American [...]

When Susan Sprunk addressed web printers at their annual conference in Atlanta a few months ago, the members of the audience sat up to listen when she got to the [...]

0 There comes a time in every innovation when the innovator wonders, 'Am I the only one who's right about this, or the only one who's wrong?' Quebecor Printing seems [...]

What a difference a year makes. Last May at the annual Web Offset Association conference, sponsors were stunned by a 27% drop in attendance, printers seemed intimidated by an economy [...]

Seizing the opportunity of both timing and location, Ray Roper, president of the Printing Industries of America, catapulted the issue of trade with Mexico into a hot topic among chief [...]

In recent years, much of the new-product development flurry in the graphic arts, as well as much of the business turmoil among suppliers, has centered around high-end prepress electronics. Among [...]

Critical Color On September 12, 1991, crews operating two separate sheetfed presses at Sandy Alexander Inc., Clifton, N.J., were given the same printing job, a color-critical advertisement for beauty products. [...]

Du Pont: 'We Intend to Stay the Course' The interview a few weeks ago was meant to blunt recent negative reports and to quell rampant speculation in the industry about [...]

The Show Keeps Getting Better The size of the success of Print 91 continues to grow in the months following this year's biggest graphic arts show, at least as measured [...]

Spotting Opportunity in Old Problems Those of us who hold print in the highest regard as a useful communications medium should be surprised--and challenged--by the results of a public opinion [...]

At last, the ghosts of the '80s seem to fade in the bright reflections of fresh paint and multimillion-dollar equipment in the spanking-new Harris Graphics customer service center in Nashville. [...]

Our survey of printers for our monthly Print Market Trends series established a platform on which respondents could express their views about business, changes in the industry, and the causes [...]

Long Service and a Lasting Legacy It's simply too much a mere coincidence that this month's Paper column is about Bill Bureau. This tribute is fitting at this time both [...]

Accentuate the Positive One company after another in our industry, watching the general economy slipping and its own business fortunes more often than not following suit, is taking measures to [...]

Good News Comes With a Price Tag Maybe it's because of a quirky alignment of the stars or the phases of the moon--or, more likely, simply a fact of life [...]

What a difference just a few months make when social, political, and economic freedoms spread across Eastern Europe. Until this spring, Adast Manufacturing was an oldline press builder in Czechoslovakia [...]

The printing industry in general and the general commercial sector in particular-perpetually suffers from tight deadlines, tough price competition, increasing amounts of business being done for customers further and further [...]

Graph Expo 84 East After an absence of six years from New York City, the printing industry's official national exhibition of products and services returned in triumph last month, riding [...]

MANY recent advances in web printing can be traced directly to small manufacturing companies characterized by lean staffs, expert engineering skills, and close, hand-in-glove customer contact. Working quietly yet effectively [...]

THE STRONG DOLLAR, increased competition from foreign suppliers, and rapid changes in the marketplace and in customer demands have all seriously afflicted American capital-goods manufacturers in recent years. As a [...]

California Daily Keeps Pace LATER THIS MONTH, The Bakers-field Californian will hold a series of celebrations and an open-house ceremony to dedicate a $21-million production and circulation facility. The new [...]

The article reports on booksellers switching from paper to electronic catalogues. Private companies are using versatile quick-start, high-capacity T300 and T350 inkjet webs from Hewlett- Packard Co. to deal with unpredictable title popularity. Digital production is said to be burning holes in order processing, production, and inventory management systems of book manufacturers.

This article presents an update on the sheetfed printing industry in the U.S. as of June 2005. A quick walk-through of Print Oasis, the print buyers trade show in Chicago, Illinois in May 2005--brought home the evolving reality for sheetfed shops. The need for distinction was very apparent. To escape the commodity pricing that has tormented the general commercial market, sheetfed printers are rushing to differentiate themselves. They are seeking shelter, survival and better margins in unique niches, added services and unusual capabilities based on their perceived expertise and on use of specialized equipment. Facilitating the trend toward adding value to print while squeezing operational costs, manufacturers of presses and accessories are stepping up development efforts, creating a wider range of formats, new configurations and designs, and elaborate coating and curing systems. The net effects are innovations that make basic equipment faster, more versatile and productive and more compatible with coating systems. As well, printers are weighing their options in adopting larger- and smaller-format alternatives to the standard 40-inch press, configuring presses from literally scores of options. INSET: Demand for Ink Supply.

The article features graphic arts machinery and technologies presented at the Drupa 2004 exposition in Düsseldorf, Germany. Flint Ink Corp. is launching its newest ink systems and printing technologies, including products under the Flint-Schmidt, Jetrion LLC and Prescisia LLC arms. The company is showcasing ultraviolet inks and innovative hardware for digital printing, active packaging, brand protection and the latest in conductive inks for radio frequency identification applications. Heidelberg is showing over 50 of the company's innovations in workflow, prepress, press and postpress arenas across its exhibit space at the event. Heidelberg has segmented its Drupa presence into five sectors: Commercial Print, Packaging and Commercial Web and Industrial Print and Variable Data Print. Its Printect networking flow solution, which serves to link repress, press and postpress offerings via Job Definition Format (JDF)-compatible, CIP4-compliant standard interfaces. New Printect offerings relating to enterprise management include Prinance Version 4.4.2 and Data Control Version 6.0. KBA is showing the industry's broadest range of printing presses. At the small-format end are KBA's 18'-wide 46 Karat waterless sheetfed with conventional inking; 20½' waterless and keyless Genius 52, 29" 74 Karat with integrated coater, shown utilizing HumanEyes Technologies to print three-dimensional photographic printing on plastic and foil using oxidative inks; and high-output Rapida 74, rated at 18,000 sheets per hour in straight printing, 15,000 sph when perfecting.

Evaluates several printing equipments at the Ipex 2002 exhibition in Great Britain. Features of the Grand Sherpa ink-jet proofer from Agfa; Design of the UV-Setter 710-f2 from BasysPrint; Production output capabilities of PlateRite 4300 thermal plate setter from Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co.

Presents information on Print '97/Converflex-USA, held in Chicago, Illinois. Number of business transactions that were made at the exposition; Citing the order that were booked by MAN Roland company, at the exposition; Comments from Klaus Schmidt, marketing vice president; Information on Komori America company's alliance with Scitex company. INSET: Heidelberg stages the nation's largest-ever single display..

Focuses on the Converflex-United States America (USA) portion of the Print '97/Converflex-USA exposition, which highlights on converting and packaging displays. Views of Phillippe Michel, president of the Bobst Group; Information on the link to digital displays. INSETS: The dimensions of converting & packaging.;Show daily insert..

Focuses on the Print '97 Converflex-United States of America (USA) exposition. Where the event will be held; Size of display area; Views of Regis J. Delmontagne, president of the Graphic Arts Show Company; Details on a schedule of the events. INSET: F.Y.I..

Features the tie-up between Interweb Inc. of Quebec and `The Daily Globe & Mail' newspaper for printing the latter. Advantages over conventional double-width letter press; Color advertising; Heidelberg Harris four-page newspaper and insert press; Comments of Pierre Hetu, operations head of Interweb.