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PRINTERS: PUBLICATION American Press American Press 8230 Boone Blvd. Suite 360 Vienna, VA 22182-2621 Phone: (703) 556-0112 Fax: (703) 886-3406 E-mail: ampresspg@aol.com Contact: Paul J. Grieco, VP Sales Regional Offices: [...]

Providing bookletmaking can be a profitable endeavor for a quick print shop. The value-added service of finishing a document through saddle stitching, wire binding, or perfect binding will not only [...]

Quick printers post big gains with new mailing and fulfillment services More and more printers are taking advantage of the opportunity a mailing operation provides,' explains Paul Caraker, national and [...]

Successful printing managers know they must use a combination of tireless analysis and creative thinking to exploit growth possibilities. The most profitable companies in the printing industry understand one simple [...]

Customers rule in the '90s and their needs and expectations command focus In the old days, when supermarket baggers loaded groceries into the back seat and service station attendants pumped [...]

Sam Walton claimed to have walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. 'I am just trying to get ideas,' explained the Wal-Mart founder. 'Most of us don't invent [...]

Graphic arts firms single out top customers with custom-designed training seminars to build loyalty and long-term relationships How do you think of customer training? In your company, in all departments, [...]

Prepress operations were built on creating pages, film, and plates. Now managers are focusing on the content that these artifacts represent. When we surveyed the chief executives of the country's [...]

If you manage a prepress house or printing business, you may be looking to cyberspace to market your services or transfer electronic files. No matter how high you fly though, [...]

Byline: Dick Gorelick All credibility disappears when I read or hear the term 'industry leader.' The term is defensible only in the case of a handful of individuals - and [...]

By Mark Vruno Now redesigned: the BlueBook industry source for specialty and printing services. A keyword search under the Graphic Arts BlueBook website 'Specialty' category shows more than 500 firms: [...]

Getting It on Film More and more desktop publishers are turning to service bureaus for the film used in both color and black-and-white printing. Producing high-quality film requires an attention […]

By Lisa Cross A print project seven years in the making: Commercial printer Mon-roe Litho, Rochester, NY, printed the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester's first catalog (cover [...]

Hilton Garden, Hilton's mid-priced US brand, has completed installation of remote printing facilities in all rooms. Guests connect their computers to the inhouse internet and can print documents at the [...]

PDF Solutions has extended its range of file transfer products with FastWeb. The service allows customers to deliver files directly into a printer's workflow via its website and uses lossless [...]

There are many words in the printing industry that we take for granted, seldom considering their etymology and frequently using incorrectly. The words 'broadside' and 'broadsheet' are a case in [...]

Babs International has created a network of print finishing equipment dealers to offer advice and services to customers at a local level. There are currently 27 dealers in the scheme [...]

There was a time when folks flocked to the local library to read newspapers from other cities -- usually secured on those awkward wooden rods. Then along came the Web [...]

Repropoint in Woking is using its Indigo digital press to offer businesses the chance to print personalised greetings and designs on Christmas cards. It is also offering over 60 designs [...]

Chopped hog anyone? And we're not talking about grub at your local Ye Olde re-enactment. Oh no, we're talking hog of the two-wheeled Easy Rider variety. For too long Harley-Davidsons [...]

HP Remote Printing for AEC ($360/year), a new printing service from Hewlett-Packard, provides secure distribution of documents to multiple destinations in one transaction. You can send prints from any Windows […]

Unique Printers and Lithographers (Cicero, IL) offers traditional commercial sheetfed printing, via a six-color Heidelberg sheetfed press, a six-color Komori Lithrone (each press has a seventh unit for aqueous coating), [...]

The above-mentioned trends spotted when comparing annually the top 10 sales opportunities for creatives indicate several things. The first is obvious: the Web boom is over. Gears have shifted from [...]

Our mission: your profitability The National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL) is dedicated to enabling the printing community to profit from change. Through its periodicals, programs, consulting services, and financial/economic [...]

Printers add order fulfillment to become full-service providers More printers are meeting customer requests to act as order-fulfillment centers, where the printer holds part of a print job and ships [...]

Moving to a new facility can wreak havoc with operations if you don't follow a few ground rules When Dave Sunderland is asked to describe his most challenging move, he [...]

San Francis-based e-commerce solutions provider httprint has introduced a promotional marketing service, km (integrated knowledge marketing), which, as a full-service agency, offers clients strategic development and execution of promotional programs, [...]

Mimeo.com has announced that its international business service enabling overseas corporate customers to print and deliver documents to their U.S. clients and counterparts grew more than 100 percent during the […]

Future success will be dependent upon services other than printing Out-of-the-box thinking is what it will take to weather the storm as the industry moves from an era dominated by [...]

Mark Porter has two babies to care for. Both require constant attention and nurturing. Both experience growing pains. And both need continual reassurance that dad isn't going anywhere. But 18-month-old […]

Small to mid-size printers streamline their operations by bringing saddle stitching and collating operations in house. These days, thanks to increased automation and faster makeready time, as well as because [...]

Vio Worldwide Ltd., founded in the United Kingdom in 1998 as a globally managed application service provider, will discontinue its core service on June 30; an Internet-only solution is to [...]

The Instant Web Companies (Chanhassen, MN), providers of integrated printing, envelope and mailing services to direct marketers, is promoting the Direct Marketing Academy, a free service to clients seeking assistance [...]

A multimedia program, Midrange & Clustered Print-On-Demand Solutions, is available on CD-ROM or video from Interquest Ltd. of Charlottesville, Va. The latest in a series of educational programs focusing on […]

For many a small business the devil is in the details. Having a good product or service may not be enough. You also want to stamp a consistent image on [...]

NAPL (Paramus, NJ) and PIA (Alexandria, VA) have initiated a joint effort to develop a database of common terms and conditions of sale used in the graphic arts industry. The [...]

Up until about four years ago, if you wanted to get something printed commercially (that is, something better than a laser printer's output), you had to find a printer yourself. […]

BEFORE YOU VISIT THE PRINT SHOP DOWN THE STREET TO ORDER BOUND materials, business cards, notepads, or stationery, log on to the Web instead. A new generation of online services […]

PrintBid.com (Portland, OR), an online marketplace for buyers and vendors of commercial printing, and a subsidiary of ImageX.com, Inc., has announced a new subscription service for print vendors, based on [...]

Print Expressions (Tucson, AZ), said to be the world's leading manufacturer of temporary tattoos, has opened a Quick Print Division. 'We help franchise and independent quick print shops sell temporary [...]

You can't escape e-commerce. 'Virtually every company on the show floor is already engaged in e-commerce activity of some kind,' noted Dennis Mason, Mason Consulting, at the Research & Engineering [...]

Expect rapid adoption of Internet-based solutions during the, first half of this decade, to the rune of 42 percent compound annual growth in the print e-procurement marker, says CAP Ventures [...]

Insert folder helps printer keep its eye on quality and push productivity Pharmaceutic Litho & Label Co. is a printer that truly specializes in its work. The Chatsworth, CA, firm [...]

PrintMarket (San Francisco) has added SecureQuote, a Web-based estimating application that is said to produce instant, accurate quotes for approximately 85 percent of most printed pieces. Through a secure interface, [...]