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drupa 2012 — The “Thoughtful” drupa
SRO for the demonstration on Komori’s new inkjet presses, the Impremia IS28 and the Impremia IW20 We can close the book on drupa 2012—all that’s left is the tearing down and the moving out. The pundits...
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Graph Expo 2012 is Just Around the Corner
Graph Expo 2012 is just around the corner. And with it comes the crazy, hectic tradeshow frenzy that every exhibitor lives through. The nightmares, the middle of the night “we should do this”...
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Perhaps 200 years from now, historians will be calling the 21st Century the “End of the Age of Gutenberg.” The development of movable type in the 1400s slowly nudged knowledge and information past the...
View ArticleWaste by Any Other Name
Lean Printing means operational efficiency with the goal of identifying and weeding out wasteful processes and resources that do not add value, but rather, reduce a print company’s profits. Operational...
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Toyota Motor Corp. has given manufacturers in all fields—and all over the world—a model of efficient, value stream production. While producing automobiles is quite a different thing than producing...
View ArticleThe String Theory of Leadership
In creating your company’s value stream, planning, assessing and determining practical and useful benchmarks and goals for improvement is important, but the hardest part is making it all actually work....
View ArticleThe Shelf or the Web: Where Will Your Next Good Book Come From?
I am an avid reader—have been since childhood. I am also a technology geek, so when e-readers hit the market I was ecstatic. No more toting heavy tomes on long trips, no fear of running out of...
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The Dynamic Growth of Social Media—Time to Pay Attention, Part 3: What is...
In this blog series, I have been sharing what role social media can—and should—play in your integrated marketing plan, as well as clueing you in on a few changes that have taken place since our first...
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The Dynamic Growth of Social Media—Time to Pay Attention, Part 4: Enjoy the...
If you are a reader as I am, you probably regularly follow your favorite industry or general news blogs. Blogs have become a very prevalent way to share information and opinions in today’s...
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The Dynamic Growth of Social Media—Time to Pay Attention, Part 5: Getting...
So far in this blog series, I’ve shared about the important roles that Twitter, Facebook and blogging can play as part of an integrated marketing plan for your print business. Another social media...
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