The Vision 3 Summit Rocked
The long-held vision and dream to see three organizations come together to produce an industry wide event became a marvelous reality last month in Palm Desert, California, with the launch of the first...
View ArticleGearing up for the Premier Print Awards
It's that time of the year again--we're now accepting entries for the Premier Print Awards! This is a great time to be in the print industry because we get flooded with print pieces from all over the...
View ArticleInterview with Frank Shear, President, Seaboard Bindery, Inc.
The Binding Industries Associaton Conference is coming up in May and we took the time to talk with past attendee Frank Shear, president, Seaboard Bindery, Inc., about his conference experience. Enjoy...
View ArticleSocial Media Activities on Our End!
This month Julie Shaffer presented a program at the Vision 3 Summit (see www.vision3summit.org) on social media entitled, Social "Security"--Cementing Client Relationships with Social Media. This was...
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Two New web2award Categories
We’re now accepting entries for the web2awards, and, in its third year, it’s poised to once again highlight print service providers that are using web and online technology to grow their businesses. We...
View ArticleInnovative Online Game Asks New York Public Library Patrons to Find the Future
Along with following the latest trends in digital printing, we at the Digital Printing Council also keep our eyes on innovative developments in social media and marketing technologies. When we heard...
View ArticleKeep an Eye on This-- eBooks vs Printed Books Transformation Prediction
With the struggle of bricks and mortar book stores and the reported eclipsing of the sale of ebooks by some sources, printers of all products shouldl be keeping abreast of the news. Some in the book...
View ArticleWorth the Time--A Video by Lon Safko & Social Media
There are so many free resources on the internet that it is difficult to choose what is worth your time. Watch Lon Safko, author of Social Media Bible. What I liked most were his examples of how...
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What Can the Ratios Tell Us?
In 2010 industry sales rebounded from the lows of 2009, increasing by 2.79% to $144.6 billion. 2009 was the first time in the 89 years that Printing Industriesof America has been tracking industry...
View ArticleInnovative Online Game Asks New York Public Library Patrons to Find the Future
Along with following the latest trends in digital printing, we at the Digital Printing Council also keep our eyes on innovative developments in social media and marketing technologies. When we heard...
View ArticleShorten Services: Who knew the Internet connection to Libya?
It is very common to see the shorten service site such as bit.ly. It turns out that the “ly” is Libya's Internet domain which uses the English language's adverbial suffix: ly. English language...
View ArticleContinuous Improvement Videos
The 2011 Continuous Improvement Conference is happening right now in Kansas City, Missouri and if you couldn't make it there year, fear not, there's still learning to be had. We have a series of videos...
View ArticleContinuous Improvement Videos
The 2011 Continuous Improvement Conference recently came to a close (we'll have a wrap-up of the conference coming soon!), and if you weren't able to attend, don't worry, we have you covered. We...
View ArticleA Look At the Japanese Printing Industry
Last week Printing Industries of America was honored to once again host a delegation of Japanese printing executives to our headquarters building. During our visit, we exchanged information on our...
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Total Factory Cost of Product
As promised in the previous blog, today we take an in depth look at Total Factory Cost of Product. In this entry we use two example printers, a profit leader and an average printer with $1.7 million in...
View ArticleJostens and Hoechstetter Share their Premier Print Awards Experience
We created a few Premier Print Awards videos to better showcase the effect that the competition can have on business. In the video below, we have past winners from Jostens and Hoechstetter discussing...
View ArticleBlog Interview and More
Hear an interview with Adam Ostrow of Mashable Blog, where he talks about how the Mashable blog operates behind the scene. Since we have a blog that needs to find its balance, I am looking at how to...
View ArticleHow Can I Stay Profitable Even When Sales Decline?
The Following is a special guest post from Stuart Margolis CPA, MT.The answer: Well-managed companies can react to dips in sales appropriately and ultimately sustain profitability. Whether we have...
View ArticleJDF Product Certification Reaches 50th
Avanti’s Graphic Arts Management System v12.2 passed stringent testing by the Printing Industries of America to become the 50th product to be certified by the CIP4 organization.The Avanti Print MIS...
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Be Involved with the Integrated Print Forum!
Yesterday we announced our newest conference--the Integrated Print Forum. It's a new type of conference that focuses on integrating interactive, dynamic media to print. In the vein of this conference,...
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