By Patrick Henry on March 15th, 2010 - Comment
A devil’s brew of natural disasters and man-made economic exigencies is spreading “havoc” and “turmoil” throughout the paper supply chain, according to one paper merchant.
At its blog, Millcraft Papers (Cleveland, OH) advises printers not to panic, but it also urges them to plan for the likelihood of tightened access to paper for the remainder of the year.
By Patrick Henry on March 4th, 2010 - Comment
Agence France-Press (AFP), the international news agency, has syndicated a timely article about printers in Iraq. There are about 500 of them, and they are enjoying, according to the story, a boom in business connected with their country’s upcoming parliamentary elections on Sunday (March 7).
By Patrick Henry on February 26th, 2010 - 1 Comment
Can a start-up digital printing business reach $1 million in sales within 12 months at a profit margin of 30%?
Partners Bob Lambie, Andrew Simmons, and Ken Williams will know the answer at the end of the year, and so will everyone else who follows their progress in an ongoing online chronicle that they call the Social Print Experiment.
By Patrick Henry on February 18th, 2010 - Comment
Responding to our post about the “help haiti” T-shirts from Envision Sports Design, Fujifilm reports that its companies in Japan and the U.S. have have provided $400,000 in financial assistance and Fujifilm medical products and equipment in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12.
Fujifilm companies in the U.S. provided financial assistance…
By Patrick Henry on February 16th, 2010 - 1 Comment
In Dubuque, IA, the owner of a screen-printing sportswear business is assisting Haitian disaster relief with the T-shirt pictured above.
Tom Rauen, who started Envision Sports Designs in Dubuque four years ago, is selling the shirts for $10 and will donate 100% of the proceeds to the American Red Cross.
By Patrick Henry on February 12th, 2010 - 1 Comment
There was a time when, if you gave your sweetheart a present of chocolates for St. Valentine’s Day, chances were good that Jesse Salwen made the heart-shaped box you gave them in.
His business, A. Klein & Co., ceased operation more than a year ago, but Salwen continues to touch real hearts with the shimmery, satiny, and velvety raw materials that he used to turn into millions of cordiform candy boxes per year.
By Patrick Henry on February 10th, 2010 - 4 Comments
Ever feel like praising the printing industry literally to the skies, all the way to 30,000 feet? Michael Makin, president and CEO of Printing Industries of America, will be doing just that when this interview plays to airline passengers plugging into business and technology programming produced by Sky Radio, a syndicator of content for in-flight…
By Patrick Henry on February 8th, 2010 - Comment
A research and development tax credit for printing companies?
It’s available to your printing company from the IRS. It’s a way to achieve a direct reduction of your tax bill. And, it’s simpler to qualify for than you probably think.
So write Stuart W. Margolis, CPA, MT, and Bart Krupnick, CPA, CVA, in an article in the…
By Patrick Henry on February 5th, 2010 - Comment
Have you heard about purchase-order financing? If a small business never gets to the point where word of this last-resort borrowing option reaches its desperate owner’s ears, so much the better. But lately, the practice has become widespread enough to have attracted the attention of The New York Times, which devoted an article to purchase-order…
By Patrick Henry on February 1st, 2010 - Comment
The upper image shows the effect of lighting on an offset lithographic print when illumined at an angle of 45º. Underneath is the same image lighted straight on at 0º. It’s one of a number of visual comparisons that can be performed at the Graphics Atlas, an online resource in development at the Image Permanence…
