Monday, November 30th, 2009
Litho Clubs are alive and...well, hanging in there as gamely as any membership organization can be expected to do in these difficult days. Time hasn’t been kind to the printing industry’s once-thriving communities of small clubs and groups—the ones that operated mostly locally, often with a focus on a particular business ...Friday, November 27th, 2009
The rumor mill. The grapevine. The drum. Call it what you will, but it’s as much an aspect of working life as job descriptions or performance evaluations. And when workplace gossip is permitted to spiral out of control, it can be one of the nastiest. The subject doesn’t come up much ...Monday, November 23rd, 2009
“To be considered knowledgeable in the fields of printing, one needs a working knowledge of most of the following processes: letterpress; lithography; photo-lithography; dry, web, and sheet-fed offset photolithography; rotary and sheet-fed gravure; silk screen; collotype; copper plate or engraved printing; thermography; and as well, a command over the common ...Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
An organization dedicated to fighting what it calls the “death tax” has produced a video about the fate of a Phoenix, AZ, printing business that couldn’t meet its federal estate tax obligations after the death of its founder. A press release promoting the video says that the company, Imperial Lithographics, ...Monday, November 16th, 2009
Michael Makin, president and CEO of Printing Industries of America, today sent the following special announcement to members of PIA: NAPL and Printing Industries of America, the two largest graphic arts trade associations in the country, are pleased to announce a formal plan to collaborate on a number of projects going ...Monday, November 9th, 2009
The following is taken from the weekly newsletter of the Printing & Imaging Association of the Mountain States (PIAMS), the Denver-based PIA affiliate for Colorado, New Mexico, and southern Wyoming. The author is Landy Chase, a sales trainer and consultant based in Charlotte, NC. “Do your people sell in an ethical ...Friday, November 6th, 2009
The Obama administration’s first year gets an “F” from a group dedicated to helping small businesses get what it says is their legally mandated share of government contracts. The American Small Business League (ASBL) has lambasted the president for failing to deliver on a series of promises that the group says ...Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Congratulations to the small firms recognized as “Best Workplaces” by Printing Industries of America. Companies with 100 or fewer employees took 13 of the 37 honors in PIA’s 2009 Best Workplaces in the Americas Awards, a program that recognizes exceptional human relations practices by graphic arts businesses. Entrants are judged according ...
