Thursday, March 4th, 2010
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). Campaign-related jobs are expected to net ...Thursday, February 18th, 2010
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 ...Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
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. His ...Friday, February 12th, 2010
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 ...Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
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 ...Monday, January 18th, 2010
Here’s the start of an anecdote with an apt lesson in bilingualism from Joe Ray, the founder and president of Estudio Ray in Phoenix, AZ: “A few years ago, my friend Flaco, who has been a Court Interpreter for many years, told a group of us the following story. “He (Flaco) had ...Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
A Printing Office has a weekly newsletter offering a quick-read summary of our latest posts. There also are links to the other WhatTheyThink blogs and to WhatTheyThink on Twitter. Keep abreast of all of this great content by signing up free of charge here. Scroll down to "Printing Office Newsletter", ...Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
The WhatTheyThink blogs A Printing Office, PrintCEO, and Going Green are among the "Top 10 Print Blogs" named by Ryan McAbee in M-Bossed, his review of print media. Our sincere thanks to Mr. McAbee for the kind words. We're also happy to see Michael J's Tough Love for Xerox and ...Monday, January 4th, 2010
BritishLetterpress.co.uk has to be one of the best destinations on the Web for letterpress hobbyists or anyone else with an interest in the art of printing with handset type on hand- or treadle-operated iron presses. Although intended primarily for practitioners in the U.K., the site’s wealth of practical material is ...Friday, December 11th, 2009
The following was submitted as a comment to the post entitled, Andrew Tribute Asks: “Do We Need Graph Expo Each Year?”. The writer is Gene Gable, the former president and publisher of Publish magazine, president of Seybold Seminars, and publisher of The Seybold Report. Because of its length and relevance, ...
