Saturday, March 20th, 2010
"Some of us get caught up in this and some of us skate through it. I do know that a lot of printers are on the edge. They’re hanging on with their fingernails and running out of cash." If you haven't already read Gail Nickel-Kailing's PrintCEO interview with Jim Duffy, leave ...Friday, March 19th, 2010
Last November, American Express OPEN® launched what could be a valuable resource for small firms seeking government contracts: Victory in ProcurementSM (VIP) for Small Business. The core of VIP is an online information exchange designed to guide business owners through the intricacies of the government contracting process from listing with Central ...Monday, March 15th, 2010
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 ...Friday, February 26th, 2010
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 ...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, February 8th, 2010
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, ...Friday, February 5th, 2010
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 ...Monday, February 1st, 2010
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 ...Monday, January 25th, 2010
“Adobe Systems helped to build the modern printing industry and now, it appears, they are hellbent on destroying it—not by willful action, but by neglect.” (Frank Romano) "We are not turning our back on printers; we continue to be committed to the print segment and it is really important that people ...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 ...
