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What’s “Conventional” about “Traditional” Offset?

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

In an article about marketing ROI for a recent issue of one of the graphic arts trade publications, a brand manager for a paper company praises digital printing because it “uses electronic templates instead of physical templates, meaning there is no manual stripping of pieces together or making plates.” It ...

Has Offset—You Remember Offset!—Left the Building?

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an astute man in possession of a good printing business must be in want of a four-color offset press.” Jane Austen didn’t write it, but I used to assume it until two revelations—one statistical, the other anecdotal—suggested that some serious rethinking about trends in ...

“If You Can’t Do It, Don’t Proceed”: CIM Rides to the Rescue

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Heidelberg sent the following anecdote about a printer who beat a seemingly impossible deadline with the help of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) solutions that Heidelberg sells under the brand name Prinect. We post it not as a commercial for or an endorsement of the products mentioned, but as a revealing ...

xpedx Stakes Its Claim and Flaunts Its Wares at New Technology Center

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

When it comes to graphics, asserts John Torrey, “xpedx is probably the strongest brand in the U.S.” Torrey, vice president of the company’s Printing Technologies division, threw down that challenge yesterday during a media briefing at the new xpedx Technology Center in Loveland, OH. The opening of the 11,000-sq.ft. demo and ...