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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 ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
Top 10 Causes of the Most Disabling Workplace Injuries
The summer issue of Signature, the newsletter of Printing Industries Alliance, calls attention to “the most disabling workplace injuries” as reported by Liberty Mutual’s Workplace Safety Index.
Produced annually by Liberty Mutual’s Research Institute for Safety, the Workplace Safety Index ranks work-related injuries ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
On Wednesday, July 15, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT, I'll moderate the first in a series of three WhatTheyThink webinars on a topic that couldn't be timelier: "Lean Management and Manufacturing" for graphic communications businesses. Our subject-matter expert will be Professor Kevin Cooper of the Graphic Communication Institute ...
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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 ...
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