You're looking for a company to facilitate your printing requirements, and truth be told, this is a hard task. There are plenty of companies out there that provide printing services at large scale for both industrial and corporate purposes. As there are plenty to choose from, it can be a little difficult and time-consuming to select a printing comp...

Xerox’s attempt to buy HP and now HP’s possible buy of Xerox has been a twisty, curvy story to analyze and report. One day the financial analysts say combining the companies would be a disaster, and later, they are describing the value that to be realized from a combined company. Shareholders will gain but how about the rest of the industry stakeho...

Are common acronyms leaving you or your customers confused? Take “CTP” for example. In publishing, it can stand for either “Computer to Plate” or “Computer to Press” or even “Call the Police”. A less technical but still important topic.

Are we so used to our conditions that we have no intent or recognition on how to improve performance and opportunities that lie before us? Many print organizations do not know their Customer’s business development challenges and don’t have Self-Promotion Literature that explains how their services can improve their Customer’s profitability.

"Current industry trends show an increased interest in digital corrugated and digital textile, and we will continue to see growth and innovation in display graphics. Print is a dynamic and quickly evolving industry, but actual change tends to occur at the pace of every four to six years," said EFI CEO Jeff Jacobson. Read this Q&A with Mr. Jacobson...

It’s not your grandfather’s print company. Frank Hood’s company, InfoVine, uses digital printers with focused software applications to create complex marketing communication projects. Besides offering numerous forms of print production, InfoVine can manipulate data to meet demographic, marketing, and fulfillment objectives. Video interview.

Past entry barriers have kept many printers from embracing packaging for new revenue opportunities. However, Memjet's three beautifully engineered single-pass inkjet platforms are removing the entry barriers related to the cost and reliability of inkjet presses capable of meeting brand owner requirements. Speed and color reliability…

How will the growing acquisition/consolidation trend affect the long-term health of the $79.3bn print industry and its tens of thousands of stakeholders – employees, employers, shareholders, suppliers, financial partners? Let’s look at the good, the bad, the ugly and then the opportunity. Change can result in havoc or opportunity based upon the att...

Using kerning, tracking, and leading together can allow designers to make documents easily readable. Wider spacing and extra white space can be used to emphasize small blocks of important text. A quick read on the features of each.

“Making the switch to SONORA Plates was simple, especially with the great support we received from Kodak. The impact on our printing process once we started using the plates and our new CTPs was felt immediately. With no need for a plate processor anymore, we eliminated the time and cost of managing that process,” said Richard Featherston, Trumbull...