GATFWORLD back issues from August 2008:
A Tribute to PIA/GATF Editor-in-Chief Tom Destree
Aug 01, 2008; ... PIA/GATF sadly reports its longtime editor, Tom Destree, passed away suddenly on Monday, June 23, at age 52. He was a most-valued part of the organization and one who touched many through his skilled editing, insightful writing, and knowledge of the print process. Many of us believe he may have ...
Avanti Computer Systems Donates MIS to GATF
Aug 01, 2008; ... Avanti Computer Systems has donated its Graphic Arts Management System for use in the digital pressroom, showcasing Web-to-print integration. Jobs are currently submitted to PIA/GATF's on-demand digital workflow through the iWay system to the Xerox iGen3. The Avanti MIS will be used for ...
Meadows Publishing Solutions Donates DesignMerge Pro
Aug 01, 2008; ... Meadows Publishing Solutions has donated their variable-data authoring tool, DesignMerge Pro, to the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation. (DesignMerge Pro is a variable-data authoring tool available as a plug-in for Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress. The tool enables users to create customized ...
Creating the Cover
Aug 01, 2008; ... I have always jokingly referred to the annual variable-data issue of GATFWorld as "the swimsuit issue." After all, for many members of our industry, there's no sweeter eye candy than seeing some of the various ways we can use VDP to more effectively target a specific audience of one. The ...
INTERTECH TECHNOLOGY AWARDS
Aug 01, 2008; ... 2008 InterTech(TM) Technology Award Recipients Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF) recently announced the 2008 PIA/GATF InterTech(TM) Technology Award recipients. Twenty-eight nominations were submitted from twenty-one domestic and international ...
PIA/GATFPress Announces New Publications
Aug 01, 2008; ... PIA/GATFPress is pleased to announce the release of three new publications to help graphic communications professionals stay on top of two key disciplines as well as an aid to undertstanding terms used throughout the industry. Package Printing, Second Edition by Dr. Nelson R ....
Supporter Commentaries
Aug 01, 2008; ... Adobe Robin L. Tobin Principle Manager, Print Industry Marketing www.adobe.com Recent developments are moving the industry toward adoption of Adobe PDF throughout the VDP production workflow - from distributed review and collaboration to print submission, online ...
2008-A Noteworthy Year
Aug 01, 2008; ... This year, 2008, marks several outstanding personal milestones in my life. I am celebrating forty years of blissful marriage with the woman I have been in love with since I was 15 years old. I have reached the ripe old age of 62 without any serious health issues affecting me or any immediate ...
Overview of Digital Printing
Aug 01, 2008; ... State of Digital Printing in 2008 and Beyond PIA/GATF christened 2007 as "The Year of Digital Print," but 2008 may well be remembered as the year that digital printing ceased to be a specialty and entered the mainstream. Digital printing is now fifteen, twenty, even twenty-five ...
Practical Stuff to Improve Your Operations
Aug 01, 2008; ... Utilizing Digital and VDP for Growth In today's era of integrated multimedia communications, print remains as vital as ever. It works well as a means of mass communication and allows marketers to reach highly targeted audiences. In fact, companies increasingly turn to personalized print ...
Three "Must Haves" for Success in VDP
Aug 01, 2008; ... As VDP software becomes evermore robust, it is important not to forget marketing fundamentals. We have all heard them before-timing, relevance, and personalization. Without these elements in place, all the technology in the world will be of little help. Understanding what the marketing data ...
Q&A: Objections to VDP
Aug 01, 2008; ... In meeting and overcoming objections of clients and prospects to VDP, it is imperative to understand that the product/service you wish to sell is not printing even though it looks and feels like printing. What you are selling is a business strategy that addresses bottom-line issues regarding ...
drupa: Print Super-Sized
Aug 01, 2008; ... Super-sized. That's the best way to describe drupa 2008. Not just in terms of sheer physical size (although atypical GRAPH EXPO could fit into just two or three of the seventeen halls of Messe Düsseldorf) but because everything was just so BIG-the number of people visiting (391,000 from 84 ...
One-to-One Creates Big Business Opportunities
Aug 01, 2008; ... According to a recent Info Trends study, the demand for customized communications is increasing rapidly, specifically due to the astounding volume of commercial messages received by consumers every day. To rise above the clutter, marketers must find unique ways to differentiate their messaging ...
Vertical Market Specialization: A Formula for Success
Aug 01, 2008; ... In this article, we are going to explore the topic of vertical market specialization, what it means to your company, where to gain knowledge about it, and how to implement it in order to grow your revenue and profit. To many in the printing industry, vertical market specialization sounds ...
Mimeo-A New Print Paradigm: Your Future?
Aug 01, 2008; ... Editor's Note: Mimeo is a great example of a company that has embraced a new paradigm in the "printing" industry and is practicing a new business model for the future of print. They are on the leading edge of using new and innovative technologies to provide "print" for their customers. If you ...
The New Breed of CSR
Aug 01, 2008; ... CSRs need to know how the digital world differs from regular or traditional print knowledge. . . Wikipedia defines customer service as "a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction - that is, the feeling that a product or service has met the customer ...
2008 SkillsUSA Competition
Aug 01, 2008; ... The forty-fourth Annual SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference was conducted in Kansas City, MO, June 22-28, 2008. Over 5,000 contestants competed in ninety-one different leadership and skills contests. The contestants were from 50 states and 3 territories and were accompanied by ...
Disruptive Technologies
Aug 01, 2008; ... The history of graphic media has been one of continuous change with only one constant element-graphic media has always served the needs of human communication. The earliest cave paintings were intended to record, commemorate, and inform others about man's activities. Pictographs evolved into ...
Sustainable Green Printing Partnership^sup SM^ Moves Rapidly to Full Launch
Aug 01, 2008; ... Even though it has not quite been a year since the announcement that the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership^sup SM^, also known as the SGP Partnership^sup SM^, was formed, there has been an incredible amount of progress by the founding partners to get the program finalized. The program has ...