Graphic Arts Monthly back issues from January 2009:
Production Agencies: How We Trim Fat.
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Ken Madsen The last five years have seen an increased emphasis on marketing accountability. Public companies especially must show shareholders a straight line between marketing expenditures and revenue growth, and have put increasing pressure on their marketing departments to ...
It Mails & It Prints.(Company overview)
Jan 01, 2009 ... STAFF REPORT Mostly into mail printing, a flexible offset web opens doors. Metro Print and Mail Solutions, Sacramento, is a case study of success. What started as a five-employee, 4,000-sq.ft. mailing operation has grown into an 80-employee printing and mailing firm ....
Change Ahead for GPO?(Bob Tapella)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Lisa Cross Move Builds to Retain Public Printer The marriage of digital and conventional printing is no small task. Just ask the Government Printing Office, which has a legal responsibility to assure government documents are both unalterable and archivable. GPO ...
New Plant, New Sheetfed.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Lisa Cross Pearl Pressman Liberty Communications Group, Philadelphia, installed a 6-color, 40´´ Mitsubishi Diamond 3000LX (inset) with a SimulChanger plate-changing system. The 120-employee , $32-million firm is in the process of combining four ...
Book Marks Firm's Centennial.(Buhrs Americas)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Lisa Cross Buhrs is celebrating its hundredth anniversary with a new book detailing the history of the company. Titled "Buhrs 100 Years," the 90-page book provides a complete history of how a small machine shop in ...
Big Web Press Purchases.(Quebecor World)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Lisa Cross Quebecor World purchased three, short cut-off, wide-web Lithoman presses for its retail insert platform. The manroland webs will be installed in the U.S. and Canada. The first of the presses will be operational in Q3. Parent company Quebecor Inc. is ...
Clamshell Packaging Safer, More Sustainable.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Lisa Cross MeadWestvaco has introduced Natralock, calling it a consumer- and earth-friendlier clamshell packaging designed to thwart "wrap rage"--the frustration, often accompanied by pain and injury--resulting from hard-to-remove packaging. (The Centers for Disease Control ...
First 'Certified Green' Printers.(Pratt Corp. and Pictura Inc. and John Roberts Co)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Lisa Cross Four printing companies have been certified as Sustainable Green Printers by the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGPP), a consortium including flexo, screen and commercial print organizations. Fineline, Indianapolis; Pictura Graphics, ...
Transpromo for Must-Read Ads.
Jan 01, 2009 ... By Mark Vruno, Executive Editor Roll-feeds satisfy voracious appetites of high-speed inkjet and toner printers in long, ad-laden statement runs. Consumers are more mindful of their debt and debit cards during lean economic times like these. In corporate America, ...
Handling Work Done Outside.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Kevin Cooper, Best Practices Editor Managing the mix of components produced externally with those run internally creates unique challenges. Outsourcing is gaining momentum as a growth strategy for commercial printers. Innovations in workflow automation and MIS ...
Sheetfed UV Curing.
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Joann Whitcher, Project Editor At the heart of the process: rapid adoption of flexo chamber coaters. Sheetfed UV curing has gone mainstream as hybrid inks and coating unit improvements boost usage in sheetfed printing. Once relegated to aggressive printers with a ...
Setting Profiles for Ambient Light.
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Brian Ashe Here's what to do when viewing light differs from that used to build profiles. In the years I have spent helping people with color-managed workflow, users often tell me, "I need to edit every profile I create." These users aren't being overly critical ....
Plastic Paper Resists Tears, Beers.
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Mark Vruno Beer pouring is sometimes taken quite seriously in European quarters. For bartenders, the Belgian pour ritual involves no less than nine steps to achieve malt-liquor perfection, according to brewer Stella Artois. The brand's parent, InBev/Anheuser-Busch, turned to ...
New Products.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Mark Vruno Horizon Cross Folder AFC-746AKT computer-controlled folder combines superior feeding and registration with touch-screen control, says Standard Finishing Systems. Operators can select from 14 pre-sets or set up to 100 custom folds. Featuring fully automated set-up, ...
New Products.(Sakurai USA Inc.'s Sakurai Oliver 66SD)(Duplo Corp.'s Duplo DC-645)(Morgana Systems's Morgana DigiFold 5000P Creaser Folder )
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Mark Vruno Sakurai Oliver 66SD series 26´´ sheetfed presses are available in 4-, 5- (shown) and 6-color configurations. SPC feature changes plates accurately and quickly thanks to a pinned cylinder register system. The tail edge of the plate does not require ...
Does Washington Get The Importance of Printing?(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Bill Esler, Editor-in-Chief The Government Printing Office, or GPO as it is usually known, is unlikely to move to the head of the hot list of major concerns for the Obama administration. But it is definitely on the to-do list. Like other agencies, its top manager would ...
Move Over, Premium Brands.(private label products)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Trish Wales Is merchant-sourced private-label paper a solution to current economic pressures? The private label market for goods is large and growing. Gone are the basic black-and-white packaged products that signaled a generic version of a name brand. Consumer ...
New Arrival in UV Web Curing.(Air Motion Systems)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Bill Esler Air Motion adapts aspects of its sheetfed Peak 3 UV curing lamp to web offset use. Peak 3, Air Motion Systems UV curing lamp brand, is well-known for high end sheetfed use. Now the company has adapted its third-generation Peak 3 (P3) curing lamp ...
You Can Make It the Best Year Ever.(Viewpoint essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Bill Farquharson Embrace the opportunities that lie before you, or you'll become a victim of them. Last month, I GAM'ed (a new verb meaning "to offer print sales advice") about optimism versus simply surviving. I want to continue that theme and kick off 2009 with ...
System IDs Profitable Prospects.(Avanti Computer Systems)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Lisa Cross A strong case for CRM: in most print shops, customer data resides with sales reps. Who are your most profitable customers? Don't know? Then, print MIS solution provider Avanti Computer Systems could have just the product for you. The ...
Nanocodes: Imaging on Molecules.
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Henry Freedman Small particles used for marking lab experiments may find their way to the pressroom. Just as production environments in photo finishing, printing and publishing have workflow tracking requirements, so do areas of scientific research in biochemistry ...
Trade Printers Lead The Pack.(4over Inc.)(Moquin Press)(Partner Printing)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Mark Vruno The industry's source for everything from specialty services to new and used equipment. A keyword search for "trade printers" in the Graphic Arts BlueBook online directory finds 128 firms scattered around the country: 23 out west, 41 in the Midwest and ...
New Standard for VDP Plug-Ins.(variable data printing)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Hal Hinderliter These relatively simple solutions can get you started in variable data print. Variable data printing (VDP) is a complex pursuit that encompasses a wide range of software applications, from a simple Microsoft Word mail merge to the most complex of ...