Quick Printing back issues from September 2005:
See and be seen.(editorial)
Sep 01, 2005; ... One of the things I believe sets QP apart from other printing publications is the time that our writers spend with our readers. They are constantly "out among 'em" as it were, whether in their shops, at their events, or during seminars and training sessions. That was something QP founder ...
The Power of the Best.(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... NEARLY 500 Sir Speedy and PIP Printing franchisees attended this year's annual convention in Tampa, FL in July. The theme of the event was "The Power of the Best" and it featured a comprehensive slate of educational and training sessions. Various social events provided ample opportunity ...
ICED 2005 Conference and Trade Show.(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... FRANCHISEES affiliated with the International Center for Entrepreneurial Development (ICED) enjoyed networking opportunities and obtained a wealth of practical information, hearing from industry experts such as NAPL's chief economist Andrew Paparozzi at the ICED 2005 Conference and Trade ...
The Printing Business Index of the National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL).(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... THE PRINTING Business Index of the National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL), rose fractionally in June 2005 to 55.9 from 55.4 in May. Although both readings are down from the 2005 peak of 61.1 reached in March and April's robust 58.9, the latest reading marks the 24th ...
The Print Council.(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... THE PRINT Council, a business development initiative dedicated to promoting the greater use of printing and print media, named the six members of the Executive Committee that will head the organization's next phase of growth. Roy Grossman, president and chief executive officer of Sandy ...
PROFORMA held its 18th Annual Convention and Family Reunion in Orlando, FL, July 31 to August 3.(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... PROFORMA held its 18th Annual Convention and Family Reunion in Orlando, FL, July 31 to August 3. With 600 attendees, it was the largest convention to date. The event was highlighted by some 50 educational sessions and seminars. Preferred Limited Partners demonstrated products and services ...
Alphagraphics.(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... ALPHAGRAPHICS says it has plans to double the number of locations in the next five years, in part by rolling out a new Digital Business Center model. "AlphaGraphics is well positioned to take on this ambitious goal of bringing the number of business centers to 500 in the next five years," ...
Blanks/USA.(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... BLANKS/USA has a new no-copy paper with six levels of hidden security and is offering $10,000 to the first printer who can copy its Kan't Kopy K2 paper. You can request the blue test coupon from CustomerCare@BlankCorp.com and ask for "Offer Code ...
Printing Association of Florida's 18th Annual Florida Print Awards.(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... SIXTY-SEVEN companies were recognized for outstanding achievement in the graphic arts at the Printing Association of Florida's 18th Annual Florida Print Awards. Franklin/Trade Graphics LLC from Miami was awarded the Spinola Printers Supply Inc. Golden Flamingo Trophy for capturing the most ...
HP.(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... HP cast farther afield to boost its commercial printing portfolio when it spent $230 million to buy Scitex Vision and its super-wide format product line. According to a company spokesman, the purchase "will further accelerate HP's push into the rapidly growing digital printing market." ...
Pagepath and SoftUSE.(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... PAGEPATH and SoftUSE are providing integrated upgrades that will let their MyOrderDesk Internet Storefront and Web-to-print systems and Printer's Plan Estimating and Management Software for ...
Presstek and Heidelberg.(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... PRESSTEK and Heidelberg have renewed their deal for providing the preferred brand of consumable plates for Heidelberg's Quickmaster DI 46-4. Heidelberg will ...
Mohawk Fine Papers.(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... MOHAWK Fine Papers made the Top 25 EPA list of Green Power Purchasers for its use of wind energy to make paper. Mohawk mills are the only US paper mills to use wind ...
PIA/GATF.(NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... PIA/GATF recently announced that Adobe, Canon, HP, Kodak, Xerox, Rochester Institute of Technology, CalPoly Technical Institute and Clemson University have joined together to support a major Digital Printing ...
Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Editor, I just read your editorial in the July issue and got a couple of good laughs. The only thing that would have made it better is the last line--change "printing needs" to something like "futuristic digital printing options." By the way my most favorite articles are ...
Man Roland Inc.(OBITUARY)
Sep 01, 2005 ... BRUNO ASMANN, lead product manager for MAN Roland Inc., was killed in a private plane crash on the evening of July 30th. The veteran skydiver and certified jumpmaster was in route to New Smyrna Beach with three skydiving colleagues. All four perished after their Cessna 172 went down ...
Digital Systems.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... RICK MANGOLD has been appointed as ABDick's National Sales Director for Digital Systems in North America. He is responsible for developing new business opportunities and providing sales strategies to further the ...
Cenveo, Inc.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... KEITH LARSON has been promoted to president of strategic sales for Cenveo, Inc. ROB YOUNG, also a former executive vice president, has ...
Ryobi division of xpedx.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... DON HARVEY has been named vice president and general manager of the Ryobi division of xpedx. He previously served eight years as ...
Sandy Alexander, Inc. and Heidelberg USA.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... ROY GROSSMAN, president and chief executive officer of Sandy Alexander, Inc., and JAMES P. DUNN, president and chief executive officer of Heidelberg USA, have been named co-chairmen of the executive ...
NELA-USA.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... JURGEN GRUBER has been promoted to director of sales for NELA-USA. He has been with the ...
Kodak Graphic Communications Group.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... KODAK Graphic Communications Group (GCG) announced appointments in its Workflow and Prepress Equipment (WPE) and its Prepress Consumables strategic product groups. The WPE appointees are: BOUDEWIJN NEIJENS, vice president of marketing; BOB KUTSCHKE, general manager, Business Workflow; BRAD ...
Man Roland.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... HAL STRATTON has been promoted to director of New Technologies at MAN Roland, after serving for the ...
Mohawk Fine Papers.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... HILARY DAVIS was named marketing project manager for Mohawk Fine Papers. Davis will divide her time ...
Pictorial Offset Corporation.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... EARL J. DUNN joined Pictorial Offset Corporation as a Pictorial team leader. He was previously founder and president of Basking Ridge Graphic Solutions and ...
PrintStaff.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... JOHN BROCK has joined PrintStaff as an account manager in the Wayne, NJ office. MONICA LEVIN joined the firm as a ...
FSI Products of DePere.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... SHELLY DEVILLERS has been named national sales representative ...
Independent Printing Company of DePere.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... ALICE BEINING was named national sales representative at ...
First Impression Printing & Graphics.(AWARDS & MILESTONES)
Sep 01, 2005 ... FIRST Impression Printing & Graphics, Howell, MI has been selected one of the top printing companies in North America during the Print Shop of the Year Award for the Certified Printers International (CPrint) at its ...
Franklin/Trade Graphics.(AWARDS & MILESTONES)
Sep 01, 2005 ... FRANKLIN/Trade Graphics, Miami, FL, was awarded the Spinola Printers Supply Inc. Golden Flaming Trophy for capturing the most Best of Category honors at the Printing Association of Florida's 18th Annual Florida Print Awards ....
SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Championships.(AWARDS & MILESTONES)
Sep 01, 2005 ... JEFF S. MCFARLAND, Grand Prairie, TX, and REBECCA LONG, Asheville, NC, took home the gold at this year's SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Championships. They won in the High School and College/Post Secondary categories, respectively. Silver winners were ...
Canon USA.(AWARDS & MILESTONES)
Sep 01, 2005 ... CANON USA'S copier and imaging technology has earned the company this year's Louis Braille Corporate Award, to be presented by Associated Services for the Blind & Visually Impaired (ASB). The company will receive the award ...
2005 One Show.(AWARDS & MILESTONES)
Sep 01, 2005 ... "PUNCT: Putting Punctuation in its Place," a set of 24 limited edition serigraphs, won a Gold Pencil award at the 2005 One Show in the Environmental Design: Campaign category. The poster campaign and supporting ...
The Paper Industry International Hall of Fame.(AWARDS & MILESTONES)
Sep 01, 2005 ... THE PAPER Industry International Hall of Fame's membership roster will grow to 70 this October with the induction of six more paper industry innovators who have been chosen as the 11th annual ...
Calendar.(Calendar)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Print 05 & Converting 05, Chicago, IL, Sept. 9-15 Info: 703/264-7200 or www.gasc.org PrintImage Owners Conference, Chicago, IL, Sept. 15-17 Info: 800/234-0040 or www.printimage.org SGIA '05, ...
Color printers & copiers: a world of change.(Cover Story)
Sep 01, 2005; ... The market for digital color printing and copying has changed significantly in recent years. All toner-based color devices manufactured today are capable of multiple functions. Certainly all that are of interest to the quick and small commercial printing industry are digitally connected ...
Digital color copiers and printers: product roundup.(Buyers Guide)
Sep 01, 2005; ... With the growing market for efficient in-house digital color printing, copier/printer manufacturers have introduced innovative machines that offer the reliability of a black-and-white machine with the high quality results that color has to offer. The new MFPs on the market today offer ...
People are the power: energize your base with training & benefits.
Sep 01, 2005; ... "Technology, just-in-time, clever designs, and aggressive marketing will all have their influence. The secret weapon will be people-power. The wins (profit, position, continuity) will go to the companies with trained, competent, dedicated people." This quote was extracted from 2005 ...
Vinyl sign shop in a print shop.
Sep 01, 2005; ... Have you ever considered making vinyl signs and banners in your print shop, but did not know where to start? This is a basic overview of how to start a vinyl sign shop in your established print shop. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Print 05 seminars offer full slate.(Calendar)
Sep 01, 2005 ... With 88 seminar sessions, the Print 05 educational program offers something for everyone. Some sessions are obviously for larger commercial operations and others cover topics our readers may or may not be interested in. We have taken the liberty to highlight some of the sessions we think ...
Franchising--end of a golden era?(quick consultant)
Sep 01, 2005; ... In August of 1981, Mike and Leslie Larson (not their real names) made the biggest business decision of their lives. At ages 34 and 32, respectively, Mike and Leslie signed a 25-year franchise agreement with one of the major franchisors serving the quick printing industry. The agreement was ...
Buying signals.(sales clinic)
Sep 01, 2005; ... A lot has been written about selling strategy and technique over the years; much of it contradictory and some of it downright confusing. One of the things that has always confused me is an emphasis on the body language of the prospect. I remember a sales training program back in my Moore ...
Frequency, repetition, consistency of any marketing will pay off.(marketing)
Sep 01, 2005; ... I once heard a baseball game play-by-play announcer, in a fit of excitement, say that two batters on a particular team just hit back to back, consecutive, two in a row home runs. This was after two home runs, but his repetition and redundancy made it sound like six home runs (back to back, ...
Case of great potential.(case study)
Sep 01, 2005; ... The following case is based upon a combination of consulting assignments of Crouser & Associates, Inc. Names, cities, and other facts have been changed to illustrate and simplify the case presented. As such, any resulting similarity to any one shop or person is coincidental. ...
There's no free lunch.(printouts)
Sep 01, 2005; ... As I promote the use of PDF workflows in the quick printing industry, printers and prepress operators constantly challenge me that PDF files don't work. When I delve deeper into their questions and concerns, I usually find that the shop is lacking either tools or procedures to properly ...
Achieving a better printing business in five days.(guest columnist)
Sep 01, 2005; ... (Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in PrintImage Network and is reprinted with permission.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many years ago, I heard an associate state that "everything either works for you or against you." The more you think about that statement, ...
Exhibitor profiles.
Sep 01, 2005 ... September 9-15, 2005 * McCormick Place * Chicago, IL, USA BAUM leads the postpress and bindery markets with new and innovative, products and features for paper folding, cutting, drilling and finishing. BAUM is your total source for all of your postpress applications. ...
Fiery for bizhub C450.(PREPRESS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... EFI and Konica Minolta Business Solutions announced a partnership for the future availability of the IC-402 Image Controller, embedded Fiery technology optimized for the bizhub C450, a 35-page-per-minute color printer/copier/scanner. The IC-402 Image Controller is embedded Fiery system ...
No-process plates.(PREPRESS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Citiplate Imaging Technologies introduced a family of photopolymer formulations in its No-Process Imaging Group that makes it possible for users of conventional imaging technologies and thermal or violet CTP platesetters to image plates and go right to press, with no processing step ...
Kodak VERIS.(PREPRESS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Kodak's Graphic Communications Group announced a Certified Process for the VERIS proofer. The Certified Process for Color Confirmation checks that the proof complies with the color standards specified for that job, helping printers ...
Color Navigator.(PREPRESS)
Sep 01, 2005 ... X-RiteannouncedthatitsDTP94colorimeter is now available with EIZO's new ColorNavigator Version 4 calibration software. EIZO customers who purchase ColorEdge LCD monitors will now have access to this colorimeter, designed for ...
PRINTQUOTE 4 price break.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... BASCORP announced a lowered price of $100 for its PRINTQUOTE 4 Printing Estimating system for Windows. The program uses a stored database of all the shop's cost elements and their prices, from which the estimator selects those applicable to the job being quoted. It continuously calculates ...
Quite Imposing Plus 2.0.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Quite Software announced the release of Quite Imposing Plus 2.0, compatible with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Macintosh and Windows. One new feature in Automation Sequences is Imposition By Example, which stores as XML each step taken in the creation of imposed PDF files. An option on the Shuffle ...
EFI Digital StoreFront 2.5.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... EFI has unveiled version 2.5 of Digital StoreFront with Remote Print Center workflow integration, JDF-based job tickets, and visual job ticket wizards, stronger VDP capabilities, and more robust PrintMessenger Drivers. The software provides a complete, streamlined workflow from the ...
JETS Version 3.1.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... BOWE Bell + Howell has released JETS Version 3.1 enterprise management software for the print/mail environment. Enterprise management monitors each machine, module, process, and job. JETS 3.1 includes an extension to the reporting framework and increased ability to personalize reports and ...
PitStop Pro for Acrobat 7.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Enfocus PitStop Professional 6.5 supports Acrobat 7 and allows checking and fixing of PDF 1.6-specific features during preflight. It also runs on the latest Windows and Macintosh operating systems, including Macintosh OS X Tiger. Enfocus also re-instituted text editing of PDF files using ...
OmniPage Professional 15.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... ScanSoft launched ScanSoft OmniPage Professional 15, a new version of its optical character recognition (OCR) and document conversion application for Microsoft Windows. This program converts, edits, archives, and shares paper and PDF documents, replacing the need to manually re-create ...
BeeMail.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Beehive Software's BeeMail products transform your current email package into an industrial strength file courier for very large graphics files. Running in the background, BeeMail turbocharges file transfers for any email system. It speeds the transfer with on-the-fly streaming compression ...
Matchflow Composer 4.6.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Enhancements to Kodak's Matchflow Composer software enable flexible, automated file converting and color management in a single application. MATCHFLOW Composer software v4.6 is used for the conversion of such industry standard prepress file formats as PostScript, PDF, PDF/X-1a, or PDF/X-3, ...
Kodak EMS.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Eastman Kodak Company's Graphic Communications Group (GCG) announced a complete business workflow solution for the graphic communications industry. KODAK Enterprise Management Solution (EMS) software was developed by Kodak subsidiary Creo. The core modules of the software address business ...
FlightCheck 5.6.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Markzware announced a feature-rich, free update to FlightCheck Professional and FlightCheck Designer for Macintosh and Windows platforms. This release of FlightCheck 5.6 includes compatibility upgrades for Macintosh OS X Tiger and QuarkXPress 6.5. Other enhancements are: Ground Control for ...
FlightCheck Studio for Quark & InDesign.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Markzware announced the availability of Markzware FlightCheck Studio for QuarkXPress and for Adobe InDesign CS and CS2. The software provides content creators with an "inflight" preflighting tool capable of detecting problems within a digital document, based on user-defined specifications ....
PowerQuote 11.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... PowerQuote 11 print estimating and management software offers new capabilities for digital print estimating and improved offset estimating. The input windows and formulas were made for digital printing to avoid the constraints of copier or offset estimating. Digital booklets can be ...
EFI MIS upgrade.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... EFI has announced its Executive Information System (EIS), a business "workspace" that provides a visual tool for business analysis for its Print MIS customers. EIS is an interactive data analysis command center that instantly recaps the state-of-the-business and links to other key data ....
Print Audit updates.(SOFTWARE)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Print Audit has released a software tool that will provide detailed knowledge about printer and copier fleets. The Facilities Manager is designed to monitor volumes and report service information for fleets of copiers, printers, and multifunction devices. It records page counts for these ...