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Lane Press
hosts open house; family picnic to celebrate centennial
Lane Press has made a year of celebrating its 100th
anniversary in 2004.
To honor its customers, Lane Press hosted the 2004 Centennial Publishers
Roundtable. (More)
Bay
State Envelope Company installs Halm color creator
Bay State Envelope Company of Mansfield, Mass., has
recently made a significant investment to improve their manufacturing
process with the purchase of a new Halm Industries Inc. Color Creator.
This is part of their ongoing program to offer better products at better
prices to their growing client base. (More)
PINE
membership grows by 20, including 10 printing firms
Twenty companies, including 10 commercial printing operations in three
New England states, have joined Printing Industries of New England over
the summer as a host of companies begin to seek ways to improve profitability
for their operations. (More)
Third
annual event honors Odyssey Press co-owner who died on Sept. 11th
Doug Stone Golf Classic raises $23,500 for graphic arts scholarship
Employees, clients, vendors and friends of Odyssey Press in
Gonic, N.H., came together at the third annual Doug Stone Golf Classic
last month to raise $23,500 for a scholarship in the name of the printing
company owner who died in Sept. 11 2001 terrorist attack in New York
City. (More)
How
to shoot straight but miss the target
“We’d like to do business with you but you don’t have
experience in our industry”
By John Graham
Companies today face the same daunting problem that confounds so many
job seekers. It’s the high hurdle of transferable experience.
(More)
Iterative
proofing:
Color management is changing — for the better
By Ron Ellis
There have been significant changes in the inkjet proofing world in
the past year. In the past getting an accurate match depended on technique
and a good eye. Tuning a RIP and inkjet proofer required a bit of black
magic. New RIP technologies are taking the guesswork out, and making
the process of matching a press or proof more automated. The result
is that these new technologies are making it easier to hit a proofing
target with certainty. While not any faster, the results of the process
are based less on guesswork and visual comparison than on mathematical
matching. (More)
Company
Profile
Freedom Digital Printing:
Partners find their niche as trade printers
By John Scibelli
It happens in every industry. Skilled and productive employees sop up
information like a sponge absorbs water. Along the way, they acquire
a wide range of experience in various business functions and find themselves
as key managers. They do their jobs well, and inevitably get the urge
to go into business for themselves. That is how Freedom Digital Printing
was born nearly four years ago. (More)
Only
in Printed Version
A
lesson all employers should learn
Why companies need employment practices liability insurance
By Judy Jacobs
If the situation were one of protecting a business against fire and
other types of property damage, no business would open its doors without
such coverage. No manufacturer would send its products to market without
having product liability insurance. Yet, most companies operate year
after year without employment practices liability insurance protection.
More than one in four (26 percent) privately-held companies has faced
litigation by an employee or former employee in the past four years,
according to a 2004 nationwide survey sponsored by the Chubb Group of
Insurance Companies.
Case
Study
HealthNow New York:
Providing customer-focused benefit information
A key objective of HealthNow’s recent re-engineering efforts was
to better utilize customer data to enhance the quality of communications.
To accomplish that, HealthNow selected Exstream Software’s Dialogue.
With Dialogue, the company accomplished its initial personalization
goals. Dialogue’s high performance also helped HealthNow reduce
time to market with important subscriber information. The program was
such a success that HealthNow felt ready to move to the next level:
capitalize on the technology to offer highly targeted member guides
engineered to have an even greater impact on the recipient.
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