UniGraphic
expands service offering with KPG DirectPress 5034 DI system
Short run color printing now in the offering for Woburn, Mass.
company
UniGraphic, a Woburn, Mass., trade shop, recently installed the Kodak
Polychrome Graphics (KPG) DirectPress 5034 DI System to offer the flexibility
of short run color printing to its customers. (More)
Winthrop
Printing adds Heidelberg postpress equipment
Winthrop Printing, in Boston, Mass., reports a 25 percent increase in
production with the recent installation of a jogger, a transomat and
a cutter from Heidelberg. (More)
Longtime
Spencer Press CFO Eugene Sullivan retires
Served as secretary/treasurer on PINE Board of Directors
Eugene R. Sullivan, who has served for 17 years as executive vice president
of finance and chief financial officer for Spencer Press, has retired.
(More)
Michael
Monaco joins Communication Graf/x
Takes role of new business development manager
Michael Monaco has recently joined the Communication Graf/x Inc., South
Boston, as new business development manager. (More)
The
value of loyalty
By Pamela Sullivan
It’s the best-known non-statistic in the marketing world: it costs
five to seven times more to acquire a new customer or client than it
costs to retain an existing one. (More)
What’s
new with Acrobat 7
By Ron Ellis
When I heard that Acrobat 7 was due out for release my first thought
was, “Already?” Though it seemed like Acrobat 6 had just
come out, Adobe has a new upgrade for Acrobat. It is a quick cycle for
an upgrade — less than a year. Upon hearing news of the impending
upgrade many of my customers stated that they hadn’t even upgraded
to Acrobat 6 yet. What follows is a list of some of the more important
changes and additions to Acrobat 7. Customers have been asking me what
is new in Acrobat 7. What follows are some of the more interesting features
— and the implications they bring with them (More)
Company
Profile
Granite Press: Proof positive that this is a land of
opportunity
By John Scibelli
Granite Press in Westborough, Mass., looks like just another small printing
company, one stitch in the nation’s economic fabric of millions
of small businesses, but this growing multi-color sheetfed printing
company represents much more. (More)
Only
in printed version
Every
little bit counts: Planning for profit before production
By Kenneth F. King and Craig Press
Over the years, printers have used interesting methods for measuring
profitability. Some companies gauge profitability by the amount of money
left in the bank after paying the bills. Others measure profitability
using their monthly financial statements. Both of these methods may
give you an idea of your profitability, but they are reactive rather
than proactive and don’t give you any lead time to prevent undesirable
results. Measuring profitability daily — or from job to job —
enables a company to take proactive action rather toward preventing
losses or achieving larger profits.
How
improved organizational communication can drive the ability and capacity
of a company
By Sid Chadwick
In most
organizations that have invited Sid to visit because they have a desire
to improve their performance, there is a broad-based lack of understanding
regarding where the organization is going (or wanting to go) and what
they are trying to achieve. This conduct, or cultural value system —
while on the surface innocent — unintentionally creates repeated
drags on organization performance through missed opportunities that
can ultimately derail potential for building perceived customer value,
and improved company performance. To correct these organizational misunderstandings,
the company president or chief executive officer is urged to write either
a weekly or biweekly (preferable one page) letter to all employees.
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