Goodway Graphics changes name to Goodway Group of Massachusetts
Change enhances branding & better reflects national scope
Goodway Graphics in Burlington, Mass., part of a national company with headquarters in Philadelphia, has changed it name to the Goodway Group of Massachusetts to better reflect the range of services it can provide to clients across the northeast from the resources of its national organization. (more)

Odyssey Press earns Forest Stewardship Council certification
Odyssey Press, the original ultra short-run printer, has received chain of custody (CoC) certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). This certification highlights Odyssey Press’ commitment to ensuring use of papers from sources committed to sustainable forestry practices. This certification permits Odyssey Press to use the FSC logo in concert with their chain of custody certificate number. Odyssey’s clients can request their products be printed on papers that are grown and managed in an environmentally conscious and responsible manner. Through the use of the FSC logo, they can proudly display their own environmental sensitivity and responsible use of papers that can be documented as satisfying the high standards of the Forest Stewardship Council. (more)

Elite Envelope & Graphics adds account manager and envelope folding machine at four-year anniversary
Elite Envelope & Graphics in Braintree, Mass., is celebrating its fourth year in business with the addition of Beverly Chancholo as an inside account manager. (more)

EDSF studies electronic delivery of regulated financial information Document foundation makes report available to printers at no cost
A new report from EDSF (the Electronic Document Systems Foundation), an international, non-profit organization dedicated to the document management and graphic communications industries, investigates the use of electronic document systems in the distribution of regulated financial information. (more)

Twenty-two do’s and don’ts that make a definite difference in business
By John Graham
It must be easy to accumulate bad habits in business because there are so many of them. Unfortunately, they can have a negative impact on us personally, as well as on our companies. (more)

Leopard: What you need to know
By Ron Ellis
Leopard, Apple’s new operating system, is here. The new operating system has an impressive list of new features, and continues Apple’s OS X cat-based naming scheme. Most prepress operators wisely hold off on upgrades — and with good reason. Whenever you perform an upgrade there is the chance that key features and functions will stop working. For some users — those using certain features in Panther that are set to expire, as well as those buying new computers — they will have no choice but to upgrade. For those of us in production, we usually tend to wait until we know it is a safe time to upgrade. (more)

Company Profile: QPL grows by providing customers with solutions
By Nancy Hitchcock
Loading a race car-shaped cooler with race car key chains and T-shirts or filling fake coconuts with lip balm and sunscreens was probably not what Peter Derby expected his quick printing company to be doing when he started the Chelmsford, Mass. (more)


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Web to print: The next DTP revolution?
By Bernd Zipper
There’s one topic to which those in the print and media industry looking to the future of their businesses cannot close their eyes: web to print. Denigrated by some as a fashionable flash in the pan and job killer and praised by others as a cure-all — the online production of templates is a profitable but controversial phenomenon. And that’s no accident because although this new style of printing comes with many advantages, it is simultaneously drastically transforming the market.


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