Curry
Printing helps students learn about printing
Westborough, Mass. printer hosts more than 60 students from
Bay Path Regional Voke Tech
Curry Printing hosted more than 60 students and instructors
from Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School recently for
a tour and demonstrations at its main prepress and printing facility
in Westborough, Mass. (more)
Flagship
Press makes commitment to wind power
All of firm’s 2008 energy use to come from renewable,
clean sources
Flagship Press of North Andover, Mass., one of the
largest privately-owned printing, marketing and distribution companies
north of Boston, has agreed to purchase all of its energy needs for
2008 from a Pennsylvania distributor that markets and sells energy generated
from renewable sources including windy energy. (more)
Merrill
Corp. leaves Woburn for larger facility in Tewksbury, Mass.
Merrill Corporation, a global provider of technology-enabled
services for the financial, health care, real estate, legal and other
corporate markets, announced it has completed the relocation of its
printing and fulfillment operation from Woburn, Mass. to a new, expanded
facility in Tewksbury. (more)
BFS
Business Printing adds Canon imagePress C7000VP
BFS Business Printing has installed a Canon imagePress
C7000VP, the newest addition to the company’s recently expanded
digital print department. The Canon imagePress C7000VP operates alongside
the company’s new six-color HP Indigo 5500 and supports a wide
variety of applications that complement the commercial offset division.
(more)
Concord
Litho wins 15 International Printing Awards
Point-of-purchase displays, brochures, and silver touchplates
bring top prizes
Concord Litho won 15 awards in the 33rd annual International
Gallery of Superb Printing competition, which was celebrated recently
at a gala event in Las Vegas. Concord Litho won six Golds, four Silvers,
three Bronzes, and two Honorable Mentions for excellence in heat-set
web and sheetfed printing for national clients, including Brookstone,
TV Guide, Rodale, Friendly’s Ice Cream, TD Banknorth, and Disabled
American Veterans. (more)
How
to raise havoc and not even know it
The nine biggest business busters
By John Graham
The big tests in business rarely come in good times. That’s when
we eagerly take the credit for our incredible success. But it’s
when the economic storms hit that we start blaming everything and everyone
else for our poor performance, and those who thought they were smarter
than most a few months earlier head for cover when the storm hits. (more)
DeviceLink
profiles: A new look
By Ron Ellis
DeviceLink profiles are nothing new, and have been with us for years.
(A DeviceLink is a type of International Color Consortium profile that
contains two profiles inside of one). Although DeviceLink profiles are
powerful, many users are not familiar with them. Perhaps color management
software is just catching up to where it can take full advantage of
the powerful uses for these profiles, or maybe the timing is now just
right. Either way there are a number of new color management applications
that use DeviceLink profiles, and because of this it is worth taking
a new look at DeviceLink profiles. (more)
Company
profile
ArrowPress’ success is straight to the
heart of customer service
By Ellen G. Lahr
Up a flight of stairs in the second floor of the ArrowPress headquarters,
on a blue- collar corner in Pittsfield, Mass., a planned chat with owner
Robert Nackoul about his new Komori press digresses quickly to talk
of music. His Martin guitar rests on the sofa. (more)
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in printed version
Building
a professional sales team
Article 2: Selecting the right people
By Jerry Scher
In the first article in our series we discussed the importance of defining
the role of professional sales person in your organization. This analysis
must take into consideration what your clients are looking for in a
sales representative. The process of selecting the right people is a
crucial part of building a professional sales team. As in the building
of any successful team, selecting the best talent that fits within your
organization will enable you to achieve your company’s goals.
Hybrid
and digital: The evolution of printing machines
By Andy Tribute
drupa 2008 will be the fourth drupa event in which digital printing
has been one of the major technologies on show. From one drupa to the
next we have seen significant developments that move forward both the
state of the art of digital printing and customer’s perceptions
of what digital printing can do for them.
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