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Paramount
Cards to close Pawtucket, R.I., plant
250 jobs to be lost as production moves
to Canada & offshore; firm to help employees transition
Paramount Cards Holding Corporation will close its
in Pawtucket, R.I., plant, shift production to its newer state-of-the-art
facility in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, and send a greater amount of
production to the Far East. The move will result in the loss of 250
production and distribution jobs in Pawtucket beginning in November.
(More)
Sheppard
Envelope Company to host open house for printers Oct. 27 & 28
Central Mass. specialty envelope manufacturer shows new
home
Sheppard Envelope Company will host an open house for
sheetfed, web and digital printers during the day on Thursday and Friday,
Oct. 27 and 28. (More)
ADI
Print Solutions adds Heidelberg QuickMaster DI
Print service provider moves into new Easton, Mass. building
ADI Print Solutions, Inc., a Massachusetts-based offset
and digital printing operation with locations in Boston and Quincy has
installed a Heidelberg QuickMaster DI press. (More)
Where’s
the target?
Opening new markets
By John Graham
“We can’t figure out what happened,” said the president
of a company that had spent two years trying to break into a new market.
“Frankly, we fell on our faces and we’re not sure why.”
(More)
Systematic
education for improving performance
By Sid Chadwick
A breakfast meeting with chief executive officers in Dallas revealed
that only one organization represented at the meeting had instituted
a systematic, frequent education program for its employees. (More)
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Adobe
Bridge should be a welcome tool in prepress departments
By Ron Ellis
In the recent release of Adobe Creative Suite software, Adobe has included
a new component to the software called Adobe Bridge. Normally a small
little piece of utility software like this wouldn’t be worthy
of mentioning. Often these types of utilities have more to offer the
customer than the printer or the prepress technician. Adobe Bridge,
however, is different. What makes Adobe Bridge different is the way
it links the Adobe applications together and allows us to control and
integrate color settings between these settings. While color control
is the main enhancement, there are also some other enhancements that
prepress departments may also find useful.
“I
just work here:” Creating a front line that improves your bottom
line
By John Skabelund
Throughout the country, at every sort of retail business, fast food
and other restaurants, and customer service departments everywhere,
to name just a few of the affected industries, on the job apathy runs
rampant. Unreliable, bored, unmotivated, unfriendly, and even openly
antagonistic frontline employees give your customers a bad impression
of your business and make it difficult for them to want to come back,
only to have to deal with this same attitude again. You may already
have experienced the tremendous impact your frontline’s attitude
can have on your repeat business and thus your bottom line. More and
more frontline employees are clocking in for work, while clocking out
mentally. What can you do about it?
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