PINE
Industry Awards Gala set for Nov. 9
Influencer Award winner is retired Graphic Arts Monthly editor;
several companies to be honored
Roger Ynostroza, who capped a 34-year editorial career
with Graphic Arts Monthly magazine earlier this year, has been named
the 2006 recipient of Printing Industries of New England’s Influencer
Award. (More)
Bay
State Envelope continues aggressive capital investment campaign
Mansfield, Mass. firm adds new envelope press, platesetter, Prinergy
workflow & web front end
Bay State Envelope, an envelope manufacturer and printing
company in Mansfield, Mass., has made several equipment installations
and workflow upgrades to improve operational efficiency, reduce turn-around
time on work for customers, and provide an increased level of customer
service and satisfaction.(More)
Camden
Printing goes green with Kodak’s Magnus 400 platesetter
Seven-employee shop converts from film to fully electronic
workflow
Camden Printing, a seven-employee print shop in Rockport,
Maine, has installed a Kodak Magnus 400 computer-to-plate (CTP) platesetter.
(More)
Canterbury
Press buys 8-color perfector from MAN Roland
Installation scheduled for December at Rome, N.Y. firm
Canterbury Press, a commercial printing company in
Rome, N.Y., has purchased a new 41-inch, eight color MAN Roland 700
perfector sheetfed press. (More)
“What’s
the big deal? Of course they know us!”
Overcoming the two most damaging marketing mistakes
By John Graham
Of all possible marketing mistakes, two are more damaging than all others
combined. The first is assuming that customers know a company and its
products. The second is not having a value concept. (More)
Company
Profile
A fusion of the old and new:
Senior execs take venerable company into new era
Winthrop Printing Company in Boston changes name to Winthrop Graphic
Solutions
By Nancy A. Hitchcock
In a freshly painted bright white room, customers can admire the fleece
pullovers touting company logos displayed on the wall, peruse the T-shirts
emblazoned with images of rock bands hanging on racks, and pore over
the shelves of products from picture frames to baseball hats to binoculars.
This may sound like shopping in downtown Boston, but below this showroom,
presses are churning out Playbills for local theaters, semi and annual
reports for mutual fund companies, and promotional projects for a Boston
beer company. (More)
Only
in printed version
Ten
new file formats
By Ron Ellis
While most of us are used to common file formats such as TIFF and EPS
files, over the past few years a number of new file formats have been
created to usher in the age of automation. We already use and are familiar
with some of these formats, but some file formats may appear as strange
acronyms with no meaning to many industry professionals.
It’s
a printing show, so there have to be presses — right?
At Graph Expo, some vendors seemed to think otherwise
By Patrick Henry
Exhibit hall, presses, and crowds: to make a successful printing equipment
trade show, pick any two. All right, the formula is a bit flawed —
minus either the venue or the visitors, the show can’t take place.
But at Graph Expo, which included four remarkably upbeat days of shopping
and selling last month in Chicago, the rules of the game changed with
respect to equipment. It’s no longer necessary — although
it remains highly desirable — for a press manufacturer to install
tons of printing iron in its booth in order to cut a decent figure at
the show.
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