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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Too Big to Mail
The U.S. Postal Service, losing business and money, must take radical steps to survive in the 21st century.
The USPS system was designed for 300 billion pieces of mail per year. Mail volume in 2008 totaled 202.7 billion piece and volume is decreasing.
Quebecor World: Has the Stalked ...
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Last week, we posted about the presentation ceremony by the Graphic Communication Scholarship Award and Career Advancement Foundation at Hearst Tower in New York City. Here, as promised, are the video interviews. The first is with Guy Gleysteen, senior vice president, production, Time, Inc., the recipient of the Foundation's 2009 ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
WhatTheyThink had heard that some printers who produce work for the GPO were not being paid in a timely fashion, and were suffering some financial stress as a result. It should be noted that this information did not come from printers experiencing this problem, but rather, from a third-party ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
About half (53.0%) of B2B marketers expect their budgets to increase in 2010, according to a recent study by BtoB magazine. The study was based on an online survey of 495 business-to-business marketers conducted between May 14 and June 2. About 37 percent of survey respondents expect their 2010 budgets ...
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
The U.S. Government has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy handling the Quebecor World's restructuring to deny the plans of reorganization because of $10 million dollars of unpaid U.S. taxes and $150 million in Clean Air Act penalties.
The Canadian Press reports the U.S. government said in a motion filed Wednesday:
"Because these proposed ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Gordon Pritchard has put together a great compilation called “Printing and the Movies” at his excellent blog, Quality in Print. The movies seldom make much reference to printing, but Gordo, a cinephile as well as a regular contributor at the PrintPlanet forums, captures some the craft’s most notable moments on ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
With the encouragement to students that “if I can do it, you can do it,” Vyomesh (VJ) Joshi accepted the Prism Award for Distinguished Leadership during a packed luncheon at Gotham Hall in Manhattan on June 24.
Joshi is executive vice president of the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) of HP, ...
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