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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
The news about AlphaGraphics and Allegra combining forces to host the first joint technology expo in franchise print history was likely met with cheers from our vendor community. At FESPA last month in Munich, I spoke with several executives who were quite emphatic that something needs to change in terms ...
Posted in Printing Industry News | 11 Comments »
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
I was recently contacted by a senior executive in one of the well-known print franchises, who brought a new online printing service to my attention. Called Red Tag Print Sale, the site is a B2C online printing service operated by 4Over, an online printing service to the trade that has ...
Posted in Printing Industry News | 25 Comments »
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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At PMA 2010, the trade event for “everything photo,” Mohawk Fine Papers announced the acquisition of LabPrints, a developer of workflow software and services for professional photographers and photo labs. “Wait,” you say, “a paper company bought a software company?” In search of clarification, I spoke to Bart Robinson, Mohawk's ...
Posted in Printing Industry News, Software | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 4th, 2010
WhatTheyThink has just been notified by Adobe's PR firm that the worldwide Adobe Partner Connection Print Service Provider Program will be discontinued, effective February 4, 2010, due to membership decline. Visiting the site reveals a message from Adobe:
We are no longer accepting applications for the Print Service Provider program.
There ...
Posted in Associations, Printing Industry News, User Groups | 21 Comments »
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Faced with declining membership and a challenging economy, the Graphic Arts Society of Printers (GASP) knew that it needed to take drastic steps to survive. To that end, key executives had an intensive year-long closed-door meeting and hashed out what the industry association believes is a surefire way to combat ...
Posted in Printing Industry News | 7 Comments »
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Last month I wrote about the launch of HP MarketSplash, a Web-based service HP has started to provide “the industry’s lowest prices and fastest delivery times for brand marketing services such as professional-quality design and print fulfillment.”
In that post I asked, “Will this make HP Graphic Arts customers question HP’s ...
Posted in Printing Industry News | 18 Comments »
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Here’s a question: is there any such thing as a recession-proof business? Alcohol distribution and drug trafficking aside, we have found in our own industry companies that defy macroeconomic trends. Time was, commercial printing was such a business; in the 1980s, print grew faster than GDP, and even in the ...
Posted in Business, Economics and Research Center | 7 Comments »
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