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What’s Your Next Big Equipment Investment?

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

During yesterday's WhatTheyThink webinar Frank Romano and David Zwang Preview GraphExpo 2010 we polled the audience asking, “What’s Your Next Big Equipment Investment?” Here are the results: Bindery: 16% Digital Press: 35% Mailing: 10% Offset press: 0% Production Inkjet: 29% Wide Format: 10% If you missed the Frank Romano and David Zwang Preview GraphExpo 2010 webinar is available ...

U.S. Postal Service Proposes Price Increases

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

The U.S. Postal Service has proposed increasing the prices to help close a projected $7 billion budget shortfall in 2011 Fiscal Year. Under the proposal the cost of a First-Class stamp 2 cents to 46 cents. Periodicals will see an 8 percent increase, catalogs rates will increase 5.1 percent and ...

Joss Group Buys the Seybold Report

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

A year after being named Editor and Publisher of the Seybold Report Molly Joss has announced in an email to Seybold subscribers that she has acquired The Seybold Report, Seybold Publishing and related sites from The Beard Group: The Joss Group, LLC, a publishing and consulting firm headquartered near ...

RBI Retains Graphic Arts Monthly Assets

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Reed Business Information is retaining ownership of Graphics Arts Monthly, Graphic Arts Blue Book, and Converting. RBI plans to use the subscription list from these titles to generate leads through the company's business-to-business marketing unit Mardev-DM2. In a email to WhatTheyThink today, RBI executive vice president and CFO John Poulin says, ...

Obama taps union leader to become Public Printer

Friday, April 16th, 2010

President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate William J. Boarman as the 26th Public Printer of the United States. Boarman is currently a vice president of the Communications Workers of America and president of the union’s Printing, Publishing & Media Workers Sector. Boarman's career in print started in the ...

NAPL, PIA, NPES offer “Joint Leadership Summit”

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

NAPL, PIA and NPES are teaming up to create a new executive-level conference by combining NAPL's Top Management Conference, PIA's Presidents Conference, and the NPES Print Outlook/Industry Summit. A joint email sent by association leadership states: The time for ONE comprehensive industry economic & trends update event for senior level media ...

Pazazz Printing to Restructure

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Pazazz Printing has filed a Notice of Intention to restructure the company under Canada's Companies Creditors Arrangement Act. President Warren Werbitt says, “Pazazz file a Notice of Intention to preserve and maximize the value of the business.” WhatTheyThink spoke with Warren this afternoon and he was upbeat and is making ...