Digital Print

BCT, a wholesale only printer in North America, has added digital and offset print capabilities to its existing facilities in many major markets throughout the U.S. and Canada.

PODi, the Digital Printing Initiative, has completed publication of its 2010 Digital Print Case Study Collection with the release of 18 new case studies.

Imagine! Print Solutions recently expanded its digital print capabilities with the addition of a new digital press, the Hewlett Packard Scitex FB7500.

2009 Top 20 Digital Print Suppliers

Don’t let the economic slowdown get your printing company down. Jumpstart your sales success by educating your team about what print buyers really need and want at the first-in-the-nation Boot Camp for Print Reps from Print Buyers International (PBI), Chestnut Hill, Mass. The half-day seminar will provide the inside line on the real-world questions and concerns of print buyers today. Designed specifically to educate printing sales reps, customer service reps, paper reps, even print company executives and CEOs, Boot Camp for Print Reps is the only seminar led by the expert printing and print buying powerhouses of RIT Professor Emeritus Frank Romano and PBI

It’s official. On December 1, the National Bureau of Economic Research declared the United States has been in a recession since December 2007. In a statement, CNNMoney.com posted a report on the same day in which White House Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto was quoted as saying: “The most important things we can do for the economy right now are to return the financial and credit markets to normal, and to continue to make progress in housing, and that’s where we’ll continue to focus. Addressing these areas will do the most right now to return the economy to growth and job creation.” Nonetheless, several

Are you a Distributor looking to branch out and embrace—or at least investigate—the world of digital printing? Where do you start? What do you need? Who should you talk to? Randy Hardy, principal officer for Kings Park, New York-based Randy Hardy Associates, offers some suggestions. Digital Print Management Issues The first conversation should be with your staff. Discuss who has some knowledge and the desire to acquire more. Think about what you would like to accomplish, then develop a game plan, establishing dates for reaching goals, as well as identifying target customers who would be good prospects for the new services. Think about what are you

For an industry plagued by predictions of doom and gloom, it certainly offers tremendous opportunities for growth and success to those who can remain flexible and adaptable. Sales figures for the top 100 manufacturers added up to a whopping $2.97 billion for the last fiscal year completed. And, while this is only a slight increase from the previous year’s grand total of $2.92 billion, it was achieved despite sharply increasing costs for raw materials, postage and fuel. Marketplace demand for printed products, it seems, is on the rise—a trend documented in several key industry studies. Dr. Joe Webb, director of Lexington, Kentucky-based

WhatTheyThink.com, Lexington, Ky.—a news and analysis site for the printing and publishing industry—announced that Frank Romano, professor emeritus, School of Print Media, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), will conduct a free educational webinar entitled “Selling and Marketing Digital Printing to Ad Agencies.” Scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 27, from 2:00 to 3:00 EST, the session will help print service providers with digital color printing capabilities target ad agencies with business-to-business clients. Registration for this no-charge webinar is available at Web page http://members.whattheythink.com/home/webinarregistrationform.cfm. “Ad agencies influence over $102 billion in print buying in the United States,” said Romano. “Eighty percent of creative agencies are involved in

Headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., PODi released the sixth edition of its “Best Practices in Digital Print” report, featuring 46 new digital print case studies, as well as marketing and service provider best practice principles for creating highly effective digital print solutions. The comprehensive document addresses a broad range of markets, applications and objectives, with examples covering 12 different vertical market segments and five business applications. The sixth edition also includes nine in-depth studies highlighting successful projects from the following organizations: American Signature Furniture; Ford Finland; Inter-State Studio; MFS Investment Management; Out-of-Door Academy; Pantone; Roadway Express; RocketDog Racing; and UMassFive College Credit Union.