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Elise Hacking Carr is senior production editor for Print & Promo Marketing magazine, and managing editor for PRINTING United Journal.

Inspiration is often found in the most random places: among the flowers, at the beach or through our loved ones, to name a few. But Mick Alles, president of Falls Cities Printing, New Albany, Ind., found his in internal bank documents.

Digital printing technology is ready, willing and able, but are the people who make, sell and use the products? Sliced bread's got nothing over digital printing as far as Joe Mehl's concerned. In fact the CEO of Erie, Pennsylvania-based Dispatch (formerly Team Dispatch) called it the most significant development for the industry since the computer. But as with most changes, there are difficulties to overcome before reaping the benefits. The early color-quality issues—blacks, purples, reds and blues that left something to be desired—have been corrected. Said Mehl, "My Xerox DocuColor's quality is as good, and in some cases better, than any offset equipment

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