Sometimes, less is more—especially with regard to digital print. The ability to produce shorter runs (quantities below 5,000) is one factor helping to make digital the industry's significant bright spot. Think about it. The economy is still in a recovery phase and companies are now feeling the burn from mistakenly ordering too much last year. Lesson to be learned: if less is ordered, costs will be reduced or eliminated.
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Elise Hacking Carr is senior production editor for Print & Promo Marketing magazine, and managing editor for PRINTING United Journal.
The Print Services & Distribution Association (PSDA), Alexandria, Va., announced the addition of two new regional directors to the PSDA Regionalization Program: Brad Wallans, president of sales and business development for Trade Secret Printing, and Doug Roberts, national sales manager for Graphic Dimensions. Both men will work closely with PSDA to coordinate local events, represent their respective regions and further the programs and services available to the membership.
The Print Services & Distribution Association (PSDA), Alexandria, Va., announced the addition of two new regional directors to the PSDA Regionalization Program: Brad Wallans, president of sales and business development for Trade Secret Printing, and Doug Roberts, national sales manager for Graphic Dimensions. Both men will work closely with PSDA to coordinate local events, represent their respective regions and further the programs and services available to the membership.
Forms and checks printing continues to impact the industry Efficiency is the driving force behind the increasing popularity of electronic systems. Net profit increases for distributors and the ease of accessibility for large, and even mid-size, market accounts also helps. As print industry software programs become refined, more customers are placing trust in new-age technology and letting go of traditional processes. Just ask Dan Siadak, CDC, president and CEO of Lansing, Michigan-based RBF. "I see end-users embracing electronic forms much more now than even a year ago," he said. "More companies are networked and have Intranets, so electronic forms can be used more readily,
E-forms are a value-added product about to reach the mainstream By Eric Fiedler FOR YEARS, e-forms were considered a product of the future. For many distributors, the future is now. More than three-fourths of Business Forms, Labels & Systems' Top 100 Distributors sell electronic forms, including nine of the top 10. While most of the larger companies introduced electronic form programs three to five years ago, they say the benefits are just beginning for both their clients and themselves. "People are increasingly ready to take advantage of electronic forms because they now have the necessary infrastructure in place," said Daniel Siadak, CDC, president of RBF in Lansing, Mich.
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