Helping Customers Improve Their Game and Other Advice from the Trenches
Remember the 1988 romantic comedy Bull Durham? Every season baseball groupie Annie Savoy adopts a single-A league player from the Durham Bulls as her project, to improve, using her own homegrown rules. Like Annie, every year I, too, take on a project (just the business part, NOT the romantic side!). It’s a passion project that […]
When Worlds Collide: Meeting an Old Friend in The Printerverse
“There is a Printerverse” was my very first Print Media Centr column. Look at me then: full of wonder at how the knowledge, technologies, interests, events, and organizations shared among ink-sniffers formed a culture and a “Printerverse.” Can you believe we were ever that young? As I write this, I’m on a pre-summer business and […]
Four Things to Consider When Choosing a Print Vendor
As a graphic designer I constantly find myself in a position where I either have to recommend a print vendor or I have to use one for myself. There some specific things I look for in a relationship with a print vendor whether it’s for myself or for my clients. Local Versus Online. To be […]
Profit is Paramount in Prognostications for Print
by Sandy Hubbard, Print Futurist There are new opportunities everywhere for printers. Diving into growth areas can be risky, though, so I recommend partnering with trusted experts or trade providers until it makes sense to pull services in house or buy new equipment Here are ideas for services to add in the new year: Printed […]
PIA announces All-Star Line-up for Next Month’s 2013 Color Management Conference
— Conference Begins December 7th in Phoenix at the Arizona Biltmore — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — November 21, 2013 — Brand managers, designers and imaging professionals all understand the importance of color in our work. The 2013 Color Management Conference is the not-to-be-missed event for anyone with a vested interest in optimized color reproduction and maintaining brand integrity […]
Printing Industries of America's Color Management Conference…Reinvented!
5 Colorful Questions for Julie Shaffer by Sandy Hubbard, Print Futurist Traditionally, Printing Industries of America’s Color Management Conference has been a place where prepress operators, retouchers, and print production professionals could rub shoulders with color scientists and those who create the standards for color around the world. In a word, it was a Geekfest. This […]
Will 2014 Be The Year Of The MSP?
As Print 13 gets closer, one thing that’s perfectly clear is that Print, isn’t just a Print show anymore. Take a look at the exhibitors and their focus, take a look at the co-located events, and take a look at the seminars and sessions being offered. I see evolution, and more important, I see revolution. That’s right […]
One Printers' Journey From PSP To MSP And Back Again
A while back one of my LinkedIn group members, Ashely Horton, shared a really cool VDP campaign his printing company created and executed. I reached out to him immediately in hopes of sharing his story as an inspiration to Printers, and while the story is still inspiring, it definitely took a turn I didn’t see […]