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Surviving 'the printing industry's perfect storm' — and its aftermath
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The graphic communications industry has been under unprecedented pressure for the last decade, with the stage set during the 1990s as consolidators, fueled by easy money from an aggressive lending community, rolled up scores of commercial printing operations nationwide. Beginning in the early 2000s, many of these roll-ups came unglued as the synergies the consolidators pitched to lenders and stockholders of the firms they acquired failed to materialize.
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Ripon Printers acquires Sells Printing
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The two companies have combined annual sales of $55 million, but Ripon vice president of operations Jeff Spence told PrintWeek, "This was an asset acquisition — so at least in our eyes it's not a merger and it's not a 'tuck in.' We're operating with them under a transition services agreement, so outside of the 10 sales reps that have joined Ripon, the rest of the employees are still working for Sells."
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Chocolate printer to go on sale after Easter
Printing Impressions
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The U.K. scientists who developed a prototype chocolate printer last year say they have now perfected it. They hope to have the machine on sale at the end of April, just missing the Easter egg rush. Lead scientist Dr Liang Hao, from the University of Exeter, founded the Choc Edge company to commercialize the device after interest from retailers.
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Matchmycolor.com, the first ever online communication platform for color development to offer a comprehensive range of color resources and services, is now the official website for the Colibri® product range.
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Limitless power of ultraviolet special effect inks
MyPrintResource.com
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One of the challenges in design-for-print is how to effectively transform an ordinary print into an extraordinary one. Printers of all types seek to compete, but must identify innovative and resourceful ways to create value-added finishing. Interestingly, RHUV special effect inks, which are applied only by screen printing onto any previously printed material, are specifically designed to provide a visually enhanced effect, enabling commercial and graphic printers to increase profits on each printing job, again and again.
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The visible supply chain
Supply Chain Digest
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Almost like the search for the Holy Grail, the quest for greater visibility has similarly been driving supply chains across the globe for the past decade. One could argue that the supply chain visibility era started in the late 1990s, when Art Mesher, then an analyst at Gartner and now CEO of Descartes Systems, wrote a series of research notes on "The Three V's of Supply Chain," which were velocity, variability and visibility.
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How to be a better shipper in 4 easy steps
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What makes a good shipper? That may be the most important question facing the trucking industry today. How shippers answer it — and carrier perceptions of that response — could determine if and how freight gets moved, the cost of moving the goods and how effectively this large and important business is able to function at a critical point in its history.
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Will Amazon become the next FedEx?
Forbes
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Many see a battle between Amazon and Apple looming in the future. But, the retailer’s main competitors may be men in shorts: logistics companies like UPS and FedEx. Amazon is at a crossroads. The company garners billions a year in revenue from selling e-books, household items and vacuuming up rising retailers like Zappos. It also provides logistics services for third-party retailers that use the site as its electronic mall.
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Hard copy vs. soft copy: Is digital storage greener than traditional media?
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Paper, on the face of it, has a high carbon footprint. The Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment conducted a study on the life cycle of paper several years ago, which found paper mill emissions contributed around 60 percent to the overall emissions, with transportation and the final fate of the paper making up the majority of the rest of the emissions. Printing on the paper and forestry were exceedingly small in comparison.
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Los Angeles City Council's Energy and Environment Committee votes to forward an ordinance banning all paper and plastic retail bags
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The Los Angeles City Council's Energy and Environment Committee voted to advance an ordinance banning all paper and plastic retail bags in Los Angeles over the course of a year — a move that ironically pushes consumers toward more resource-intensive alternatives. Mark Daniels, vice president of sustainability and environmental policy for Hilex Poly, a U.S. manufacturer and recycler of plastic bags and chair of the American Progressive Bag Alliance, released a statement.
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What is the business case for sustainability?
Environmental Leader
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In broad brush strokes, elements supporting the business rational for sustainability can be categorized into two basic areas: cost savings and enhanced brand reputation. As a manufacturing company, you should be especially cognizant of the savings that can be realized by operating sustainably.
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Registration now available for May Warehouse Training Course in Philadelphia
NPTA
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The Essentials of Profitable Warehouse Operations, a regional warehouse training course presented by Jason Bader of The Distribution Team and hosted by the Association Education Alliance, will be hosted in Philadelphia on May 22. This course is designed to provide branch managers, warehouse managers and key warehouse supervisors and personnel at hard goods distribution companies with the tools they need to teach their teams essential warehousing functions and make a significant impact on net profit. Session topics include working with inventory in a profitable operation, managing risk in the warehouse operations and loading and shipping operations.
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Survey: Marketers still being asked to control spending
BtoB Magazine
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The majority of marketing executives say they are still being asked to control spending, according to the latest Association of National Advertisers Recession Survey. The figure has increased compared with last year, when 77 percent of marketers said they were being asked to control spending.
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It's not what you sell, it's what you believe
Harvard Business Review
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Adam Lashinsky's new book "Inside Apple" offers lots of intriguing material about Steve Jobs and the strategic choices, design principles and business tactics that created the most valuable company on earth. But for all of Lashinsky's behind-the-scenes material about Apple's legendary leader, it was a public story about Apple's new leader, CEO Tim Cook, that captured attention — and offered a powerful insight for leaders everywhere looking to create value in their organizations.
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Finding the right commercial printing service
Print Media Collective
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Many people don't realize how big the difference is between commercial printing and printing for normal people. They'll usually just walk down to the local copy center and assume they'll do just as good a job as anyone. That's not the case, though. The difference is huge, and so is the cost of in-house versus commercial printing. That's why professional jobs should be produced by professionals. That's also why there's a rising commercial printing growth rate.
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