BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Owning/managing a commercial printing or digital printing operation brings challenges, be it
common business issues such as profitability, employee benefits, staffing and succession planning
or industry-specific ones like declining print volumes, over capacity and industry consolidation.
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Commercial Printing Outlook : New Year, Similar Outlook
Looking ahead to 2012, it seems as if the commercial printing industry, the country as a whole and even...
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Book Printing Outlook : Riding the Higher Ed Wave
Judging the health of the book publishing industry is a lot like viewing a national weather map. The happy sun... -
Fast-Track Firms : Creativity Goes a Long Way
These three printers—Foxfire Printing and Packaging, Walsworth Publishing, and Direct Impressions—offer hope in an industry that has seen its share...
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Catalog and Publication Outlook : Multiple Platform Providers
There was some good news for magazine publishers this year, as advertising sales levels began to rebound. Looking at the... -
Cross-Media and the In-plant
THE GRAPHIC communications industry is in the middle of an evolution to expand services beyond print to include cross-media and... -
Printing’s Best Workplaces : The Cream of the Crop
There is a select group of companies in the printing industry that take an aggressive approach to offering working terms... -
Your Loan has Been Assigned to Special Assets...What Now?
Your banker, whom you’ve worked with for years, calls to inform you that your loan has been assigned to the... -
Printing Business Management LinkedIn Groups
The following LinkedIn groups provide opportunities to connect with other graphic arts professionals involved in managing a printing business: Print...
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2011 Hall of Fame: Joel Quadracci - The Next Generation
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2011 Hall of Fame: Ken Kaufman - From Publisher to Printer
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2011 Hall of Fame : Mike Panaggio - An Entrepreneur at Heart
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To call Mike Panaggio a printer would be a largely inaccurate statement, or at least a less descriptive title. The man is an incurable entrepreneur....
2011 Hall of Fame : David Pitts - With Intellect and Intensity
September 2011
David Pitts has wielded much influence over the success of Classic Graphics, which opened to $65,000 in overflow work in 1983 and has since catapulted...
Think Patented : Leading a Revolution
August 2011
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Global Printing : Creating the Right Mix
August 2011
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Ross PrintMarketing : Blazing the Campaign Trail
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Printers Monetizing Social Media
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The Missing Piece
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Sometimes, it's actually mother who knows best. Just ask Stacy Peluso-Slaney, vice president of Danvers, Massachusetts-based Shawmut ....
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