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• Howie Fenton
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• 17 November 2017

Operational Excellence is No Longer Optional

Operational Excellence is No Longer Optional One of the highlights from Print 17 were a number of excellent presentations by leading companies who have demonstrated operational excellence. One example was presented during the Print 17 Luncheon by the managers of the Blue Valley Schools' in-plant. In the presentation video, staff explain the benefits of...

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 07 August 2017

Bold Moves for the Future Print 17 Panelist Closeup- UPMC

This article is the first of a series introducing each of the three in-plant panelists on the Print 17 panel I'll be moderating September 11th titled "In-Plant Panel: Bold Moves for the Future." The session features in-plant leaders in Healthcare, Higher Education and non-profit.

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• Howie Fenton
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• 20 June 2017

Justifying Your Existence 3-Part Series: #2- Benchmark Your In-plant

This is the second of three blogs that address how to create a strategy to justify your existence and prove the value of the in-plant, corporate or in-house print center. In the first blog, we talked about measuring performance. In this blog, we are discussing bench-marking performance.

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 12 June 2017

Webinar 6/28: Optimize Ordering and Print Center Efficiency with Web-to-Print

Increasing efficiency and improving the customer ordering process should be key goals for every in-plant. In this June 28th webinar (2pm ET|11am PT) you will learn how the State of Oregon's Publishing & Distribution unit plans to accomplish both of these objectives by implementing Web to print technology. Ranked as the country's fourth largest government in-plant,

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• Howie Fenton
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• 19 April 2017

When Is the Right Time for In-Plants to Invest?

In a presentation recently, I was asked if there were specific times in-plants are more likely to invest. I had to think for a second because the commercial and in-plant investment plans are different in many ways. First, in-plants tend to hang on to equipment longer

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• Howie Fenton
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• 21 March 2017

The Future of In-Plants

The latest State of the Industry report written by Andy Paparozzi, the Chief Economist at IdeaAlliance, was recently published. In his presentation at a recent conference, Andy spoke of the decline in overall work from a high of $98.3B in 2007 to a low of $77B in 2011. Since then however,

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• Howie Fenton
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• 24 January 2017

Bottleneck Impact the Same Throughout the Workflow Process

Traditionally when we think about workflow we think about how fast equipment works. For example, how many pages per minute presses print, or how many sheets can be inserted into an envelope per hour.

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 12 January 2017

Don’t be Chicken: Innovate!

A Chat with the Tyson Foods In-plant Manager Photo Credit: In-plant Graphics I recently spoke with Russell Gayer, manager of Printing Services at the Tyson Foods in-plant in Arkansas. Gayer, a writer and humorist in his spare time — he finished third in a Toastmaster’s district humor speech contest, and has a humor

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• Howie Fenton
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• 13 December 2016

Re-envision Your In-Plant Workflow This Holiday

It easy to get nostalgic around the holidays. As I write this, I am in the Northeast at holiday time which brings back memories of an earlier era, 25 years ago, when I first thought about production workflows in a quick copy shop, PostScript service bureau and the prepress department of a printer.

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• Vince Tutino
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• 06 December 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: 10 Key Take Aways

I covered a lot of ground in this series on Web to Print Best Practices for In-plant Print Centers: installation, roll out, marketing and selling the capabilities of the system, user adoption (both the print shop and users), pricing, production and automation and expanding the print shop's reach and

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• Vince Tutino
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• 22 November 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: 7 Ways to Expand Your Reach & Influence

You’ve launched and rolled out your system. Step back and take a look at what comes next. You will likely want to reach more customers, add capabilities, automate workflow more, or conduct other key initiatives to continue your growth and maintain relevancy. Technology does not stand stil

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• Vince Tutino
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• 08 November 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: 4 Web to Print Production and Automation Best Practices

Best Practices for Web to Print Production and Automation Web to print systems come in a couple of different types to drive print production and workflow automation: Web Ordering– Download and Print (offers only submission)- This type offers an e-commerce front-end to submit jobs to the print center but does not send print jobs directly

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• Vince Tutino
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• 26 October 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: 4 Pricing Best Practices

Most in-plants have a published price list that covers their common services that may include a selection of papers, B/W and Color printing, wide format, finishing, services like laminating and foam core, and specialty products. Consumers today want simple and fair

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• Vince Tutino
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• 18 October 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: User Adoption

Best Practices for In-Plant Print Center User Adoption- for Customers and Print Center Staff When you are changing from a paper or email-based method of sending jobs and work requests to the Print Center, it may be difficult for your user community to make the change to a Web-based system.

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• Vince Tutino
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• 04 October 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: 7 Marketing and Sales Best Practices

Best Practices for Marketing Web to Print for In-plant Print Centers The third article in our Web to Print Best Practices series about how in-plants can successfully implement and use Web to print software covered "6 installation best practices." In this fourth post, I'll focus on a topic closely related to rolling out your Web

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• Howie Fenton
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• 21 September 2016

Fenton Insights from In-plant Print Center Insourcing Interviews

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• Vince Tutino
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• 13 September 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: 6 System Roll Out Best Practices

This is the third post in our series, "Web to Print Best Practices for In-Plant Print Centers." In the series, I'm covering eight topics, including: installation, roll out, marketing the system and more. In my last post post, I offered Seven

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• Vince Tutino
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• 23 August 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: 7 Installation Best Practices (and a Few Purchasing Tips)

This is the second post in our series, "Web to Print Best Practices for In-Plant Print Centers." In my first post, I talked about why we feel this is an important topic and outlined the eight topics we will cover, including: installation, roll

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• Vince Tutino
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• 16 August 2016

Web to Print Best Practices for In-plant Print Centers

Why Web to Print Best Practices are Important and Why This Series This series was inspired by in-plant managers who wanted information online about Web to print that they were not seeing. While there is information available about features and case studies, other than some of our own white papers, there isn't a lot available

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 09 August 2016

Deciphering Conflicting Web to Print Research

In the July issue of In-Plant Graphics Magazine (IPG), editor Bob Neubauer wrote an article entitled, "In-plant Research: IPG vs IPMA — Who Is Right?" The article compared results from a recent IPMA (In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association) survey, "State of the In-Plant Industry: Challenges, Opportunities, and Outlook" to results from the IPG biennial

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