But one thing is certain, if you don’t look for ways to emerge from this down market doing something different than the way you used to do it, you’re risking your business future.
HP announced today that HP has helped National Geographic create customizable covers for the new National Geographic Your Shot special collector’s edition magazine. Readers can upload their favorite personal image to a National Geographic web page and then order a copy of the magazine that features that image on the cover. The covers are printed by Consolidated Graphics, the world’s largest HP Indigo user, on its fleet of HP Indigo 7000 Digital Presses.
“We participated in two sales workshops as part of the MARKETMOVER Services program, and within six weeks we had 18 percent of orders coming through the INSITE Storefront System,” said Terry Krailo.
The Jimmy Fund has entered into a corporate partnership for the upcoming 2009 Holiday Greetings program, which includes exclusively designed cards, candles and creations used to raise money to help support the organization’s cancer research. The cards will be printed on the Xeikon 8000 digital color press at Advantage Mailing.
Projecturf is the new web-based project collaboration software specifically designed for small-to-medium sized businesses and freelancers in printing, publishing and the graphic arts industries with features that other PPM tools do not offer in one affordable package. Features which differentiate economically priced Projecturf from other on-demand project management solutions include: unlimited file storage with no cap on users or project managers; sections specifically created for developers and designers; dynamic Gantt charts in simplistic form; and a vastly different design when compared to other project management software that enables users to quickly manage tasks and projects with almost no learning curve.
This slow economic period provides a good opportunity to make investments for the future and the DI press was a critical one for us,” said Mike Daughenbaugh.
Darran O’Connor, Butler, Tanner & Dennis clients services director, said, “For this sort of run we would normally expect the job to take two to three weeks. To condense it down to less than a week is unusual and being able to perfect on the KBA helped to achieve this.”
There were two primary factors that led Hanover Packaging to purchase the press: its low impact on the environment and the quality of its performance on a wide range of substrates.
I like what I’m seeing from MGI, and I’ll be reporting on their Jet Varnish digital spot UV coater in mid-August when I return from their facility in Melbourne, FL for a first-hand look at it. In the meantime, you can check out MGI’s website at http://www.mgi-usa.com for the details.
Cheng is bullish about the future. He concludes, “Honestly, some people say that print is slowly disappearing. But I find that rather than disappearing, it is simply changing with technology. ”