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Earth Color Group has doubled its income using web presses and making acquisitions that improve its market share. It's certainly not by accident that New York City-based Earth Color Group's [...]

United Litho controls overruns and saves up to 2.5% on its paper costs by using counting software and vendor expertise. Ashburn, Va.-based United Litho, Inc.'s decision to modernize its operations [...]

Uniform, seamless workflow is increasing profits and speeding up press runs for Perry Judd's Incorporated. When commercial printer Perry Graphic Communications acquired Judd's, Inc. in 1997, the combination created one [...]

A regular user of gapless Sunday press technology consolidates its holdings and begins the next big leap in capacity. Brown Printing Company, the well-known nationwide printer that began applying 24-page, [...]

With new offset and flexo printing systems, Challenge Printing is adding package printing to its commercial capability. Challenge Printing is one of the great printing success stories, not just in [...]

By being an early adopter, a printer plays a big part in styling the necessary software. In business since 1947, Typecraft, Inc., in Pasadena, Calif., has undergone significant changes in [...]

A printer turns to a new press and relies on its employees for success. The number one key to success at Charles River Lithography (CRL), Rockland, Mass., is its people, [...]

A printer finds success in diversifying its services and technologies. IntegraColor, Ltd., located six miles from downtown Dallas, Tex., is definitely not a typical commercial printer. Focused on offering diversified [...]

A mailer learns to overcome limitations and updates its technology for a variety of jobs. A 40% burst in volume in the last fiscal year has prompted Investor ion Services [...]

GATF's celebrated Lucite star trophy is presented to eight companies for their innovative printing and publishing technologies. In recognition of their innovative contributions to the graphic arts, eight manufacturing companies [...]

A local printer caters to the Detroit area's print buying community. To date, print buyers in the Detroit area in need of extremely high-quality web printing have had to look [...]

A printer turns to a Web-enabled front-end system for faster, more accurate communication with customers. With the advent of so many new technologies for the printing industry in recent years, [...]

Investing in the latest technology and staying ahead continues to prove to be the best business strategy for one printer. Time to market is a key driver for many print [...]

Two companies join together and benefit from what each brought to the table. In May of 2000, Xyan.com acquired the digital printing business of Banta Information Services Group in Eden [...]

The nation's largest legal publisher achieves efficient, run-length optimization using digital printing. Where do legal professionals turn to for the reference materials they need when preparing for trials? More often [...]

A printing company finds its niche in providing premium service. In business for 60 years, Seiple Lithograph Company, in North Canton, Ohio, has seen the printing industry evolve from essentially [...]

Visionary leadership and investment in new technology direct a company toward growth. For the last two years, Style Craft, Santa Anna, Calif., has been named one of the 50 fastest [...]

A printer takes on in-house design, providing a unique one-stop-shop experience for its customers. While most sheetfed printers strive to control their processes, Weiser Litho, Inc., Westlake Village, Calif., takes [...]

Lithographix is keeping an eye on new technologies being touted as the future in fast, accurate printing. Los Angeles-based Lithographix branched out from sheetfed printing nearly 12 years ago when [...]

The half-web press is an integral part of growing web printing operations. With a growing focus on building bigger presses with more colors and increased efficiency features, has the spotlight [...]

Fortified by the latest technology throughout its prepress, printing, and bindery areas, Allied Printing prides itself on continually delivering what its customers want, when they want it. Allied Printing Services [...]

In a drive to be known as "the color company," Imation takes measures that it says will have a dramatic impact on the graphic arts industry. During a two-day press […]

Servo drives gave Quebecor World Direct the power and flexibility to integrate their finishing systems. When custom-building a piece of equipment, it's not unusual to learn that one piece of […]

With a carefully crafted list of "musts" for migrating to CTP, Williamson Printing Company made a successful venture into CTP last year by installing a new platesetter, improving the overall […]

MOVING INTO MULTICOLOR PRINT, OUR SECOND ANNUAL SMALL PRESS GUIDE FINDS MORE CHOICES. When Matt Friedman opened Elmat Quality Printing in 1979, he knew a bit about serving print customers. [...]

For ColorGraphics, the Hagen OA system allows four printing facilities to function as one. Commercial printer ColorGraphics Inc. is composed of four West Coast printing plants, each with different equipment [...]

After serious damage from Hurricane Floyd, a prepress house worked to keep its customers and to rebuild with new technology. Totowa, N.J.-based JenMar Graphics is quite familiar with the practice [...]

As the need to control the printing process increases with shorter runs, more colors, and the need for faster make-ready, printers can't afford to ignore the new automation. While 'closed [...]

A technical innovation in book manufacturing may energize an llinoisbased printer--and the entire market--when it debuts this month. Publishers' Graphics LLC is launching an extremely 'novel'--perhaps even unmatched--capability this month [...]

To keep up with consumer demand, book publishers and manufacturers are seeking new ways to deliver editorial content. While traditional book manufacturing is still very much alive, widespread changes are [...]

Going digital has allowed a web printer to better serve its customers. In the not-too-distant future, a commercial and sheetfed web plant, St Ives Cleveland, expects to be generating all [...]

Web printers can lose customers if defects and variations in color are not addressed with new technology. Color control equipment has become as important to a successful printing operation as [...]

Closed-loop technology maximizes the accuracy of color control systems on web offset presses. Quebecor World, a leading North American book printer, spent the first half of 1999 field-testing the CLC [...]

On-line auctions unite equipment buyers and sellers for cyber-transactions. Going once...going twice...sold! Buying or selling printing equipment today can be as easy as one, two, three, thank to a new [...]

Non-skinning inks save a lot of time on wash-ups, makereadies, and at both ends of a press run. Sioux Falls, S.D.-based CCL Label, a producer of labels, flyers, and brochures, [...]

Using new inks, sheetfeds are producing print jobs that rival the work of the most respected web presses. Parsippany, NJ.-based commercial printer L.P. The-bault Company (LPT), a privately held business [...]

Measuring up to world-class standards and practices is a worthy goal for every commercial printer. Carlstadt, N.J.-based Pictorial Offset embarked on a 13-month dual ISO 9002 and ISO 14001 certification [...]

Integrated Book Technology Inc. says it has revolutionized the digital book printing business with cutting-edge technology. Integrated Book Technology Inc. I (IBI) has developed a global, electronic book manufacturing process [...]

A new web press offers this inspirational book publisher reduced operating costs, quick turnaround, and new business opportunities. Health Communications, Inc. is probably best known as the publisher of the [...]

Hundreds of users meet scores of vendor representatives at Logic Associates' annual update. More than 460 users of the Logic Management System met in Providence, R.I. recently to learn how [...]

Reports that Intelligencer Printing Co. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania has achieved electronic commerce goals with printCafe.com. Automation of both the business cycle of printing and publishing and the end-to-end production process; Updating of sheetfed printing capabilities; Selection of information management system provider.

Reports that Focus Direct Inc.'s workflow has improved 80 percent through the creation of a fully functional in-house prepress department and the implementation of computer-to-plate technology. Agfa Corp.'s contract with the firm; PolaProof software upgrade; Automation of client mail.

Reports that ultraviolet coating is key to Challenge Printing's foray into the United States package printing business. Origins of the firm; Development of the Web site, Challengeprinting.com; Grafix's offerings tailored to the needs of a printer's applications.

Reports on the growing market for digital, on demand printing which is helping book printers bolster their bottom lines and secure a competitive market solution. Opportunities presented by digital, on demand printing to the book printing industry; Target market of Xeikon America; Aim of digital system manufacturers.

Focuses on the digital printing and prepress services of Tukaiz Communications company. Impact of digital printing on the marketing strategies of book publisher Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley Publishing Company; Expansion of the business by personalizing the publisher's catalogs of books; Other services offered by Tukaiz.

Reports on the success of Matrix Digital Technologies, a spinoff company of Compass Print & Mail, in the market for on-demand book printing. Digital printing system used by the company; Benefits of digital printing; Details on the printing process of the company; Views on digital printers.

Reports on the investment of Worzalla Publishing Co. of Stevens Point, Wisconsin on a Timsons 32 single-color book press to increase the company's profits. Remarks from Charles W. Nelson, chief executive officer of Worzalla; Features of the book press; Sales by the company in 1999.

Reports that Offset Paperback Manufacturers Inc. (OPM) is pursuing profitability from short-run, on-demand, digital printing of paperback books. Views on on-demand books; Equipment used by OPM; Information on the DigiPath production software.

Provides information on the digital book wholesaler Sprout Inc. Background on how the company started; Services offered by the hardware system of the company; Publishing partners of the company.