Meeting minutes, announcements and publications from RIT Colleges: Recent submissions
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2007-10)El Centro de la Industria Gráfica (Printing Industry Center) del RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) ha autorizado a CONLATINGRAF la traducción al español de la síntesis del capítulo sobre la industria de la impresión ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2004-03)Today’s media buyers are faced with a vast number of options for delivering the advertising message, including print, broadcast media, e-mail, PDAs, electronic billboards, blimps, cell phones and even gas station pumps. ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2005-03)As printers come to grips with the market effects of overcapacity, consolidation, shorter runs, and squeezed margins, many are surprised to discover that a technology revolution has been quietly building strength in the ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2006-03)Traditionally, printers have not regarded physical print distribution as a profit center. However, this trend is changing, as shown in the RIT Printing Industry Center’s research monograph Media Distribution in the ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2007-03)Although all four printing companies participating in a recent Printing Industry Center research study agreed that distribution is an important, if not critical, part of the print production process, none of them had a ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2008-03)The purpose of this month’s research monograph, A Survey of Digital and Offset Print Quality Issues (PICRM-2006-04), by Robert Chung, RIT School of Print Media professor, and graduate student Matthew Rees, is to compare ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2004-04)Although printing is one of the most documented industries in the United States, the dozen or so major sources of information about the printing industry each arrives at a different view for the size and scope of the ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2004-05)The ways in which the government has managed the environmental impacts of small printers have evolved over time. Prior to the 1980s, environmental agencies were lenient in their regulation of smaller firms. But as larger, ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2005-05)Data asset management (DAM) is one of the value-added services that many printers provide today. In this, the first of a two-part summary of the Printing Industry Center research report “Digital Asset Management—A Closer ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2006-05)The affordability of software-based production tools has enabled the decentralization of premedia (prepress) services to creative professionals, advertising agencies and other imaging professionals. This has introduced ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2008-05)This month’s research monograph, a longitudinal case study entitled Creativity in the Printing Industry: The Context of Organizational Change (PICRM-2008-02), is authored by Shalini Khazanchi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2004-06)The acquisition of new printing technology in the absence of a disciplined approach to process analysis and sound strategic planning can sometimes lead in the wrong direction—to increased costs and eventual failure. ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2005-06)In the previous column we looked at the features of data asset management (DAM) systems, and discussed how they can solve data storage and retrieval problems in printing businesses. Here we review four case studies—two ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2006-06)Over the past ten years, the market for digitally printed documents has soared. The best runnability and image quality for digital printing is obtained from papers designed specifically for electrophotographic operations. ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2008-06)This month’s research monograph, a survey-based study entitled A Survey of Digital Press Manufacturers: Critical Paper Characteristics (PICRM-2008-03), is authored by Howard Vogl, Visiting Professor at RIT’s School of ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2004-07)The demand for personalized printed marketing materials is influenced by two important types of print customers: the marketing executives of manufacturing or service firms, and advertising agencies that help them plan ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2005-07)Outsourcing has become a standard practice across every industry sector. Companies are outsourcing business functions like human resources, customer service, logistics, and administration, including document processing. ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2004-08)As we saw last month, the corporate marketing executive has a profound influence on the selection of the media used in advertising. RIT’s study entitled “Marketing Communications Demand Creation: Marketing Executive ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2005-08)It may seem unlikely that an innovative use of new technology in the university press business model would come out of an organization that prides itself on having the oldest examples of printing to be found anywhere, ... -
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(RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2007-08)Although technology within the printing industry has improved dramatically, its implementation usually delivers localized improvements with only marginal effects on the whole system. In order to help printers increase ...