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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2007-07)
      Printers and their suppliers are keenly interested in how globalization and offshoring are impacting their industry. This month’s research monograph, “Printing Industry Offshoring: Perspectives from U.S. Based Printers” ...
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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2006-07)
      Last month’s eReview explained that the chemical composition, spatial distribution of components, and thickness uniformity are more critical of papers used in digital printing than those used in other printing processes. ...
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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2006-04)
      When the data from a recent Printing Industry Center study on fulfillment trends in the printing industry indicated that e-commerce, not fulfillment, was perceived to be the primary value-added service currently being ...
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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Science, 2008-04)
      The purpose of this month’s research monograph, a literature review entitled Upstream Database and Digital Asset Management in Variable Data Printing (PICRM-2008-01), by Franziska Frey, Ph.D., RIT School of Print Media ...
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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (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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      Print Industry Center (RIT: College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, 2009-11)