In our last blog, we talked about some of the common denominators we are hearing about in our interviews with digital leaders. These interviews are the result of follow-up phone calls after our study entitled, “Variable Data Printing: Realizing the Potential.” As we discussed in our last blog on...
This month, we're pleased to share that the member spotlight highlights Rick Schildgen, of CL Graphics. Who is Rick? Rick is the President of CL Graphics , located in Crystal Lake, IL. He has been involved in our industry in a number of ways – through his education, as an educator, as an...
We sometimes get a bit queasy when asked to take on a new task or solve a problem that might require a new tool set. After all, we tend to know what we know and as humans, will usually defer to the tried and true methods of solving problems. Whether you are in sales, managing a sales team or own...
In about a month, we Americans will go to the polls to elect officials for national, state, and local office, including one-third of the US Senate and the entire US House of Representatives. In the intervening weeks, we’ll be pummeled by the candidates’ political advertisements telling us...
As I write this, I am preparing for a presentation at Graph Expo entitled, “Variable Data Printing: Best Practices.” The new information we are gathering from interviewing our variable data printing (VDP) leaders will result in three blogs. This is the first of those three. Over the last...
My AMSP/NAPL/NAQP colleagues and I devote a lot of time to studying our industry’s most successful companies. We’ve learned that some have diversified broadly, while others have stayed focused on printing—including lithographic printing; some provide commodities, while others provide highly...
In a few weeks we will publish our annual State of the Industry Report. The report describes our industry’s performance as improved but still far from “takeoff speed,” or those consistently healthy gains that lift prices and margins. Among the key results: • Sales have now increased three...
Everyone has an opinion about it. But we’re most interested in what the people closest to the action—owners and managers of companies that print—have to say. So last month we launched the Future of Print Survey. Early results are in. Among the key numbers: • 53.9% expect the total demand for...
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My last blog talked about what happening in the marketplace and why you may want to diversify into signage products and services. In this blog, I want to tell you who’s buying signage? The good news is that the categories who I list who buy may be among your current clients who buy print. ...