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  • Wherever a Color Goes it Should Stay that Color
    By Michael Farkas - Monday June 10, 2013
    Color management is the controlled conversion from one color standard to another and between various devices such as monitors, proofing systems and print presses. Its primary goal is to obtain a visual close match across any output medium, and to meet expectations established when the image was initially approved. And this is where color management often fails, and which subsequently requires additional correction cycles. In fact, the click on a camera is the first step of color management and, far too often, underestimated. The initial approval after an image was taken is by far the most important part of media production. If taken seriously, it can make further correction rounds unnecessary. Insufficient contrast range as well as...

  • Europe's Supply Chain Participants in the Self-adhesive Label Industry
    By Kurt Walker - Monday June 10, 2013
    The self-adhesive label industry is more ‘together’ then ever now that the national label associations, their members and FINAT are working together as a coherent group through the establishment of the empowered and active National Associations Board (NAB). FINAT’s role as an ‘umbrella organisation’, bringing together Europe’s supply chain participants in the self-adhesive label industry, would hardly be possible without the network of national label associations that represent the industry at a regional and local level: DLA, Denmark; UNFEA, France; VskE, Germany; GIPEA, Italy; ANFEC, Spain; GFF, Sweden; ESD, Turkey; and BPIF Labels and BSRLA, UK. To benefit the continuation and expansion of sound, profitable and authoritative...

  • Tomorrow's World is Packaging and Industrial Print
    By Frazer Chesterman - Thursday January 3, 2013
    Just after Drupa, Andy Tribute - Print guru – claimed that the future for print lay in the opportunities for inkjet technology in both packaging and Industrial Print. He explained "Inkjet technology has lots of potential in these areas. They are both getting better and better in terms of quality, and these markets are ones that will drive print forward. It is worth owning some intellectual property within the industrial space, at least." I believe he is right, let me explain why? Most manufacturers agree that the huge growth of Digital graphics which probably began around between 2002 -2005 and has continued to grow, is now maturing, some would even say stagnating! The great migration from analogue to digital in sign and graphics...

  • Labels: Adding Value to Packaging
    By Jules Lejeune - Monday August 20, 2012
    by Jules Lejeune, managing director FINAT The evolution of supply and demand for self-adhesive labels is not just a matter of collecting and interpreting industry statistics and quantitative indicators. Especially in the last three to five years, macro-economic factors such as the twin crises of bank credit and sovereign debt, and the associated volatilities, have distorted the picture of underlying longer-term trends and developments. What are these underlying trends? How is the label industry positioned in the context of the broader packaging industry? What is driving demand for labels in comparison to alternative decoration technologies? What is the label printer’s share of the total added value created along the supply chain? How...

  • Working with GPO Successfully and Profitably Requires Expert Know How
    - Wednesday June 13, 2012
    by Deborah Snider, Senior Vice President, e-LYNXX Corporation Working with the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) to supply the federal government with printing is very different from working with private sector commercial accounts. Fundamentally, GPO is contrarian to everything printers know about selling customers. With commercial printing, printers large and small learn how to treat customers. Selling is requisite to gaining new business. Relationships are paramount. Pricing is based on what the customer is willing to pay. And when it comes to minor disagreements, the customer is always right, and if the relationship is sufficiently deep, even the cost for fixing the problem can end up in the next job. GPO is...

  • Successful GPO Print Suppliers Form Partnerships
    - Monday May 14, 2012
    By Deborah Snider, senior vice president, e-LYNXX Corporation Three quarters of all printing for the federal government is provided by public sector printers, and that is a proud partnership that dates back to when the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) opened its doors on March 4, 1861 – the same day Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated the 16th President of the United States. For 151 years, the GPO has depended on thousands of printers nationwide to keep the public informed. In her FY 2013 appropriations request for the GPO, acting Public Printer Davita Vance-Cooks told the U. S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations, Committee on Appropriations: “Other than congressional and...

  • Procurement Innovation Can Drive Productivity Gains
    - Tuesday May 8, 2012
    By William Gindlesperger, chairman and CEO, e-LYNXX Corporation Innovation is required if the United States is to regain the level of productivity that it enjoyed toward the end of the 19th Century through the mid-20th Century. However, innovation by itself is not enough. Just as our parents and grandparents adopted electricity, the automobile, credit cards and airplanes in the period from 1870-1950, businesses and organizations of the 21st Century must embrace change. This is one of the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute Report on Productivity, prepared by McKinsey & Company in February 2011. “U. S. infrastructure is not only inadequate to meet the needs of a dynamic, growing, and productive economy, but its quality has...

  • LinkedIn: Moving from a Connection Collector to a Sales Generator
    By John Foley, Jr. - Thursday April 5, 2012
    By John Foley   When people talk about how they are using social media in the marketing efforts, Facebook and Twitter are often the first answers given. Sure, they might be on LinkedIn. But they may currently only view it as a way for them to “collect people” – i.e. to amass connections. If that sounds similar to how LinkedIn is utilized in your business, here is one idea for converting that connection data into a way to build relationships and generate sales. Connections and Job Status When someone experiences a change in their employment status, LinkedIn is often the very first social network that they update. Depending on our relationship with that person, taking action on that information can be valuable to them...

  • Procurement: An Under-managed Treasure Chest
    - Friday March 9, 2012
    By William Gindlesperger, chairman and CEO, e-LYNXX Corporation The cost of procured goods and services represents between 25% and 60% of a company’s total operating expenses. That is true for nearly all businesses according to Bain & Company’s survey of executives in a broad range of industries. As stated in Bain & Company’s January 2012 “A Fresh Look at Procurement” Report on its survey findings, the evidence is clear that procurement is an area that is ripe for improvement. “We recently surveyed executives about their experience with past procurement management initiatives. While most reported annual gains in their efforts to save, 72% of the respondents believe that they could do substantially better. Interestingly...

  • GPO Work: Worth the Competitive Bidding
    - Wednesday February 15, 2012
    By Deborah Snider, e-LYNXX Corporation   The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) awarded more than 16,000 jobs (also called jackets) in the $1,000 to $10,000 per job range in 2011 totaling almost $30 million to private sector printers. Close to 2,000 jobs in the $10,001 to $100,000 per job range totaling more than $50 million were awarded per data from the largest database of GPO job records which is at e-LYNXX Corporation. The majority of printers that win these jobs are small to mid-size businesses, many with 20 employees or fewer, according to the GPO. There also is tremendous opportunity for printers capable of handling GPO’s million dollar plus jobs – often ulti-year programs. Examining GPO data back to 2006...

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