http://www.piworld.com Copyright 2012 North American Publishing Company en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The global printing industry has a number of structural inefficiencies, including: the high percentage of jobs being produced somewhere other than the plant with the optimal manufacturing platform, wide fluctuations in plant capacity... ]]> Thu, 03 May 2012 08:49:19 EDT How many of the gifts that you will buy for your loved ones this Christmas will be made here in the United States? How many of you will actually take the time to look on the package to see where the product was made? Many holiday participants are... ]]> Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:21:19 EST On its Facebook page, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) recently posted: “In the 1960s, the amount of work GPO procured increased as the Joint Committee on Printing redirected printing work handled by federal agencies themselves to... ]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:06:30 EDT Against the backdrop of a bankrupt Borders bookstore chain and Amazon.com’s booming book business—print and e-book—the erosion of industry-wide brick-and-mortar bookstore volume continued in 2010. Sales dropped by $233 million to... ]]> Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:16:52 EST Software touches virtually every person in the print shop, from customer service to the pressroom.  It is not just a purchase of a license and an annual maintenance fee or a service subscription; it’s a business investment that needs to... ]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:51:46 EST The recent recession, technological advances and the rapid cultural shift to real-time communications have created the perfect situation for change in marketing strategies, priorities and services. Smartphones are enabling “always-on”... ]]> Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:25:12 EDT I often get dismissed for believing in things like the power of print as a business tool.   Hey, I exploit the power of social media too, and to those print haters I say: Know what any tool can do for you. Print is dead? We still love to... ]]> Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:52:58 EDT I have been following Margie Dana’s blog regarding printers and their conversion to marketing services providers. Over the past six months, NAK and our partner firm, Partner Providers Inc., have conducted two independent Delphi surveys that... ]]> Wed, 19 May 2010 03:52:46 EDT The joint On Demand and Info 360 AIIM Conference was expected to have drawn about 24,000 attendees to Philadelphia this past week despite the myriad of flight cancellations out of Europe due to Eyjafjallajokull’s eruption.   The On... ]]> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:52:27 EDT As a veteran of the paper industry, I am concerned for the U.S. printing industry regarding the international trade dispute initiated by three paper makers. Since mid-2008, more than 73,000 printing and graphics communications jobs have been lost,... ]]> Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:52:09 EDT Quad/Graphics’ acquisition of World Color following Quebecor World’s January 2008 bankruptcy has tongues wagging as to the potential impact on the printing industry as well as large print buyers. Here are my thoughts on how this may... ]]> Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:51:33 EST