April 6, 2022
When Something Goes Wrong – Business Continuity 102
How common is business disruption in print? How fast can you recover? Is there a specific metric for knowing when you are recovered? You have questions and Pat McGrew has answers.
Pat is a well-known evangelist for inkjet productivity. At McGrew Group, she uses her decades technical and marketing experience to lead the industry toward optimized business processes and production workflows. She has helped companies to define their five-year plans, audited workflow processes, and developed sales team interventions and education programs. Pat is the Co-Author of 8 industry books, editor of A Guide to the Electronic Document Body of Knowledge, and a regular contributor to Inkjet Insight and WhatTheyThink.com.
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March 23, 2022
When Something Goes Wrong – Business Continuity 101
With bucket loads of things that can disrupt your business. Pat McGrew recommends a strategy to identify the mission-critical elements of your business and a set of plans to invoke to ensure your survival.
March 2, 2022
Finishing Differentiates Your Opportunities
Finishing can be your differentiator, but you will have to think differently to make it fly. The goal is to find the things your customers want to buy and set a path to supply it.
February 23, 2022
High-Speed Finishing for High-Speed Inkjet
Learn about new unwind and rewind options, cutters, folders, stackers, perforators, stitchers, and wrappers, as well as full inline booklet makers and book manufacturing solutions for inkjet. While press manufacturers cranked up the speed on continuous presses and added sheetfed inkjet, the finishing vendors went into overdrive.
February 9, 2022
There’s a Wizard in my Ear – And That’s Good!
Just about every vendor has or is working on solutions that make it easy to interact confidently with their technicians using virtual and remote solutions. They are only half of the equation. What’s the other half?
January 27, 2022
The Wizards Are Coming to A Machine Near You – and That’s Good!
Even with the training and documentation at hand, the processes, procedures, and parts orientations on large inkjet machines can be confusing.
January 12, 2022
Wizardly Workflow Guidance for 2022
Automation, integration, and education are your three missions for 2022. Evaluate where you are and start moving toward a more optimized workflow to unlock maximum margin from every job.
January 5, 2022
Wild Workflow Learnings of 2021
During 2021 we have seen interest in workflow automation grow from several directions.
December 14, 2021
An Inkjet Workflow Retrospective
Despite the challenges of 2021, annual reviews are essential to finding a path to continue to grow. For some companies that path included new investments.
December 1, 2021
Imposing Workflows – Part 1
To create optimized imposition processes today there are a host of choices that take the math and design aspects of imposition out of the hands of the prepress team and put it firmly in the hands of imposition engines
November 3, 2021
Solving Haunted Workflows – Part 2
A belated but still spooky mystery solved – Pat McGrew and her mystery machine meddle to solve your haunted workflows.
October 13, 2021
Solving Haunted Workflows – Part 1
Catch incorrect specifications before they become a major issue in your workflow – Pat McGrew tells us how.
September 29, 2021
Caring for Customers: Three Essentials
Learn about 3 essential customer interactions surrounding your inkjet journey and how to handle them successfully.
September 22, 2021
What’s in YOUR Dashboard?
Inkjet goes fast so production dashboards need to get the right information to the right teams even faster.
September 15, 2021
Web-to-Print for Inkjet – Creating a System of Record
The best practice when using web-to-print to feed high-speed inkjet environments is to make the W2P environment the system of record for job capture. Learn more about questions to ask and actions to take.
September 1, 2021
Web-to-Print for inkjet – Sales Enabler or Onboarding Tool?
Web-to-print can be an enabler of new sales and high-volume production. It can also be a huge bottleneck if not well implemented.
August 18, 2021
Why Do You Want Priming and Coating?
Should you consider priming and post-coating to enhance inkjet print? Here’s what you need to know.
August 4, 2021
Three Questions to Ask about Ink Estimating
With ink estimators Pat McGrew advises: trust by verify! Learn what to ask.
July 20, 2021
Rightsizing Resources: People, Processes, Technologies
Efficiency happens when people are working effectively, processes are as automated as possible, and the right technology is applied to each task and touchpoint.
June 30, 2021
Batching Jobs for Efficiency: Watch the Gotchas
Batching jobs keeps your press running more efficiently but there are a few hurdles to get over to reap the benefits.
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