September 10, 2024
Pat McGrew talks to Justin Bailey about Global Graphics and the Hybrid Software Group and how their portfolio of solutions helps inkjet OEMs and bespoke inkjet developers.
July 17, 2024
Finding the coolest of the cool at drupa
At least one person thought drupa was pretty cool this year. What caught her eye?
May 22, 2024
Leveraging Cost Efficiency and Automation in In-Plant Consolidation
Christus Health consolidated from 5 to 2 in-plant operations. Investments in automation and inkjet will improve service, reduce costs, and positively impact patient experience.
May 16, 2024
Inkjet, Partnerships, and Joint Development Agreements
With Drupa on the horizon and the impending unveiling of new inkjet innovations, this article digs in to how solutions can be created through partnerships. We’ll look at when partnering makes sense, consideration before entering into a Joint Development Agreement and some examples of recent Inkjet industry partnerships.
January 10, 2024
Automation: The Strategic Plan
Automation is not a single out-of-the-box widget or panacea to remedy the many challenges in your print organization.
December 12, 2023
Automate This, Then That
Automation is a universally understood benefit for any print shop. Yet, automation paralysis sets in quickly when trying to sort out what and where to automate across many products and the associated thousands of individual processes. The key to success is to approach it from a different perspective.
November 30, 2023
Workflow Mining: Finding Overt & Covert Processes
Some workflow processes are obvious. Others are like a shadow government hiding below the surface adding risk and inefficiency.
August 3, 2023
It’s Time for Web-to-Pack Enabled by Inkjet!
Web-to-pack requires an expanded definition of the key processes that ensure the ability to run at capacity, especially when integrating inkjet into the process.
June 27, 2023
Tool Time Versus Club Med
Part of your business strategy is how you manage your labor. You look at the tasks and roles and what level of expertise you need in the person assigned. For maintenance operations, when you deploy team members and when you take advantage of maintenance programs offered by the vendors requires a careful look at your options.
May 23, 2023
Data, Data, Everywhere! But…
Every business has data. CCM specialists, print specialists, and multi-channel producers have data coming out of their ears. There is customer data, job data, inventory data, machine data, color data, financial data. Oh my! All the data impacts your ability to produce the work. Get control of the data to improve processes, become more efficient, and drive more profit!
March 22, 2023
Making Money: Profit Takes More than Revenue
Controlling costs is essential to any business, but there is more to ending the year profitably. Find the data that can help you make the best decisions about what products to offer in the markets you serve, and then review a key set of performance indicators regularly.
March 16, 2023
Navigating Industrial Inkjet Development
An introduction into the many factors and technologies to be brought together to achieve a custom inkjet solution
February 16, 2023
3 Inkjet Workflow Pain Points – 1 Answer Part 2
In Part 2 the focus turns to Paper and Capital Investments. In the world of inkjet, these are essential elements to understand and control. Let’s reduce the friction to allow the inkjet devices to be as productive as possible. Leverage your data to make good decisions.
February 8, 2023
3 Inkjet Workflow Pain Points, 1 Answer – Part 1
In this series we look at three of the top inkjet workflow pain points and paths to reducing the friction they cause with one technique that pays off. It starts with data but doesn’t end there. Data requires analysis and interpretation.
January 19, 2023
Web-to-print is vital to inkjet: buy or build?
No two print operations are identical. Equipment mixes, selling cultures, customers and products all vary from site to site. With so much variation in business processes, when should inkjet producers buy their essential web-to-print or digital storefront solution off-the-shelf and when is the best path a customized solution? It starts with an assessment!
December 21, 2022
Three transition trends for 2023
Did your business change over the last couple of years? What have you done to cope? Did you hire new people, add automation to workflows, buy a company, sell a pieces of business, or find new ways to navigate supply chain issues? If any of these items look familiar, you are on the same ride as most of your peers. Let’s find the learnings to get ready for 2023.
November 21, 2022
You’re Invited to a Colorful Friendsgiving
Mary has a free color resource for her friends. Please register (for free) to download .ase files.
November 8, 2022
Print composition evolves in an omni-channel world
OpenText and Papyrus leading print/mail composition tools, are enhancing their products to support client migration to cloud and SaaS models for omni-channel communications. Clients are demanding product features for less technical users and a better UI.
October 17, 2022
BlueCrest Unveils Print+ StatementTM In-line Document Printing Solution
BlueCrest, the global producer in the high-volume postal and parcel automation market, is today announcing the launch of the Print+ Statement™.
September 6, 2022
Face-to-face idea sharing is where I learn best
Attending in-person conferences provides the best environment for peer learning. SMEs will share insights and stories at Xplor22 Why “Build versus Buy” May Be the Riskiest Decision You Make. And Combat Paper, Ink & Labor Challenges! ROI and Customer Stories from the Trenches.
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