Business Management - Operations

By acquiring BCC Software, BlueCrest will now be able to deliver complete end-to-end solutions for data quality, design/composition, presort and logistics, printing, sorting, inserting, and more.

According to a recent report, automation improves results and broader adoption is essential for the industry to take full advantage of all the benefits workflow automation offers. The survey results identify five key reasons to invest in tools to automate workflow.

Citing volume declines in an already challenging retail environment and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Sussex, Wis.-based Quad closed out a tumultuous 2020 by announcing it will permanently cease commercial print manufacturing operations at three facilities in early 2021, impacting approximately 650 workers. 

This timely webinar covers what all shops need to know about making the most of their own opportunities in digital printing.

Christopher Donlon is a long-time In-plant Printing and Mailing Association member and currently serves on IPMA's board of directors as member-at-large.

Measuring your in-plant’s performance and analyzing how you can improve productivity are vital to your survival. But for those in-plants trying to do this manually, there are a host of problems that are hindering their efforts.

The iconic glass and copper glass building stretching two blocks that houses the Kansas City Star newspaper — which attendees of the IPMA 2012 conference toured when the conference was held in Kansas City — has been sold. Printing of the daily newspaper will be outsourced to the Des Moines Register Star.

Which solutions do printers need to be competitive and profitable in the market? Which processes and interfaces offer potential to be leveraged, and how can print shop staff be even better supported? These are the questions the experts at Heidelberg asked themselves when developing the latest innovations.

Using a user-friendly layout that includes color, graphics, images, and modern fonts, the U.S. Government Publishing Office has produced the final report and recommendations for the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. It will be printed on GPO’s new digital inkjet presses.

The Philadelphia Inquirer employees were informed Oct. 9 that the newspaper publishing company plans to close its 674,000-sq.-ft. print manufacturing facility as early as the end of the year. About 500 of the 550 workers employed at the Schuykill newspaper printing facility will reportedly be laid off as a result.