Presstek Inc.

This white paper suggests the top ten things print service providers should be considering as they look to restructure production capabilities for a profitable future.

Presstek, Inc. has reported its financial and operating results for the third quarter ended October 2, 2010. In the quarter, the Company reported total revenue of $31.4 million, a decline of 5% from the amount reported in the third quarter of 2009, and adjusted EBITDA of $1.3 million, an improvement of $2.4 million when compared to the prior year third quarter.

Any in-plant manager lucky enough to be in Chicago last month for Graph Expo got to witness some significant developments in the world of graphic arts. Dubbed “The Inkjet Graph Expo” by some, the show featured more inkjet technology than most in-plant managers had ever seen in one place.

The crowds returned to Graph Expo this year. Here's a look at what they saw, including the latest inkjet presses.

A year after the disappointing attendance levels of PRINT 09, Graph Expo 2010 seemed like a real trade show again. The aisles were full of people, who massed around new products and kept vendors busy with demos. 

Numerous in-plants were spotted walking the aisles of Graph Expo. Dozens of them packed a conference room for a lunchtime session on Tuesday, to hear vendors and fellow in-plant managers talk about how to incorporate integrated marketing into their operations.

A year after the disappointing attendance levels of PRINT 09, this week's Graph Expo 2010 seemed like a real trade show again. The aisles were full of people, who massed around new products, and kept vendors busy with demos.

Charlie Holden knew that something had to be done about four-color work at the Houston Independent School District. Her in-plant’s two-color Komori press was 22 years old and produced an awful lot of spoilage each time the in-plant used it to print four-color jobs. And customers, in need of faster turnaround, were relying on color copiers, using them for volumes they were never meant to produce.

Presstek Awards offers points for purchases of prepress and pressroom consumables from Presstek, including products purchased through Presstek’s online store, shop.presstek.com.

For Nick Monello, moveable type and letterpress printing are not just curiosities from the past; they were the tools of his boyhood. Now director of the Reproduction Unit for the New York City Department of Health, the –amiable, Brooklyn-born Monello has worked in print shops since he was a boy—which, considering he's now 71, gives him one of the longest tenures in the printing business.

Yesterday, IPG Editor Bob Neubauer traveled to Pemberton, N.J., to visit the in-plant at Burlington County College. In March, the six-employee in-plant added a new four-color Ryobi 524GE offset press. Though the shop already had a pair of two-color presses and used them to produce lots of four-color work, Manager Steve Amitrano had wanted a four-color press for a long time.