Business Management - Operations

The Amherst College Campus Print and Mail Center has replaced its Xerox Color J75 digital press with a Xerox Versant 80 digital press.

For any in-plant, color accuracy must be spot on. That was the deciding factor that led Rod Squier, manager of the Campus Print & Mail Center at Amherst College, to replace his in-plant’s Xerox Color J75 digital press with a Xerox Versant 80 digital press. The 80-ppm printer was installed at the Amherst, Mass., operation […]

John will share a wide range of services that in-plants could start to offer, and how to partner with the marketing department.

In this followup to his 2016 white paper on patent abuse, Harvey R. Levenson, Ph. D., reviews the outcome of the previous cases and presents a “heads-up” regarding two new plaintiffs.

It was a sight you don't often see at a business conference. Dozens of balloons being simultaneously released, to deflate in crazy spiraling patterns all over the room. Yet that's what happened in the final keynote presentation at ACUP+ last week to symbolize letting go of stress over things one cannot control.

University in-plants are very different from corporate and other in-house printing operations. For one, their goals are different, and they can frequently shift as administrative focuses change from year to year.

Often, the VP and the in-plant manager have different perceptions of which data is important to measure and report on. The in-plant manager needs hard numbers to guide shop performance. But the VP needs to know why these metrics are important. Make sure you ask which metrics management wants to see.

Printers everywhere are looking for a way to achieve effective color management across their various production processes. G7 qualification may be the answer.

SpencerMetrics LLC has donated the spencermetrics connect system to Arizona State University (ASU) Print and Imaging Lab.

Over the past week I had two conversations about outsourcing, one with a vendor and the other with a manager. One theme that popped up in both chats was how important it is for in-plant managers to have a good relationship with the vendors who call on them — even the vendors whose companies have outsourcing divisions. You can get a lot of great ideas from vendors, they both said.