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Printers are by transitioning from traditional print shops into marketing service providers. To find out how and why they are differentiating themselves in this way, IKON Office Solutions (now a Ricoh company) and The NAPL Network are offering half-day, hands-on workshops in four cities.

ALEXANDRIA, VA—August 11, 2008—IDEAlliance today announced that it has launched a new website to provide G7 information and news for the growing G7 community around the world. The new website contains a new Q&A as well as new materials about the ISO inks that are recommended for implementing G7 on sheetfed offset presses. Background The development of G7 was prompted by print buyers who were frustrated by proofs and prints that had matching dot gain but clear visual differences. Print buyers asked for metrics that more closely relate to the visual appearance of a printed image. For buyers it is critical

ALEXANDRIA, VA—March, 20, 2008—IDEAlliance today announced that its GRACoL Committee is launching a new activity to assist printers in qualifying their presses for G7 Calibration. The new G7 press pre-qualification toolkit will provide guidelines and tools to help printers access the readiness of their press to undergo G7 calibration. Background After nearly two years of on-press G7-calibration experience on over 200 presses worldwide, the GRACoL Committee has learned some critical lessons. The first lesson was that G7 alone is not enough. Good printing techniques must be practiced on a daily basis if the true benefit of G7 is to be

Last month I ventured down to Alexandria, Va., to attend the Print Outlook 05 conference, sponsored by NPES, the Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies. While the sessions were tailored to commercial printers, I did glean some interesting facts and ideas. The overall message was that print is facing competition, and printers have to try new tactics and move into new areas to survive. Keynote speaker Joe Cappo, recently retired from Crain Communications, pointed out a decline in magazine and newspaper readership, and suggested that the media that survives will be the one that can integrate with other

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