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Sad news today from Oberlin, Ohio. The World Color Press plant, located in Oberlin, (not far from our home in Cleveland!), is closing. 119 printing employees will be out of a job as of May 21st. The line of reasoning sent down from World Color's head office is simple and one we hear too often lately: the economy is bad, we all have to make tough decisions.

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An MCP is a printer who doesn't just offer a technical service so much as a comprehensive marketing package. This printer probably woke up and smelled the coffee right around the time web-to-print was coming into vogue, and realized that to survive, printers were going to have to do more than just print.

It begins innocently enough, with the printer beginning to offer some direct mail services along with the variable data direct mail printing already in place. After all, who doesn't want direct… Continue

In response to various sources crying the 'death of print,' many bloggers have begun to write positively about the future of the industry. Which is great. No problem there. The thing that's freaking me out, however, is the sudden wash of writing that attempts to insist that nothing is wrong.

To clarify, I don't think print is going anywhere. But the world, and hence, our industry, is changing, and it's completely unproductive and depressing to tackle the problem of change as though it's somethi… Continue

Let's get to know each other better!

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 printers to be tagged. You have to tag the printer who tagged you. Reply here, on my blog, or on your blog!

1 – Hotcards was started by a concert promoter, and maybe that's why we do so much printing for musicians, music venues, and publicat

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Last week, I was blogging about the resilient and disruptive nature of print (in response to all the talk online about “The End of Print”), and some research I did reminded me of how often print has A) been the engine of political and revolutionary change, and B) been suppressed because the newspapers, pamphlets, and tracts that printers reproduce and distribute were considered too inflammatory.

Even in recent years, in countries like China… Continue