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FREE: Consolidated Graphics reports positive results, increases debt and committed to increasing the pace of acquisitions: Summary of Q4 Earnings Call

Published May 12, 2005

Is the Right Person Running Your Prepress?

Published May 12, 2005

Letters to ODJ: The Changing Needs of Customers--and Printers

Published May 11, 2005

The Need for Speed

Published May 11, 2005

Standard Register Sees Mixed Results in Shift to Document Management: Summary of Q1 Earnings Call

Published May 11, 2005

FREE: Cenveo Losses Continue to Mount Amid Burton’s Takeover Attempt: Summary of Cenveo’s Q1 Earnings Call

Published May 10, 2005

Strategy is Overrated

Published May 10, 2005

Market Connections = Market Transformation

Published May 9, 2005

Raw Material Costs Remain High and Paper Prices Continue to Rise: Summary of International Paper's Q1 Earnings Call

Published May 6, 2005

Why Would Anyone Be a Loyal Customer?

Published May 5, 2005

Innovative Publishing Solutions Slow to Gain Acceptance: Summary of Cadmus Communication’s Q3 Earnings Call

Published May 5, 2005

Soft M&A Market Slows Bowne: Summary of Q1 Earnings Call

Published May 5, 2005

The European View and U.S. Distribution

Published May 4, 2005

Shifting Business Model Pays Off: Summary of Xerox Q1 Earnings Call

Published May 4, 2005

Difficult Transition to Digital Leads Kodak to Miss Forecasts: Summary of Q1 Earnings Call

Published May 4, 2005

Letters to ODJ: More readers write about education and printing

Published May 4, 2005

Managing Consolidation

Published May 3, 2005

Arts and Crafts Versus Manufacturing: Why CIM is the Future of the Printing Industry

Published May 2, 2005

Strong Quarter Driven by Wins in the Telecom Vertical: Summary of Valassis Q1 2005 Earnings Call

Published April 29, 2005

How to Work a Trade Show To Improve Your Business

Published April 29, 2005

Eight Easy Ways to Improve Digital Print Sales to Creative Agencies

Published April 28, 2005

EFI exceeds earnings estimates but underperforms from a year ago: Summary of Q1 Earnings Call

Published April 27, 2005

VDP and CRM: Two Struggling Business Solutions That Could Actually Help Each Other

Published April 27, 2005

The Short Guide to Wide

Published April 26, 2005

Really Stupid Marketing

Published April 25, 2005

A Box on Both Your Houses

Published April 25, 2005

The PODi Applications Forum: Applying Technology

Published April 21, 2005

Print is Cool and Print is Back!

Published April 20, 2005

Dear Mr. Educator, I Need Your Help

Published April 19, 2005

Call for Digital Printing Compensation Plans and Job Descriptions

Published April 19, 2005

Marketing Your Services: Developing a Campaign

Published April 18, 2005

Variable Data 101

Published April 14, 2005

Have We Run Out of Readers?

Published April 13, 2005

Storage Semantics

Published April 12, 2005

An Economic Perspective on the Printing Industry Association Market

Published April 12, 2005

Keeping the Customer Top of Mind

Published April 11, 2005

Pessimism Running Amok

Published April 11, 2005

FREE: More on Association Consolidation: Article Generates Strong Reaction

Published April 11, 2005

Organizations Sharpen Their Competitive Edge Through Consolidated Output Infrastructures

Published April 7, 2005

Camera Phones' Effect on the Printing Industry

Published April 6, 2005

The Magic of PDF Workflow

Published April 6, 2005

Motheral Printing: Connecting to Compete

Published April 5, 2005

NAPL and PII Merger

Published April 4, 2005

What Can We Do?

Published April 4, 2005

Evangelism (part 4 of the Trolling for Students series)

Published April 4, 2005

Sales Prospecting? Find the Company's E.F. Hutton

Published March 31, 2005

A New Market is Born

Published March 30, 2005

The Art and Science of PR

Published March 30, 2005

How Print Providers Acquire Digital Print Technologies

Published March 30, 2005

Digital Color, Workflow and the Web Drive New Convergence in Printing

Published March 29, 2005

PMA 2005 – Back to the Past

Published March 29, 2005

Digital Color, Workflow and the Web Drive New Convergence in Printing

Published March 28, 2005

Comparing Digital Color Print Technologies, Price Points, and Print Volumes

Published March 28, 2005

Better Together: VDP and CRM Part 3

Published March 25, 2005

Small Printers and the Big Boxes

Published March 24, 2005

Our Digital World: The New World and Welcome To It, Part 3

Published March 24, 2005

Growth of Intelligent Documents Segment Drives Record Revenue: Summary of Adobe’s Q1 Earnings Call

Published March 23, 2005

Letters to ODJ

Published March 23, 2005

There's No Magic In Merlin!

Published March 23, 2005

Automating the Client Reporting Process

Published March 22, 2005

Kodak's Four Challenges Part 2 of 2

Published March 22, 2005

Kodak's Four Challenges Part 1 of 2

Published March 21, 2005

Internal Objections: Part One - Killer Assumptions

Published March 21, 2005

If it's March it Must be Munich

Published March 21, 2005

Cherchez la Research

Published March 18, 2005

InfoTrends/CAP Ventures & WhatTheyThink Q4 Tracking Results

Published March 17, 2005

The Changing Business Model

Published March 17, 2005

They Go Where The Market Is

Published March 16, 2005

A Day at Gil's Place

Published March 15, 2005

External Sales Objections: Part Two

Published March 14, 2005

Packaged Services: The Key to Future Success

Published March 14, 2005

Shift Over

Published March 11, 2005

The past twelve months have seen the passing of a number of men who have been lauded as leaders in the printing industry. They have reigned over large businesses, been leaders in technology, and in many cases been advocates for change as our industry has evolved.