Printers today all face the same challenge: How to grow in a highly competitive market with thinner margins, increased customer service demands and in many cases reduced staff. Current market conditions put incredible pressure on companies to try to find a way just to stay in business, much less increase profits. So, how do you […]
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Email, data-entry and customer service bogging you down…? There is a solution!
In any given day, you and your staff are answering the phones, providing quotes on jobs, taking orders and receiving requests via e-mail and the web. You also need to set up invoices, perform data entry, update files, make copies for walk-ins, make sure orders are being processed in a timely manner and all the while keep your […]
Commercial Printers — Improve customer satisfaction and achieve more from your workforce
One of the biggest trends right now is the drive towards automation. Automating your printing workflow is important for everyone – printers big and small, no matter where they are located. Automation saves time, saves costs and increases productivity. If you are not utilizing an automated workflow, and the people that you compete against are, […]
Accessible PDFs And Why You Should Create Them
Nowadays PDF documents are one of the most important digital communication formats. Countless PDF files are sent via e-mail and/or are made available to download from websites. However, for visually impaired people, PDFs present an obstacle. This means that they may miss out on information, because they do not have a clear overview. Back in 2008, PDF […]
New Add Bleed Action in PitStop 13 Translates to Savings for You and Your Service Provider
Printing problems are abundant in most prepress departments at service providers and studies have shown that as many as 86% of files received from customers require some form of correction before the job can be processed. Problems most printers find are: Missing or incorrect bleed, RGB images, missing fonts or resolution issues. For the printer to […]
Understanding Imposition – Crash Course
Imposition, broadly defined, is what describes the arrangement of pages on the press sheet so that when folded, the pages will read consecutively. When you decide how to arrange the pages on the sheet, you will base it on the size of the press sheet and the pages, as well as how the job will […]
