Seattle Bindery Newsletter: Issue #11. We welcome your comments.

1. E-commerce update: Our very own Seattle-based ImageX.com has made some dramatic moves to keep it in the e-printing race. Recently, it opened its online marketplace, PrintPlace.com, with the goal of creating a “community” of graphic arts professionals. (Building communities is the new e-commerce “must-do” these days.) To this end, it acquired Creativepro.com, a supplier
of e-services for designers. ImageX also claims to have 200 firms as clients, including the likes of Amazon.com, ShopNow.com, and InfoSpace.com.

2. A Seattle Bindery reminder: Our new Moll Marathon folder-gluer is capable of folding almost any configuration on nearly any size press sheet . . . and at top speed. Also, we’re installing a 41” Johannesburg cylinder diecutter, which adds a larger dimension to our letterpress operations.

3. The “publish or perish” maxim is alive and well, even with e-publishers like iUniverse.com, fatbrain.com, Xlibris.com and Seattle-based PublishingOnline.com. It appears even big-name authors like Stephen King, Jonathan Kellerman and Arthur C. Clarke are signing up with the online publishing newbies. Founder and CEO of iUniverse, Richard Tam, has struck partnerships with movers and shakers in the publishing world, including the powerful Authors Guild, Writers’ Digest, Kinko’s and, most recently, Barnes & Noble, which opens a huge brick-and-mortar venue to the self-proclaimed publishing portal.

4. Then there’s Kevin Keane’s latest IAPHC Tuesday Morning News where he cites Xerox’s CEO Rick Thoman: “Our studies, backed up by data from XPLOR International, indicate that the total number of electronic and paper documents will soar to twenty trillion by 2005, and 40 percent of that market will be available to the digital printing industry . . . Color will be pervasive and (documents) will move seamlessly between paper and the digital worlds and . . . contain music and video as well as text and pictures.” Are you ready?

5. Happy Birthday To Us . . . We just celebrated the first anniversary of our consolidation and move into our new Tukwila facility. The transition went smoothly (despite continual postponements by the governmental powers that be) and the resulting efficiencies have proven well worth the early disruptions. If you haven’t visited us yet, please call Judy to set up a tour
(lunch is on us!).

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