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Bindery
Folding
- Miniature to Map
- Closed Gate
- In-Line 8pg Gluing
Presentation Folder Gluing
Stitching
- 10 pockets
- Loop Stitching
Trimming
Rotary Perf & Score
Gathering & Collating
Perfect Binding
Wire-O
Plastic Spiral
- Autospin 30mm elements
- 2.5:1 Oval Hole Pattern
Transfer Tape
Drilling
Round Cornering
Shrink Wrapping
Eyeletting
Film Laminating
UV Coating
Tabbing
Custom Index Tabs
Copier Tabs
Tab Reinforcing
Spine Reinforcing
Patch Edge Reinforcing
5 Hole Drilling
Finishing
Autoplaten Diecutting
Diecutting to 41"
Scoring & Perfing
Embossing
Foiling
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Newsletter
Issue No. 269
November 19, 2010
Upper & Lower Case
In one of her frequent tweets, Sandy Hubbard (@sandyhubbard)
recently mentioned that she was very fond of the Upper &
Lower Case publication that went out of print in 1999. She
discovered, however, that back issues are now available as
searchable pdf files. I personally had not seen the
magazine, but I know of others who, like Sandy, also thought
highly of it. So I thought this link would be something our
industry might like to have available. Check it out
here.
EFI Conference
Anyone who uses one of the EFI family of print management
programs (Monarch, Hagen, Logic, PSI, Printsmith, and Pace,
among others) will want to give serious thought to attending
the 12th Annual Users’ Conference that’s
scheduled for April 26 - 29, 2011 at the Wynn Hotel in Las
Vegas. I have attended these off and on over many years and
have never failed to come home with useful ideas and
contacts. The EFI folks really knock themselves out for this
event, including providing technical information, peer
networking, demo labs for other products, and one-on-one
time with senior management. We tried putting together local
users’ conferences for the PSI program we run, but those
efforts fizzled after EFI cut back their support staff. This
is a much better alternative. April is not far off, so you
can begin your planning
here.
Lucky Stars, er... Static
Congratulations to the two winners of last month’s
newsletter contest. We asked for input on the local UV
coating market and got over 100 responses. Wow! Thanks to
all who participated, and congratulations to the winners:
Janice Wisman of McCallum Print Group and Brad Thompson of
National Color. Now, about that static reference - this is
funny. I wanted to ensure the winners were selected
completely at random, so I went online and found this
website that does it for you. You enter starting and ending
numbers and the site then uses atmospheric noise to generate
true random numbers. The winners can forget lucky stars and
be grateful for that atmospheric static! If you ever need
randomization help, check out the site
here.
UV Coater Open for
Business!
We completed testing on our new 30" UV roller coater and
it’s performing like a champ! We successfully ran offset
sheets up to 28" x 40" and all the digital sheets from press
manufacturers that we could get our hands on. Each run
turned out an excellent gloss coating finish. Our coater has
a crusher unit on it that removes unwanted press powder,
which eliminates the need for an extra pass on your press.
It also has an extended chiller unit to ensure the sheets
have cooled sufficiently before stacking. We have an
introductory pricing model in place that should make us very
competitive. Let us know when your next flood coating job
comes up and we'll send one of our trucks out for our
standard free pick up and delivery. Oh, and Jenny will be
happy to quote the job for you, as well.
Click here for some UV
Coating guidelines.
Social Media in 3 Minutes
I know that many of us are behind the curve on using social
media as a business development tool, so I thought this
might be of value. I found this link in my clicking travels
... It’s a three-minute video that walks the novice through
the current cluttered social media landscape. If you are
like me, you are still fumbling to find useful social media
sites hiding among all the puff and nonsense floating around
out there.
Click
here, you can spend three minutes to get a little better
grasp on the online social media world.
You can now follow Milt on
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