Seattle Bindery Newsletter: Issue #37. We welcome your comments.

 
1. Back from TechGraphics 2001. Had a great time at this year’s show, catching up with old friends and meeting new ones, too. Glad to see so many of you could make it to the event!

2. It ain’t called the death tax for nothin’. As if taxes aren’t bad enough, apparently they can kill, too. According to the April 9, 2001 issue of Business Week, two University of Michigan researchers have shown that tax changes can hasten deaths in some cases. What they found was that when there’s a hike in estate taxes, death rates climb in the weeks just before the increase. Conversely, when there’s a tax cut, death rates peak only after the implementation. Evidently, a tax savings of $10,000 is enough to motivate some people to will themselves to live longer. The House of Representatives recently voted to phase out the death tax over the next ten years, which will not only provide welcome tax relief to family-owned businesses, but could also be regarded as a great public health policy, too.

3. Don’t let this happen to you. Recently, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) fined eight California businesses for illegally installing more copies of software than their licenses supported. One of those companies was Quebecor World’s George Rice & Sons, which was fined approximately $86,000. While licenses for programs like Adobe Photoshop may be expensive, and it may be tempting just to buy one or two licenses to share amongst all the users in your company, it looks like this could be one of those penny-wise, pound-foolish practices.

4. A reminder. To help you accurately line up any tab configuration, we’ve created tab layout templates that can be emailed to you and easily imported into your prepress software. The templates appear as a separate color layer on your artwork and can be printed on proofs, but easily omitted in the final run. Call or email Judy if you’d like a copy. Also, we’ve discovered that Seattle Envelope offers CDs with analogous envelope layouts that are just as popular as our tab layouts. If you’re interested in those as well, call Tracy at (206) 784-6892.

5. Terms and conditions. The NAPL and PIA have undertaken a new initiative to develop new terms and conditions of sales. With digital technology reshaping the nature of transactions between print provider and customer, there are many new questions being raised, as well as old practices being eliminated. As more of production responsibilities shift to the customer, lines of responsibility will have to be clearly redrawn. To come up with new industry standards, an NAPL/PIA Task Force on Business Practices will be spending the next several months studying samples collected from association members of current contracts, bid submissions and intellectual property policies. If you have any samples or suggestions, you can fax them to Brigitte Lawrence at PIA, (703) 548-3227, or email her at blawrence@printing.org.

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