Reprographics 101
(more than you ever wanted to know about the reprographics industry)
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Up, down, up, down, etc….. Stock markets – across the board – plunged on Monday, but then (with the exception of ARC’s stock, which continued its decline on Tuesday, closing at $3.99) reversed course and gained on Tuesday. I think I’ve finally figured out how the “big money” traders are screwing us little folks. It’s…
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This, to me is a really sad story. Manistique Papers is located in Manistique, a small city in Michigan; population is probably less than 5,000. If this company stays closed, it’ll have a major economic impact on that small town. Costs for raw materials up, demand for paper down. To printers and reprographers, that’s not…
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Proponents of “smaller” government would, I think, suggest that the GPO be done away with. As to the GPO and its mission, I have mixed emotions about this. But, I think that’s simply because I’ve only been directly exposed to a few “reprographics” RFP’s and ITB’s from the GPO, and, in my opinion (and this…
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Evidently, three “Carolinas” reprographers teamed-up to offer an ePlanroom service – for “Public Projects” – for the Carolinas (for those of you who are from outside the U.S., that means North Carolina and South Carolina, two different states located next to each other.) McGee CADD Graphics McGee operates locations in: Wilmington, NC Fayetteville, NC Greenville,…
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Well, I found this one too late to do anyone any good, but reprographers located in the Detroit, MI market area might want to “calendar” this one – for next time (meaning, find out when the next RFP will be issued.) DETROIT REGIONAL CONVENTION FACILITY AUTHORITY RFP-RM-Reprographic Services (Printing Services). Bids due on July 28,…
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Talk about stock prices getting clobbered …. Autodesk shares were trading at right around $46.00 on May 12, 2011. On Friday (August 5th), Autodesk shares closed at $30.92. That’s a fall-off of just about 33%, in spite of the fact that Autodesk’s sales this year improved over 2010 sales and in spite of the fact…
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At current share prices (as of August 5, 2011) ….. If you bought 100% of SPS, it’d be like paying a purchase price of 16.34% of Sales Revenues. If you bought 100% of ARC, it’d be like paying a purchase price of 48.94% of Sales Revenues. I know, I know, I know … both have…
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Well, actually, in this post I’m going to talk about two issues; a) ARC’s stock price and b) ARC’s Q2 2011 results. ARC reported its Q2 2011 results yesterday, and, for a company reporting what can only be characterized as mediocre (if not disappointing) results, the timing was horrible – just before ARC’s results were…
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Just out on AECBYTES.COM ….. a review of ….. Inaugural Revit Technology Conference 2011 in the US AECbytes Feature August 4, 2011 Article Summary The inaugural US Revit Technology Conference, known as RTC for short, was held in the Huntington Beach area of Los Angeles a few weeks ago. The RTC actually originated in Australia in…
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Guesses at ARC’s Q2 2011 Sales revenues ranged from high of $113.40 mil to a low of $99.9 million. ARC’s Sales for Q2 2011 came in at $109.59 million. The closest guess was $110.0 million, submitted by “anonymous”. The winner of the contest e-mailed me to ask me keep his name anonymous. He has also…
Reprographics 101 