PRESS RELEASE PLP Digital Systems is expanding its Blueprint for Change program to help reprographers meet today’s demands for Construction Information Management (CIM). This four-month marketing strategy program, which piloted in 2010, is now accepting applications for the 2011 session. Construction technology represents a significant opportunity to companies with strong relationships in AEC, but whose…

One of my blog-visitors sent me a pdf file containing the Quick Print Industry’s “Top 100 Shops” for 2011 (based on 2010 Sales revenues). “Kinda out-of-category”, there was one “reprographer” I found on the QP Top 100 List, Rapid Blueprint of Tampa, FL, one of my former competitors in the Tampa Bay Market Area. Rank…

There’s an article on the Digital Nirvana web-site, this morning, that should be of interest to reprographers who are either considering an expansion of their wide-format color businesses or who are considering getting involved, for the first time, in offering wide-format color services. Here’s the title of that article, and, below the lead paragraph, I’ve…

I “heard on the street,” this morning, that ARC completed an acquisition of a U.S. reprographer earlier this week. If this is true, then it should be good news for reprographers who are interested in selling. I will post more about this as the news comes out.

In a brief note on www.marketwatch.com this morning….. June 8, 2011, 9:19 a.m. EDT China says U.S. “playing with fire” on debt delay By Greg Morcroft NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Li Daokui, an adviser to the People’s Bank of China, said Wednesday that the U.S. is “playing with fire” by even considering a brief technical…

There are two different articles in this post; both are related to “recovery” – in the non-residential construction sector and in the commercial real estate industry, and, of course, those sectors are closely related to each other. FIRST ARTICLE: On June 1st, Mr. Basu, Chief Economist at Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) posted an article…

As I read this “press release” I wondered, “how many employees of printing companies in the private sector, who were let go the past three or four years, received ‘buyout’ and ‘early out’ payments?” Probably very few and, “very few” is probably an understatement. This is a great example of how “government” can do things…

I read an excellent article on www.whattheythink.com, this morning, and wanted to share that article with my blog visitors. Here’s the beginning of that article ….. Commentary & Analysis Legacy Decisions and Facing Uncertainty By Jennifer Matt Published: June 7, 2011 A few years ago I met a friend of my father’s who was a…

This is a current RFP opportunity for someone in Chicagoland: Request for Proposal (RFP) #SH1102 COPIER, PRODUCTION REPROGRAPHICS EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES DISTRICT- WIDE Required for use by: CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO Responses must be received no later than 11:30 a.m. local Chicago time, on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 City Colleges of Chicago (“CCC”) invites the…

Over a period of more than ten years, when ARC was very active in acquiring companies, many reprographers looked at ARC (selling out to ARC) as their “exit strategy.” But, as the A/E/C economy continued to drive south, ARC discontinued its acquisition program. Even though ARC management, not too long ago, made statements that implied…