This morning, I received an e-mail from one of my reprographics-industry friends, who pointed me to the web-site of a GC. He was doing some “internet research” on GC’s, and he found that this particular GC, Garrard, is using, in his words, an “unadulterated FTP” site to share project documents with (I guess) its sub-contractors.…

If you have a maturing SBA mortgage on your commercial real estate, take note! Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering a lifeline to many commercial real estate owners with maturing mortgages. Under a temporary refinancing program that will start on April 6, 2011, the SBA can refinance an eligible…

After I visited the Texas Department of Transportation’s web-site to see how TDOT is currently “handling” access to plans for TDOT projects, I visited another state DOT agency and found that they were using a service provided by “BidExpress”. So, I decided to explore “BidExpress” a bit further. “BidExpress” was developed by a company called…

A “printing” business that hasn’t been affected by, and won’t be affected by, “cloud printing”. Growth in this sector of the printing business will continue to be be directly proportional to the world’s population growth. No on-line e-document-management services necessary for these guys! St. Paul, MN – April 4, 2011 – Two of the premier…

Here’s how the Texas Department of Transportation (TDOT) “handles” this process: 1. TDOT self-operates an “On-Line” planroom service. Here’s TDOT’s general description of “plans online”: Plans Online Plans Online provides engineering plans, informational proposals, addenda, bid tabs and contract plans for TxDOT’s bid lettings. Projects include highway construction, maintenance, and aviation. This information is valuable…

Great Article … for those of us who are interested in examples of how the Federal Government wastes taxpayer dollars! (Keep in mind that I’m “conservative” on many issues, but a “liberal” on other issues.) This article appeared on the web-site of printceo.com. I’m going to show you the first two paragraphs of that article…

PROVO, UTAH, April 1, 2011 — The museum housing the world’s most advanced exhibit of the history of printing is facing foreclosure and a lawsuit, and risks losing more than the board members bargained for. The article I mention above appeared on the web-site of “The Daily Herald” (at www.heraldextra.com). Sad situation. A printing museum…

For those of you interested in more about “cloud printing”, I found an article – about Google Cloud Printing and HP – authored by Kevin C. Tofel, and here’s the title of the article, and, afterwards, the first two paragraphs from the article: “HP Shifts Printing Away From PCs via Google Cloud Print” When Google…

Last year, Community Unit School District 303, a Pre-K-12 school system located west of Chicago, IL, awarded a contract for a fleet of multifunction copier-printers to the Gordon Flesch Company, a Canon and Kyocera dealer. Although the competition was held last year, I’m posting about this competition simply for the benefit of reprographers who are…

Jared Willis, who was, until very recently, Director of Sales at Barker Blue, made a big career change on April 1st. He’s moved from the “reprographics” industry to the “real estate development” industry. Jared had been with Barker Blue for just about six years. To Jared: Best wishes for fantastic success with your new career!…