Reprographics 101
(more than you ever wanted to know about the reprographics industry)
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I live in sunny (well, mostly sunny) St Petersburg, FL. The closest Starbucks to my house is only about 16 blocks away. Two doors down from Starbucks you’ll find a new location of one of the reprographics companies operating in the Tampa Bay Area marketplace. I’ve always counseled my business associates and friends (and, when…
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(Disclaimer: I’ve not proofread this post. Please excuse the typos and spelling errors you find in this post.) Here’s a link to the RFP document I’m later going to be referring to: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B81al4kFAU9JYjM5ZDllZGYtNTAyMy00NjMwLTkyZWEtZTYwYjlkMjdhZGNj&hl=en&authkey=CJaJpIIG Very early this morning (in the wee-hours of the morning), I received an interesting e-mail from one of the officers of a…
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Just to let you know…… Steve Bova, Executive Director of the IRgA, contacted me this afternoon to let me know that my request for a “press pass” to the IRgA Convention has been granted. To those of you who supported my request for a press pass, thank you. Joel
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Déjà vu: (meaning “already seen”) is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the previous encounter are uncertain and were perhaps imagined. Yesterday, an industry-friend alerted me to a bid “on the street” from one of our local government agencies. From…
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I’m planning on attending the GRAPHICS OF THE AMERICAS event, which will be held February 24-26 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. Two of my friends, who are with ARKITEKTKOPIA, Sweden’s largest reprographics company and one of the largest reprographics companies across the pond, will be attending the Graphics of the Americas…
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Marketing 101 – do for your own business what you promote that others should do for their businesses
I’d like to point you to another thought-provoking (and very well written) article by Elizabeth Gooding, who writes for the digitalnirvana blog. In this particular article, Elizabeth points out the fact that most “service providers” who offer printing (and other) services to “marketing departments”, seldom (and some don’t at all) use their own services to…
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Results for Survey #1 (Reprographics 101 – General Survey) are posted on Google Docs. You can access the Survey Results by clicking on this link: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B81al4kFAU9JOGQ5YzhlMWYtNmRlNy00ZjY5LWE1YjAtNDI3ZWRmNDc2NTk1&hl=en&authkey=CJrv4_4N My comments about the survey: (1) After I first posted the Survey, I posted several articles. Posting multiple articles after the Survey was posted made it not-so-easy for blog-visitors…
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In this article, the strangest comment was this one, “The financial crisis is a blessing, because it has created a sense of urgency.” I immediately found myself wondering, “what’s that guy smoking? …. must be some weird stuff! And, to whom was the financial crisis a blessing?” ________________ Found on Southeast Construction News: Article Title:…
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Service Point’s UK division gaining traction with PrintNet, SP’s “Web2Print” application. Service Point recently announced two major “scores” in the education and public sectors. For SP UK’s recent “scores”, see “Press Releases” in latter part of this post. Although many consider Service Point to be a “reprographics” enterprise (a good portion of its revenues do…
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ARC announced that it will release its Q4 2010 and Full-Year 2010 Results on February 22, 2011. On October 11, 2010, ARC issued revised guidance on its expected 2010 results, lowering its full-year 2010 EPS forecast to a range of $.04 – $.09 per share (excluding any one-time charges that may be incurred.) ARC is…
Reprographics 101 