Reprographics 101
(more than you ever wanted to know about the reprographics industry)
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Good morning. U.S. “Construction Economics” statistics today! The U.S. Census Bureau tracks and publishes the “value” of “put-in-place” construction. Statistics (in millions of dollars) are published for four different categories (see bold headings below). Residential Nonresidential Sub-total Private (Res & Non-Res) State & local Federal Sub-total Public (State & Fed) Total Private and Public (i.e.,…
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Wow, there are a lot of Internet-based “planroom” products out there! A layman’s (and very brief) definition of an Internet-based planroom – a “site” on the Internet where plans and specifications (and other documents) are hosted, accessible, viewable and where files (of the plans and specs) can be downloaded (a feature offered by some, but…
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Stadium Capital Management files Schedule 13G to report current position in stock of American Reprographics Co (ARC). To be perfectly frank, the way the SEC requires completion of schedules that reveal significant (more than 5% ownership) holdings in public companies is quite confusing for average idiots like me. I’m sure “financial” people and securities lawyers…
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Last July 1st, we posted a brief article on Reprographics 101 that included mention of a Press Release issued by Service Point on June 29th, and, in that Press Release, Service Point announced that it was going to renew its “Merger and Acquisition” initiatives. Well, true to its word, Service Point has, in fact, renewed…
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I found a well written and thought provoking article this evening, at http://thedigitalnirvana.com. The “thought” that this post provokes is “aggravation.” That’s because, most of the time, when I had to compete in an “RFP” process, I’d end up being totally aggravated …. and sometimes quite frustrated ….. to the point where I’d ask myself,…
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OCE announces its newest TDS series black & white large-format multifunction systemLaunch of Océ TDS750 offers CAD customers optimal large format printer Rising above the rest for faster, easier, dependable high-quality large format printing January 18, 2011 – Trumbull, CT – Océ, a Canon Group Company and an international leader in digital document management and…
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“Older people” (and I’m speaking about “reprographers”) can, I’m sure, remember the early versions of large-format, display-graphics-capable “ink-jet” printers. At around $25,000 for a 36” wide-unit, output was blazing ……. well, uh, SLOW …… it took nearly an hour to print one 36” x 48” full-color poster (in the “best quality” mode.) I saw the…
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Several factors, considered on a collective basis, are indicating that 2011 will be a better year than 2010 for Reprographers. Positive trends developing…. In an article published on AGC’s web-site, on Jan 4, 2011, construction activity is reportedly on the increase and construction employment is on the upswing in the majority of metro areas in…
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Before you read the AIA ABI Index Press Release for December 2010 (published on January 19, 2011, and I found that on the calculatedriskblog.com web-site – and that’s a great blog to follow), I’d like to make some comments about a discussion I had with an Architect, over dinner in Budapest, Hungary on Monday night.…
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In a post on my blog on January 6, 2011, I did a write-up about an article that Shaun Meany (President of ARC’s PEiR Group) posted on his blog on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. The title of Shaun’s article was, “PEiR to Power Sales with New 2011 Theme” In the body of his article, Shaun…
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