Reprographics 101
(more than you ever wanted to know about the reprographics industry)
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Your thoughts and comments are invited. One of the websites I frequent is http://www.whatheythink.com. Although that website is not devoted to the “reprographics” industry (it is devoted to the “printing” industry), many of the articles on that website (and the discussions provoked by various articles) do touch on issues that are important to the reprographics…
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One of my blog-readers e-mailed me to let me know about this “new news” from AutoDesk. (Thank you, Trevor!) I can’t imagine anyone trying to review or mark-up a large-format A/E drawing on an iPHONE or on an iPODTOUCH – but that’s because my eyesight isn’t as good as it was when I was a…
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Towards the end of the AIA article (published by the AIA in August 2010) about the July 2010 ABI Index, the author of the article, Jennifer Riskus, Manager of Economic Research, reported the following: This month’s special questions followed up on last month’s questions about the timing of project design phases. Survey respondents reported that…
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Associates of mine in Europe are interesting in finding out how U.S. reprographers are dealing with the issue of “file downloads”. When the first reprographer-operated Internet PlanRooms began showing up in the U.S., most, if not all, did not permit (or, perhaps better put, did not enable) “file downloads.” They offered “file viewing” and “print-ordering.”…
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COMMENT: Right at this moment, it is 4:12 a.m. east coast USA time and 10:12 am where I am in Europe. I just noticed an article, on Yahoo Asia, about the July 2010 AIA ABI Index ….. so, here it is ….. (Yahoo attributes the article to Reuters.com, but I was unable to find the…
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I found this article on http://www.costar.com Costar Group is the # 1 Commercial Real Estate Information Company (Yes, that’s what they say on their website.) AIA Forecast: Private Commercial Construction To Fall Nearly 30% in 2010Overall Nonresidential Development On Track for Deeper Decline This Year; Modest Uptick Predicted for 2011By Randyl DrummerJuly 20, 2010 Spending…
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Found on http://www.wide-formatimaging.com …..Updated: August 9th, 2010 09:16 AM EDT C2 Reprographics Opens Its Sixth Southern California Location At a time when many construction-related firms are scaling back, C2 Reprographics has announced the opening of a sixth location that will serve Los Angeles’ South Bay area. The new C2 location in Torrance at 2221 West…
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At the last IRgA Convention, one of the officers of the IRgA talked about the “declining membership” situation. Due to industry consolidation (primarily ARC) and the growth of affinity groups (PEiR Group, ReproMAX and RSA), the number of IRgA memberships has been on a downward spiral, for at least the past three or four years.…
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ARC (NYSE: ARP) SHARES CLOSED AT $8.25 USD, yesterday, August 10, 201052 Week high – $11.31 USD52 Week low – $5.11 USD SERVICE POINT SOLUTIONS (SPSL.MC) [BOLSA (Spain) Stock Exchange]SHARES CLOSED AT .56 EURO, yesterday, August 10, 201052 Week high – 1.23 EURO52 Week low – .53 EURO CURRENT ANALYST RECOMMENDATIONS (as of August 10,…
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Most reprographers, by now, know who mimeo.com is. If you don’t, they are the digital copying/printing company (based) in Memphis (TN) that, years ago, developed some very cool proprietary software that enabled customers to submit documents in virtually any file format and be able to get immediately on-line proofs. Mimeo.com convinces customers, wherever they are,…
Reprographics 101 