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From the editors of American Printer | A Penton Media
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August 12, 2009
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From the Pressroom...
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Jobs for
printers, English majors and other smart people
I majored in English at the University of Illinois, a
very rewarding experience. I learned George Eliot was actually a woman
using a man’s name. I learned that Flannery O’Connor was a woman who
been given a name that sounded like a man’s. I never did figure out
how to categorize Truman Capote.
The University of Illinois has many distinguished graduates: John
Bardeen, co-inventor of the transistor, Roger Ebert, the famous film
critic and Hugh Hefner, the distinguished publisher. The English
department, however, yielded slim pickings when it came to famous
alumni. (Ebert took many English classes but majored in journalism.) My
academic advisor gave me a pamphlet called “Jobs for English Majors
and Other Smart People.”
I learned that Malcolm Baldrige, former commerce secretary and namesake
of the quality award, was an English major. I also learned he died in a
rodeo accident. I tried to imagine myself leveraging my knowlege of
“Huckleberry Finn’s” river symbolism into a cabinet post or a
steer roping competition. I concluded Baldrige, a Yale graduate, must
have just been an all-around talented guy.
Bill Gilmer is my new English major hero. Gilmer is president of
Wordsprint Printing (Wytheville, VA), winner of the 2008 Management Plus
Hall of Fame Award.
Gilmer worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was a
national sales manager, and taught English and coached wrestling at a
high school in Virginia—all before starting Wordsprint in 1986. He has
also run with the bulls in Pamplona, gone scuba diving off the Great
Barrier Reef in Australia and explored a mile underground in the gold
mines of South Africa. For more about Bill and his company, see blog.americanprinter.com/kob/.
As always, thanks for reading.
Katherine O’Brien, editor, AMERICAN PRINTER (KOB@americanprinter.com)
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Top Headlines
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Editor's Notebook
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Top APKOB
tweets
Follow our Tweets in real time. See twitter.com/APKOB.
Hey PRINT 09ers: Why aren't you using JDF? Who IS using JDF? Discuss
Sept 12th in room S106a from 7-10 A.M. See www.cip4.org.
Marketing Advisor is a customizable print or e-mail newsletter for print
providers to reach clients & prospects. See www.greatreachinc.com.
Harlequin RIP upgrade offers faster trapping, enhanced complex
transparency performance and fine-tuned spot colors. See www.harlequin.com.
Eon Workflow’s suite of web and desktop tools for commerical printers
integrates ordering, workflow, job tracking and fulfillment. See www.eoncodedemo.com.
Time and attendance software: Redcort Software releases Virtual
TimeClock '09 Basic Edition ($79). See www.redcort.com.
Extended: Illinois Graphic Arts Machinery Exemption & Manufacturer’s
Purchase Credit to Aug. 30, 2014. See www.grantthornton.com/printers.
SeeFile provides image bank solution to publish, organize, and deliver
your images, PDF and other media files. See www.seefile.com.
GUI geeks rejoice. Awesome screen shots from the Xerox Star [circa
1981!]: See tr.im/vDIi [via www.twitter.com/XeroxCorp.
and www.twitter.com/MyFriendTim].
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What's New
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Xitron launches
TheRIPStore.com
Xitron (Ann Arbor, MI) announces the launch of a new
e-commerce website: www.theripstore.com. The site will
feature Xitron’s Navigator GPS Lite Workflow, exclusive proofing
solutions, options and consumables for sale directly to prepress
customers in the United States.
“TheRIPStore.com fills a need for prepress professionals who would
like to order a high quality solution and handle the installation
themselves,” says Bill Owens, Xitron's director of marketing and
online sales. “The e-commerce solution is a complement to our
extensive network of dealers who focus primarily on bundled workflow
solutions including training, installation and support.” Each
Navigator GPS Lite workflow solution sold through the store includes
90-days of support provided by Xitron’s Educational Services & Support
staff.
“Xitron’s application specialists has extensive prepress and
printing backgrounds so they are able to understand and assist customers
through application issues,” Owens adds. Users who upgrade to a full
year support agreement also receive extended coverage on their computer
platform if they purchased a turnkey package with Xitron supplied
computer.
Initial sales through the online store will be within the United States.
Xitron plans expansions to other regions in the future.
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Mark Your Calendars
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PRINT 09: Environmental Excellence
Awards
PRINT 09 will take place Sept. 11-16 in Chicago.
AMERICAN PRINTER's Environmental Excellence Awards will be honored at a
special ceremony on Sept. 11, 2009. We will be in the new GreenSpace
area and are looking forward to congratulating our 2009 honorees! See www.print09.com.
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Is wide format
in your future?
“Wide-format digital printing offers new solutions
that add value and help commercial printers foster new business
growth,” said Michael Robertson, SGIA’s President and CEO.
“Looking to the future, commercial printers will find it difficult to
compete without some kind of digital imaging capability. The ability to
provide a wide-range of imaged products will be increasingly valued —
and expected — by the customer.”
Learn more at 2009 SGIA Expo, Oct. 7-9 in New Orleans. See www.sgia.org.
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Trim Out
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How about a
PRINT 09 dance?
Newlyweds Jillian Peterson and Kevin Heinz danced down
the aisle to the strains of Chris Brown's “Forever.” Their video
went viral (tiny.cc/FXBQo) and the
couple recreated their moves on the top morning news shows. Indigo
Productions, responding to a challenge issued on behalf on an NYU class,
made this parody of the couple and its wedding party entering Divorce
Court: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbr2ao86ww0.
Tenuous graphic arts connection: “Indigo has made more than 20 viral
videos for internal use for its client Ricoh,” reports music blogger
Billy Johnson, Jr. “ When Ricoh [learned] about the project, Ricoh
offered to fund the effort and did not require a product mention.”
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