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Controlling costs in long-term printing contracts
by Alex Brown

By including provisions for price escalation and price review, publishers get all the advantages of stability, while also protecting their need to opt out if circumstances should change. Hypothetically, a publisher would sign a 20-year printing contract but for three things: the potential of eventual disenchantment with the printer over quality and service; a worry that publishing objectives and print technology will change so much that the contract won't economically cover the services needed; and a still greater fear that the only way to keep costs in line is a periodic visit to the marketplace

The New Printing and Decorating Growth Using Sublimation
John Benedetto

For those who really enjoy getting ink on their hands and think it is
the only way to decorate shirts, these articles are for you. Before you screenprinters think I’ve gone mad let me put it in perspective. The cheapest way to decorate a shirt or sign is screenprinting. But when you factor in time and labor and depending on order size, it may by more expensive than you think. Obviously, to do colored or black shirts screenprinting is still the answer

Printing Points for Publishers
Eugene Schwarz

In all my years in the printing business and then as a production
manager, I don't recall any manual or references spelling out quality standards for printing and binding intended to apply as an industry
guideline from the publisher's practical point of view. There probably
were and are such, and individual corporations and government
agencies may require certain tolerances

Sign Pricing Series - Commercial Screen Print Pricing
Scott St.Cyr

This article will focus on the pricing methods commonly used by
commercial screen printers. Like their digital brethren, commercial
screen printers typically use two fundamental approaches to pricing depending on their size. The two methods are pricing tables and
time-and-materials

The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead
James A. Dewar

We are in the midst of the "Information Age." Pundits have
proclaimed it for years; articles in the popular press have plumbed
its implications for every imaginable enterprise; businesses
are enamored with it; on-line and print magazines are devoted to it; government is wrestling with it, movies have been made about it;
people are talking about it--can there be any doubt?

New Printing Equipment: Who? How? What? When?
Mark Piszczor

We asked converters about their plans for purchasing printing
equipment. Here are the results.
Purchasing a new press or press equipment requires the involvement
of several people, a considerable amount of time, and heavy
expenditures. Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER and Intertec Publishing conducted a research study to determine what converters are buying, what is important in the purchase, who is involved, etc