September 2008 Feature Articles Total productive maintenance Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Ken Rizzo Making equipment as efficient and profitable as possible. That's the premise behind total productive maintenance (TPM), a lean manufacturing strategy... Special delivery Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien Inkjet systems for postpress addressing generally fall into two basic categories: continuous and drop-on-demand. Drop-on-demand (DOD) technology typically... Briefly noted Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM Buhrs Americas (Minneapolis) has named Bow D. Smith national service manager. Smith joined Buhrs Americas after more than ten years with inTelmail USA.... Inkjet products Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM Eliminating preprinted envelopes At Pitney Bowes' recent open house in Danbury, CT, MCS, (Gaithersburg, MD) MCS teamed with HP and Pitney Bowes to preview... Printing inkjet labels Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Patrick Henry At EFI's 2008 Connect users conference, Ken Stack, vice president and general manager of the company's Jetrion industrial inkjet systems division, detailed... Fastest flatbed printer is an InterTech winner Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM Inca introduced the Onset, a large-format UV digital flatbed printer in 2007. In 2008, it was among a handful of technologies honored with PIA/GATF's... Are you ready for Intelligent Mail barcodes? Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has begun to implement its Intelligent Mail program to improve service and reduce costs. This program promises to improve... Excellence in action Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jill Roth & Robin Schabacker Becoming a Management Plus company is about more than just winning awards. It reflects a company's serious commitment to regularly monitoring the management... CTP is getting leaner & cleaner Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM Prepress equipment and plate manufacturers made several CTP debuts at Drupa 2008. If you didn't make it to Dsseldorf this spring, you can see them up... Columns Going greener Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien KOB@americanprinter.com I'm a lifer in the printing industry, says Kathy Lauerman, president of the Printing & Imaging Assn. Mountain States (PIAMS) (Denver). Prior to joining... The paper chase Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By M. Richard Vinocur As a weekly magazine, Paper Trade Journal was being sucked dry by its comp and printing invoices, so I headed to Pennsylvania with our production manager,... Steps to greatness Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Dick Gorelick I've been privileged to serve on many boards of directors. Board meetings can be dull and perfunctory. Service on one board, a graphic arts company, was... Would you like fries with that? Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Steve Johnson Tony Wochnik is a skilled and professional salesman of digital graphic arts equipment. Originally with Xerox, Tony has represented Ikon for many years.... When 95 percent customer satisfaction isn't good enough Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM In this example, the printer is running at 95-percent satisfaction in prepress, but still that means 20 unhappy customers, each month. Best-in-class printers... Going lean in any pressroom Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Raymond J. Prince We hear the hype of Lean Manufacturing and read about it in many articles across all manufacturing sectors. After reading most of the concepts, I realized... Industry News 100 Words or Less: How can printers improve ... Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM Study your customer database and prospect list, and decide what information will most benefit these two distinct audiences. With a database, you can contact... PIA/GATF awards InterTech winners Jul 29, 2008 10:00 AM Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 InterTech Technology Awards... Kodak produces 2008 Olympic materials in Beijing Aug 13, 2008 3:16 PM Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group (GCG) (Rochester, NY) is producing materials with image-rich, variable-data content and capture information for security badges at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games... Rebranded manroland rededicates U.S. headquarters Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM manroland Inc. rededicated its North American headquarters in Westmont, IL, this summer, as part of the company's rebranding. Joining manroland CEO Vince... Avanti is on the move Aug 13, 2008 3:07 PM MIS solutions provider Avanti Computer Systems (Toronto) is moving to larger premises to meet the needs of a growing client base. ... Tidbits Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM West Chicago's Central Ink Corp. received Platinum Supplier Status from PAGE Cooperative, a nonprofit purchasing cooperative and the newspaper industry's... People Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM Frank Bagrosky has joined Spiel Associates Inc. (Long Island City, NY). JohnsByrne Co. (Niles, IL) announces the appointment of Ken Ingram as executive... Departments AP Etc. | September | American Printer Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM Who will be the Printer of the Year? Sappi Fine Paper North America (Boston) recently announced the recipients of its 2008 North American Printers of... September Industry Events Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM September 15-18 G7 Summit and Spectrum Conference, IDEAlliance, New Orleans, www.idealliance.com 16-17 Extreme Color Management, The Color Management... September in REGISTER Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien Wednesday is InRegister day Editor's Picks features selected highlights from AMERICAN PRINTER's InRegister newsletter. 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