Saturday, January 22, 2011

One beneficial change in printing is the new affordability of full color printing. Improvements in digital printing equipment such as the paper feed system, lower toner fusing temperature and polymerized toner particles have resulted in output that rivals offset printing for color fidelity, image resolution and the range of papers that can be used, and because digital printing requires almost no make ready, there are minimal fixed costs associated with each job. That means full color printing is now affordable in quantities as low as 100 prints, as well as in variable data printing applications such as versioning and one-to-one marketing.

Affordable color and the ready availability of stock photography means that small businesses and organizations can now realize the benefit of having corporate identity and marketing materials designed and printed in full color and illustrated with photographs.

The effectiveness of informational material such as instruction sheets and training guides can be increased by incorporating color.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Much is being made today of the decline of printing. Newspaper and magazine subscribers are dwindling; e-books are gaining in popularity; online advertising is replacing print; and printed products are being assailed as environmentally unsound. So does printing have a future? Does it present value?

We say unequivocally YES.

Businesses and organizations know that printing is not about the ink on the paper; it's about the target audience's reaction to it. As author, journalist and marketing consultant Cary Sherburne says, "It is not about print; it is about the most effective way to achieve the business objective associated with any given customer communication or campaign."

Print is not dead nor is it dying, it is changing.