Printing’s Best Blogs is a compilation of posts on topics of
interest to graphic arts professionals. Bloggers from the
Printing Impressions/PIworld.com, In-plant Graphics and
packagePRINTING magazine websites are featured,
supplemented by links to blogs from outside sources.

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SALES & MARKETING

  • The Sales Challenge

    Bill Farquharson

    Breaking News: Facebook Ads Don’t Work!

    Bill Farquharson | May 16, 2012

    General Motors is pulling all paid advertising from Facebook, “...after deciding that paid ads on the site have little impact on consumers’ car...

  • Paul Castain's Sales Playbook

    Paul’s Upcoming Webinar: How To Bring In More Business!

    May 17, 2012

    One of the biggest questions I’m asked on a weekly basis is “Paul, how can I bring in more business?” The unfortunate thing is that many...

  • Margie's Buyer Insights

    Margie Dana

    How a Printer Broke My Heart

    Margie Dana | May 02, 2012

    We sat next to each other at an industry event, enjoying a nice dinner and learning about cross-media marketing. Then I got around to the one...

  • Pressing Ahead

    Michael Casey

    Speed and Accuracy are the Top Drivers of Buyer Loyalty

    Michael Casey | April 23, 2012

    Reviewing a sampling of the 12,000 print buyer surveys revealed that speed and accuracy are mentioned consistently when praising or complaining...

  • Building Brands

    Tom Marin

    Five Big Strategies to Gain a Bigger Market Slice in 2012

    Tom Marin | May 11, 2012

    The objective of your strategic market planning should be to deliver the most impact in the least amount of space. Most marketers realize that...

  • View from Mount Olympus

    TJ Tedesco

    Design Killer Website Landing Pages

    T.J. Tedesco | May 11, 2012

    The Web is a visual medium. Good design supports your landing page’s content, guiding visitors through your message toward a sale. A few ...

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CROSS MEDIA

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BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

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MAILING/POSTAL

  • Dead Tree Edition

    Is the Postal Service Really Broke?

    May 16, 2012

    The U.S. Postal Service would be in Chapter 11 if it were a business, the Postmaster General points out, but others claim he and some political...

  • POSTALNEWS

    Florida Letter Carrier Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud

    May 17, 2012

    TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – Former postal employee, Jacquelyn V. Myers, 55, of Tallahassee, Florida, was... This is a summary- visit...

  • Courier, Express, and Postal Observer

    Separation Incentives for Postmasters and Other Postal Employees

    May 14, 2012

    This week the Postal Service announced an early retirement incentives for Postmasters as part of its restructuring of rural retail service. This...

  • Pushing the Envelope

    2050 Dreaming

    May 14, 2012

    Do you ever wonder about the future? Will flying cars ever arrive? Are video phones here at last? Will the end of paper finally come? Businesses...

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SUSTAINABILITY

  • Eco-Libris

    Poets and Writers Magazine is moving to use recycled paper

    May 11, 2012

    As you know magazines, just like books, have their own environmental issues and there's now a greater exploration of ways to reduce their carbon...

  • Going Green

    Water, Water Everywhere…

    May 16, 2012

    Perhaps for Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, “stuck, without breath nor motion, idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean,” but when thinking...

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PRINT PRODUCTION

  • Print Confessions

    Graphic Arts Professionals

    Get Off the Pricing Merry-go-round

    Veteran Sales Rep | May 17, 2012

    I am sell printing...Or, am I? Internet price lists, commodity pricing, reverse auctions, last look, poor specifications, unanswered questions,...

  • foldfactory.com Blog

    FOLD of the WEEK: Sliding Smartphone Self-mailer

    May 09, 2012

    This week’s fold is another amazing high-speed inline automated direct mail piece from Specialty Print Communications in Niles, Illinois. The...

  • Against the Grain

    Dustin LeFebvre

    Auction Marks End of Major Printer, Offers Bargains

    Dustin LeFebvre | May 15, 2012

    In a sense, Berlin Industries was once the king of Chicago. Last week, the remaining assets were auctioned off. If you were there, you could have...

  • Making the Grade

    Sabine Lenz

    Fizz Serves Up Promotional QR Coasters - PaperSpecs Gallery

    | May 16, 2012

    This set of four coasters is a great marriage of form and function, with a splash of technology mixed in. Including a QR code allowed the ...

  • Digital Nirvana Blog

    Warm Leads Matter, Too!

    May 15, 2012

    I just read a case study that reminds us that soft leads matter, too. In this instance, the case study involved an email campaign, but how often...

  • The Finish Line

    Don Piontek

    Digital Print Hits the Bindery - Head On

    Don Piontek | May 08, 2012

    Digital printing has created a fair amount of heartaches for bindroids. The chemistry and physics of printing with toner create some special...

  • RISI Blog

    What exactly is environmentally preferable paper?

    May 14, 2012

    To understand why selecting environmentally preferable paper is so challenging for publishers and other print buyers, consider these three recent...

  • Printing Industries Blog

    Landa Nanographic Printing™ Presses Making a Splash at drupa 2012

    May 09, 2012

    One of the major stories developing at drupa 2012 involves the Nanographic Printing™ Presses unveiled by Landa Corporation founder, chairman,...

  • Bindery Success

    Perforating Paper - Are You Choosing the Right Perf?

    May 08, 2012

    I suspect this perforating problem happens more often than most printers would care to admit. The short version of the conversation goes like...

  • MyBinding Blog

    MyBinding.com Adds Sara Briggs To Their Customer Service Team

    May 03, 2012

    MyBinding.com, one of the nation's leading Internet retailers of document finishing equipment and supplies, welcomed Sara Briggs to their...

  • Graphicstart

    Print Business Gone?

    May 17, 2012

    Where has the Print Business Gone?For printers of the 21st century, online is the way forward. It`s the way print will be sold and managed in the...

  • Blognosticator

    I’m SLO at some things (another GigaPan story)

    May 11, 2012

    It took me five days to squeeze the last GigaPan image into my schedule. I had classes to teach, meetings to attend, a midterm exam to write, a...

  • Grow Your Biz

    Impressions of drupa 2012 & how it can grow business

    May 16, 2012

    In addition to asking Kodak partners and customers what they thought of the Kodak booth and products, we asked them what they thought of drupa...

  • The Offset Pressman

    Test Your Offset Printing Ink For Bleed

    May 14, 2012

    It's a simple test for your offset printing ink that any pressman can do with limited tools.  It will tell you how compatible your ink and...

  • Print Stories

    Temperament

    May 08, 2012

    John and I have marveled lately at the size of the cacti blooming on the side of our house. It’s a west-facing strip of dirt that gets a ton of...

  • Velocity Print Solutions Blog

    What you need to know about overprint preview – part one

    March 22, 2012

    Have you ever received a pdf proof from your printer (say that 5 times fast) that doesn’t look quite right? Maybe the color is so far off that...

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LABELS AND PACKAGING

  • Digital4Packaging

    Kevin Karstedt

    2 B or not 2 B, That Is the Question

    | May 10, 2012

    I just got back from drupa and was very impressed with all the digital solutions companies like Landa, HP, FujiFilm, Heidelberg, Komori, Bobst, ...

  • Lightning Labels Blog

    Hop on the Brand Bandwagon with Better Labels

    May 05, 2012

    When consumers are buying products, there are typically two things they think about: brand and price. Even if a certain company produces more...

  • The Converting Curmudgeon

    Converting Quarterly 2012 Q2 is online NOW

    May 08, 2012

    Click HERE to read the Digital Edition. In the 2012 Quarter 2 Issue 2012 AIMCAL Awards 2012 FPA Achievement Awards Impact of web-product...

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