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• Howie Fenton
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• 22 January 2018

Has Web to Print Become a Business-Critical Application?

Has Web to Print become a Business-Critical Application? The growing importance of e-commerce has never been more clear than the most recent holiday season as 51% of holiday shopping was expected online, compared to 42% in stores (Deloitte Holiday Retail Survey [2017]). An annual survey by analytic firm comScore and UPS found that consumers are

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• Howie Fenton
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• 25 July 2017

Justifying Your Existence 3-Part Series: #3- Investing in Non-Print Technology or Services

This is the third and last in a series of blogs that addresses how to create a strategy to justify your in-plant's existence. In the first blog, we talked about measuring performance. In the second, how to use benchmarking to prove your value, and in this blog, we will discuss the growing importance of non-print technologies and services.

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• Howie Fenton
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• 20 June 2017

Justifying Your Existence 3-Part Series: #2- Benchmark Your In-plant

This is the second of three blogs that address how to create a strategy to justify your existence and prove the value of the in-plant, corporate or in-house print center. In the first blog, we talked about measuring performance. In this blog, we are discussing bench-marking performance.

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 12 June 2017

Webinar 6/28: Optimize Ordering and Print Center Efficiency with Web-to-Print

Increasing efficiency and improving the customer ordering process should be key goals for every in-plant. In this June 28th webinar (2pm ET|11am PT) you will learn how the State of Oregon's Publishing & Distribution unit plans to accomplish both of these objectives by implementing Web to print technology. Ranked as the country's fourth largest government in-plant,

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• Howie Fenton
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• 22 May 2017

Justifying Your Existence 3-Part Series: #1- Measure Performance

In the recent PRIMIR study entitled "Digital Printing Technology's Influence on the U.S. In-Plant Printing Market" that IMG worked on with IDC, we identified that the top in-plant challenges focused on justifying:

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• Howie Fenton
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• 19 April 2017

When Is the Right Time for In-Plants to Invest?

In a presentation recently, I was asked if there were specific times in-plants are more likely to invest. I had to think for a second because the commercial and in-plant investment plans are different in many ways. First, in-plants tend to hang on to equipment longer

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• Howie Fenton
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• 21 March 2017

The Future of In-Plants

The latest State of the Industry report written by Andy Paparozzi, the Chief Economist at IdeaAlliance, was recently published. In his presentation at a recent conference, Andy spoke of the decline in overall work from a high of $98.3B in 2007 to a low of $77B in 2011. Since then however,

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• Howie Fenton
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• 20 February 2017

7 Tips To Increase In-Plant Awareness, Generate Leads and Sell More

Tips For Increasing Awareness of Your In-Plant Print Center February is the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association's (IPMA's) In-Plant Awareness Month. For everyone actively working to increase their customers’ awareness, congratulations. For those who don’t know where to start, here are seven ideas. Survey Customers and non-customers. Surveys can provide two functions. In our assessments

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 12 January 2017

Don’t be Chicken: Innovate!

A Chat with the Tyson Foods In-plant Manager Photo Credit: In-plant Graphics I recently spoke with Russell Gayer, manager of Printing Services at the Tyson Foods in-plant in Arkansas. Gayer, a writer and humorist in his spare time — he finished third in a Toastmaster’s district humor speech contest, and has a humor

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 14 July 2016

IPMA Web to Print Best Practices Webinar 8/17

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 23 May 2016

Ownership and Licensing Web to Print Software

At RSA, a common question we hear is "Who should I acquire my Web to Print solution from?" Our recommendation is to expand the question to include ownership of the software license. Acquiring the software from you primary production print vendor is generally the best option— provided that you have provisions to own the software

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 17 May 2016

5 Reasons to Attend the IPMA 2016 Annual Conference

The IPMA 2016 Annual Conference June 20-24, 2016 RSA has long been a sponsor of the In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA), a 600+ member-lead association dedicated exclusively to the needs of all in-plant printing and mailing organizations. IPMA's annual conference and vendor fair, themed "Reaching New Heights" will take place in Denver, CO from June 20 - 24, 2016.

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 30 March 2016

The No. 2 Top In-Plant Issue – Reducing Costs and Increasing Efficiencies

This article is the second in a series about the top five challenges facing in-plant print centers. This article focuses on what has been identified by in-plants in the U.S. Production Software Investment Outlook (InfoTrends, 2015) as their top business direction in the next

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 14 February 2016

Build a Better In-Plant - 4 Valuable Tips

Develop Your Value Proposition, Become the Data Integration Expert for Marketing and IT, Plus More Valuable Tips We're all pushed to the max with daily operations. Making sure we take the right actions to develop our variable products for those we serve is serious. Below are four tips to get you moving and how conversations

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 08 February 2016

Build a Better In-Plant - 3 Workflow Automation Tips You CANNOT Afford to Miss

Here are three must know tips you cannot afford to miss that will improve your automation and entice your customers to bring business back to your shop.

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 01 February 2016

Build a Better In-Plant – 4 Tips to Pave the Path to Better Client Interactions

Follow These Four Tips and Make the Effort, You'll Enjoy the Payoff Outside of your staff morale, it's hard to think of an area more impactful on your operation than great customer relations. What does it take to secure existing orders; gain back lost work, and obtain new jobs? People order from people

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 24 January 2016

Build a Better In-Plant – 5 Pillars of In-Plant Growth

Are You Capturing All of the Possible Print Opportunities for Your Shop? Astute in-plant managers and service teams are attuned to and ahead of the customer. You are an inside partner with a vested interest in customer success. But are you capturing all of the possible print opportunities for your shop? 

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 17 January 2016

Unique Ways 3 Higher Ed In-Plants Grow, Remain Relevant

At a recent In-plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA) lunch-n-learn session, three higher education in-plant managers from UC Davis, Fairfield University and Cedarville University discussed how they've remained relevant and grown, leveraging graphic design services, marketing and Web to print. Web to Print and a Unique Graph Design Retainer Fuel Growth for

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 10 January 2016

Progressive's 7-Step Insourcing Journey

At a recent presentation sponsored by Rochester Software Associates, Tom Rohrbach, IT Systems Engineer Consultant at Progressive, shared a 7-step framework that Progressive utilized to determine the optimal balance of in-house and outsourced work for their firm. In addition to the 7-step process, Rorhbach related the key project learnings. Watch the entire

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 21 December 2015

Build a Better In-Plant – 3 Tips to Create a Better Marketing Plan

A good marketing plan engages your existing customers, entices prospects to move work into your shop, and explains who you

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