Welcome to the In-Plant Insights Blog

• Blog Post
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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 13 May 2017

A Different Kind of In-Plant Awareness

I have attended and been a part of a number of in-plant events and conferences the last five years. Show and event attendees marvel about how valuable it is to meet and talk with other in-plant managers.

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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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• Blog Post
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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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• Blog Post
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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 27 February 2017

From Potential Outsourcing to Outstanding- One In-plant’s Adaption to Save Itself

FVTC offers more than 200 associate degree, technical diploma and certificate programs, and instruction related to 15 apprenticeship trades, in addition to providing services to business and industry.

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• Blog Post
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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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• Blog Post
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• Howie Fenton
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• 24 January 2017

Bottleneck Impact the Same Throughout the Workflow Process

Traditionally when we think about workflow we think about how fast equipment works. For example, how many pages per minute presses print, or how many sheets can be inserted into an envelope per hour.

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• Blog Post
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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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• Blog Post
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• Howie Fenton
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• 13 December 2016

Re-envision Your In-Plant Workflow This Holiday

It easy to get nostalgic around the holidays. As I write this, I am in the Northeast at holiday time which brings back memories of an earlier era, 25 years ago, when I first thought about production workflows in a quick copy shop, PostScript service bureau and the prepress department of a printer.

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• Blog Post
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• Vince Tutino
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• 06 December 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: 10 Key Take Aways

I covered a lot of ground in this series on Web to Print Best Practices for In-plant Print Centers: installation, roll out, marketing and selling the capabilities of the system, user adoption (both the print shop and users), pricing, production and automation and expanding the print shop's reach and

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• Blog Post
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• Howie Fenton
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• 25 November 2016

Web to Print Reduces Production Costs 20-50%

Calculating the Savings Associated with Web to Print In a recent seminar, while discussing the advantages of software automation, I mentioned that Web to print software can reduce manufacturing costs between 20-50%. Immediately, someone in the audience asked how that was possible when the cost of paper alone is 25% of the price

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• Blog Post
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• Vince Tutino
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• 22 November 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: 7 Ways to Expand Your Reach & Influence

You’ve launched and rolled out your system. Step back and take a look at what comes next. You will likely want to reach more customers, add capabilities, automate workflow more, or conduct other key initiatives to continue your growth and maintain relevancy. Technology does not stand stil

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• Blog Post
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• Vince Tutino
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• 08 November 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: 4 Web to Print Production and Automation Best Practices

Best Practices for Web to Print Production and Automation Web to print systems come in a couple of different types to drive print production and workflow automation: Web Ordering– Download and Print (offers only submission)- This type offers an e-commerce front-end to submit jobs to the print center but does not send print jobs directly

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• Howie Fenton
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• 01 November 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Presentation Graph Expo 2016

I've recently returned from the Graph Expo 2016 show in Orlando, and I must admit, I was pleasantly surprised by the in-plant attendance! I attended four in-plant events and participated in two. In each case, there were at least sixty people in the audience. 

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• Blog Post
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• Vince Tutino
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• 26 October 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: 4 Pricing Best Practices

Most in-plants have a published price list that covers their common services that may include a selection of papers, B/W and Color printing, wide format, finishing, services like laminating and foam core, and specialty products. Consumers today want simple and fair

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• Vince Tutino
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• 18 October 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: User Adoption

Best Practices for In-Plant Print Center User Adoption- for Customers and Print Center Staff When you are changing from a paper or email-based method of sending jobs and work requests to the Print Center, it may be difficult for your user community to make the change to a Web-based system.

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• Vince Tutino
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• 04 October 2016

Web to Print Best Practices Series: 7 Marketing and Sales Best Practices

Best Practices for Marketing Web to Print for In-plant Print Centers The third article in our Web to Print Best Practices series about how in-plants can successfully implement and use Web to print software covered "6 installation best practices." In this fourth post, I'll focus on a topic closely related to rolling out your Web

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• Press Release
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• Rochester Software Associates
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• 27 September 2016

Rochester Software Associates Previews New QDirect Output Manager Software Release at Graph Expo

Rochester Software Associates (RSA), provider of production print workflow software solutions for in-plant, corporate and commercial printers will be demonstrating a new release of QDirect™ output management software in booth 2067 at Graph Expo in Orlando, September 25-28, 2016...

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• Press Release
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• Rochester Software Associates
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• 26 September 2016

Rochester Software Associates Previews ReadyPrint Universal Prepress Software at Graph Expo

Rochester Software Associates (RSA), provider of production print workflow software solutions for in-plant, corporate and commercial printers will preview and demonstrate its newly updated universal prepress suite, ReadyPrint™ in booth 2067 at Graph Expo in Orlando, Florida September 25-28, 2016...

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• Press Release
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• Rochester Software Associates
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• 26 September 2016

Rochester Software Associates and Ultimate TechnoGraphics Team to Automate Prepress Workflow at Graph Expo

Rochester Software Associates (RSA), provider of production print workflow software solutions for in-plant, corporate and commercial printers is pleased to announce at Graph Expo that it is teaming with Ultimate TechnoGraphics, Inc., a leader in imposition and finishing automation software, to deliver innovative and efficient imposition workflows...

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• Blog Post
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• Howie Fenton
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• 21 September 2016

Fenton Insights from In-plant Print Center Insourcing Interviews

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