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Read about topics relevant to in-plant, in-house and corporate print centers in all vertical markets. Get insights from RSA and guest industry bloggers like Howie Fenton and Ryan McAbee.

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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 19 October 2017

Print 17 Message: Invest in Workflow. But, Most Don’t.

Idealliance Capital Investment Study Findings At Print 17, I had the chance to sit down with Andy Paparozzi, chief economist at Idealliance, and talked about the latest research on investment priorities. I had worked with Andy on the last Capital Investment study and was interested in learning about the latest study entitled "Capital Investment: Where

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  • Elisha Kasinskas
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  • 13 October 2017

How One In-plant Automates 86% of their Workflow and Saves Millions

In a recent presentation, Blue Valley Schools shared the story of how they'e been able to fully automate 86% of their orders and save their organization over $1.4 million in the last seven years. The case for automating workflows is compelling- touches have a high cost. The Keypoint Intelligence | InfoTrends 2017 study, “U.S. Production Software Investment Outlook” projects that 79% of print shop volume will be automated by 2019. How will you reach this level of automation?

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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 19 September 2017

Does a Shift in In-plant Business Models Mean More Financial Accountability?

In our last In-plant Insights blog post we talked about the different in-plant business models: fully funded, partially funded and partially charge-back, full cost recovery / break-even and revenue or profit-driven. During a recent webinar, we offered an observation about the changing business models which is represented by the blue arrows in the graphic. Although only observation, we believe that:

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  • Rochester Software Associates
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  • 29 August 2017

RSA Demonstrates New Software Releases to Streamline Digital Workflow at Print 17

Rochester Software Associates (RSA), provider of production print workflow software solutions for in-plant and corporate print centers will be showcasing how to streamline digital production print workflow and offer a new technology demonstration of voice-enabled workflow in booth 231 at Print 17...

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  • Elisha Kasinskas
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  • 28 August 2017

Bold Moves for the Future Print 17 Panelist Closeup- The World Bank

This article is the final article in a series introducing each of the three in-plant panelists on the Print 17 panel that I'll be moderating September 11th titled "In-Plant Panel: Bold Moves for the Future." The session features in-plant leaders in Healthcare, Higher Education and non-profit.

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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 21 August 2017

3 Reasons Companies Consider Outsourcing In-Plant Print Centers

Few things strike fear in the hearts of in-plants more than the announcement that they are under review. The administration can call this many things, including: an analysis, review, comparison of performance, or evaluation of best practices. Whatever it is called, it means scrutiny. In some cases,

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  • Elisha Kasinskas
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  • 17 August 2017

Bold Moves for the Future Print 17 Panelist Closeup- Sacramento State

This article is the second of a series introducing each of the three in-plant panelists on the Print 17 panel I'll be moderating September 11th titled "In-Plant Panel: Bold Moves for the Future." The session features in-plant leaders in Healthcare, Higher Education and non-profit.

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  • Elisha Kasinskas
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  • 07 August 2017

Bold Moves for the Future Print 17 Panelist Closeup- UPMC

This article is the first of a series introducing each of the three in-plant panelists on the Print 17 panel I'll be moderating September 11th titled "In-Plant Panel: Bold Moves for the Future." The session features in-plant leaders in Healthcare, Higher Education and non-profit.

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  • Elisha Kasinskas
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  • 31 July 2017

Print 17 In-Plant Panelists Announced; Bold Moves for the Future

A perennial favorite, the in-plant panel seminar at Print 17 is back. This year the session is titled "In-Plant Panel: Bold Moves for the Future," and will be held on Monday, September 11th from 11-11:50 am. Register for session R8 before 8/11 and use registration promo code SPSave50 to save $50 on your seminar registration.

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  • Rochester Software Associates
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  • 29 June 2017

Frisco ISD Print Center Receives Customer Award

Awarded to a customer to recognize their ability to "turn print into productivity with RSA solutions"— RSA’s tagline— the district’s internal print shop has steadily grown their use of RSA’s digital print workflow software solutions since purchasing WebCRDTM Web to print six years ago...

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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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  • Rochester Software Associates
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  • 06 June 2017

Rochester Software Associates Receives Marketing Awards

Rochester Software Associates (RSA), provider of production print workflow software solutions for in-plant, corporate and commercial printers is pleased to announce that we have received two awards in the Rochester chapter of the American Marketing Association's, AMA | Rochester's Pinnacle Awards...

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  • Pat McGrew
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  • 15 May 2017

InfoTrends InfoBlog: Solution Focus- RSA's Vendor Neutral Options

In a recent blog, Pat McGrew, Director Keypoint Intelligence InfoTrends Production Workflow Service, wrote that getting to an automated workflow requires the right tools and work plan. McGrew explained that while some organizations rely on their hardware vendor for workflow tool recommendations, some organizations require independent

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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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  • 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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