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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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• 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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• 10 August 2017

12 Reasons Why In-Plant Print Centers Should Attend Print 17

If you skipped Graph Expo last year, haven't been in a while or have never attended, you may be wondering what's new or why you should attend Print 17, September 10-14 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Vince Tutino
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• 16 August 2016

Web to Print Best Practices for In-plant Print Centers

Why Web to Print Best Practices are Important and Why This Series This series was inspired by in-plant managers who wanted information online about Web to print that they were not seeing. While there is information available about features and case studies, other than some of our own white papers, there isn't a lot available

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 09 August 2016

Deciphering Conflicting Web to Print Research

In the July issue of In-Plant Graphics Magazine (IPG), editor Bob Neubauer wrote an article entitled, "In-plant Research: IPG vs IPMA — Who Is Right?" The article compared results from a recent IPMA (In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association) survey, "State of the In-Plant Industry: Challenges, Opportunities, and Outlook" to results from the IPG biennial

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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 19 July 2016

Sun Life Financial’s Success with Web to Print

In a recent webinar, the staff at Sun Life Financial talked about their strategy, decision making process and success in their implementation of RSA's WebCRD in-plant Web to print software. The webinar was moderated by In-plant Graphics Editor Bob Neubauer, who discussed the magazine's recent survey

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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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• 14 June 2016

3 Steps for More Effective Workflow Software Implementations

In previous blogs and white papers we have talked about the critical success factors (CSF) required for the implementation of Web to print solutions. One CSF is that leading in-plants are more effective at implementing new software. Why are some in-plants better at implementation? Because they make better choices early in the process. 

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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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• 16 March 2016

The Five Leading In-Plant Issues Series (And How Top In-Plants Solve Them)- No. 1 Outsourcing

Like never before, in-plant printing operations are faced with challenges. In this five-article series, we address the top five issues in-plants are facing today and how leading in-plants are solving these issues. We'll cover: Outsourcing and how to combat it Reducing costs and increasing

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• 07 March 2016

Why Should You Consider Web to Print for Your Print Center?

Learn what makes Web to print software a leading improvement for in-plant print centers. Find out why and how in-plants succeed when they implement a Web to print workflow solution.

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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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