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  • Rochester Software Associates
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  • 22 October 2025

Rochester Software Associates Unveils QDirect 7.0 at PRINTING United 2025 in Orlando

QDirect 7.0 builds on RSA's legacy of innovation by introducing advanced features designed to streamline print operations, enhance efficiency, and support the evolving needs of high-volume print environments. With new features and improvements, this latest version empowers businesses to optimize their print processes and maximize efficiency.

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  • Rochester Software Associates
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  • 21 October 2025

Rochester Software Associates Unveils Version 12.3 of WebCRD Web-to-Print Software at Printing United 2025

Rochester Software Associates is excited to announce the release of version 12.3 of its WebCRD® web-to-print software at the PRINTING United Expo 2025. This highly anticipated upgrade will be showcased at booth #2442 from October 22-24 at the Orange County Convention Center Orlando, FL. WebCRD 12.3 introduces a suite of powerful new features designed to enhance user experience, streamline workflows, and improve overall productivity for print service providers.

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  • Rochester Software Associates
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  • 17 October 2025

Rochester Software Associates Showcases Best-in-Class Workflow Solutions at PRINTING United Expo 2025

Rochester Software Associates (RSA) is proud to announce its participation in the 2025 PRINTING United Expo, taking place October 22–24 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. PRINTING United Expo brings together professionals from across the globe to explore the latest innovations in print technology. RSA will be exhibiting its newest releases and enhancements across its award-winning suite of software.

  • White Paper
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  • 14 May 2024

RSA's Blueprint for Secure Operations: A Guide for In-plants and PSPs

The Rochester Software Associates (RSA) InfoSec team takes a Defense in Depth position on Information Security, leveraging multiple security measures to protect both the organization and customer assets. The team integrates people, technology, and operational capabilities to establish variable barriers across multiple layers. This white paper explores each layer of RSA’s security protocols, to explore the measures RSA takes to keep customer information secure.

  • Research Report
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  • 07 May 2024

The Changing Face of eCommerce and What it Means for In-plants

Download our free report on 'The Changing Face of eCommerce and What it Means for In-plants' to discover how consumer demographics shape e-commerce expectations and strategies for in-plants. Gain insights to tailor your offerings and meet evolving market demands.

  • Blog Post
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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 07 May 2024

11 Innovative Strategies to Overcome In-Plant Staffing Issues: Part 1

Hiring employees has become increasingly challenging for in-plants. As older employees retire, younger generations — including Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Y — are becoming more and more difficult to draw in. But with a clearer idea of what these generations are looking for, and by introducing new programs and tactics that align with those needs, in-plants can begin to make their businesses more appealing for young hires.  

The first in a two-part series, this blog post looks at six of 11 recommendations on how to do that. 

  • Blog Post
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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 12 September 2023

How to Use ChatGPT to Support Your Business

ChatGPT opens up new opportunities for businesses—but only if it’s leveraged effectively. This blog explores how in-plant printers can make the most out of artificial intelligence while avoiding common pitfalls like plagiarism and inaccuracies. Through trial and error and some established best practices, printers can use ChatGPT to enhance its customer service efforts, by building out answers to frequently asked questions and creating templated responses to common requestswhile escalating more high-level requests to the humans.

  • Online interview
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  • 14 February 2023

Increased Efficiency Builds Trust

Methodist Healthcare San Antonio discusses how WebCRD increases print center efficiency, reduces costs, and improves turnaround, which helps keep work in-house. The workflow automation has become the equivalent of a full-time employee (FTE), freeing the manager and staff for more responsibilities.

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  • Elisha Kasinskas
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  • 15 July 2022

Spotlight: The Secret to Steve DuPlessis’s Success

Steve DuPlessis of XBS Southwest’s presence at the recent IPMA conference was unusual. He was there to support his in-plant customers, to learn and educate his team, and be helpful. He is firmly committed to providing the right solution to customers, educates himself (and his team) about customer wants, needs, and trends, and takes advantage of every moment of a conference to meet, learn and grow.

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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 09 June 2022

Surviving Today’s Challenges to Help Your Recovery

In this post, Howie Fenton previews his IPMA conference presentation designed to help in-plants in your recovery from the last two and a half years. He offers suggestions for dealing with four top issues: declining volumes, hiring new staff, and minimizing complaints about pricing, and the impact of the paper shortage.

  • Blog Post
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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 06 May 2022

Print Center Consolidation Stumbling Blocks

Some in-plant print centers, including a university in-plant, survived through the pandemic by consolidating staff, cross-training everyone, and performing more like a nimble, small commercial company where all staff could perform all the shop's tasks. We discuss the motivation, previous in-plant consolidation trends, and five stumbling blocks to consider if you need to plan for the consolidation of staff or services.

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  • IPMA Webinar
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  • 09 December 2021

Print Center IT Security Checklist

Learn how to keep your print center secure on an on-going basis or when you add, change, or upgrade printers or printing software solutions in your shop. Download our free "Print Center IT Security Checklist" for in-plant print centers to find out how you can keep your print operation secure and your cybersecurity team happy.

  • Blog Post
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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 09 December 2021

3 Strategies to Prepare for Next Year’s New Challenges

Research shows that not only will we continue to experience supply chain and staffing issues in the coming year, we could also experience customer pushback about price increases and slower turnaround times. In the worst-case scenario, this could result in questions about the value of print or, worse, the value of the in-plant. This article will discuss the threats and offer three strategies to overcome them.

  • Online Interview
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  • 23 July 2020

Chino Valley Schools Navigates Change with WebCRD Automation

In this video interview with Chino Valley Schools, the in-plant shares how they were ready to navigate the changes during COVID-19 using WebCRD Web to print and the AutoFlow automation to keep the in-plant efficient and operational with reduced staff and 100% online submission eliminating in-person contact.

  • Blog Post
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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 27 January 2020

Nine Steps to In-plant Profitability

In this vlog, I start a three-part series about the nine steps that I see that in-plants need to take to increase their profitability. While not every in-plant has a model to be profitable, in-plants can use these steps to ensure they are not losing money or operating below cost, and are operating as efficiently as possible for their parent organization.

  • Blog Post
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  • Ryan McAbee
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  • 19 December 2019

Three Workflow Resolutions for 2019

This quarter, Keypoint Intelligence - InfoTrends' Ryan McAbee, Director, Production Workflow offers three tips for workflow resolutions to make in 2019. We'll visit each of these in-depth throughout the year to help keep you on track.

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