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IMS Printing moves to new Lone Tree building - Our Colorado News
3 Feb 2012 at 8:07pm

IMS Printing moves to new Lone Tree building
Our Colorado News
Bucking the trends of dwindling business and downsizing, IMS Printing & Signs, a local, familyowned business specializing in retail graphics and dimensional signage, has moved into a new, 5400-square-foot facility in Lone Tree.

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T-Shirt Printers Big Winners In Big Game - Sacramento Bee
3 Feb 2012 at 2:02pm

T-Shirt Printers Big Winners In Big Game
Sacramento Bee
3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- No matter which team scores the Super Bowl trophy, T-shirt printers will be big winners, printing tens of thousands of logoed shirts overnight for devoted football fans to snap up Monday morning.
MEDIA RELEASE: ASI Says T-Shirt Printers Big Winners in Big GamePR Web (press release)

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Fighting words, champion prints - Irish Times
3 Feb 2012 at 6:14pm

Irish Times
Fighting words, champion prints
Irish Times
Today, Donald Teskey prints are freshly racked overhead, like the most expensive tea towels you can imagine. They are landscapes, identical but for the tiny differences that come from being hand-printed, and they are being settled in for a drying that ...


Google Cloud Print: It's Actually Awesome, and Here's How to Set It Up - Life...
3 Feb 2012 at 3:06pm

Google Cloud Print: It's Actually Awesome, and Here's How to Set It Up
Lifehacker
Google Cloud Print is an under-appreciated service that can send print jobs from virtually anywhere to a connected printer in any other location. Normally that involves tedious configuration on your network, but Cloud Print can do it in just a few ...
Print managers face up to the cross-media challengeprintweek.com

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Digital Printing Solutions Product Engineer Hewlett Packard - What They Think
3 Feb 2012 at 5:33pm

Digital Printing Solutions Product Engineer Hewlett Packard
What They Think
We design, manufacture, and sell commercial high speed digital printing presses for the Publishing, Direct Mail, and Transactional markets. Work with a great team creating disruptive Hewlett-Packard products in the digital printing market.


Printing company apologizes for 'tax crisis' - abc27
3 Feb 2012 at 6:23pm

Printing company apologizes for 'tax crisis'
abc27
By Dave Marcheskie - bio | email A printing company is making amends after it accidentally mailed out 2000 tax forms with other people's social security numbers attached. Security Savings Systems mailed a letter to Derry Township residents.
Printing Company Releases SSNs By MistakeWGAL Lancaster

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Brazilian corruption: a licence to print money - Financial Times (blog)
3 Feb 2012 at 5:42pm

Brazilian corruption: a licence to print money
Financial Times (blog)
The government is investigating allegations that the head of the national mint ? that's right, the man in charge of printing the country's money ? was taking kickbacks from the institution's suppliers. The official, Luiz Felipe Denucci Martins, ...


Tip: Use an app to print from iPad - USA TODAY
3 Feb 2012 at 7:02am

USA TODAY
Tip: Use an app to print from iPad
USA TODAY
By Kim Komando, Special for USA TODAY Question: I want to print from my iPad 2 without using a computer, but I'm having difficulty. Are there any apps that can help me do this? By Kim Komando You'll need an AirPrint-enabled printer to print from an ...

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Print Audit Facilities Manager Takes the Software Lead - ZDNet (blog)
3 Feb 2012 at 8:41am

Print Audit Facilities Manager Takes the Software Lead
ZDNet (blog)
By Doc | February 3, 2012, 6:31am PST Summary: The Managed Print Services industry will continue to grow because of its impact on reducing infrastructure costs associated with printing, improving productivity, and environmental sustainability.


Mandate for printed Arizona public notices debated - KTAR.com
3 Feb 2012 at 8:34am

Mandate for printed Arizona public notices debated
KTAR.com
by AP (February 3rd, 2012 @ 7:31am) PHOENIX -- A bill awaiting action in the Arizona House would allow local governments, businesses and other entities to post required public notices on the Internet instead of printing them in newspapers in towns and ...
Mandate for printed Ariz. public notices debatedYourWestValley.com

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Business Cards Printing

Just about any office supply store can make up business cards for you and this is a viable alternative for someone who just needs a supply of simple business cards printed perhaps to start a new business or if the need for new business cards is not frequent. There are some drawbacks to relying on a commercial printer like this that could become a problem if your need for these small but important parts of your business profile is unique. Some situations where using a commercial printer for business cards might not be the best choice are…

• You need a very creative and customized business card that does not conform to the printers "menu" of choices.
• You need your business cards today so you cannot wait the standard time that printers require to complete an order.
• You don’t require 1000 cards. Perhaps because of economy or because you expect the card to change, you want to just order a small quantity to be filled again if you run out. This kind of flexibility is not possible outsourcing your business card needs.
• You get a lot of business cards made because of the size of your business so it represents a sizable budget line item. Budget controls make it viable to consider insourcing this function.

Setting up a printing facility to make business cards yourself is not a perfect fit for all businesses but there are situations where it makes a lot of sense. It is one of those "outsourcing/insourcing" decisions that can give you more control over one line item on your advertising budget. Just as keeping your own web development team is a significant effort but one that can save money and give you more control over web development, bringing the function of printing cards for your employees in-house can cap that cost while opening up more flexibility in how you use this function.

The quantity issue is just one example of how you can create cost controls and reduce waste in business card production. Many commercial printers set up their costs structures so that ordering your cards in sets of 1000 is the only rational choice. But when you bring new employees on, while you may need to get business cards for them, you don't know how long they will be with you. If you could have 100 cards or less made up for them, that makes more sense than making 1000 and then having to throw most of them away if the employee doesn’t stay on. You can have that control with an in-house printing facility.

You can produce your own business cards for a relatively low cost. Using PC software and forms that the major paper makers like Avery produce, it can be done on a desktop unit. You can make your production facility as fancy as you can afford with customized printers that allow you to make magnetized cards or cards with elaborate finishes and colors. But by doing it yourself, you turn that control over to your own people which can be economical and expand how you use business cards at the same time.