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A Case Study Of Value Streams And Lean Implementation For A Small Print Shop, Alexis Austin

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The growing use of portable Internet devices (smart phones, iPads, laptops, etc.) has caused a huge shift toward digital distribution of content over traditional print processes. Poor economic conditions have contributed to increased customer price sensitivity and higher costs of goods involved in printing. These factors have changed demand for traditional printed products. Many printers have been unable to adapt to the new market environment, leading to dwindling profit margins and thousands of shop closures. Many strategies have been touted as the "best" way to stay profitable in the new market environment, including value-added services, new machinery, and software packages. …

A General Reference Guide For Sales Managers In The Printing Industry To Aid In The Training And Development Of New And Current Sales Personnel, David E. Adam

Theses

This thesis will focus on the study of general management in the printing industry and the need f or a sales management level training program.

A reference manual was developed to help management understand the skills needed to be effective in today's highly competitive printing market/industry. This manual is also a reference to assist management in evaluating their skills, the skills of those they manage, and give them needed information to increase and develop these skills.

Many mid-size printing companies don't have rigid training programs for the white collar side of their business. Many times new hires are hired based …

A Guide To Computer-Based Training For The Graphic Arts Industry, David E. Pease

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Industry in the United States is facing one of the greatest hurdles of all time, that of retraining its work force. The printing industry, in particular, faces a continuing lack of experienced and knowledgeable people. It has begun cooperative efforts to retrain workers in the basic skills needed to run a printing operation. Subjects like basic math, accounting, writing, and sciences round out the curriculum. Also on the scene are entrepreneurial training firms. Off-site training typically goes for $250-350 per person per day; the on-site instruction goes for $400 and up. And then there are options like computer-based tutorials. A …

A Survey Of Quality Awareness Within The Commercial Printing Industry, Craig Eric Veconi

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Quality issues are receiving increasing attention from many industries. The commercial printing industry is showing similar concern. Quality is often used as a marketing tool. This thesis surveys the top management of American commercial printing companies on their awareness of, practice of, and benefit from currently recognized quality control concepts and methods. The National Association of Printers and Lithographers assisted in the survey by providing design and mailing services. The survey mailing went to the membership of N.A.P.L. and to an additional fifteen hundred commercial printing companies. The responses to this survey were compared to similar surveys conducted in 1987 …

A Study On The Relationship Of Dark Reaction Of Diazo And Photopolymer Presensitized, Negative Working, Lithographic Plates With Temperature Relative Humidity, And Time, Kannan Adityan

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Dark reaction is a condition in which the plate acts as if it is exposed to a low level of active light, even though it is being stored in the dark. The Stouffer scale or the sensitivity guide is used to measure this dark reaction which takes place also as a result of high temperature and relative humidity. If there is much dark reaction taking place, more solid steps will show up on a negative working plate. For the purpose of this experiment diazo and photopolymer presensitised, negative working, lithographic plates were chosen. These plates were cut into small sections …

A Study To Eliminate Moire Patterns Produced In Color Separations When Scanning Polachrome Cs Transparency Film On The Hell Dc-300 B/L Laser Scanner, Edwin Parker Price

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The Polaroid Corporation, in May of 1983, introduced Polachrome CS color transparency film and a new process called the Autoprocess system. This system offers the convenience of obtaining instant color transparencies in about three minutes. The film has excellent projection and viewing characteristics. The product was designed to have its largest market with professional photographers. Polachrome's construction creates problems for the printer in that moire patterns occur during the separation process. This study gives a short background for both additive color screen films and dye layer films, and a comparison is made to help the reader understand the problems with …

The Printing Industry In Sub-Sahara Africa: An Exploratory Study, H. Richard Harmsen

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The printing industry in Sub-Sahara Africa faces numerous problems inhibiting further growth and development. Because of a scarcity of published information regarding these problems, and regarding the nature of the industry in general, this study hoped to establish a beginning and baseline for researchers, printing managers, suppliers, development planners, and anyone else interested in the development of the African printing industry. Specifically, the objectives of this study were to identify: 1) the general characteristics of the printing industry in Sub-Sahara Africa; and 2) the primary constraints inhibiting its further growth and development. Information was gathered by several means, including a …

A Survey Of Book Printing In The Lagos Area With Recommendations For Meeting The Need Of Universal Primary Education In Nigeria, Agbo Ella

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With the sudden introduction of Universal Primary Education in Nigeria, the demand for books went up by 60%. This demand will be made acute in the 1979/80 academic year when U.P.E. is made compulsory for all school age children. A faster, quicker method of composition, camera work, stripping and platemaking, press work, bindery operation, and a good production control will increase the printers' output to meet the increased demand. The methodology of this study was based on information gathering through personal interviews. The production personnel in the book printing companies in Nigeria were asked and responded to the questions that …

The Creative Kit: A Portfolio Of Graphic Imagery To Introduce The Graphitek 430 Camera/Processor System To The Visual Communications Market, Barry Hincks

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A Study To Assess The Aesthetic And Economic Viability Of Producing Original Fine Art Prints And Autographic Artists Books On A Rotary Offset Press, And An Introduction To A New Medium For Creating And Producing Original Fine Art Prints And Autographic Artists Books, Daniel Richard Tucker

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This study investigates factors which the author believes could contribute to the determination of the aesthetic and economic viability of producing original fine art prints and artists books on a rotary offset press using direct imaged, uncoated lithographic plates. It also introduces a new medium for the creation and production of these works which was developed during this study. This investigation has been accomplished in the following ways: First, answers were sought to ten questions the author believed any artist considering the use of a rotary offset press as a means of producing these works would want to know. The …

A Study On Occupational Sterotyping Among Graphic Arts Students Enrolled In Selected Public Secondary Schools, Monroe County, New York, Adrian Bernagozzi

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The purpose of this thesis was to determine if the following elements in the curriculum of graphic arts programs in public secondary schools have been effective in enabling students to formulate adequately accurate occupational stereotypes in the field of printing: 1. educational philosophy 2. industrial experience of students such as work experience, personal contacts with people in the trade, and field trips 3. socioeconomic backgrounds of the students 4. vocational maturity of the students 5. occupational plans of the students. In the spring of 1971, students enrolled in advanced graphic arts classes of public secondary schools in Monroe County, New …