Business Management - Operations

Otto Boutin ran into Speedy Smith several years later. The print shop owner’s meaning of life philosophy had since changed drastically.

Here’s the next installment in our continuing series of republished “Otto’s Night Watch” columns written by Otto Boutin, which appeared monthly several decades ago in Printing Impressions. In this week’s short story, Otto reconnects with Speedy Smith, a former workaholic employer whose life revolved solely around running his business. He found that Speedy Smith’s philosophy about […]

LSC inks a five-year Supply Chain Services contract for the print production and warehousing of educational materials for Great Minds.

Non-biased business systems enable management to make good decisions without presumption or partiality. Systems are inanimate objects, as they have no predisposition or prejudice. Although they do process data that is input by humans, systems have no feelings or prejudgments, regarding data results.

Wearing a white shirt my first day at Gigantic Colossal Printing made the linotype operators work much faster as I stood behind them.

Oliver Printing and Packaging in Twinsburg, Ohio, moved its Finishing and Fulfillment Center to a larger 40,000 sq. ft. facility.

TWINSBURGH, Ohio — April 13, 2017 — Ohio-based Oliver Printing and Packaging continues to anticipate customer needs and meet its own growth objectives with a recent expansion of one of its facilities. In February of this year, the company moved its Finishing and Fulfillment Center to a larger 40,000 sq. ft. facility, which is located less […]

A follow-up to “A Case Study of Patent Abuse: Printing Industry Faces New Nemesis Impacting Growth and Employment—Patent Trolls.”

John Romita, a 40-year industry veteran, has joined SPC in Niles, Ill, as director of manufacturing.

Linda Pomponio and her sister Tracey Pomponio-Lasko, opened up a new Minuteman Press in Astoria, N.Y.