Offset Printing - Web

Whitley Printing Company is using Kodak NexPress Dimensional Printing Solutions to deliver on their commitment to excellence. View how they are creating unique ideas to get direct mail noticed.

Kodak is making digital without compromise a reality so that you can build stronger, more profitable relationships with your customers. View a full demonstration of the KODAK PROSPER 5000XL from IPEX 2010.

Bob Hreha, Knepper Press president, has had to correct many misconceptions regarding the product and service 
offerings of the commercial printer.

How do we gauge the state of web offset printing in relation to where it is heading, when factoring in change variables such as digital printing and shorter run lengths?

Few commercial offset printers, if any, can lay claim to growing their businesses organically by 45 percent in 2009, let alone up another 60 percent in the first quarter of this year.

To be successful, printers must learn to manage their businesses in a manner that addresses today’s market conditions. One of the challenges this presents is a reconfiguration of the print production platform to efficiently and cost effectively produce the full gamut of run lengths.  This white paper authored by WhatTheyThink.com’s Cary Sherburne discusses how to meet this requirement.

It is fascinating to note what market influence the recession has visited on the book market, beyond the tempering of consumer confidence. But even in an atmosphere of printing platform right sizing and other business-related reconciliation, it is difficult to take any view but an optimistic one of the past year and the coming fortunes in 2010.

Amidst the rising cost of postal rates and major cutbacks, publishers and catalogers have been forced to reevaluate their marketing and business strategies. Companies in both sectors looked at cost reduction, how to gain stronger customer loyalty and better ROIs, as well as adopting multi-channel strategies.

Concord Litho, the pride of the New Hampshire town that bears its name, has captured more than 50 awards in the past three years from entries in various worldwide printing contests. Augmenting the powerful designs and superior printing jobs from this independent web and sheetfed printer, in some cases, is a breath of fresh air in the form of chocolate, fresh-cut grass, popcorn, Oreo cookies and pickles. Yes, pickles.

The growth of multi-faceted Creel, a reputable Las Vegas-based sheetfed and heatset and coldset web printer since 1953, flies in the face of the difficulty being experienced by the casinos. The publication, catalog, direct mail and commercial printer has cruised along the fast track during the past 10 years, growing its staff from 160 employees to 600 and two plants