It’s probably a big challenge for every company: missed sales. The million dollar question is how you can avoid missed sales. Well, here are two cases where innovation in print provided a solution. Nothing complicated, no high tech, just an easy answer to a real world problem. CONTENTS: Case 1:…

It is a necessity: investing in marketing and sales. Even in times when cost cutting is daily business. But how much do printing companies invest in marketing and sales? What is the benchmark for printers? Well, let’s take a look at Vistaprint (Cimpress). CONTENTS: Vistaprint (Cimpress) | A few anecdotes…

When you are designing a brand logo, you want to create a logo that can easily be remembered. When judging print, you want everything within tight tolerances, to preserve that unique brand color. But our color memory seems to think quite different about unique colors… Color is something very complex…

It was a gamble when major software companies changed from a one time licence fee to a monthly subscription based licensing. But it seems that many people have embraced that choice. Just look at the numbers that were recently published (October 2016). According to this article, Microsoft has 85 million active…

You’ve probably heared about the massive cyberattack on 21th of October 2016. This was the probably biggest cyberattack to date. But what is lesser known, is that there probably was a ‘general rehearsel’ earlier that month. And that it also involved printers… Early October 2016 I read an article on…

When evaluating your business, you need a reference point. And that should be reference points from outside your own company. Otherwise it doesn’t make any sense. A decade ago one printer told me that they really needed 1000 and more sheets during makeready, because the delivered the highest quality print…

All statistics are clear: print goes down. The turnover of the printing industry goes down, the total of paper consumption goes down. But it’s not as bad as these figures show… This is why. CONTENTS: Changing landscape | Paper industry statistics | Waste in printing companies | Why does this…

I love ‘the cloud’! It’s really great! But there is one thing you shouldn’t forget: you always need a plan B… When Office 365 became available, we switched our e-mail server off for eternity. A few years later, when both prices and maximum storage amounts became reasonable, we planned to…

The printing industry has changed significantly over the past few decades. And the change hasn’t stopped, there will be tough times ahead. I’ve been witnessing these changes from a front row seat, since 1988. Now that I have the time (and opportunity), I’ve decided to share my experiences from the…