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Where have I been?

In which Lazerus describes his first movement away from Ink-on-Paper.

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Digital Printing and Prepress job trends

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It seems from the chart below that jobs with the phrase “Digital Printing” in the job description (being precise here) were definitely trending up, even ignoring the anomalous spike in Summer ‘07. Of course, the trend has turned down now.

The situation for prepress jobs is far more dismal, as this chart [...]

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The Future of Prepress I : Where is the customer? | Prepress Pilgrim

Harvesting wheat, not customers

Great post by DJ Dunkerly at Prepress Pilgrim. I’m looking forward to the next part.
Two things come to mind for me here. First, its not a gigantic leap, skillwise, for a good prepress operator to take other tasks like IT. Successful prepress operators are very data oriented, as opposed to object oriented [...]

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I wish I’d thought of it

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Check out this genius idea: When I first saw it, I didn’t know what to say. I’d love to see the results, and I’d love to see a scientific study of this.
From the printer’s perspective: Digital printing is now approaching offset quality in a lot of ways. Book printing is especially suited to [...]

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  • My name is Jeff Lazerus and my professional experience includes marketing, graphic design, prepress and prepress management; variable data printing and digital printing management.
    This blog is my personal portal for online experimentation. I write about creating your own space on the web, new marketing technology, the print business, and metablogs. Opinions are my own, and I hope someone else's as well.Contact me: jeff@jefflazerus.com




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