Tag Archives: digital printing

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

Image by MonkeyBoy69 via Flickr 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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I wish I’d thought of it

Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]

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