Tag Archives: prepress

Where have I been?

By jlazerus | Published: December 14, 2009

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

Posted in Blogs, Bloggers and Blogging, Employment Issues, Printing | Also tagged digital printing, Education, Information technology, Printing, Publishing and Printing | 4 Comments

Digital Printing and Prepress job trends

By jlazerus | Published: February 27, 2009

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 [...]

Posted in Employment Issues, Printing | Also tagged Business, Business and Economy, Commercial Printing, digital printing, Experiments, Publishing and Printing | 7 Comments

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

By jlazerus | Published: January 3, 2009

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 [...]

Posted in Printing | Also tagged AdWords, digital printing, Printing, Publishing and Printing, Web-to-print | 2 Comments