By jlazerus | Published:
January 23, 2010
In which Lazerus describes an incredible David vs. Goliath story, and how freedom of the press could actually cost you $300,000 in legal fees.
By jlazerus | Published:
December 14, 2009
In which Lazerus describes his first movement away from Ink-on-Paper.
By jlazerus | Published:
October 10, 2009
Prepress employment is going away, and it’s being replaced by the content creation side. Not only are content creators doing more of the prepress part of the job, but automated systems are also replacing human beings in the workplace. Yes, a robot has taken my job. Seeing this was kind of a shocker for me. [...]
By jlazerus | Published:
August 26, 2009
Again and again I am going to post articles about why I think printing is important, until the internet swells at its seams and finally realizes that it is NO MATCH for the superior power of ink on paper! The book you see to the left was one of the biggest jobs I ever had [...]
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By jlazerus | Published:
August 11, 2009
Image via Wikipedia My new friends at Tunicca have a post about Jacek Utko with a video of his presentation at the TED conference. Utko’s presentation is in itself worth watching, and once you are on the TED site check out some others as they are ALL very thought provoking. Assuming you want to think, [...]
A rare cohesive and and cogent argument with hopefulness, new and improved: NOW WITH FEWER TYPOS!
Image via Wikipedia A semi-anonymous person commented on the blog regarding printing and prepress job trends recently, and since it wasn’t a spammer, I went to their website. If you haven’t already, check out the link. What I saw shocked and amazed me, for some reason. They had an ad for their Google AdWords service! [...]
Image via Wikipedia Not dying so much as really sick Someone commented on a previous post about Prepress job trends saying they thought physical printing is breathing its last. At first, I was going to say I agree. Then I actually thought about it, and I can say that I strongly disagree. No question, there [...]
Not everyone agrees on the definition of “on-demand”. They’re all right, AND they’re all wrong, too. How many ways can you make change for a dollar? The phrase “on demand” is pretty self explanatory. Software makers use it, video services use it. Even “print on demand” has been pretty much lumped into the book publishing [...]
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 [...]
