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 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, [...]
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 [...]
According to a study by Bredin Business Information (BBI) (from an article in Marketing Charts), marketers are spending too much on channels that their audience doesn’t care about, and not enough on channels they like. The article says that marketers are putting their most of their eggs in the online basket, but the way SMBs [...]
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 [...]
By jlazerus | Published:
February 14, 2009
This kind of post is always interesting to me. Someday, I’ll figure out why, but for now suffice it to say that when you claim to be an expert about something, at least follow your own rules. The article (a self-referential metablog which attempts to give you some rules for making a good blog) instructs the [...]
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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 [...]
