Month: November 2019

Stop counting. Start competing.

Bean counters may disagree, but the economics of our business rarely bend. Printing and print finishing operations must purchase raw materials, process them in specific finishing lines, and add labor to produce a finished product. And, there’s little wiggle-room when it comes to these costs.  In general, raw material pricing…

Bean counters may disagree, but the economics of our business rarely bend. Printing and print finishing operations must purchase raw materials, process them in specific finishing lines, and add labor to produce a finished product. And, there’s little wiggle-room when it comes to these costs.  In general, raw material pricing…

A premier book manufacturer that optimizes the “people factor.”

Some month’s back, I wrote about one of my clients, Friesens Corporation, who had replaced an aging casing inline system with the Diamant MC. It was a particularly gratifying experience for me, in part because Friesens chose Muller Martini over another manufacturer that they had used for decades. As the…

Some month’s back, I wrote about one of my clients, Friesens Corporation, who had replaced an aging casing inline system with the Diamant MC. It was a particularly gratifying experience for me, in part because Friesens chose Muller Martini over another manufacturer that they had used for decades. As the…

A book of few or many? To achieve optimum efficiency, one finishing solution must do it all.

As someone who worked on the service side for twenty years, I’ve been a witness to tremendous industry change. Thus, one of the most consistent questions I heard from customers was how could they best prepare for “unpredictability;” that is, should they continue with only conventional printing methods, or migrate…

As someone who worked on the service side for twenty years, I’ve been a witness to tremendous industry change. Thus, one of the most consistent questions I heard from customers was how could they best prepare for “unpredictability;” that is, should they continue with only conventional printing methods, or migrate…