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One of the greatest selling points that Access Direct Systems of Farmingdale, N.Y., has to offer is its acute sense of – and proficiency in handling – data, as well as the potential value it offers direct mail clients. That is not very surprising to hear, as the 550-employee firm produces more than one billion direct marketing and transactional mail pieces per year from three production facilities on Long Island. The company supplies a full range of print and mail capabilities, from highly personalized digital printing and packaging segmentation, to data receipt and conversion, list hygiene, document creation/archiving, inserting and commingling. Access Direct Systems caters to markets including financial and banking companies, insurance firms, publishers, ad agencies, retailers and Fortune 1000 businesses. An immutable fact drives the mail industry – response rates can easily be triggered via the acute use of data, not to mention personalization and color. When combined, they become …

Core Publishing Solutions, the Eagan, Minn.-based print production arm of Thomson Reuters has come a long way since its founding in 1872 as West Bookstore & Publishing, where it developed a niche in the world of legal publishing [and eventually became the content engine behind the online Westlaw legal research service]. West merged with Thomson Publishing after its acquisition by The Thomson Corp. in 1996, greatly expanding its market scope, and Thomson obtained global news and financial information business Reuters in 2008. Core Publishing Solutions has 440 employees working at its 1.3 million-square-foot facility, of which 650,000 are dedicated to production. The shop produces perfect bound, case bound and loose-leaf titles for Thomson Reuters and more than 100 other publishers doing business primarily in the professional and scholarly, higher education and trade markets. The Core Publishing Solutions printing facility boasts web and sheetfed machines, complemented by both …

Jan Lemieux, Advisor Color Solutions Engineering, Canon and Andrea Glissman, Senior Color Consultant, Océ Technologies, presented “Inkjet Color Basics” at thINK 2016.  Did you miss it?  Read a summary below and view the recorded session on the Resource Center of this website, under “Event Presentations.” The good old days: simpler times when life’s only encumbrance was a pager, a Walkman and a VCR that constantly flashed 12:00 am. A time when color management was easy, right? Before the early 1990s, the printing industry had a 1:1 color management environment. This meant that scan operators – highly paid and skilled craftsmen – knew exactly what presses – operated by more highly paid and skilled craftsmen – to scan for. They did all of the color “magic” in scanner settings when they scanned photos. “Color management” as we know it today was not possible. However, new print technologies were beginning to emerge, bringing 8 vendors together in 1993 to form the International Color …

The thINK 2016 conference may be over, but that doesn’t mean the education stops. During the three-day event, both new and existing thINK members united to share inkjet experiences, learn from experts, and hear from some of the most successful inkjet service providers in the industry. More than 30 sessions – designed for all levels of inkjet experience and awareness – were held throughout the event. Now, all the thINK conference presentations are available in the resource center at thINKforum.com, giving thINK members unprecedented access to a robust library of inkjet-related knowledge. Visit thINKforum.com to access 2016 conference sessions, including these popular sessions:  Profitable Print: Profitable print is what every print service provider aims for. How can production inkjet provide a path to profit? In the “Profitable Print” session, Christian Kropac, president of PCI Group; Mitch Anderson, CRO, Pinnacle Data Systems; and Chuck Werninger, senior manager of administrative …