Johnson's World: Telling your company's story 

By Steve Johnson

I just read a press release from a printing company, proudly boasting that they have just installed the world's longest 41-inch sheetfed press, or some...

Johnson's World: Just the facts 

By Steve Johnson

A prominent digital press manufacturer recently treated me to a dog and pony extravaganza. The demo was probably most memorable for highlighting a niche...

Johnson's World: The Holy Grail of digital printing 

By Steve Johnson

In 2001, my company did a feature series in our monthly newsletter, Overnight Lite, comparing the quality of two digital presses we employed at the time....

Letters about mail 

By Steve Johnson

In the 1863 United States, postal rates were standardized, meaning a letter could be mailed anywhere in the country for the same price. Twenty years later,...

Would you print less to add more value? 

By Steve Johnson

Big Wave Advisors (www.bigwaveadvisors.com) is my financial planner. David Nielsen, Big Wave's owner, is an outspoken advocate of adjusting one's portfolio...

Standing resolute in the new year 

By Steve Johnson

Nobel Prize-winning author and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book The Oak and the Calf employed the metaphor of a calf repeatedly butting...

The colors of the season 

By Steve Johnson

The holiday season is upon us once again. A season of colors, all of which have significance. Beware, for here in Johnson's World, everything has a double...

A table for two 

By Steve Johnson

Adelle's is a popular restaurant near me. Hidden out of the way near the train station, it serves high-end American cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. With...

Would you like fries with that? 

By Steve Johnson

Tony Wochnik is a skilled and professional salesman of digital graphic arts equipment. Originally with Xerox, Tony has represented Ikon for many years....

Drawing conclusions 

By Steve Johnson

Barbara Carlson and her husband, Bob, sit in near me on Sunday at Southminster Presbyterian Church. Sometimes Barb hits me with her cane to get my attention....

May I have your attention? 

By Steve Johnson

The kind folks here at AMERICAN PRINTER recently shared with me comments from a readership survey. Good news for me: Lots of people said they read the...

One for the money, two for the show 

By Steve Johnson

Many of AMERICAN PRINTER's recent articles have been about Drupa. To read this magazine and the other trade magazines, you would think that everyone is...

Johnson's World: Whither Pluto? 

By Steve Johnson

At the old entrance to the Adler Planetarium on Chicago's Northerly Island sits a plaque with symbols representing the eight planets. Eight, because the...

All is fair in love, war and printing 

By Steve Johnson

Amazon.com has announced that any books printed on demand must be printed by Amazon itself if the book is to be made available via the Amazon Web site....

Food for thought 

By Steve Johnson

For a while, the was popular in hotel rooms. You are all set, sir. Here is your room key, and the key to the minibar. I always gave the key right back...

More PURLs before swine 

By Steve Johnson

I began last month with a glossary of terms. Permit me, of necessity, to open this month with one more definition. Blog is slang for Web log. It is the...

PURLs of wisdom 

By Steve Johnson

To read this story, you must understand a few terms. If you are hip, high-tech or both, you may skip the over the glossary and dive right into the exciting...

Don't stop believing 

By Steve Johnson

Did you ever notice that if Ben Franklin, the patron saint of printing, wasn't bald and had sported a long beard in his old age, he would have been a...

Johnson & Johnson: an identity crisis 

By Steve Johnson

Remember the brouhaha over the unholy alliance between corporate behemoths Adobe and FedEx? Two companies, both with a culture of ignoring client complaints,...

School days 

By Steve Johnson

Kennedy-King College is a community college serving Chicago's South Side with a strong vocational program. Andrew Lanum, tech prep coordinator for visual...

Picture-perfect profits 

By Steve Johnson

Ask any consultant, academic or equipment vendor about digital opportunities, and they'll give you a knowing look and say, Color picture books are hot!...

Paper dolls 

By Steve Johnson

Every month we find our intrepid Johnson's World correspondent staring blankly at his computer monitor. Daddy, are you writing a column? asks my daughter...

You might already be a winner 

By Steve Johnson

Certain ideas about succeeding in digital printing have been bandied about for so long that some take them as gospel. And I'm tired of it. ...

Where have all the printers gone? 

By Steve Johnson

In the 1970s, a new type of print shop appeared on the American scene. Dubbed "quick printers," they were popularized by franchise operations....

Letters, we get letters 

By Steve Johnson

If you screw up the variable data in your own database, you don't have a snowball's chance of selling variable. If you get the information perfect but screw up the color, you've still shot yourself in the foot....

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