"Is inkjet catching up with electrophotography? Not just yet!" 

"Now Amazon wants to eliminate the printer." 

"Once the Pandora’s box was opened, they forgot to close it. And now every Tom, Dick and Harry is 'able.' You can become a printer by buying your way in..." 

User "Laurens" on b4prtint.com...

"Print is doomed." 

Adam L. Penenberg, in the October 2007 issue of Media Magazine....

“It is hard to create demand. Go through your client base. Having the capability is not going to create demand. Make sure [customers] need the services before you invest.” 

"Our machine vendors are marketing to our clients, giving them access to the same services that we are trying to sell them."  

An InRegister reader...

State St. Consultants weigh in on Drupa 

"Write this in ink: It will be the Inkjet Drupa. Look for at least eight high-speed, high-quality roll-fed inkjet printers, initially for transpromo but also to challenge another level of offset litho." 

Frank Romano, Drupa attendee since 1972...

"What I and most of my colleagues object to is Adobe distributing this plug-in to every Adobe Acrobat and Reader user." 

Ken Chaletzky, president of Copy General Corp. (Dulles VA)...

"This amounts to a tax on the use of the detach card, and like all taxes depresses revenue and growth." 

James Phelan, CEO and Publisher, The Print Advantage, LLC...

"When your competition has the deep pockets available from their government, the only real way to compete is to get your own deep pockets." 

John F. Trainor (Montrose, CO) ...

"I thought we all were quick printers now!" 

Robert Johannes, general manager, Parris Printing (Nashville, TN)...

"My biggest pet peeve in prepress? Prepress department personnel limiting themselves to the boundaries of the software or hardware tools they use." 

Allen Filson, digital services specialist, The Sheridan Press (Hanover, PA)...

"My prepress pet peeve is the phrase, ‘None of my other printers have problems with my files.'" 

B. Kent Raistrick, Winchester Print (Winchester, Ontario)...

"Thank you for the advice and direction...and for the nice swift kick in the butt to keep growing sales while improving operations." 

Joe Metzger, President, Metzger's Printing (Toledo, OH)...

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