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 By Kevin Keane, IAPHC CEO This is the 63rd edition of Tuesday Morning News. Thank you for reading it! How Do You Spell Conept? "For generations printers have depended upon the process color pressman. Though this craftsman will still be important, the general commercial printer of the millennium will rise or fall based on the skills of the employee who is a prepress expert in 'CONEPT' CONEPT is an acronym for conventional, electronic prepress, and telecommunication." C. Clint Bolte writing about "the most valuable manufacturing employee of the millennium. The Tsunami called the Internet From Bloomberg News: "Not only are more people using the Internet at their jobs, they are spending more time online there, then at home.... What's more, about 90 percent of employees at large companies will be online by 2002, up from about 29% now, Forrester Research analyst Waverly Deutsch said." CTP Opportunities and Challenges The recent GAMIS report on Computer to Plate says there are three reasons for the move towards computer to plate (CTP): - CTP results in a simplified workflow - CTP output means superior print quality - CTP is a marketing hook for customers But the report also lists four barriers to rapid adoption of CTP: - the ENTIRE workflow has to be digital - scarcity of people trained in digital workflow - the dollar investment to get into CTP - cost effective digital proofing Kodak Polychrome Markets New Desktop Color Proofer Last week Kodak Polychrome Graphics announced the new Kodak Digital Science DCP 9500 Proofer which offers a fully featured RIP and produces proofs in 5 minutes. The unit is dye sub, and will be available in June. (Thanks to Third District Governor Len Petitti for sending this item along to us.) Last Stand for Mac Maniacs? Ousted Apple CEO Gil Amelio made his debut on the book circuit last week trying to explain what went wrong during his tenure at Apple. Given how many Mac fanatics there are in the graphic arts, perhaps we should buy his book for old times sake. An arguably more intriguing bit of reading however, is a $129 report from Gistics, Inc., of San Anselmo, California. (www.gistics.com) While slightly dated, the report compares the return on investment (ROI) for Macintosh and Windows PC systems. The study claims that Mac users in creative industries achieve a much faster ROI from their computers than users in the same industries that use Windows based PC's. For example the report claims that a PowerPC Mac based studio can achieve payback on a new computer in 4.59 months versus 12.58 months for a Windows NT based firm. One wonders why Amelio and friends didn't trumpet this study to the heavens when it came out. More Soy Stuff If you are looking for an environmentally friendly, biodegradable press cleaner you might want to consider NatuRen produced by Soy Environmental Products Inc, Overland Park, Kansas. 913-599-0800 or www.soyclean.com Also don't forget to bookmark www.soyink.com where you can learn all you need to know about soy ink and the SoySeal trademark Other Industry Tidbits - Muller Martini takes over the book production line of products from Stahl GmbH. The products in the VBF line will continue to be produced at the existing Ingersheim site in Germany. (Thanks to John Kohnke of the San Francisco Club for this item.) - A list of jobs in prepress, tech support and graphic design is available at http://www.desktoppublishing.com/employ.html (Thanks to Member-at-large, and former Pittsburgh Club president Tammie Aaron for this item) {Closed Circuit to Tammie -- your many friends want to know that you and yours were spared the horrors of the tornadoes that swept through Birmingham, AL., let us know won't you?} - Consolidated Graphics acquires its 36th firm -- this time its Image Systems in Milwaukee. George Fiel is president of Image Systems and was an oft quoted early adopter of the Heidelberg GTO-DI press. (Thanks to John Berthelsen of the Madison Area Club for this item.) - Gorton Evans, president and CEO of Consolidated Papers, Inc., commented on the state of the paper industry last week in anticipation of the firm's annual meeting on April 27th, 1998. "The first quarter of 1998 is best described as a mixed bag. Demand for groundwood papers, supercalendared printing papers and corrugated products continued to be high, while market demand for groundwood-free coated printing papers and coated specialty papers generally remained fair." (Thanks to East Bay Club member Jeff Jarvis for this item.)
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