Print Media Futures: Challenges and Opportunities -- A Printing Symposium for Leaders in the Printing Industry

---

Tags: RIT Heidelberg web press Sunday 2000 Printing Applications Laboratory Printing Industry Center School of Print Media symposium events

April 25, 2003

---

This event coincided with the formal dedication of RIT's new Heidelberg Web Press Laboratory , an 11,000 square-foot center specially built to house a Sunday 2000 web press, consigned to RIT by Heidelberg Web Systems. With over 100 leaders in the printing industry present, this symposium was the ideal forum to focus on the future success of the industry, and the importance of the industry-education-research connection.

Presentation slides are available below.

Guests participate in a demonstration press run.
(Photo by A. Sue Weisler/RIT University News Services)

Presentations

Remarks from the Public Printer of the United States
Bruce James, U.S. Public Printer, GPO
Chairman, RIT Board of Trustees, Alumnus, School of Print Media

From the Classroom to the Pressroom: Education's Critical Role in Today's Printing Industry
Wolfgang Pfizenmaier, President, Heidelberg Digital, LLC

Wolfgang Pfizenmaier
(Photo by A. Sue Weisler/RIT University News Services)

A Status Report on Printing Industry Demographics
Frank Romano, Fawcett Professor, RIT School of Print Media

70 K	Frank Romano has been tracking the major trends affecting the infrastructure of graphic communications enterprises and offers a snapshot of where we have been and where we may be going.

 

Growing the Print Business with Value Added Services
Barbara Pellow, Gannett Professor and Chair, RIT School of Print Media

2.15 MB

This session will focus on how to expand value to the customer base by adjusting your service models to keep pace with the world of digital technology.

 

Computer-Integrated Print Manufacturing
Frank Cost, Associate Dean, College of Imaging Arts & Sciences, and Co-director, Printing Industry Center at RIT

5.17 MB

This presentation offers a vision of a healthy and prosperous printing industry of the future enabled by computer integration and lean manufacturing.

 

More information on the Heidelberg Web Press Laboratory and the dedication is available here:

• Heidelberg Web Press Laboratory Site
• RIT Formally Dedicates New Heidelberg Web Press Laboratory
• RIT Announces Additional Web Press Partners