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Print Media Industry Futures:
Challenges and Opportunities
A Printing Symposium for Leaders
in the Printing Industry
April 25, 2003
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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 demostration 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)
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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
 Heidelberg
Web Press Laboratory Site
RIT
Formally Dedicates New Heidelberg Web Press Laboratory
RIT
Announces Additional Web Press Partners
Last Updated: 5/7/2003
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