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Contents:
Executive Summary
Beyond the Triple Threat: Challenges Facing Print Shops
Strategy: Drive Productivity
Duplexing: the Fast Track to Exceptional Productivity
Scenario 1: the need for speed
Scenario 2: three hours uninterrupted
Scenario 3: a complex application
Powering Productivity with the Océ
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Scenario 4: breakthrough performance
Becoming More Productive—a Roadmap
Summary
Executive Summary
Intense competition. Demand for immediate results. The steady growth
of digital media. The print industry is in a state of flux and has been for
some time. But even as market consolidation continues and customers
use ink on paper in concert with alternate channels like email and the
Internet, print is an important medium that is here to stay. With
increasing competition for printed pages, how do commercial print shops
and in-plants compete, survive, or even thrive in the new world of print?
Clearly, print providers can no longer rely on the same old solutions to
handle the rising tide of new expectations and requests for increasingly
complex jobs. Personalization is becoming a requirement in more docu-
ments as business shifts from a market-centric to a customer-centric
model. Integrated marketing components are finding their way into
traditionally transactional documents. And customers are looking for
instant turnaround on everything from quotes and proofs to production,
reprints, and delivery.
Efficiency and productivity have taken center stage as critical require-
ments for success, and modern print providers must look beyond
traditional tools, services, and cost-cutting measures to ensure their place
in the future.
Driving
Productivity
