Bill Esler
 BILL ESLER is Editor in Chief of Graphic Arts Monthly, the leading magazine for the graphic arts and allied industries, published by Reed Business Information. He is responsible for overall editorial planning and content of each issue, as well as for companion on-line publications e-GAM and graphicartsmonthly.com. Prior to that, he was editor and publisher of Graphic Communications World newsletter, and before that spent six years working on specialized print industry publications for Reed. Before coming to Reed, he operated Quoin Communications, publishing Print Business Register, Copy Magazine, and Printing News Midwest. He was also editorial director at Innes Publishing. He began his print industry journalism career as features editor at American Printer. Bill has been in the graphic arts field for more than 30 years in various editorial and print industry production positions. He began his career at Monarch Matrix in Chicago’s Printer’s Row, pulling repro proofs from letterpress plates for conversion to offset negatives, and operating the cutter. He was also assistant typographer at Spiegel Catalog, production manager at Professional Press, and national newspaper ad production coordinator at Ace Hardware Corp. A graduate of Knox College in Galesburg, IL, he received print industry technical training at Triton College, near Chicago. He has contributed to three Techno Economic Forecasts for the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, and has presented at numerous industry meetings in the U.S. and China. Bill is on the board of the Technical Assn. of the Graphic Arts (TAGA) and of the Print & Graphics Scholarship Foundation. User Stats
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Print SpottingRecent PostsE-commerce Knows No BoundariesJuly 17, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) In a run-up to a launch of its e-commerce offering to U.S. printers, U.K.-based Earthone calculates some figures on the marketplace. In the U.S. alone, copy centers, quick printers and in-plant operations produce $25.24 billion i...Read More Recent PostsWhen tree huggers meet printersJuly 17, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) Generally, printers seemed unaffected on learning that the guts of their print systems have been built in an environmentally friendly setting, or that the masses of paper test printed at drupa are being recycled. No, what really matters is whether the systems print well and efficiently. Industries: New Products, Sustainability Recent PostsJunichiro and I: Reading Local PapersJuly 14, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) Enroute to Beijing to visit the managing director of a label and RFID printer manufactury (his teen-aged son was a foreign exchange student in our home in Chicago last year), we stopped along the way in Tokyo. Industries: Mailing & Fulfillment, New Products Recent PostsJapan: Low Tech Surprises at SonyJuly 11, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) My teenager quickly reported that video games on sale worked only in Japanese Playstations. Two things of interest to dad were the Sony e-Book (yet to see one live) and the newer thin-screen televisions that are based on Organic Light Emitting Diodes--OLEDS--that can be printed on modified litho presses, theoretically.  The sales tec...Read More
Industries: Digital Printing, New Products, Print Management Recent PostsDecline 'N Fall of Newspaper Editorial & DistributionJuly 10, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2) We spent a week on the road between Chicago and Johnstown, PA, a chance to pick up regional papers, or try to, anyway, the way. Since our last summer driving trip, to northern Wisconsin last year, the quality and availability of newspapers at truck stops and small towns has diminished greatly. When you ask cashiers at various truck stops whether a newspaper is available, you are now met with blank stares--as though they have completely forgotten about the existence, or somehow, it's been quite some time since anyone requested one. When papers are available, well, they aren't much. In decreasing locations where a national newspaper of quali...Read More Industries: Print Management
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