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Lisa Cross is editor of e-GAM, GAM's e-letter published three times a week, news editor for graphicartsonline.com and senior editor of Graphic Arts Monthly. She has worked on GAM for over 20 years covering almost all aspects of the graphic arts industry. Her work has won several writing awards, including being named a Neal Award finalist.
 
In 2007 Cross received the 9th Annual Tom McMillan Award for Editorial Excellence in the graphic arts industry. The award is presented annually to the editor or writer who, according to their peers, exhibits the highest standards of journalistic integrity and professionalism; understanding of the industry, including its technologies and applications; and performs their duties in such a way as to act as a role model for other journalists. Hundreds of industry journalists and communications professionals vote to select each year's winner.
 
Cross is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University where she majored in Speech Communications, and of Fordham University where she earned an MBA in Finance and Marketing, graduating with honors.


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Kodak’s GUA Meeting Is a Winner in Vegas

April 22, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Special Report by Darin Painter, owner of Cleveland-based Writing Matters and editor-in-chief of Graphic Communications World's “Greensheet” newsletter.

In 2000, Kodak generated $10 billion from its traditional film business. This year, it expects to bring in 1/20 of that amount ($500 million) from the segment, said Phil Faraci, the company’s president and COO, during the keynote address of the Kodak’s 2008 Graphic Users Association (GUA) North American Conference. “It’s a good thing we had the insight to change,” he said. “Today, I’m pleased to announce that our major restructuring is over. We have created a new Kodak.” 

The firm, which spent about four years and $400 million reshaping its identity and organizational structure, is now better suited to bring digital technolog...Read More
Industries: New Products, Premedia

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Conference Report: NPES Print Outlook

April 10, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

It should come as no surprise that the economic news at the NPES Print Outlook last week in New YorkCity was not good. Stories of turmoil in financial markets flood daily newspapers. The U.S. economy is in a recession, said economist Dr. Sung Won Sohn, noting the economy was hit with a triple whammy: a slump in the housing market, tightening credit and rising oil prices. Sohn predicted economic growth in 2008 would be 0.7%.
“Printifying” that assessment (because let’s face it we all want to know what this big picture stuff means to print.) NAPL’s chief economist Andrew Paparozzi said total commercial printing industry sales grew 2.3% during the six months ending in January 2008—the slowest for any six months since March-August 2005—and down significantly from 4.7% one year earlier and the 6.2% peak at midyear 2006. He expects a feeble economy...Read More
Industries: Print Management


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Patents Go to Color Enhancing Techniques

May 11, 2007 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

CCN color enhancement systemColor Control Network (CCN) says it has patented technology which offers an extended color gamut and unprecedented accuracy to offset printing. Henry Martinez, founder and CEO of CCN, has received two U.S. patents for his work in the field of 4/C lithography.

“When I began working with color separation images, I kept wondering, where did all of my beautiful, intense colors go?” “And, if I feel this way, imagine how the advertisers who depend on these images to sell for them must feel!” Martinez says of why he started to study this problem.

He began to experiment with highly pigmented inks in ...Read More


Industries: New Products, Premedia



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