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Wolfgang Pfizenmaier rom the Classroom to the Pressroom Education Shapes the Future of Print Media F

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4/25/03 “My advice to printing companies of today, if they want to be the printing companies of tomorrow, is to become more digital.” - Frank Romano, RIT - Frank Romano, RIT Predictions

4/25/03 “The future is about bits, not atoms.” - Nicholas Negroponte, MIT - Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Predictions “But people eat atoms, not bits.” - Frank Cost, RIT - Frank Cost, RIT

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4/25/ /25/03 Industry Trends   Ever shorter runs, fully customized jobs   Continued strong demand for print   Consumers micro-segmented   Expansion of services   Competition and opportunities from new media or 2010 and beyond F   Computer Integrated Manufacturing ramping up

4/25/03 Industry Trends “Expect to see a significant redistribution of sales growth to companies which have realized they are in the communications business, not the ink- on-paper business.” - Patrick Henry, High Volume Printing Magazine, 2/03

4/25/03 The Changing Business of Print 4/25/03 Automated Workflow Produce Documents Static Output Craft Turnaround in Days, Weeks Manual Workflow Manage Information Dynamic Output Turnaround in Minutes, Hours High-Tech Skill Sets Product Service Evolution of Print Processes

4/25/03 Traditional Prepress Enhanced Services ScanningDigital Photography Proofing Online Data Display Preflighting E-commerce Archiving/Retrieving Data Files Digital Asset Management Imposition Audio and Video Services PlatemakingDVD Production Print Service Comparisons

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Wet Ink... Dry Ink... More compatible, more synergistic; and less directly competitive with each other than you might think

4/25/03 S oftware S o l u t i o n s

4/25/03 Industry Trends Common Workflows across Networks

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