Last Week to Complete the "Printing Industry Performance and Insights" Benchmarking Survey

GLGA’s latest Printing Industry Performance and Insights survey needs your help. This study will build financial benchmarks. We aim to provide company leaders with comparable and relevant financial benchmarks that you can use to improve your businesses.

Deadline to participate is this Friday, April 19.

We hope to have the final reports ready one month after the survey closes.  All data will be kept confidential.

Your participation is crucial: the more data we have from completed surveys, the more actionable knowledge we’ll draw. Help us develop knowledge that will help you by taking the survey!

Editor's note: the Great Lakes Graphics Association is among 15 regional printing associations partnering to sponsor the Performance and Insights studies. GLGA members can download reports from previous studies for free from the Members Only area of the GLGA website. 

US Postal Service Seeks to Hike Stamp Prices to 73 Cents

The United States Postal Service said on April 9 it wants to raise the price of first-class mail stamps to 73 cents from 68 cents effective July 14. The proposal, which must be approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission, would raise mailing services product prices by 7.8 percent. Read more on Reuters.com.

Related: The Forever Stamp is forever rising in price. How does the U.S. cost compare globally?

Lean Manufacturing for Today’s Businesses

Lean manufacturing is a well-recognized and powerful practice that can help optimize productivity and reduce waste. Despite the gradual improvements in our industry's supply chain, problems still exist. This article explores how PSPs can navigate today's business priorities and refine their supply chain to address the current business climate. Read more on WhatTheyThink.com.

US Department of Labor Issues Final Rule to Clarify Rights to Employee Representation During OSHA Inspections

The final rule clarifies that, consistent with the law, workers may authorize another employee to serve as their representative or select a non-employee. For a non-employee representative to accompany the compliance officer in a workplace, they must be reasonably necessary to conduct an effective and thorough inspection. Read more on OSHA.gov.

New Privacy Bill Would Restrict Behavioral Advertising

The proposed American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 would require companies to allow consumers to opt out of targeted advertising based on non-sensitive data that is linkable to individuals or devices. Read more on MediaPost.com.

Sales Tip of the Week: Sales Optics

What do Subway Restaurants, a free-anytime hand surgeon, and how you dress have in common? They are all wrapped together in Bill Farquharson's Short Attention Span Sales Tip. Read more on the Sales Vault.com.

Video - How to be a Packaging Visionary in Pharma and Medtech

Packaging Digest spoke with Robert States of Stress Engineering Services on what it takes to be a visionary in regulated markets. This “highlights” video focuses mostly on pharma and medtech, with great advice for packaging professionals at any stage of their career. See more.

Nominate an Exceptional Professional for GLGA's Fourth Annual Women in Print Excellence Award

Do you know a woman working directly in print or in a vendor role supporting print who deserves recognition for their passion, experience, advocacy and mentoring? Nominate them for GLGA's Fourth Annual Women in Print Excellence Award. Click here to read more and to download a nomination form.

Hurry, deadline is Friday, April 26.

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Register for the Latest Virtual MasterClass Series: Customer Service with Care

Upgrade your customer’s experience by learning how to effectively integrate CARE into your Customer Service program! This MasterClass is for all staff who want to learn how to learn techniques on delivering exceptional customer service, improve the customer service and help raise service standards. Our presenter is MasterClass educator Debbie Nicholson of Think To Ink!

The masterclass runs four consecutive Tuesdays starting April 30, 2024, and running through May 21, 2024. Click here for more information or to register.

Schumann Printers Welcomes the Arrival of New ECS Eagle and ECS Ospray Inkjet Devices

Posted on their website blog by Schumann Printers, Fall River, WI:

These two devices recently landed at our facility, and will be up and running soon. They are poised to help transform print production in our bindery with mailing applications. Read more.

Tactive 2024 Project Lookbook Is Here

Posted on their website blog by Tactive, Indianapolis, IN:

Introducing the 2024 Project Lookbook: a dynamic catalog designed to inspire busy marketers in their quest for innovative tactile marketing solutions. Flip through for a handpicked assortment of our standout recent projects—that you can use as inspiration to invigorate your brand. Read and see more.

Kodak Celebrates 20 Years of Game-Changing Process Free Plates: Greener, More Efficient and More Stable Offset Printing

2024 marks Kodak's 20-year anniversary as the first and longest-running manufacturer and supplier of true process free printing plates in the world. Read more.

swissQprint: Sustainability from Production in the Region

Posted on their website blog by swissQprint, Elgin, IL:

Doing business in an ecologically sound way is a guiding principle at swissQprint, the Swiss manufacturer of high-quality large format printers. Read more.