Links for Printers

PrintOwners Web Sites

Many of our PrintOwners subscribers have their own Web sites. Doug Shelton has done a great job cataloging and linking them...visit his page to connect to them:

Mentioned on the Lists

• Pricing Brokered Jobs -- Have you taken all your costs into account when you price a brokered job? Here's an excellent Excel worksheet by Doug Shelton to help you end up with the profit you intended to have on work done outside your shop (discussed 11/9/98).
• PostScript Errors -- ever wonder what a "stackunderflow" error message means? This page has descriptions of PostScript errors that might give you some valuable clues in solving them (discussed 3/28/98).
• Publisher to PageMaker -- from Adobe, a free utility to convert MS Publisher 95 & 97 files to Adobe PageMaker files; Windows only, does not work for Publisher 98 files (discussed 3/26/98)

Printing-Related Associations

• DPI (The Digital Printing and Imaging Association)
• GASC (Graphic Arts Show Company)
• GATF (Graphic Arts Technical Foundation)
• GCA (Graphic Communications Association)
• IAPHC (International Association of Printing House Craftsmen)
• NAGASA (North American Graphic Arts Suppliers Association)
• NAPL (National Association of Printers and Lithographers)
• NAQP (National Association for Quick Printers)
    changing to PrintImage International
• NPES (The Association for Suppliers of Printing & Publishing Technologies)
• PIA (Printing Industries of America)
• PINC (Printing Industries of Northern California)

Consultants to the Printing Industry

• John Stewart (The Quick Consultant)*
• John Giles (The Giles Group)*
• Harry Brelsford (The Digital Quickprint Shop)*
• Tom Crouser (Crouser & Associates)
• Frank Felker (Digital Printing Trends)
• Larry Hunt (Copy News)
• Sean McArdle (Art & Science of Printing Sales)

  *PrintOwners subscriber

Estimating/Bookkeeping Software for Printers

• Crouser Guide to Estimating Small Press Printing
• Franklin Estimating Systems
• Micro Ink Systems Corporation
• PowerQuote
• Printer's Plan (Soft USE, Inc.)
• Printer's Plus (Creative Software Specialists, LLC.)
• PrintPoint
• PrintSmith (M Data)
• printLEADER
• SmartQuotes (Legacy Software)

Publications for Printers

• American Printer
• Canadian Printer
• Graphic Arts Monthly
• Printing Impressions

Printing-Related Vendors

• A. B. Dick
• Adobe
• Agfa
• Apple Computer
• Baumfolder
• C.P. Bourg, Inc.
• Canon
• ColorSpan
• Corel
• Dick Moll & Sons
• Duplo USA Corporation
• Eastman Kodak Company
• Efi (Electronics for Imaging, Inc./Fiery)
• Encad, Inc.
• Extensis
• General Binding Corp.
• Graphic Enterprises of Ohio, Inc.
• Graphic Machinery & Systems (Microcut, others)
• Heidelberg Finishing Systems
• Heidelberg USA
• Hewlett-Packard
• Iomega
• Konica Imaging
• LaserMaster (by ColorSpan)
• Linotype-Hell Co.
• Macromedia
• MAN Roland, Inc.
• Markzware (FlightCheck)
• MBO America
• MetaTools
• Microsoft Corporation
• Minolta Corporation
• Multigraphics
• Newer Technology (Mac G3 upgrades)
• OCE
• Omni-Adast North America
• PagePath (Launch!)
• Pantone, Inc.
• Polaroid Corporation
• Powis Parker (Fastback document binding)
• PrePRESS Solutions (Panther products)
• QMS
• Quark
• Rena Systems, Inc.
• Ricoh
• RISO
• Rollem Corp. of America
• Simbar Graphic Systems (Ryobi & Itek press upgrades)
• Standard Finishing Systems
• Symantec
• Syquest
• T/R Systems, Inc.
• Van Son Holland Ink Corp. of America
• Varn International (Kompac automatic dampeners)
• WinZip
• Xante
• Xerox
• Xerox Production Systems Group

Misc. Links

• House of Gutenberg (Cy Stapleton)
• PrinterSpace (formerly PrinterNet)
• Printing & Packaging in India
• PrintUSA (Martin L. Turnbull)
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• US Government Printing Office

Other Mailing Lists

• Hotline (Cy Stapleton's source list, formerly called HotTalk)
• CTPP (Dave Mainwaring's Computer to Plate Pressroom)

Virus Hoaxes

Because of the prevalence of virus warning chain letters constantly circling the Internet, here are a few links for you to check out before you forward that "virus warning" to your friends; please do NOT send them to the lists.

• DOE's Virus Hoaxes (US Department of Energy)
• Computer Virus Myths (one of the best on the 'Net)
• Virus Hoaxes (Symantec AntiVirus Research Center)
• Hype Alerts! (Virus Online by IBM)
• Command Software's Virus Hoaxes
• Antivirus Hoax Encyclopedia
• Virus Hoaxes (ViruSafe Virus Center)
• Can I Get a Virus from E-mail?

What other links would you like to see here? Send e-mail to rb@dprint.com. Thanks for your help!