August 10, 2009
BSI completes second Kaizen quality event improving Prepress Department.
Business Stationery, LLC a leading manufacturer of corporate business card and stationery products provided through its custom e-commerce solution, announces the completion of its second Kaizen event.
In this five-day event, employees from various disciplines throughout the company are selected to participate on a full-time basis. The area of focus for the team was the PrePress department. The scope was to “streamline current workflow/grouping process for standard color business cards”. When the team began the day of discovery on Tuesday, they determined the original scope could be expanded to include a layout reorganization of the entire department.
Some of the improvements made were a reduction in floor space required, a reduction in employee travel and an improvement in order cycle time. The software and scripting changes will result in an increase in orders per printing plate. At the end of the week, the Kaizen team achieved impressive results with ergonomic, safety, organization and order processing time savings.
August 24, 2009
BSI partners with Adventures in Advertising at their convention to re-launch AIA Ink with seminar titled “Growing your business with online ordering programs.”
Mark Cupach, National Sales Director of Business Stationery, delivered a seminar titled “Growing your Business with Online Ordering Programs” at the 2009 Adventures in Advertising convention held at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin July 22-24, 2009. Over 80 AIA franchises participated in a session that outlined the critical need for distributors to develop and implement an e-commerce strategy in their businesses using online ordering programs. BSI, a preferred vendor of AIA, handed out packets of information to the attendees that included information on Customer targeting, how to set up online programs and a needs assessment checklist. Attendees were able to follow-up with questions at the BSI booth during the vendor showcase.
BSI announces a new digital full color, raised print enhancement capability for short run full color products.
BSI is proud to announce the addition of a new raised print enhancement to digitally printed short run full color business cards. The new enhancement will add a special touch of depth, visual pop and texture that only dimensional print can provide. The raised print can be applied to multiple image areas including text and images, large graphic areas or logos, small select images to boost minor details in a card, or raised text over image areas. The new enhancement is not recommended for small sized text, clear ink registration is +/- .0032” and limited to one additional press pass. Any backers will be printed digitally. Please call customer service for more details.
