Eric Bell Quotes

#1. Green production is certainly an important topic for newspapers. Environmental considerations are part of every enquiry today and come into most aspects of equipment specification. On balance, however, cost-effectiveness is a more urgent requirement for most print organisations.

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#2. The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print.

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#3. Product diversification comes into the mix as customers continue to strive for new revenue streams and a better USP.

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#4. The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.

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#5. In many instances, automation in itself facilitates more diversification opportunities, in freeing up production capacity and enabling shorter run, more targeted copies, and it can also be essential in the interface with additional and new processes such as web drying, inkjetting etc.

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#6. In terms of production, newspaper publishers are continuing to focus principally on automation as the key to reducing production costs and general overheads.

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