Last January, I proposed a few new business models that could take print forward for the near term. I gave these types of print shops names like the Specialist, Localist, Technologist, Leanist, and the Entreprenuerist. All, with the possible exception of the Leanist, challenge the status quo through the effective exploitation of technology. Fast forward to…
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Youngstown, Ohio shares some parallels with any mature industry faced with the possibilities of constricting. The town sits on the bank of the Mahoning River about halfway in between Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Steel made Youngstown a relative economic boomtown until the domestic steel industry started to decline through the 1970′s. Nothing, with the exception…
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