Het RIT Printing Industry Center is een onderzoekscentrum binnen het Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY, USA). Binnen dit centrum doen professoren en studenten onderzoek naar belangrijke thema's.

Het VIGC maakt reeds van in het begin deel uit van het RIT Printing Industry Center, samen met nog een tiental grote namen uit de industrie.

De afgelopen jaren werden volgende rapporten gepubliceerd:

Onderzoek uitgevoerd in 2010:

• Statistical Analyses of the IDEAlliance G7 Master Printer Database
• Printing Standards: A 2010 Survey Report
• Drop2Print: A Model for PDF Specifications to Drive the Discovery of Print Service ProvidersDrop2Print: A Model for PDF Specifications to Drive the Discovery of Print Service Providers
• Payment Models for Digital News Content in the US
• Sustainable by Design: An Investigation into Ecologically Friendly Typography
• Investigation into the Perceived Image Quality of Digital Technologies for Photofinishing
• Life Cycle Analysis in the Printing Industry: A Review
• Exploring Existing Measures of Environmental Impacts of Print: A Survey of Existing Practices

Onderzoek uitgevoerd in 2009:

• Sustainability in Gravure Packaging Printing
• The Open Publishing Guide: Development--Phase 2
• An Investigation Into Printing Industry Demographics--2009
• Sustainable Printing Activities: Design and Initial Approach for a Print Energy Life-Cycle Decision Tool
• Evaluating the Viability and Usefulness of a Distribution Center
  for Print Service Providers
• A Qualitative Study of Future High Value News Media Audiences

Onderzoek uitgevoerd in 2008:

• The Open Publishing Guide: Creating a Self-Publishing Website Using Open Source Content Management Tools
• Correlates of Job Satisfaction of Early Career Employees in Printing and Publishing Occupation
• An Examination of Newspaper Business and Workflow Models

Onderzoek uitgevoerd in 2007:

• Minding the Gap: Evaluating the Image Quality of Digital PrintTechnologies Relative to Traditional Offset Lithography
• Print Advertising Media Substitution
• Web-Enabled Print Architectures
• Benchmarking Insert Advertising Effectiveness Metrics
• Print Productivity: A System Dynamics Approach
• A Survey of Digital Press Manufacturers: Critical Paper Requirements
• Creativity in the Printing Industry: The Context of Organizational Change
• Upstream Database and Digital Asset Management in Variable Data Printing

Onderzoek uitgevoerd in 2006:

• Emerging Global Print Markets: A Five-Country Comparative Study
• Permanence of Toner on Paper - Based on the Life Cycle of Documents
• A Survey of Digital and Offset Print Quality Issues 
• Printing Industry Offshoring: Perspectives from U.S. Based Printers
• The Case for Print Media Advertising in the Internet Age
• Print Media Distribution: Process, Profitability, and Challenges 

Onderzoek uitgevoerd in 2005:

• New Skills for DAM and Variable Data Printing Services: Is the Printing Industry Prepared?
• Formulation and Implementation of Environmental Strategies: A Comparison Between US and German Printing Firms
• An Investigation into Papers for Digital Printing (gelieve er rekening mee te houden dat het gaat om papiersoorten die beschikbaar zijn op de Amerikaanse markt)
• Variation in Premedia Color and the Potential Automation of Imaging Tasks
• Utilization of E-Commerce by Commercial Printing Companies
• A Comparative Study of the Environmental Aspects of Lithographic and Digital Printing Processes
• Media Distribution in the Printing Industry
• Sourcing of Corporate Print: Three Case Studies

Onderzoek uitgevoerd in 2004:

• An Examination of New Product Diffusion Models
• An Investigation into Printing Industry Trends
• Digital Asset Management-A Closer Look at the Literature
• Digital Printing Success Models: Validation Study (2004)
• Industry Trends in Fulfillment, Finishing and Distribution
• Is Corporate Insourcing of Print on the Rise?
• Lean Manufacturing in Small and Medium Sized Printers
• Selling Small and Smart: The Future of the Sustainable Enterprise

Onderzoek uitgevoerd in 2003:

• Advanced Display Technologies: An Investigation of the Emerging and Developing Technologies Related to the Generation Beyond Print-on-Paper
• An Investigation Into Printing Industry Demographics
• Demand for Customized Communications by Advertising Agencies and Marketing Executives
• Determinants of Environmental Innovation Adoption in the Printing Industry
• Digital Integration and the Lean Manufacturing Practices of U.S. Printing Firms
• Investing in Digital Color . . . The Bottom Line
• Marketing Communications Demand Creation: Marketing Executive Study
• The Advertising Agency's Role in Marketing Communication Demand Creation
• The Evolution of Experimental Environmental Programs in the Printing Industry
• The Role of Value Added Services in Successful Digital Printing

Onderzoek uitgevoerd in 2002:

• Design to Production: The Critical Interface
• Digital Color. Where is the Market?
• Environmental Management in Lithographic Printing
• Print Media Distribution in a Digital Age
• Relationship Marketing Strategy

    

 

 

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