October 2004

President's Message

President's Message - From the Desk of Philip M. Drumheller
As we wind down our year of celebrations, I want to share with you thoughts that I delivered during our community open house event in August. More than anything, my goal was to articulate the importance of disseminating information in our society...

Customer Roundup

Industry Award Highlights
Congratulations to several Lane Press customers for being recognized with recent industry awards...

Publishers Excited about New Workflow Tools
Lane Press recently launched 4Lane for Workflow™ tools designed to help publishers move to a fully digital workflow environment.  The response to this offering has been exciting. See what these early adopters have to say about these digital workflow tools...

News Briefs

Offer Your Advertisers Valuable Options
Are you looking for value-added services for your advertisers? Findings ways to help an advertiser’s products stand out is easy with the many options we offer at Lane Press...

These Resources Can Help You Understand the Paper Market
The rate increases predicted for September and October have come to pass and more increases are predicted for 2005. The steady demand for paper by catalogers and the rebound in advertising has put the North American paper market on the rise...

Subscription Marketing Entices Readers
Faced with an increased competition for readers, publishers are responding with creative solutions to boost circulation. Trying a variety of methods to determine what works and tracking the results will help you with your circulation efforts...

Company Corner

PDF Workflow and Remote Proofing Available
Sending files, waiting for proofs, making revisions, waiting for proofs, getting approval, and resending files—that has been the life cycle of magazine pages before going to press. Not anymore...

Lane Press Introduces Creo Integris Proofing
Lane Press is pleased to announce the introduction of the new Creo Integris proofing system. Our selection of the Integris system came as the result of an in-depth comparison and testing between the Iris and Integris proofs. The Iris proofs will be phased in October...

Open House Celebrates 100 Years of Printing
Lane Press hosted a Centennial Open House in August in an effort to thank the community of Vermont business leaders, friends, and families of Lane Press. More than 400 people gathered for the celebration that included tours of the plant to show magazines in the making.