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      <title>Amazing Map of Progression of Unemployment by County</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A printer buddy just sent me this map which shows a lime lapse video of the change in the unemployment by county across the country....]]></description>
      <dc:creator>Michael Tarpinian</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Waiting on Line</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<embed type="application/x-datavault" width="0" height="0"></embed>Did you ever pick the wrong line in a store? It happens to everyone. Stores that care about their customers are trying to do something about it.]]></description>
      <dc:creator>Michael Tarpinian</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Post Office to Shut Down?</title>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal helvetica;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The United States Postal Service (Post Office) has announced that they will have to shut down this winter if Congress does not bail them out. This won't happen. At least not permanently.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal helvetica;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a scare tactic. </span></p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator>Michael Tarpinian</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>5 Cost-cutting Strategies for Mailing</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<span style="font-family: verdana;"><embed type="application/x-datavault" width="0" height="0"></embed>In my last post, I gave you some tips on saving money on printing. Here are a few tips on saving money on direct mail marketing....</span><embed type="application/x-datavault" width="0" height="0"></embed>]]></description>
      <dc:creator>Michael Tarpinian</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>9 Tips to Save Money on Printing </title>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">There are lots of ways to save money on your printing costs. Here are a few easy ideas....</span></p>
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      <dc:creator>Michael Tarpinian</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why Pictures and Words Got Separated</title>
      <category domain="http://www.allegrausa.com/mediaroom/blog/categoryid/119">Design</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We had quite a few people call and stop by and comment on our post Words and Pictures. In light of that, this is backfilling—a brief history of printing and why images were downplayed.<br />
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Words and Pictures</title>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal helvetica;">Putting images with text is an ancient idea. First came the pictures—think hieroglyphics or cave drawings. Alphabets grew out of pictorial representations. Words came from pictures. Then pictures were used with words to explain or add meaning or context to the words. </p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal helvetica;">Along came printing and pictures were still there, but</p>
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      <dc:creator>Michael Tarpinian</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Leadership by Making Sense</title>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal verdana;">The job of the leader is not just to make decisions it's to make sense.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal verdana;">— John Seely Brown</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal verdana;">At the recent Willow Creek Association (WCA) Global Leadership Summit we were able to witness great leadership in action....</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator>Michael Tarpinian</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cost to Make Your Own Color Copies </title>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal helvetica;">I had an interesting discussion with a customer the other day. She asked me about my price for a couple of color copy projects. Even though both parties would have agreed that my print shop had a better solution based on quality, materials, and guaranteed completion time, we did not do her work because of cost.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal helvetica;">It seems she is basing my price against her perceived internal copy cost....</p>
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      <dc:creator>Michael Tarpinian</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>So what is a QR Code?</title>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'gill sans';"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A QR Code (QR stands for quick response) is a smart phone camera readable bar code that can store a website address, email address, phone number, or any other alpha numeric info.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'gill sans'; color: #2c2728;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">QR codes are two-dimensional barcodes that, when scanned using a smartphone equipped with a camera and QR code reader app, deliver a Web page or other content. Although they may occupy a small amount of space on the printed page, each code can contain an enormous amount of data, including your destination URL and tracking information.</span></p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator>Michael Tarpinian</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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