Did you get your copy of Take This Job and Stuff It!

If you are just getting into mail for the first time, are producing documents with highly personalized content, or want to squeeze more productivity from your existing equipment, then Take This Job and Stuff It! is the book for you. Written by Mike Porter, President and CEO of Print/Mail Consultants, and published by Port Mist Publishing, this book covers the entire document workflow and is organized into categories such as quality, productivity, and cost control.

Learn about the author’s first-hand experience in the area of print and mail.
Mike Porter takes his decades of document print and mail experience and fills this book with tips and hints that will help you create marketing pieces, bills, statements, letters, or other documents with quality and efficiency. Porter states, “Most of my suggestions can be implemented with little or no capital investment, but they can make a big difference in your ability to attract and retain customers—and keep you from making expensive mistakes!”

The book covers the entire document workflow and is organized into categories such as quality, productivity, and cost control. The first section is set up to guide you in training operations managers and supervisors that may be new to business or to gain a more in-depth understanding of the disciplines of printing and mailing. The second section is to be considered as a strategic call to action for improvements in operations and business objectives. Chapters include:

• Print/Mail Operations—Quality
• Print/Mail Operations—Productivity
• Print/Mail Operations—Cost Control
• The High Speed Inserting Environment
• Outsourcing Vendors
• Operations Management Has a Unique Perspective
• The Importance of Including Operations in the Plan
• Keeping Up on Industry Trends and Technological Developments
• How to Become a Critical Component of the Communication Team

Drawn from his experience in the service bureau business, consulting, and working for companies like Xerox and Bowe Bell + Howell, the ideas Porter presents are workable and proven effective. “Anyone who produces personalized documents should have a copy in their office,” Porter says.

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Take This Job and Stuff It! A Practical Guide for Document Operations Managers, 144 pages, (Item No. 1945, ISBN 978-0-9816237-0-2) is available to Printing Industries of America members for $20 and to nonmembers for $25.

This and all of Printing Industries Press’s 200-plus publications are available online at www.printing.org/store or by phone (412-259-1770 or toll-free 800-910-4283 x770), fax (412-749-9891), or mail (Printing Industries of America, Attn. Member Central, 200 Deer Run Road, Sewickley, PA 15143).