I gave her a book on digital imaging, but none of the printers wanted to handle that sort of project. They both left their jobs, and CDI was born. After nine months in business, they sell only variable-data imaging and they sell it profitably. CDI rapidly moved into the digital-imaging arena with a host of printing solutions that would meet their customers needs. They favor the use of Quark XPress and AppleScript on the front end.
Some enterprises spawn from larger entities.
What started as the mailing arm of a Lansing print shop evolved into MailSource. Linda Gunderman, plant manager, was part of the whole transition process. So far, we haven t maxed out its capability. According to Gunderman, each page is turned into a bitmap before it s downloaded to the printers. Each machine may have its own job stream, or they may be used together.