Printing in a Fishbowl If working at the Kinko’s shops in New Orleans i like working in a fishbowl it a two way fishbowl where the fish are always peering back at their audience. The crazy-quilt mix of customers provides endless entertainment and a fund of oddball stories to exchange over beers sampling. • One woman in listed …
Broadway and Benihana Kinko’s management style draws on both the restaurant business and the stage. Fast copies are like fast food, say the managers. It’s not just that every Big Mac is a copy of every other one. Images of eating come up again and again as they try to explain what keeps their customers …
Printers Sneer Kinko’s is unique. For one thing, it doesn’t do a lick of offset printing. It makes copies,copies, d almost nothing but copies. On the side it binds, folds, staples, collates, makes pads, and takes passport photos. I Kinko’s is also unique among quick printing chains in that it doesn’t franchise. All 300 or …
Kinko’s Copier Stores “We’re not your average printer:’ says Annie Odell, Kinko’s regional manager for Louisiana. She’s right. She may have the only print shops in town where customers come as much for the company as for the copies. It’s a free-wheeling, high-tech operation that marches to the beat of a different drum machine. It looks chaotic; it …
No Mock-Up After everyone on the team gave their thumbs-up, the data for the parts were electronically transferred directly into computer-aided manufacturing systems at the various suppliers. The NCR designers were so confident everything would work as intended that they didn’t bother making a mock-up. DFM can be a powerful weapon against foreign competition. Several years ago, IBM used …
