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Profiles in Print Thysse
Profiles in Print
Thysse (Madison, Wisconsin)

 

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Profiles in Print Colorchrome
Profiles in Print
Colorchrome (Atlanta, Georgia)

 

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Profiles in Print
DCG ONE (Seattle, Washington)

 

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Premier Press (Portland, Oregon)

 

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Business Update: Fiery Addresses Industry Challenges

In this video, sponsored by Fiery, Maria Brilaki, Senior Director of Product Management for Fiery, identifies the major trends impacting their customers, and how Fiery solutions are helping address these challenges. Watch Video

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Booth Tour: Tecnau at PRINTING United

In this video, sponsored by Tecnau, Product Marketing Manager Scott Peterson and Western Regional Account Manager John Beutel show off some of the equipment Tecnau had been demonstrating at PRINTING United in Atlanta, including the Phoenix 20 flood coater, Stack 1212 cutsheet solution, and Unwinder. Watch Video

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Brian Techter of RR Donnelley Discusses EFI Nozomi Acquisition

Brian Techter, SVP, RRD Packaging & Labeling Solutions, discusses their recent acquisition of an EFI Nozomi single-pass digital direct-to-board printing solution in their Milwaukee plant, including how the system will be used and his view of the evolution of the packaging and display graphics markets as digital production continues to gain traction. Watch Video

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Thought Leadership: Sun Print Solutions Shifts More Work from Offset to Production Inkjet

In this video, sponsored by HP, Jennifer Pettinger, CEO of Sun Print Solutions, talks with David Zwang. Sun Print Solutions is an 85-year-old company that produces a wide range of products, including commercial printing, direct mail, and folding cartons. The company recently upgraded to an HP PageWide T250 to expand what they can print using production inkjet. Watch Video

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Product Spotlight: Ultimate TechnoGraphics’ Nesting Optimization Software

In this video, sponsored by Ultimate TechnoGraphics, CEO Julie Watson talks about the company’s software for nesting optimization for wide-format printing, as well as Ultimate BestCut for automating guillotine cutting. Watch Video

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Frank Has a Point

Frank rants about the small print. He attributes the problem to poor knowledge about typographic x-height. The number used to express point size does not truly describe the actual size of the type being printed. Watch Video

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Business Update: GEW’s Gary Doman on LED UV

In this video sponsored by GEW, International Sales Manager Gary Doman talks about the growing trends in the industrial and packaging printing markets, and the growing demand for LED UV for energy reduction purposes. Watch Video

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Business Update: Koenig & Bauer’s Eric Frank on Application Diversification

In this video sponsored by Koenig & Bauer, Senior VP of Marketing Eric Frank talks about the trend for printers to diversify into different kinds of applications, and how Koenig & Bauer has added features to its equipment to help customers take on those new products. Watch Video

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Duplo at PRINTING United

In this video, sponsored by Duplo, President Rick Salinas provides an update on some of the finishing solutions Duplo is bringing to market, and highlighted in their booth at last week’s PRINTING United. Watch Video

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FLEXcon's Film Portfolio

In this video sponsored by FLEXcon, David Zwang talks with Jodi Sawyer, Strategic Business Unit Manager at FLEXcon, about the company’s portfolio of coated and laminated films used in labels and graphics applications, as well as functional components in manufactured goods. Watch Video

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Allen Datagraph Systems Launches the SnapPress Digital Label Printer

Mary Schilling talks with Kevin Davis, CEO of Allen Datagraph Systems which, at last week’s PRINTING United, launched the the SnapPress, a user-friendly, small-footprint, short-run digital inkjet label printer. Electrical Engineer Leia Dziadosz gives a product demonstration. Watch Video

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SEI Laser/Matik Introduces the X-Type Laser Plotter to North America

In this video, sponsored by SEI Laser/Matik, Matik President Steve Leibin introduces the X-Type, the fastest laser plotter on the market, making its debut in the North American market. Watch Video

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Printware’s Tim Murphy on the New iJetColor Envelope Press

In this video, sponsored by Printware, company president Tim Murphy shows off the new iJetColor 1175 and iJetColor 1175 Pro inkjet envelope presses, which were on display last week at PRINTING United. Watch Video

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PRINTING United 2023 Opens in Atlanta!

WhatTheyThink's Eric Vessels and David Zwang give us the lowdown on the first day of PRINTING United Expo 2023 in Atlanta. Watch Video

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Frank's Show Must Go On

The major printing trade show of 2023 just took place in Atlanta. Frank harkens back to a time when there were 14 trade shows every year and has the show directories and badges to prove it. He hopes that the future of the trade show will not be in a museum. Watch Video

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GMG and HP Partner on Label Proofing Solution

In this video, sponsored by GMG, Darrian Young of GMG and Ilan Souffir of HP Indigo talk about a new partnership to bring an off-press proofing solution to HP Indigo digital label printing operations. Taking proofing off-press increases production capacity and reduces costs. Watch Video

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ePS’s Alex Zlatic on Label and Packaging Production

In this video, sponsored by eProductivity Software (ePS), Alex Zlatic, General Manager, Packaging, talks about the company’s product market strategy surrounding label and packaging production, focusing heavily on adding automation. Watch Video

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White House Custom Colour’s Greg Davis on Automation

In this video, sponsored by HP, Kevin Abergel talks with Greg Davis of White House Custom Colour about the technology trends driving his business, chief among them being automation. Watch Video

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SPESA Works to Build Cut-and-Sew Database

One of the biggest barriers to reshoring of apparel manufacturing to the U.S. is the lack of sewing talent. Among its many initiatives, SPESA, the association for suppliers to the sewn products industry, is working to build a database of cut-and-sew operations in the U.S. SPESA President Michael McDonald talks about these and other challenges the sewn products industry—and textiles as a whole—is facing. Watch Video

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Frank on Trading Spaces

Frank comments on the announcement that Xerox has withdrawn from drupa by tracing the company’s interesting history with trade shows and product introductions. Watch Video

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