Richard Romano is Managing Editor of WhatTheyThink. He curates the Wide Format section on WhatTheyThink.com. He has been writing about the graphic communications industry for more than 25 years. He is the author or coauthor of more than half a dozen books on printing technology and business. His most recent book is “Beyond Paper: An Interactive Guide to Wide-Format and Specialty Printing.
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Published November 6, 2013
At the beginning of day one of the SGIA Expo, SGIA President Michael Robertson had announced a pre-registered attendee count of around 21,000. By Friday morning, the third and final day of the Expo, the count had topped 22,400.
Published October 28, 2013
SGIA President Michael Robertson talks to Richard Romano about the 2013 SGIA Expo in Orlando, the attendance at the show, and trends he's seeing in the wide format segment.
Published October 25, 2013
Digital textile printing began in earnest in the 1990s, but technology, market, and supply chain challenges have kept it from going truly mainstream. However, all of these challenges—technology, market, and even supply chain—are gradually being overcome, and digital textile printing.
Published October 25, 2013
Spencer Craig, Director of Business Development at EFI, talks to Richard Romano at SGIA about winning Product of the Year Award for their Thermoform system. They discuss the different applications and details about the process.
Published October 24, 2013
Day 1 of SGIA and WhatTheyThink is on the ground in Orlando and Richard Romano has you covered with the latest from the show as we kick off what is said to be near record crowds.
Published September 26, 2013
Joan Perez Pericot, Category Manager for HP Scitex, talks to Richard Romano about the success of their Latex Series and their newest addition - the 3000.
Published September 20, 2013
Published September 20, 2013
Wide-format printing has always been an endeavor for the highly creative, and it would be hard to find someone more creative than Armstrong.
Published September 12, 2013
WhatTheyThink Senior Analyst Richard Romano gives his take on Print 13 from a wide format perspective.
Published September 11, 2013
Published September 10, 2013
Published September 9, 2013
Dave Lewis, VP or Sales and Marketing at Prolist, speaks with WhatTheyThink's Richard Romano about their business and their success in the mail services business and relationship with HP and MCS.
Published September 6, 2013
Lisa White, General Manager of Think Ink, talks to Richard Romano about their ink portfolio, working with HP, and the MCS Falcon System.
Published September 5, 2013
Glenn Toole, VP of Sales and Marketing for MCS, talks to Richard Romano about the company and the Falcon System. Falcon is the latest MCS technology developed in cooperation with HP.
Published September 4, 2013
HP's Jim Kelley joins Richard Romano again at the MCS facility to talk about the Falcon system - getting into more about the printheads and other technical details.
Published September 3, 2013
Jim Kelley, Strategic Alliance Manager at HP, speaks with WhatTheyThink's Richard Romano about the MCS Falcon system at their facility in Gaithersburg Maryland.
Published August 26, 2013
Kevin Karstedt talks to Patrice Aurenty, Business Leader at Sun Chemical, about their business and announces Sun's endorsement of the X-Rite eXact color matching system.
Published August 22, 2013
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Published July 24, 2013
Published July 22, 2013
Ken VanHorn, HP Scitex Category Manager, talks to Richard Romano about the release of two new inks - orange and light black - that enable printers to print better skin tones and corporate colors.
Published July 17, 2013
Published July 9, 2013
Published July 3, 2013
The DLR (Docklands Light Rail) train wended its way through London’s East End and the Docklands and pulled into the station for London’s ExCel Centre. The conductor announced, “Customs House for the ExCel Centre. If you’re going to FESPA 2013, please alight here.”
Published July 2, 2013
Published July 2, 2013
A week or so ago, the news went around that Glasgow, Scotland’s Bell & Bain placed the world’s first order for the Fujifilm Jet Press 540W.
Published June 28, 2013
Published June 25, 2013
Ken VanHorn, Category Manager for HP Scitex, talks to Richard Romano about the announcement of the Scitex FB10000 at FESPA. Ken talks about HDR and other technical specifications.
Published June 17, 2013
Published June 14, 2013
This is Part I of what will be an occasional series of manufacturer “Experience Center” visits.
Published June 10, 2013
Published June 3, 2013
Published May 30, 2013
WhatTheyThink's Richard Romano attends an xpedx wide format printer summit and comes away with the impression that a cutter stole the show!
Published May 28, 2013
In part I of this feature, we took a broad look at the different categories of inks available for wide-format inks. This week, we’ll take a closer look at how inks handle different applications (or perhaps vice versa) and, more importantly, how to think about ink in the context of choosing wide-format equipment, and how to measure and evaluate estimates of things like “cost per square foot.”
Published May 23, 2013
Published May 17, 2013
Catherine Monson, CEO of FastSigns, sits down with WhatTheyThink at the ISA show and talks about their new co-branding program which allows printers an easy way to get into the sign business while maintaining their commercial print business.
Published May 15, 2013
Published May 15, 2013
There is, in some ways, a fundamental paradox when it comes to wide-format inks. There are more ink choices than ever, and yet for any given piece of equipment, you are generally stuck in a “one-cartridge-fits-all” situation.
Published May 7, 2013
Published May 3, 2013
Published May 1, 2013
Perched on the northern quay of the Royal Victoria Dock in the Docklands of London is the ExCel Centre, an exhibit space constructed in 2000 but retooled and overhauled for the 2012 Olympic Games, where weightlifters, fencers, boxers, and wrestlers grappled for the gold. Next month, the Centre will host competitors of a different sort.
Published April 10, 2013
The Las Vegas Strip is home to many things that you’d be hard-pressed find anywhere else—and, generally, that’s a good thing.
Published March 27, 2013
We have been previewing ISA’s International Sign Expo 2013. A fortnight ago, we looked at the educational opportunities to be had, and this week we will look at but the merest handful of the offerings on the show floor.
Published March 26, 2013
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Published March 18, 2013
Frank Defino Sr., CEO of Tukaiz, talks to Richard Romano about the background of the company as well as its evolution since 1963 to become one of the first digital printers.
Published March 15, 2013
Published March 13, 2013
Published March 13, 2013
The International Sign Expo, coming up April 3–6 will feature more than 500 exhibitors, more than 40 educational sessions, and ample networking opportunities, all related to the “on-premise” signage industry.
Published March 12, 2013
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Published February 27, 2013
Today’s superwides, which are proliferating in terms of number of models on the market, boast much better image quality, resolution, speed, and versatility than their forebears.
Published February 26, 2013
Published February 25, 2013
Published February 25, 2013
Bryan Rose, Vice President & General Manager of Cooley Commercial Graphics talks to Richard Romano about their business and the challenges of doing very bid projects in a sustainable manner, which included the Olympics in London.
Published February 21, 2013
Published February 21, 2013
The idea of printing materials that go on walls is not exactly new. Wallpaper, posters, murals, and other items have been printed by traditional technologies for decades, if not centuries.
Published February 20, 2013
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Published January 31, 2013
Published January 31, 2013
Published January 31, 2013
Jeffery Nelson, Business Development Manager with Fujifilm, talks to Richard Romano about new equipment offerings in the wide format space.
Published January 30, 2013
A walk down the street, a drive on the highway, or a trip on mass transit today provides ample opportunities to experience one of the hottest specialty graphics growth areas: vehicle graphics. From personal vehicles with custom graphics, to commercial vans and tractor-trailers, to buses, rail cars, and even planes, fleets of all kinds are becoming more picture-esque than ever.
Published January 29, 2013
Published January 29, 2013
Pat Walker, President of 4walls, talks to Richard Romano about how they came to create a company dedicated to digital printing and wide format printed wall coverings.
Published January 28, 2013
Published January 28, 2013
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Published January 17, 2013
Richard looks at the printing shipment trends that happened over the previous year, and provides a bit of analysis.
Published January 16, 2013
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Published January 11, 2013
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