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Published June 21, 2012
Judy Hansen, Director of IT at JS McCarthy discusses using EFI solutions and shares how they use the tools and the impact they've had on their internal workflow and data collection. They've since added other tools and Judy discusses their impact as well.
Published June 20, 2012
Cary Sherburne interviews Leslie Gurland, President of Logotech who gives us an overview of her company including their current equipment set up. She also shares an interesting story about a winery customer and how digital printing made the project possible.
Published June 20, 2012
While drupa isn’t technically a packaging show, there were many packaging solutions on display and a great deal of interest in the segment on the part of visitors. Senior Editor Cary Sherburne reviews a few of the new development she came across as she traversed the many halls in Messe Dusseldorf during her 12 days of drupa …
Published June 19, 2012
Xerox VP of Graphic Communications Gina Testa talks about their Premier Partner program, explaining the use of a portal for networking with peers. Gina also touches on their Profit Accelerator
Published June 14, 2012
Published June 13, 2012
Published June 12, 2012
Published June 7, 2012
DPI President Susan Moore takes time out of a busy Dscoop schedule to speak with Cary Sherburne about why she gives so freely of her time to the Dscoop event and community. They also discuss the event and feedback from attendees.
Published June 6, 2012
Bridgeport National Bindery Vice President Kent Larson talks with Cary Sherburne about their business and how they evolved from binding only to printing and binding. They discuss HP's impact on this transition and how the digital transformation of the industry is changing the nature of book printing.
Published June 1, 2012
Coming off of a press conference extravaganza at drupa, WhatTheyThink’s Senior Editor Cary Sherburne challenges Graph Expo exhibitors to change the press conference game. (And feature more customers in their booths!)
Published June 1, 2012
AN Consulting's Hamilton Costa speaks with Cary Sherburne and gives a Latin American perspective on drupa 2012 and discusses what he is hearing about the Latin American market and what printers there are taking away from drupa 2012.
Published May 31, 2012
Cary Sherburne speaks with Todd Kalagher of Finlay Printing at Dscoop 7 about the importance of attending the event and the launch of "Book of Possibilities" component of their Marketing to Win program.
Published May 30, 2012
With drupa behind us, Senior Editor Cary Sherburne takes a retrospective look at this landmark drupa and dubs it the “Hybrid drupa.” What does she mean by that? It’s more than print engines! Read on …
Published May 29, 2012
John Foley, CEO of InterlinkONE, talks to Cary Sherburne about his first experience with drupa. John came to Germany to see what other solutions were out there other than printing for service providers. John and Cary also get into the changing nature of communications and what drupa might look like in 20 years.
Published May 29, 2012
Cary Sherburne talks to Kevin Horey, Xerox VP of Production Product Marketing, about the many announcements they made at drupa. Biggest among them is the iGen 150. They also discuss a big finishing announcement made at the show as well as waterless inkjet.
Published May 25, 2012
Mark Levenson, Manager of US Manufacturing and Composition for Sage Publishing shares his views of drupa 2012. Mark offers a unique perspective from a print buyer's point of view and shares the most exciting thing he saw: nanography!
Published May 24, 2012
Susan Moore, President of DPI in Atlanta, GA talks with Cary Sherburne about transforming her business using E-commerce. Focusing on front-ends and workflows has enabled DPI to differentiate itself.
Published May 23, 2012
Clear Story is a young commercial printing outfit in San Diego that specializes in photobooks in the B2C market as well as other short-run commercial digital printing. CEO Debara Medina talks about the process of sourcing equipment for her business.
Published May 22, 2012
Since drupa members have written to get our thoughts on the which digital press is the best investment. Cary Sherburne has written up some recommendations. We share them here as a reference.
Published May 21, 2012
Published May 18, 2012
Back home from drupa 2012 and preparing to write some insightful articles about the show, the announcements and what it means for our industry over the next four years, so watch for those. Hint of what’s to come: for me, this was the Hybrid drupa. But first I wanted to offer some special recognition from a journalist’s perspective.
Published May 18, 2012
Cary Sherburne sits down with CEO of Clear Story Debara Medina and asks her about starting a new company with no equipment during the economic recession.
Published May 17, 2012
President & CEO of GlobalSoft Digital Solutions and Member of Dscoop Global Board of Directors Chris Petro shares with Cary Sherburne about the duties of Dscoop Global bringing the success of Dscoop to the worldwide community.
Published May 14, 2012
Published May 11, 2012
Cary Sherburne asks Mimeo's VP of Product Platforms Chuck Gehman what his impressions were during the opening days of drupa.
Published May 10, 2012
Dieter Schilling, President/CEO of Delphax unveils details of their new entry into color with Elan using Memjet technology.
Published May 9, 2012
Cary Sherburne and Alon Bar-Shany discuss the HP 10000 platform and overall Indigo strategy.
Published May 7, 2012
Cary Sherburne and Frank Romano discus their impressions at drupa.
Published May 1, 2012
As we rapidly approach drupa 2012, WhatTheyThink Senior Editor Cary Sherburne talked with Jeff Jacobson, president, Xerox Global Graphic Communications, to find out what Xerox is up to and what we can expect to see at drupa and beyond.
Published April 30, 2012
Following the mid-April announcement by Mohawk about its reinvention plans, Senior Editor Cary Sherburne spoke with Thomas D. O’Connor, Jr., the company’s Chairman & CEO, to dig deeper.
Published April 30, 2012
Cary Sherburne interviews Dr. Rüdiger Schmidt, Managing Director at Bosch-Druck about the company's rich history and their modern conversion to digital printing.
Published April 27, 2012
There is no question that drupa 2012 will be an inkjet drupa, where inkjet technologies really begin to come into their own. But it will also be a “cloud computing” drupa. We have already seen a major announcement from Adobe, and many more companies are moving in that direction, including Xerox. Senior Editor Cary Sherburne talks with Xerox’s Deb Cantabene to find out more about the company’s cloud strategy.
Published April 25, 2012
Ariva's Sales Director Charlie Launsbach and Cary Sherburne discuss some more unique digital printing applications the company offers.
Published April 23, 2012
I was curious what customer reaction has been to the HP announcements delivered to the press in late March in Tel-Aviv, and who better to answer those questions that the general manager of the HP Indigo business, Alon Bar-Shany. I caught up with him while he was waiting at baggage claim in Mexico City. Bar-Shany has been on a global road show following the briefings held in Tel-Aviv and a very successful Dscoop event in Washington D.C.
Published April 23, 2012
This announcement is quite an interesting business model change for Adobe and could be a game-changer. The company was very clear that it is not abandoning its desktop licensing model for Creative Suite, but the ability for users to access the full range of Adobe publishing solutions, including Creative Suite 6 and Digital Publishing Single Edition, for as little as $50 a month (for a one-year commitment), will be a significant boon, especially for the growing force of freelance designers.
Published April 20, 2012
In this WhatTheyThink exclusive, Senior Editor Cary Sherburne tells the story of DX Imaging, a DuPont/Xerox joint venture founded in 1987, that might have changed printing history.
Published April 18, 2012
Cary Sherburne and Charlie Launsbach, Sales Director at Ariva, discuss some of the more unique applications their substrates can provide.
Published April 18, 2012
In this Part Two of her pre-drupa overview, Senior Editor Cary Sherburne reviews some of the new digital presses visitors to drupa will be able to see. It is not, by any means, an exhaustive list … while this is being called the inkjet drupa redux, there are also very interesting announcements in the toner space as well.
Published April 13, 2012
Jim Hamilton, Group Director for Intotrends, and Cary Sherburne discuss the some of the trends they'll be looking for at the rapidly approaching drupa conference.
Published April 13, 2012
President of Ariva Mark Ushpol updates Cary Sherbrune on the company's rebranding and shares how paper media is more important than ever for hybrid printers.
Published April 12, 2012
WhatTheyThink spoke with X-Rite-Pantone Senior VP of Sales and Marketing Vic Stalam upon learning about this news. Stalam indicated that X-Rite Pantone will join Esko and VideoJet in the Product Identification subgroup of Danaher, making this business a $1.2 billion subgroup.
Published April 12, 2012
March was a pre-drupa whirlwind for many of us journalist/industry analyst types. No one can attend all of the events, but it seemed like I had more than my share. I will be breaking my report up into three parts … the first will focus on the softer side—color management, workflow, etc. Stay tuned for additional information on new digital presses, finishing and more. Companies covered here: Chili Publisher, Enfocus, Esko, HP, Kodak, Xeikon and X-Rite Pantone
Published April 11, 2012
WhatTheyThink had the opportunity to speak in-depth with Mike Bryant, Worldwide Practice Leader for Strategy and Marketing Analytics, and Jay Robinson, Senior Solutions Consultant, Utility Market, to gain more information about this new offering from Ricoh for this WhatTheyThink exclusive commentary.
Published April 11, 2012
I have been following Mohawk for a number years, dating back to its early engagement with Indigo in the 1990s and its work on developing digitally-optimized papers that worked with that press and others. It has been interesting to watch this fourth-generation family business evolve over those years. And now, under the leadership of Thomas D. O’Connor, Jr., Chairman and CEO, the company seems to be accelerating its rate of change.
Published April 10, 2012
Bill Barta President & CEO of Rider Dickerson updates Cary Sherburne on the business and state of their digital equipment.
Published April 9, 2012
Gary Peeling Managing Director Precision Printing Co Ltd. discusses the change to a digital print workflow and the growth the company has seen by that transformation.
Published April 5, 2012
In February, Delphax Technologies announced it would be bringing to market a digital color print system powered by Memjet at drupa 2012. Industry watchers have been waiting to get more details on this sheet-fed device and the news is finally out. Senior Editor Cary Sherburne gets the details from Delphax’ Dieter Schilling.
Published April 5, 2012
Operations Director for Chesapeake Pharmaceutical, Jon Drennan discusses with Cary Sherburne about their involvement with Pantone to launch PantoneLive as a print producer.
Published April 2, 2012
Cary Sherburne and Paul Bean, Managing Director of Sun Branding Solutions discuss the importance of color matching across a variety of substrates and digital media markets for big brand companies like Heinz Beanz.
Published March 30, 2012
Tim Flaman Vice President of Marketing for West Canadian speaks with Cary Sherburne about transitioning into an entity that melded together its businesses with the advancement into the digital era.
Published March 30, 2012
Cary Sherbrune chats with Hamilton Costa with AN Consulting from Brazil about his Latin American perspective on the "Mecca" of print conferences.
Published March 29, 2012
Cary Sherburne was recently at DSCOOP 7 in Washington D.C. and interviews Sappi's Director of Marketing Mark Hittie about the value in sponsoring a user's group like DSCOOP.
Published March 29, 2012
Cary Sherburne interviews Dennis Killion, Director of Marketing with xpedx about the platinum sponsor perspective on why DSCOOP is such a success.
Published March 26, 2012
Cary Sherburne interviews Dr. Sonia Megert, Vice President of Pantone's Digital Business Unit about the successful partnerships offered at the launch of PantoneLIVE.
Published March 22, 2012
Cary Sherburne interviews Vic Stalam, Senior VP at X-Rite about their initiatives into the packing market.
Published March 22, 2012
In this exclusive WhatTheyThink interview, Senior Editor Cary Sherburne speaks with Roland Ortbach, just named as CEO of manroland web systems Inc. North America. Ortbach discusses the new organization, its relationship with the manroland sheetfed division and more.
Published March 20, 2012
Vic Stalam leverages his expertise as a long term technology customer of X-Rite and Pantone to unify the brands.
Published March 15, 2012
Allegra's Chairman Carl Gerhardt discusses how critical drupa is to the industry and how the Allegra Network benefits.
Published March 6, 2012
I had the opportunity to participate in an analyst briefing at Pantone in late February, and X-Rite President & CEO Tom Vacchiano took the time to speak with Senior Editor Cary Sherburne one-on-one with an update on X-Rite/Pantone strategy—where the company’s been and where it is going. Read more.
Published March 2, 2012
Pantone Senior Vice President Ron Potesky and Cary Sherburne confer about the newly announced PantoneLIVE
Published March 2, 2012
FedEx Office recently announced that it would be accelerating investment in grand format printing services in selected centralized production centers to supplement its service offerings. The same release also reported that Boeing had selected FedEx Office as its print service provider of choice. WhatTheyThink Senior Editor Cary Sherburne talked to the company to learn more.
Published March 1, 2012
Tim Vellek, Vice President of the Production Printing Business Group at Ricoh Americas and Cary Sherburne address the biggest needs that arise during the dynamic and dramatic changes occurring today in the industry.
Published March 1, 2012
On February 2nd, Presstek announced the appointment of Stanley E. Freimuth as Chairman, President & CEO. Mr. Freimuth, who stepped into the role on February 13th, spent nearly 25 years with Fujifilm where he ultimately had responsibility for all Fujifilm U.S.A businesses. Senior Editor Cary Sherburne spoke with Freimuth about his reasons for taking on the role and his expectations for the firm and the market.
Published February 28, 2012
Director of Marketing for AGFA Deborah Hutcheson and Cary Sherburne discuss preplanning for drupa and offers a key tip.
Published February 23, 2012
Cary Sherburne and Annette McCrary, Director of Production Marketing at Ricoh Americas Corporation discuss the reoccurring trending topic of printers adjusting to the current market state and how Ricoh is helping their customers make that adjustment,
Published February 22, 2012
The announcement that Jeff Jacobson, President & CEO of Presstek, was departing the company to take on a senior role at Xerox caught many industry watchers by surprise. Senior Editor Cary Sherburne spoke with Jacobson to get the story behind the story.
Published February 17, 2012
Chief Strategist for Mimeo Charlie Corr and Cary Sherburne talk about bringing inkjet into the primarily toner company.
Published February 16, 2012
Cary Sherburne and VP of Marketing Mike Dane discuss Ricoh's view on the rebirth to paper in a multi-channel communication market.
Published February 14, 2012
Today, Epson launched its next generation, newly-branded 64” solvent printer – the SureColor S30670 is a four-color solvent printer (CMYK) using Epson UltraChrome GS2 ink. Read more.
Published February 10, 2012
Dscoop, the wildly successful HP digital printing users group, has added a new conference to its repertoire. Co-located with Dscoop7 being held in Washington D.C. March 22-24, the event, DSee, takes place on March 22, 2012, and has already sold out. Hear more from Dscoop board members and HP about this novel event.
Published February 7, 2012
Christian Schowalter, Product Marketing Manager at EFI, tells Cary Sherburne about the new turnkey solution with the Fiery XF solutions.
Published February 7, 2012
Now that the dust has settled a little on the acquisition of AlphaGraphics (AGI) by Blackstreet Capital and CEO Kevin Cushing’s unexpected departure, Art Coley, AlphaGraphics’ Interim President, talks to WhatTheyThink Senior Editor Cary Sherburne about the AGI perspective, future prospects and franchisee reaction.
Published February 6, 2012
David Erwin Senior VP Market Development at NCP Solutions discusses some of the challenges they face with customer organization in transaction and trans-promo markets.
Published February 3, 2012
President of Hubcast Tony Dolph and Cary Sherburne discuss the success of their global cloud printing network and the international cost savings potential.
Published February 1, 2012
Cary Sherburne, WhatTheyThink’s Senior Editor, had a few questions for Allegra’s Carl Gerhardt and Mike Marcantonio about this acquisition. Here’s what they had to say.
Published January 30, 2012
Well known industry analyst and President of Printcom Bill Lamparter and Cary Sherburne discuss an industry analyst perspective of the 2012 drupa show.
Published January 27, 2012
In December, WhatTheyThink’s Senior Editor, Cary Sherburne, joined a number of her press and analyst peers on a visit to Fenske Media in Rapid City, South Dakota. In this article, she shares details about the event and includes an exclusive interview with Tom Fenske, one of the four brothers that own and operate the business.
Published January 27, 2012
Rumors that AlphaGraphics was on the blocks proved to be true when the company announced it had a new owner. Senior Editor Cary Sherburne spoke to CEO Kevin Cushing to get the story behind the story for our readers.
Published January 25, 2012
Océ Business Services introduced Océ PrintExpress, an online print and distribution service that augments its Managed Print Services offerings. Senior Editor Cary Sherburne speaks with Océ Business Services and its partner, Mimeo, to get the scoop.
Published January 24, 2012
Cary Sherburne and President of imageoptions Brian Hite discuss the company's involvement as a beta site for EFI's GS3250LX.
Published January 23, 2012
Cary Sherburne and HP's General Manager of Scitex Xavier Garcia have a conversation focused on print service providers looking to expand their offerings with wide format.
Published January 19, 2012
Jeff Hayzlett’s second book, Running the Gauntlet, is out, launched January 3rd. Read what Senior Editor Cary Sherburne has to say about the book and the SnapTags it incorporates.
Published January 17, 2012
Cary Sherburne and EFI's VUTEK Product Manager Jamie Dolpies talk about the latest LED curing technology recently included in their product line and the suite of advantages it brings to the industry.
Published January 17, 2012
Web-to-print provider Aleyant profiled one of its customers in a recent press release that caught my attention. Thinking this was an innovative print service provider who had launched a niche holiday application, I contacted them to see what they do the rest of the year. Not a print service provider!
Published January 16, 2012
Scitex Strategic Marketing Manager Harel Ifhar tells Cary Sherburne how HP is constantly striving to bring new technologies and business ideas to their customers to help them evolve their business.
Published January 13, 2012
Cary Sherburne visits Mercury Print Productions and interviews President John Place about their increase in educational book printing in the inkjet market.
Published January 12, 2012
Gina Testa, VP Graphics Communications Industry for Xerox, talks about the preparation and expectations for this year's drupa season.
Published January 10, 2012
Senior Marketing Manager Mark Goodearl and Cary Sherburne discuss how EFI brings better integration for a more efficient workflow to meet wide format's ever increasing demand for automation.
Published January 9, 2012
On December 7th, HP announced the acquisition of print MIS provider HiFlex. WhatTheyThink Senior Editor Cary Sherburne spoke with HP to understand more about this acquisition and how it fits into the HP portfolio. You may be surprised to learn where the acquisition is reporting within the HP organization.
Published January 9, 2012
Cary Sherburne and Xavier Garcia, General Manager for HP's Scitex, discuss the evolving wide format market and give advice to print providers.
Published December 19, 2011
On April 15, 2010, President Obama announced his intent to nominate William J. Boarman as the 26th Public Printer of the United States. Following that announcement, WhatTheyThink covered the long, and ultimately unsuccessful confirmation process, revealing a number of problems with the nominee. Apparently more problems have arisen and his nomination was returned to the President. Read more.
Published December 15, 2011
Andy Tribute and Cary Sherburne chat about the rapidly approaching drupa season and some of the key things they will be looking for.
Published December 15, 2011
NewPage was the first paper manufacturer to bring to market a coated stock optimized for production inkjet. Availability of an affordable coated stock solution is at the top of the wish list for many production inkjet press owners. We expect to see much more activity in this space between now and drupa. In the interim, Senior Editor Cary Sherburne spoke with the folks at NewPage to get the full story.
Published December 12, 2011
Wild Apple Graphics recently added a new digital press that allows the company to offer short runs of certain popular print sizes. Cary Sherburne spoke with Jim Chadwick, Director of Technical Services, to understand how digital printing is streamlining the company’s art print business and why they chose the digital press they purchased.
Published December 2, 2011
Chief Marketing Officer at GMC Bill Parker shares with Cary Sherburne why GMC rebranded their software into GMC Inspire.
Published December 1, 2011
continue their in-depth discussion on KCI. Part 1 can be found here
Published November 29, 2011
Cary Sherburne and KCI's General Manager Eric Liggett sit down for an in-depth discussion about KCI
Published November 28, 2011
Cary Sherburne and Vice President of IT Strategies Marco Boer highlight some of the key findings in the latest PRIMIR study, Impact of Electronic Technologies on Print.
Published November 18, 2011
German firm Printechnologics has developed another way for print to be interactive utilizing the increasing number of touch screens—tablets, smartphones and more—now in the marketplace. What is a Touchcode, how can it be used and when might we start seeing them in the market? Cary Sherburne speaks with Printechnologics CEO Sascha Voight.
Published November 18, 2011
Crackerjack Robert Carrier and Cary Sherburne sit down to discuss how automation is playing a bigger role with smaller jobs.
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