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Published March 9, 2015
Jennifer Matt talks to Greg Salzman, President of Aleyant Systems about the Aleyant Pressero web-to-print system and his company's view on web-to-print integration, mobile, and helping printers find success online.
Published March 6, 2015
Senior Editor Cary Sherburne explores the business benefits Benson has garnered by implementing integrated MIS, web storefront and marketing asset management to deliver a great customer experience that reduces touch points.
Published March 5, 2015
Senior Editor Cary Sherburne speaks with Thad McIlroy, principal of consulting firm The Future of Publishing to learn more about ... the future of publishing, including three cycles of disruptive change he has identified.
Published March 4, 2015
Scott Spagnolli, Director of Graphics Support for Veritiv, talks with Richard Romano about the latest news from Vertiv, as well as the latest wide-format application and substrate trends.
Published March 3, 2015
Senior Editor Cary Sherburne speaks with Hunkeler's Hans Gut who explains what's new from Hunkeler, including the DP-8 dynamic perfer and the smart book solution for short-run book production, both of which were shown for the first time at Hunkeler Innovationsdays 2015 in Lucerne.
Published March 3, 2015
Senior Editor Cary Sherburne speaks with Former CGX President Steve Brown about the RR Donnelley acquisition and his current role at Mimeo.
Published March 2, 2015
Senior Editor Cary Sherburne talks with Marketing Leader Erich Hodel of Hunkeler about where attendees came from and what they saw at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2015. He highlights Hunkeler's brand-new control platform that enables end-to-end control of print jobs.
Published March 2, 2015
Senior Editor Cary Sherburne speaks with Marco Boer of I.T. Strategies about our recent visit to Hunkeler Innovationdays in Lucerne. His enthusiasm about this event was reflected by everyone who attended and he articulates its value well.
Published February 26, 2015
Senior Editor Cary Sherburne speaks with HP's Vice President and General Manager High Speed Production Solutions, Aurelio Maruggi about the upcoming Jetcomm conference scheduled for March 4-5, 2015, in Washington D.C., the first-ever user group devoted to the production inkjet community.
Published February 25, 2015
Polaris Direct is moving to a white-paper-in strategy for its direct mail business, adding an inkjet line to lift the business from a commodity model to a value-added model that will take the business to the next level. President & COO Joe Maloy talks about this transformation "taking the handcuffs off the marketers," giving them more flexibility in delivering timely, relevant communications.
Published February 24, 2015
Editor Cary Sherburne catches up with WhatTheyThink contributor David Zwang at Hunkeler Innovationdays in Lucerne, Switzerland, to get his insight on the new solutions being shown at the show and the importance of this event for the future of inkjet.
Published February 23, 2015
The 11th edition of Hunkeler Innovationdays begins today. Stefan Hunkeler, owner and CEO of Hunkeler, talks with Senior Editor Cary Sherburne about what the nearly 5,500 visitors to this unique event can expect, including innovative new solutions from Hunkeler itself.
Published February 19, 2015
Senior Editor Cary Sherburne speaks with Daniel Houghton, CEO of Lonely Planet, about how print fits into the publishing mix for the company. This includes a bundling strategy for print and digital, interactive ebooks, using QR codes, future trends and more.
Published February 18, 2015
Epson Product Manager Reed Hecht spoke with Richard Romano at the 2014 SGIA Expo about winning a Product of the Year Award, as well as the latest trends in dye-sublimation and direct-to-garment textile printing.
Published February 17, 2015
Senior Editor Cary Sherburne speaks with Sara Domville, President of F+W, the Digital Book World organizer and more. She talks about taking a 360-degree approach to delivering content, including digital, print and in-person strategies, and the multiple lives content has today.
Published February 16, 2015
Epicomm’s CEO Ken Garner talks with Senior Editor Cary Sherburne about the rebranding of NAPL/NAQP/AMSP and future strategies.
Published February 12, 2015
Senior Editor Cary Sherburne speaks with Author and New Yorker writer Ken Auletta about Yahoo! and the challenges faced by CEO Marissa Mayer. He gives her an “Incomplete” so far in terms of her efforts to turn the company around.
Published February 11, 2015
Canon Solutions America's Randy Paar talks to Richard Romano about the award-winning Arizona series wide-format printers, and the increasing demand for high-value print applications.
Published February 10, 2015
Jeff White, General Manager, EFI Monarch speaks with Print Software Section Contributing Editor Jane Mugford about successful MIS implementations.
Published February 5, 2015
Senior Editor Cary Sherburne speaks with Author and New Yorker Writer Ken Auletta about his experiences writing the book Googled, as well as his thoughts about Amazon. He talks about some of the shortcoming and conceits of legacy media as compared to how digital media operates.
Published February 5, 2015
Bill Duerr, President of Hatteras speaks with Cary Sherburne about the Hatteras business and the recent placement of a 5-meter EFI VUTEk LED Printer to support its grand format business.
Published February 4, 2015
Steve Bennett, VP of Sales for Esko, talks to Richard Romano about Esko's recent product and feature introductions, including a new entry-level Kongsberg cutting table, and identifies current trends in finishing.
Published February 3, 2015
Guy Gecht talks about receiving the Bruno Award, his background and the strong team that supports him, including this sage advice: “We have to continue to think about where we want to go and continue to evolve the company. We can’t stop. Doing nothing is the worst option for everyone because the market is changing and technology is changing.”
Published February 3, 2015
Frank Romano joins us from the stacks of books that made up the GATF Library which was recently donated to Cal Poly. Frank is a 2015 recipient of the Bruno Award from the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts (TAGA). Frank talks about receiving the award, the start of the Lithographic Technical Foundation which later became the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF) and how Mike Bruno kickstarted research within the printing industry.
Published February 2, 2015
Cary Sherburne interviews John Tenwinkel, Director of Dscoop University at Dscoop about the Dscoop University program and the resources it provides to the Dscoop community.
Published January 28, 2015
Bart Fret Director of Sales, Large-Format, for GMG talks to Richard Romano about color management challenges for wide-format printing, managing color across multiple printing technologies, and the latest trends in proofing.
Published January 27, 2015
HP's inkjet web press platform is now in use as a solution for bringing vivid color and graphics to corrugated packaging. David Murphy, in charge of inkjet web marketing and business development for HP, explains the application and the strategy.
Published January 26, 2015
Print Software Section Editor Jennifer Matt sat down with Kevin Geominne, Managing Partner at Chili Publish to find out how Chili Publish approaches integration with other systems. What Chili Publish is doing to support mobile. And how they help printing companies find success with online services.
Published January 21, 2015
EFI CEO Guy Gecht talks to Richard Romano at last October's SGIA Expo about the growth of specialty and display graphics printing, and EFI's 25th anniversary.
Published January 20, 2015
After 40 years as an independent supplier of prepress technology, ECRM has joined forces with Chinese prepress manufacturer CRON as the master distributor in North America for CRON CTP systems. Rick Black, president and CEO of CRON-ECRM LLC, details the JV's strategy and objectives.
Published January 15, 2015
In our second video with Sarah Mannone, Vice President of Client Services at Trekk, Mannone shares common challenges with Augmented Reality (AR) in Cross-media Communication and techniques to start using AR within campaigns.
Published January 14, 2015
Richard Romano talks with Barbara Chandler Allen, Founder and Executive Director of Fresh Artists, a non-profit organization that creates wide-format digital prints of children's art in exchange for donations from corporations. The money is then used to purchase art supplies for cash-strapped inner-city art education programs.
Published January 13, 2015
Established in 1992, Hangzhou CRON Machinery & Electronics Co., Ltd. has become China's leading supplier of computer-to-plate systems. Alex Lee, deputy general manager for sales and marketing, speaks with Pat Henry about CRON's plans to become better known in the U.S. market.
Published January 12, 2015
Each year Jim Hamilton, Group Director at InfoTrends, collects the corporate greeting cards he receives over the holiday and describes the use of innovative printing techniques, substrates, design, and personalization.
Published January 8, 2015
Don Barbour, Chairman & Co-Founder Graphic Systems North America (GNSA) spoke with Patrick Henry at Graph Expo about its dealership network, and its distribution Ryobi MHI presses and CRON CtP systems.
Published January 7, 2015
Mike Puyot, President of Memjet Wide-Format, talks with Richard Romano about the advantages of Memjet printheads, and the important distinctions among the various Memjet models currently on the market.
Published January 6, 2015
Pat Henry, editor of WhatTheyThink's Labels and Packaging section, discusses what will drive adoption of digital printing in this segment and what will moderate the pace as printers cope with the learning curve.
Published January 5, 2015
Sarah Mannone, Vice President of Client Services at Trekk shares insight on using Augmented Reality within cross-media communications.
Published December 18, 2014
Kodak recently announced a new organizational structure with a goal of a better customer experience, streamlined corporate functions, and to better leverage of Kodak’s product and service portfolio, scientific and engineering expertise and world-famous and highly trusted brand. Effective January 1, 2015- Brad Kruchten will lead the Print Systems Division as the President, Print Systems, and Senior Vice President, Kodak. In this interview, Kruchten shares a view into the latest developments in processless plates.
Published December 16, 2014
Yishai Amir VP, General Manager, HP Graphic Solutions Business provides an overview of packaging printing on Indigo.
Published December 15, 2014
Senior Editor Cary Sherburne and GMC’s Scott Draeger discuss the challenges of producing fully-funcitonal omni-channel communications, including mobile, and how GMC solutions address those challenges for its customers, as well as trends in conversion from paper to electronic for transactional documents.
Published December 11, 2014
Yishai Amir VP, General Manager, HP Graphic Solutions Business provides an overview of market segments.
Published December 11, 2014
The Graphic Communication program at Cal Poly has started started a graduate program in Printed Electronics and Functional Imaging. The program offers a Professional Certificate and Master of Science Degree. We spoke with Dr. Malcolm Keif, Professor & Graduate Coordinator of Printed Electronics and Functional Imaging about the program and its degrees. For more information on the program http://printedelectronics.calpoly.edu/
Published December 11, 2014
Jeff Jacobson, President, Xerox Technology Business, explains the overall business strategy for Xerox and the opportunities for growth that are represented by the Graphic Communications market.
Published December 10, 2014
As part of a Print Software video series, we are asking web-to-print vendors about three important topics; integration, mobile, and implementation. Forrest Leighton from PTI describes Marcom Central's vision around integration, mobile, and implementation.
Published December 9, 2014
We haven’t heard much from Benny Landa lately. But the team has been at work perfecting the first press, the S10, and lining up customers. A blog post from Landa and a link to a video tour of the press and the factory are highlights of this post.
Published December 5, 2014
We spoke with Jim Hamilton, Group Director at InfoTrends, at the end of the recent Xerox Forum in Madrid. Jim highlights the new business ventures and exciting applications that were presented by printers from the Xerox Premier Partner community.
Published December 4, 2014
We recently spoke with Dr. Malcolm Keifabout Functional Printing and its applications. Dr. Keif is Professor & Graduate Coordinator of Printed Electronics and Functional Imaging at Cal Poly. Dr. Keif is an advocate for companies in traditional printing businesses to investigate new businees opportunities in functional printing.
Published December 3, 2014
Kenneth Hadfield, CEO of Rapid Digital Press, talks to Richard Romano about how his wide-format service bureau helped a large mapping company transition from offset-printed maps to short-run, customized maps, opening up new business opportunities for both print provider and print customer.
Published November 26, 2014
As part of a Print Software video series, we are asking web-to-print vendors about three important topics; integration, mobile, and implementation. Steve Enstad from PageDNA describes PageDNA's company's and product's vision around integration, mobile, and implementation.
Published November 25, 2014
WhatTheyThink had an opportunity to sit down with Sophie Vandebroek, Xerox CTO and President Xerox Innovation Group during the Xerox Forum last month in Madrid. During our chat Ms. Vandebroek spoke about innovation and how to create a culture of innovation.
Published November 20, 2014
We sat down with Hubert Soviche, marketing lead for Xerox Graphic Communications in Europe, and Xavier Jouvet, Group Marketing Director at Antalis International during the Xerox Forum in Madrid to hear about the recently launched Applications Kits from Antalis. The Applications Kits demonstrate digital printing capabilities across a wide range of substrates and are part of Xerox's business development program.
Published November 14, 2014
Jennifer Matt interviews Jane Mugford about what printers need to bring to the table in a Print MIS transition project.
Published November 13, 2014
Mike Peterson, Owner of Gabriel Group in St. Louis and Jeroen van Druenen, Director of Jubels b.v.in Amsterdam sat down with WhatTheyThink to discuss a partnership they formed to service a client’s geographically concentric needs.
Published November 5, 2014
We recently spoke with Chris Bondy on the transformation of the RIT Printing Industry Center to the Cross-Media Innovation Center and its updated focus on creation and organization of media, analysis of consumer behaviors, and tools and methods used in the distribution of content to all media channels.
Published October 20, 2014
Last week the Cross-Media Innovation Center at RIT hosted a two day summit in Rochester, NY. WhatTheyThink spoke with Chris Bondy who runs the Center on how the Summit provides a platform for the research and analyst community to share the latest research and analysis in cross-media.
Published October 13, 2014
Aurelio Maruggi, VP & GM of Inkjet Web for HP, talks to Cary Sherburne at Graph Expo 2014 about the exciting announcements from HP relative to inkjet.
Published October 1, 2014
Richard Romano, WhatTheyThink Wide Format Section Editor, gives his impression of Graph Expo relative to the wide format sector and reviews products and applications at the show.
Published September 29, 2014
Ralph Nappi sat down with Cary Sherburne to discuss Graph Expo footprint, attendance, co-located events.
Published September 10, 2014
Jared Smith, President of blue media, talks workflow with Kevin Karstedt and how changes are necessary to do digital print for packaging more effectively.
Published August 14, 2014
Cary Sherburne talks to Chris Kitchener, Group Product Manager for InDesign at Adobe, about the new things in Creative Cloud 14 that will open up opportunities for print service providers.
Published July 31, 2014
Russell Viers, Speaker - Trainer - Digital Handyman, talks to Cary Sherburne about a challenge he has for the printing community. It's time to take the opportunity to take the lead in helping designers and creatives move to multi-channel and adopt an RGB workflow.
Published July 24, 2014
Published July 17, 2014
Mike King, President & CEO of Eagle Systems, talks to Cary Sherburne about the things they do to enhance printed material using foils.
Published June 12, 2014
Webcrafters has a long history in the Book Manufacturing industry (since the 1800's). Jac Garner discusses how they have changed and adapted in the industry.
Published June 11, 2014
Bruce discusses how they integrate mobile technology in their business offerings.
Published June 10, 2014
VDP Direct has a niche in the casino marketing industry. Mike discusses how some of the HP products help them deliver the best solutions for their customers.
Published June 9, 2014
Standing still is not an option. Guy outlines the 5 areas that EFI is betting on for the future of the industry and EFI.
Published May 22, 2014
Published May 12, 2014
Cary Sherburne talks to Dave Dickson, Senior Product Marketing Manager - DPS. They talk about the integration between Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and Experience Manager.
Published April 25, 2014
Chris Irick, Worldwide Product Marketing Manager at Xerox, introduces the new Versant 2100 Press. Chris talks about the 4 ways the Versant 2100 allows printers to "do more with more": More performance, more reliability, more flexibility, and more results.
Published April 24, 2014
Published April 17, 2014
Profits per employee increased to higher levels since 2000. Industry consolidation is a big factor in this report. It is not just mergers and acquisitions, but also plant closures and bankruptcies, and the opening of new businesses that absorb the best and most appropriate resources of the closed plants, and also the strategic changes that surviving companies make as they respond and anticipate marketplace changes, absorbing the sales volume of departed competitors.
Published April 1, 2014
Published August 16, 2013
Brian Segnit of Xerox talks about the J75 and C75 presses, giving an overview of the features and functionality. Brian also talks about a new feature called SIQA, or Simple Image Quality Adjustment.
Published July 3, 2013
Blaine Gabriel, Director of Ohio University Printing Services, talks to Eric Vessels about attending the xpedx wide format summit in Cincinnati and what's next for his shop.
Published June 27, 2013
Tim Greene, Director of Infotrends' Wide Format Printing Consulting Service, joins us from an xpedx Wide Format Summit in Cincinnati and gives us a summary of his presentation which includes trends in the wide format segment of the printing industry.
Published June 14, 2013
Theresa Vanna, SGP Board Member, talks about the organization and what things they look at when certifying facilities.
Published June 7, 2013
Mark Swanzy, COO of Xante, talks about the advancements in production inkjet that is allowing more versatility in the print for packaging sector.
Published June 5, 2013
Juan Pablo Mendez, General Manager of Mayaprin, talks to Cary Sherburne about their business in Guatemala and getting into digital printing with HP Indigo.
Published May 30, 2013
David Reny, EVP at Standard Finishing, talks to Cary Sherburne about disruptions in the print marketplace and how that creates opportunities for printers.
Published May 28, 2013
Martin Bailey, CTO of Global Graphics, talks to Cary Sherburne about the impact of the cloud on the printing industry.
Published May 14, 2013
Bob Raus, Category Manager for HP's Smartstream, talks to Cary Sherburne about Dscoop 8 and integrating vendor partners in a vey unique way at the show.
Published May 13, 2013
Yoshihiro Oe, Export Manager at Horizon, gives Cary Sherburne an update on Horizon in North America and trends he's seeing in the market.
Published May 3, 2013
Buzz Apostol, VP of North American Sales for X-Rite/Pantone, talks to Pat Henry about the upcoming 27th Annual NYU Prism Award. For further information contact [email protected].
Published May 2, 2013
Will Mansfield, Director of Inkjet Product Marketing at Kodak, talks about the importance of Hunkeler Innovations Days and gives updates on the Prosper press.
Published April 30, 2013
Cary Sherburne catches up with Tim Arnold of Arnold Printing at Dscoop about what they are doing differently in their business from the last show to now.
Published April 29, 2013
Tim Taylor, VP of Marketing for Screen Europe, talks to Cary Sherburne about workflow solutions and integrating digital and offset workflows with a single solution.
Published April 25, 2013
Grant Miller, VP or Global Product Management at Pitney Bowes, talks to Cary Sherburne about the emerging use of strategic mailing software and the innovation and advancements in print mailing workflows.
Published April 22, 2013
Dustin Graupman, VP/GM of Inkjet Business Team at Xerox, talks to Cary Sherburne about the market reception to the CiPress technology. They also discuss the different applications for the press.
Published April 17, 2013
Gary Peeling, Managing Director of Precision Printing in London, talks to Cary Sherburne about a new Dscoop member benefit called Dscoop University.
Published April 15, 2013
George Promis, VP of Continuous Forms at Ricoh, talks to Cary Sherburne about the evolution in continuous forms printing and interactivity through clickable paper.
Published April 8, 2013
Cary Sherburne interviews Brenda Kai, Executive Director at EDSF, who talks about their scholarship program.
Published March 19, 2013
Bob Raus, HP Smartstream Category Manager, talks to Cary Sherburne about Smartstream Production Center.
Published February 21, 2013
Jay Sato, CTO of Primary Color, talks to Richard Romano about the company and the types of services they provide to their clients including wide format printing.
Published February 19, 2013
Kevin Karstedt, CEO of Karstedt Partners, talks about how commercial printers can get into the packaging segment.
Published February 7, 2013
Allen Ali of InnoMark Communications talks to Richard Romano about growing their business in digital, signage, and packaging. They also talk about the challenges with growing wide format and the types of applications they print for customers.
Published October 12, 2012
At Graph Expo 2012, WhatTheyThink livecast a speakers series live from the show floor. The WhatTheyThink.com Speaker Series, designed as a "show within a show," featured engaging discussions with industry experts, end-users and seasoned professionals moderated by the editors of WhatTheyThink.com.
Published October 10, 2012
This session was recorded live at Graph Expo 2012.
The printing industry continues to change; many areas are shrinking while others are seeing modest to moderate growth. One area that is growing, at lest in pace with GDP, is packaging. Many companies in the commercial printing space are looking at packaging as an opportunity but don't know how to get involved. Couple this interest in packaging with the digital printing capabilities commercial printers and in-plants have embraced and opportunity could be closer than one might think.
Published October 10, 2012
This session was recorded live at Graph Expo 2012.
In today’s business environment, finding the right balance between environmental responsibility and cost isn’t always easy. The panel will discuss products and procedures they have brought into their facilities to help build a more sustainable business.
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