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Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer to Printer with The Kennickell Group

This week, Warren talks with Kennickell Group VP Kacey Kennickell Ray and VP of Sales Andrew Smith, the fourth generation of Kennickells to move into leadership positions. The company has evolved over its long life, from traditional commercial printing to wide format and direct mail. They still have 40-inch offset equipment but have been expanding digitally, having recently installed a Konica Minolta AccurioJet KM-1 high-speed inkjet press. They are also having a lot of fun. Watch Video

Jeff Zellmer On New Additions to Kodak’s Digital Printing Portfolio

Kodak’s Jeff Zellmer talks about some of Kodak’s recent product introductions, including two new Prosper high-speed inkjet presses—the Prosper Ultra 520 and the 1,345-ft./min. Prosper 7000—as well as the Ascend Digital Press, a toner-based machine that also adds embellishments. Watch Video

Karstedt Partners Acquired by Keypoint Intelligence

Kevin Karstedt talks to David Zwang about the history of packaging consultancy Karstedt Partners, which helps companies bring new and disruptive technologies to the market. They work with OEMs as well as brands and businesses throughout the label and packaging supply chain. It was recently announced that Karstedt Partners was acquired by Keypoint Intelligence. Watch Video

Ford Bowers Previews PRINTING United Expo 2022

WhatTheyThink's Eric Vessels chats with Ford Bowers, CEO of PRINTING United Alliance, about the upcoming PRINTING United Expo in Las Vegas October 19-21. The anticipation for the big North American trade show has been building and Ford provides a comprehensive overview of what to expect. Watch Video

HP’s Noam Zilbershtain on the New Indigo V12

Noam Zilbershtain, VP and GM of HP Indigo, talks to David Zwang at the recent Labelexpo about the HP Indigo V12 Digital Press for labels and flexible packaging. Watch Video

Bindtech’s Amazing Binding and Finishing Work

Bindtech is a postpress service provider that offers a wide range of binding and finishing services for both hardcover and softcover books. Bindtech’s Chad Dillon shows “Simply Bourbon,” a coffee table book that features an elaborate three-piece cover incorporating debossing, foil stamping, and a real piece of laser-etched wood. Bindtech was showing even more exotic binding examples at last August’s Americas Print Show. Watch Video

Brook+Whittle Looks to Expand Digital Printing, Embellishments

David Zwang talks to Jeremy Letterman, COO of Brook+Whittle, a Guilford, Conn.-based prime label printer with 15 locations across the US. They specialize in pressure sensitive and shrink labels as well as flexible packaging, operating a mix of digital (mostly HP), flexo, and rotogravure equipment. Letterman attended Labelexpo Americas to investigate the latest digital label printing technologies, and especially embellishments. Watch Video

HP Indigo Helps Natural State Labels Grow Rapidly

David Zwang talks to Tanner Brooks, general manager of Natural State Labels, at Labelexpo Americas. Founded in 2018, Natural State Labels is 100% digital, running two HP Indigo 6900 Digital Presses and three HP Indigo 8000s. They started off in pressure sensitive labels and had so much success they have since expanded into wine labels, adding hot stamping and embossing capabilities and shrink sleeves. Flexible packaging is in the company’s future. Watch Video

Frank’s E Books

Frank tells a tale of three books, each with 50,000 words and none of those words use the letter e. Ernest Wright’s book “Gadsby” in 1939 was the first, followed by Georges Perec’s 1969 “La Disparition” in French and its English translation “The Void” translated by Gilbert Adair. Try writing a sentence without the letter e. It’s not easy. (Obviously the authors’ names didn’t count.) Watch Video

Cambridge Label’s Digital Transformation

Deanne Sinclair of Cambridge Label talks to David Zwang at last week’s Labelexpo. A family business founded in 1998 and based in Cambridge, Ont., Cambridge Label is a trade label business specializing in pressure sensitive labels and shrink sleeves. The company started with flexo equipment and in 2013 ventured into digital to take advantage of the short- to mid-size label market. Watch Video

Cor Label Hits the Ground Running

David Zwang talks to Cor Label’s Bryan Dolbow at last week’s Labelexpo. Cor Label was founded in August 2020 “from scratch,” the founders having no background in the label business. Armed with an HP Indigo 6K and a finisher, the company produces labels, flexible packaging, and shrink sleeves for customers in the nutraceutical and craft brewing markets in North, Central, and South America. Watch Video

David Mauro on the Need for Effective Cybersecurity

David Mauro from All Covered, a provider of cybersecurity services, shares some scary cybersecurity breaches and explains why it’s important for companies to have effective safeguards in place. Watch Video

Wholesale Printer Sinalite Supercharges Printers

Sinalite’s Mike Meshkati talks with David Zwang at last week’s Labelexpo Americas. Sinalite is a family-run wholesale printer founded in 1999. In their 100,000-sq.ft. facility, they offer commercial printing, signage, labels, apparel—“the whole Amazon of printing.” Watch Video

Matthew Poliniak Discusses the Canon imagePRESS V1000 Color Digital Press

Matthew Poliniak, Manager, Product Marketing–Production Solutions, for Canon USA, shows off the new Canon imagePRESS V1000 Color Digital Press at the Americas Print Show. The imagePRESS V1000 can print 101 images per minute, even on coated stocks up to 400 gsm. The imagePRESS V1000 has also been deigned to print on a wide variety of stocks, and can help expedite production of complex, mixed-media jobs. Watch Video

Sheri Jammallo on “The Designer's Guide to a New Generation of Inkjet”

Inkjet Insight’s Elizabeth Gooding talks with Canon Solutions America’s Sheri Jammallo about the release of “The Designer's Guide to a New Generation of Inkjet.” This update of Canon’s classic design guide provides guidance on the creative potential for design projects produced on inkjet, or inkjet in combination with other print processes. Watch Video

Frank Gets Marked Up

Frank discusses mark up for typesetting. Once upon a time, typesetting began with a typewritten manuscript. Typographic format was communicated with marked-up instructions. The typesetting person then followed these instructions to provide the specified font, size, etc. He shows off the special copyfitting rulers and tools that were used to determine copy depth and page count. Watch Video

The Canon imagePROGRAF GP-4000 Prints Neon and Pastel PANTONE Colors

David Rice, Senior Manager, Technical Marketing Analysts, Large Format Solutions, Canon USA, talks about the Canon imagePROGRAF GP-4000 wide-format printer. At the Americas Print Show, Canon was demonstrating how the printer can print PANTONE colors, especially neon and pastel PANTONE colors. Watch Video

Customers Drive Design Requirements for New HP PageWide Advantage Platform

Yale Goldis, Director Commercial Strategy & Products, HP PageWide Industrial, discusses customer requirements and how this can translate into new developments and requirements for the new HP PageWide Advantage platform. Watch Video

Galo Fraga On Fraga Graphic Solutions’ Unique Hiring and Employee Development Strategy

Galo Fraga, CEO of Fraga Graphic Solutions, talks about his company and the proactive approach he takes to hiring, cross-training, and promoting employees from within, as well as the value of the recent Americas Print Show. Watch Video

Development Drivers for the New HP PageWide Advantage Platform

Barbara McManus, R&D Director for HP PageWide Industrial, offers some background to the development of the new HP PageWide Advantage Platform, and discusses the drivers that led to the creation of the new platform. Watch Video