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The New Writing Head for the HP Indigo V12 Digital Press

In this video sponsored by HP Indigo, Haim Vladomirski, LED Print Head Team Leader at HP Indigo, talks about the V12 writing head, which uses a new LED technology to print the finest details, smoothest skin tones, and highest image quality. Watch Video

Meet This Year's #1 Small Commercial Printer: Strategic Factory

Each year, WhatTheyThink | Printing News invites small commercial print business owners to participate in our Top 100 Shops Survey, and respondents are then ranked according to their 2020 revenues. This year's #1 Top Shop is Owings Mills, Md's Strategic Factory. Keith Miller, President and CEO of Strategic Factory, talks about how the company coped with the COVID-19 crisis and what its plans are for 2021. Watch Video

EFI Reggiani Adds Ease of Entry Printers, Localized Ink Manufacturing, to Portfolio at ITMA Asia 2021

Adele Genoni, EFI Vice President and General Manager at EFI Reggiani, joins Senior Editor Cary Sherburne to talk about the company's first in-person presence at a major trade event since the pandemic began. At ITMA Asia 2021, EFI Reggiani is launching two new ease of entry digital textile printers and teasing a third that will be launched later in the summer. Watch Video

Frank Has Spirit (Duplicators)

Frank discovers an article that says that Jeff Bezos of Amazon prefers multi-page memos over Powerpoint and this prompts a discussion of office printing. Along the way, we are reminded of paper memos and phone call slips, some printed with Mimeographs, Dittos, Gestetners, and Xerox copiers. Today, almost everyone has a printer/scanner a few steps away. Watch Video

Industry Veteran Patrick Henry to Retire

Eric Vessels talks to industry analyst, writer, and former WhatTheyThink contributor Patrick Henry, who has recently announced his retirement. They look back at Pat’s career—he began as a stringer for the long-gone Long Island Press newspaper covering the police beat and in 1984 answered a classified ad for an editorial position at the then-weekly Printing News. Pat wrote for WhatTheyThink from 2002 to 2017. We wish Pat all the best! Watch Video

Making a Sustainable Impact for Print

HP’s corporate citizenship values go back to the founding of the company, and HP has been recognized as one the world’s most responsible and sustainable companies. The company has more than 100 staff worldwide dedicated to HP’s Sustainable Impact programs—including product stewards assigned to every product line to work hand-in hand-with product development and support functions to guide sustainability and compliance activities. HP recently announced bold 2030 Sustainable Impact goals that will move the company towards becoming the world’s most just and sustainable technology company. What are some of those goals, and what initiatives is HP pursuing to achieve them? What role is digital printing playing in transitioning commercial, industrial, and packaging printing to the circular economy? Sustainability is central to the value proposition of HP PageWide presses—how does that help HP’s direct mail customers, in turn, become more sustainable businesses? Watch Video

HP Indigo’s Print Care

In this video sponsored by HP Indigo, Deisy Kapon, WWTS IST Product & Content Dev. Manager at HP Indigo, demonstrates Print Care, a set of on-press capabilities that allow operators to monitor the press and diagnose and troubleshoot any press issues in real time from anywhere. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Thayer Long

This week, Warren talks with Thayer Long, President of the Association for PRINT Technologies (APTech), who provides an overview of the association, as well as how both the association and the industry itself has been in transition—especially post-pandemic. Watch Video

EFI’s Fiery Business CTO Josef Coetsee on DFEs

David Zwang talks to Josef Coetsee, CTO of EFI’s Fiery Division, about EFI’s unique approach to digital front ends (DFEs). Much more than a RIP, a DFE is a set of services—hardware and software—that enable print shops to execute their workflows, manage their operations, and drive their presses. Watch Video

Court Ruling on Debt Collection Communications Puts Printing Companies on Notice

April came with more than showers for any PSP who prints for debt collectors. It also came with a ruling from the 11th Circuit Court that prohibits collection companies from using the services of PSPs to print and mail debt collection letters and related notices. If you are one of these PSPs, listen to this video with Pat McGrew and Dr. Linda Fried (University of Colorado Business School) before you have a conversation with your legal team. If you aren't printing collection letters, you still might want to listen. Linda tells us that this puts many other types of communication printed by service bureaus at risk! Watch Video

Frank’s Enablers

A recent study shows that one-third of all newspaper subscriptions are for digital versions and that this could reach 100% between 2024 and 2027. But for digital subscriptions to be worthwhile, there needs to be an easy way to read them. Frank takes us on a quick tour of these digital enablers and how they evolved—from the Apple Newton, to the Powerbook, to the MacBook Air, and then to the iPhone and iPad. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Julie McFarland

This week, Warren talks with Julie McFarland, President and Owner of McNaughton & Gunn Inc., a family-owned book manufacturer—both offset and digital—that celebrated 45 years in business last year. The company struggled a little during the pandemic, but managed to keep all of its employees. Book production has ramped back up and they are busier than ever. Watch Video

HP Indigo’s Thermal Offset Transfer Technology

In this video sponsored by HP Indigo, Alon Gazit, VP of R&D, takes us into the HP Indigo 100K Lab to demonstrate HP’s thermal offset transfer technology, which allows the HP Indigo digital press to maintain an offset look and feel, as well as the advantages of offset printing. Watch Video

Frank Romano and the Museum of Printing

Frank Romano, an industry icon who needs no introduction, spoke with Senior Editor Cary Sherburne on the eve of his 80th birthday. He shared stories about how he got into the printing industry and some of his early career, talked about the Museum of Printing and a few of the unique items that are on display there, and provided sage insight and advice about the future of the industry. Watch Video

First Place Winners of the AATCC Concept 2 Consumer Student Merchandising Competition Discuss their Project and their Futures

For the 2021 AATCC Concept 2 Consumer® Student Merchandising Competition, AATCC received nine entries, with 19 students participating from five colleges and universities. In this video, we interview Evietta Chapman and Keaton Springer, the first place winners with their Circular Edit project. They talk about why they are choosing careers in textiles & apparel, what their project consisted of, and what their plans are after graduation in June of 2021. Watch Video

Frank Takes Pictures

Photography and printing have always had a symbiotic relationship. Frank shows off the Museum of Printing’s collection of antique (and some not so antique) cameras. The challenge after the advent of photography was how to get photographs into a form that could be printed—hence the halftone and, eventually, scanners. Now images are digital from the start, since everyone has a camera with them and there is a glut of images. Watch Video

Predictive Press Care—An AI-Driven Solution to Avert Problems

Deisy Kapon, WWTS IST Product & Content Dev. Manager, talks about Predictive Press Care on the HP Indigo presses, an artificial intelligence-based system that collects press data as the press is running, analyzes it, anticipates errors, and alerts the operator that an error is about to happen. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Tim Savins

This week, Warren talks to ABCO Inc.’s Tim Savins. Launched in 1956, ABCO is a family-owned printing fulfillment company based in Dallas. When the pandemic hit last year, ABCO lost a lot of its business and made up a lot of the difference with COVID signage. Today, ABCO’s customers have turned a corner and business is starting to rebound. Watch Video

bluesign: Making Inroads on Increased Sustainability in Textiles & Apparel

With textiles & apparel being the second largest contributor to pollution, behind the petroleum industry, everything we can do to minimize that is important. In this discussion, Reinhard Umber of bluesign discusses the extensive process the company's partners must undergo to be able to use the prestigious bluesign logo and become a system partner. Watch Video

Frank’s Paper Chase

Frank waxes nostalgic about the Compugraphic CompuWriter phototypesetter and how it helped expand the newspaper market. Working for Compugraphic at the time, Frank’s first book was all about how to start a profitable newspaper—with a CompuWriter that made typesetting easy. But now newspapers are trading paper for pixels and the traditional paper is sadly going away. Watch Video