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Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with bopi’s Tom Mercier

This week, Warren talks to Tom Mercier, president of bopi printing, a 50-employee commercial offset printer that also offers die-cut printing, finishing, fulfillment, and more. The company’s various certifications—ISO 9001:2015, G7, and USPS—have definitely helped open doors with certain clients. Watch Video

Jim Raffel and Shelby Sapusek Geek Out with Color-Logic’s Mark Geeves

In the latest installment of the Print Geeks Interview Series, Resident Print Geeks Jim Raffel and Shelby Sapusek talk to Mark Geeves, co-founder and director of sales and marketing for Color-Logic, about the importance of education and training in the graphic arts and printing industries, as well as how to bring new people into the industry. Watch Video

The Value of Affiliates Membership

Adam LeFebvre, President of Specialty Print Communications and a GLGA Board Member, explains why it is important for printing companies to support their local Affiliate and shares some of the benefits he has received from membership and from donating his time to serve on the Board. Watch Video

Frank Would Like a Word

Frank learned that the Oxford University Press printing arm is closing after hundreds of years. He talks about their best known product, the Oxford English Dictionary, a monumental work that traced the derivation and first usage of every word in the English language. It took 30 years to produce the first volume—A and B. Simon Winchester’s “The Professor and the Madman” is an excellent book about the creation of the OED. Watch Video

Know Your Privacy Laws

In the latest edition of the “Things That Are Legal that You Probably Need to Know” series, Pat McGrew talks to University of Colorado Professor Linda Fried about the recently passed Colorado privacy act—and similar acts in other states and potentially nationally—and what they mean for the printing industry and direct mail. Watch Video

Jim Raffel and Shelby Sapusek Geek Out with PUA’s Ray Weiss

In the first installment of the new Print Geeks Interview Series, Resident Print Geeks Jim Raffel and Shelby Sapusek talk to Ray Weiss, Director of Digital Print Programs for PRINTING United Alliance, about the importance of education and training in the graphic arts and printing industries. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Nikos Kallas

This week, Warren talks to Nikos Kallas, VP of Manufacturing at MET Fine Printers. Based in Vancouver, with a second manufacturing plant in Calgary, Alberta, MET specializes in high-end commercial printing, such as full-color books that feature specialty finishing, case binding, slipcases, and other features that are out of the ordinary. Watch Video

The Digital Label Factory

In this video sponsored by HP Indigo, Gershon Alon, Head of PrintOS, talks about leveraging advanced technologies on the HP Indigo V12 to streamline the digital label production workflow and maximize overall efficiency. The goal is for the HP Indigo V12 to be able to replace two flexo presses, Watch Video

EILEEN FISHER Renew Seeks to Extend Apparel Life Cycle

Cynthia Power, Director, EILEEN FISHER Renew, describes the various ways the brand is taking back, reselling, and upcycling garments as well as recycling efforts to reduce the amount of textile waste in landfills. She'll be discussing this as the upcoming Smithers Digital Printing for Textiles conference as well. Watch Video

New Yarn Production Process Designed to Minimize Shedding of Microfibers

Fernando Marin founded Clean Ocean Fiber Tech to develop a new way of making yarn that significantly reduces, or even eliminates, microfiber shedding, a huge environmental issue. Laboratory tests in Brazil reveal that the Clean Ocean Fiber Tech fabric shed only 4 microfibers during the test, while standard fabric shed over 7,000 with a similar sized sample. Watch Video

Frank Goes Postal

Frank bemoans the increases in first class postage and the proposal for 58 cent stamps. He goes back in time to the venerable Addressograph mailing machine that ushered in the era of mass mailings, especially catalogs. From the telephone, to the modem, to the Internet, we have changed how we communicate with each other—and mail has been the loser. Watch Video

The Promise of Pigment Inks

Dupont has been involved in production of inks for inkjet printing for more than 30 years. In this conversation, Eric Beyeler, Global Marketing Manager for Artistri® Digital Inks at DuPont, talks about their history, how their inks are distributed, and the promise of pigment inks for both commercial/packaging and textile printing. Beyeler will be speaking in more detail on this topic at the Smithers Digital Textile Printing US conference on June 30th. Watch Video

The Paper Handling System on the HP Indigo 100K Digital Press

In this video sponsored by HP Indigo, Itamar Malka, R&D Product Development Lab Manager, HP Indigo, demonstrates the fast and accurate paper handling on the HP Indigo 100K, designed to support the highest possible productivity, up to 6,000 B2 sheets per hour. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Kenmore Envelope’s Scott Evans

This week, Warren talks with Scott Evans, President and CEO of Kenmore Envelope Company, a third-generation family business founded in the mid-1960s that specializes in flat sheet litho envelopes for direct mail. After a brief slowdown in early 2020, business came back in earnest in June and the company finished 2020 up 12% over 2019. Watch Video

Home Decor to Take Center Stage at Smithers Digital Print For Textiles

Michelle Courtois is an experienced design professional with a passion for textiles, product development, and technology. While she started in apparel and has worked with many well-known brands, she is shifting her focus to home decor -- a booming opportunity as more people are choosing to continue to work from home and to spend more time and energy making their homes reflect their style and lifestyle. Michelle talks about the projects she will present at the conference and where she sees the home decor market going from here. Watch Video

The Year of Frank: Many Happy Returns

We interrupt Frank’s weekly video to bring these birthday wishes from the team at WhatTheyThink and Inkjet Insight. Happy 80th, Frank! Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Says, “I Love Zoom!”

This week, Warren takes a break from his Printer to Printer series and reflects on the past 16 months and the impact that COVID had on him and on print businesses. On a personal level, it brought him closer to his kids. On a business level, it forced printers to adapt to change faster than they had been used to, and it forced them to find new ways to communicate with customers. Watch Video

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