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Amplify Print! A New Event Dedicated to Advances in Print Finishing

APTech and FSEA have teamed up to produce a new industry event: AmplifyPrint will be held 14-16 June 2022 in Minneapolis, a conference and exhibition dedicated to educating printers and designers about the latest possibilities in the realm of finishing. More info can be found at www.amplifyprint.org. Jeff Peterson and Thayer Long explain the event in this video interview. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Parkland Direct’s Clint Seckman

This week, Warren talks to Clint Seckman, President of Parkland Direct, which started out 40 years ago as a mom-and-pop commercial print shop. In the early 2000s, the company started to focus on direct mail and envelope printing, specializing in high-quality litho print and embellishments. Watch Video

The Feeding System for the HP Indigo 100K Digital Press

In this video sponsored by HP Indigo, Ami Yaari, R&D Mechanical Engineer at HP Indigo, talks about and demonstrates the feeding system on the HP Indigo 100K Digital Press. The 100K’s multiple input sources have many advantages, including the ability to load different substrates into the machine and rapidly switch substrates during production without stopping the press. Watch Video

Book Printing a Growth Segment in the Overall Print Market According to Adi Chinai

Adi Chinai of Boston-based King Printing shares his thoughts on how the pandemic affected the book market, which segments are growing most, and how production inkjet printing has changed the business. He also talks about the growth in self-publishing and how digital technologies have made that more accessible to more authors. Watch Video

Frank Gets the Munchies

There has been a noticeable uptick in printing directly on food, such as cookies, cakes, and other comestibles. He still has his archival carton of printed (and deteriorating) Pringles from the 1990s, but with inkjet, you can print on anything—even foods. Watch Video

Strategic Factory's Keith Miller on Strategies for Success

Richard Romano talks to Keith Miller, President of Strategic Factory, this year's top small commercial printer, in this excerpt from our recent "Top 100 Small Commercial Printers" LunchLearn Webinar. Watch Video

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