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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

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Direct Marketing Company with Darwill’s Mark DeBoer

This week, Warren talks with Mark DeBoer of Darwill, who explains why Darwill never calls itself a printer, but rather a direct marketing company that avails itself of a variety of media channels to leverage customer data. This is the first in a series of "Printer to Printer" interviews with Graphic Arts Alliance members, sponsored by GAA. Watch Video

Process Control for Ultimate Quality on the HP Indigo V12 Digital Press

Roi Liraz, Indigo V12 Program Manager, demonstrates process control on the HP Indigo V12. Using sensors, smart cameras, algorithms, and other forms of automation, the high-speed press is able to ensure consistent high quality. Watch Video

Global Graphics’ Eric Worrall on SmartDFEs

David Zwang talks to Eric Worrall, VP of Products and Services for Global Graphics Software, about digital front ends (DFEs), the elements that comprise a DFE, and Global Graphics’ recent introduction of its SmartDFE. Watch Video

SAI-TEX USA Brings Sustainable On-Demand Denim Apparel Manufacturing On Shore

With a goal to ultimately employ 300 people, and with some very unique and sustainable ways of washing, preparing, cutting and sewing denim products, SAI-TEX USA is not only playing a substantial role in reshoring of apparel manufacturing, but has also introduced benefits of on-demand production to this product category. SAI-TEX USA President Kathy Kweon explains. Watch Video

Focus on Innovation: How HP Engineers, Chemists, and Architects Create

That’s why they’re committed—in every department from engineering to chemistry—to ensure that their solutions grow with their customers over time. So how does HP do it? Watch Video

The Fabric of Frank’s Life

Frank excitedly recommends a new book called “The Fabric of Civilization” by Virginia Postrel. He learns that the words “text” and “textile” some from the same root, and the “Stone Age” is misnamed. He ties it all together with a letterpress press used by the Folly Cove Designers to print fabric. Watch Video

Color Calibration on the HP Indigo 100K Digital Press

Basil Verdene, Color Group Manager for HP Indigo, talks about the advanced color management capabilities of the HP Indigo 100K Digital Press, including its ability to manage color while printing. Learn more about color management on the HP Indigo 100K in this video sponsored by HP Indigo. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Heeter Printing’s Amanda Bronowski

This week, Warren talks with Amanda Bronowski, sales executive at Heeter Printing. Amanda had spent most of her career on the print operations side of the business, and had only switched to the sales side a year before COVID hit. Wanting to improve her sales performance, and having time on her hands during the pandemic, she developed a direct mail promotion and marketing strategy on LinkedIn, with great success. Watch Video

Kodak’s Jim Continenza Wins a Maverick Award

David Zwang talks to Jim Continenza, Chairman and CEO of Eastman Kodak, about he and his team winning a Maverick Award for Business Achievement, and how Kodak remains on schedule with its five-year plan that had been developed several years ago. Watch Video

Fiber is the New Computing Platform

We spoke with Sasha Stolyarov, CEO of AFFOA, about a year ago on the subject of fiber-based computing. Now, a year later, he has plenty of updates to share in this informative video interview. The future of fiber-based computing is here, and will only grow in functionality as AFFOA and others advance this exciting field for the textiles industry. Watch Video

Frank’s Tale of Two Books

Frank shows us two beautiful case-bound books. Both are histories of the Weyerhaeuser Paper Company produced in 1999. One was printed with offset lithography and the other with Xeikon toner-based printing at RIT using the same PDF file—and if not for a production note on the cover of the digital version, you’d never know it wasn’t offset. In the decade that followed Weyerhaeuser got out of the paper business and Xeikon flourished in digital printing. Watch Video

Ricoh’s New President and CEO Carsten Bruhn on Doing Business Post-COVID

David Zwang talks with Carsten Bruhn, newly appointed President and CEO of Ricoh North America. Bruhn has been with Ricoh for more than 30 years, and he talks about his journey in the industry and in Ricoh, as well as how he sees Ricoh doing business as we emerge from the pandemic. Watch Video

A Tour of the HP Indigo B2 Development Lab

Itamar Malka, R&D Product Development Lab Manager at HP Indigo, takes us on a short tour of the HP Indigo B2 development lab, where HP tests new features and capabilities on machines like the HP Indigo 100K, 15K, and 12000—as well as systems still in development. Learn more about the lab in this video sponsored by HP Indigo. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Mike Philie

This week, Warren talks to Mike Philie of the Philie Group, which works with owners, CEO, and leadership teams (i.e., the Warrens of the world) at privately held printing companies to help them grow their businesses and get to where they want to go. Watch Video

The Nicole Saunders Story: A Passion for Graphic Arts

Recent RIT graduate Nicole Saunders has joined commercial printer Kirkwood and is currently working her way through various departments in the company under the mentorship of its managers. The goal is to determine where she feels she can deliver the most value and where her true passions lie. This is a great story that can encourage others to pursue a career in graphic communications. Watch Video

Yes, We Have No Bodoni

Frank takes us on a quick tour of the only type specimen book done by type designer Giambatista Bodoni in his lifetime. Dedicated to Napoleon, it presents the “Our Father” prayer in 97 languages. The 1806 folio-sized book is now in the Romano Library at the Museum of Printing, as are the research materials that Valerie Lester drew upon for her definitive biography of Bodoni. Watch Video

Enhanced Productivity Mode (EPM) with HP Indigo Explained

Alon Gazit, VP of R&D at HP Indigo, brings us to the HP Indigo 100K lab to talk about the benefits of using just three colors vs. CMYK when using Enhanced Productivity Mode (EPM) on the HP Indigo 100K Digital Press. EPM can increase productivity by 33% vs. printing in CMYK. Learn more about this approach in this video sponsored by HP Indigo. Watch Video