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Runway Kit: Making Manufacturing Easy for Designers and Entrepreneurs

Runway Kit, a subsidiary of Sri Lanka-based MAS Holdings, was established in mid-2019 with the goal of providing professional manufacturing support to designers and entrepreneurs. Either starting from basic provided designs or from the ground up with a custom design, Runway Kit works with designers to create professional quality tech packs to enable manufacturing with them or with another manufacturer, with minimum order quantities as low as 100. Nethmi Wickramasuriya, Digital Launch Entrepreneur, explains. Watch Video

Frank Takes Issue with Newspapers

Frank waxes nostalgic about newspaper issues from the past. He relates how many newspapers have cut back on the number of issues per week that are printed—and points out that we will someday no longer have iconic front pages announcing major events, such as the sinking of the Titanic or the death of JFK. He shows a copy of the NY Times from the day he was born, proving that print had been invented by then. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Jamie McLennan of DMR Graphics

This week, Warren talks to Jamie McLennan, Senior Account Executive at DMR Graphics. Jamie started as a printer when he was 18 and moved from production to sales—a move that thrilled customers, having their sales rep also able to run the presses and handle production. Watch Video

EFI’s Jeff Jacobson on the New Way of Doing Business

Jeff Jacobson, CEO of EFI, talks to Kelley Holmes about some of the bright spots for EFI in 2020, and expands upon his EFI Engage keynote in which he discusses how the pandemic has affected the way EFI engages with its customers, and how the way we do business has changed. Watch Video

Trade Shop National Print Wholesale Sees Positive Future Outlook

A relatively new company, founded in Atlanta in 2016, National Print Wholesale, gained about 30% of its business from trade shows and exhibits prior to the pandemic. In this interview, Whit Copley explains how the company has pivoted to deliver new applications and find new customers during the pandemic and shares his positive outlook for 2021. Watch Video

Frank Sees Little Justification in Early Newspaper Typesetting

Frank uses the retirement of a former Linotype operator at the New York Times as a jumping off point to trace the evolution of newspaper typesetting, from the advent of paper tape, to computerized hyphenation and justification (H&J)—and to the great New York City newspaper strike. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to (Former) Printer with Steve Anzalone

This week, Warren talks to Steve Anzalone, a former printer turned management consultant and principal at Anzalone Advisors, a company that tries to help printing companies improve operational effectiveness, reduce spoilage, improve employee communication—or whatever print businesses need. Steve talks about his journey in and out of the printing industry and his view of today’s print business. Watch Video

Georgia-Pacific Expands Its Digital Corrugated Capabilities

David Zwang talks to Bob Seay, VP Digital Print Solutions, for Georgia-Pacific Corrugated, which recently acquired an HP T1100 digital press. The Hummingbird business within Georgia-Pacific’s Digital Printing Solutions provides fast-turn digital preprint corrugated. The T1100 press offers Georgia-Pacific new capabilities. Watch Video

Pat McGrew Talks to Linda Fried About Compliance

Pat McGrew talks to University of Colorado Professor Linda Fried to provide background and guidance on the topic of compliance, or building privacy protocols following the original European Data Protection Act and the more recent California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Watch Video

Linemark Printing’s Expansion into Packaging

David Zwang talks to David Ashton, EVP/Partner at the DC-area's Linemark Printing. Linemark does general commercial printing and transactional work, direct mail, and has a growing e-commerce business. Customers have pulled Linemark into some unique area—in particular, packaging printing. Watch Video

Frank Catches Up On Some Reading

Frank reviews “The Creation of the Media” by Paul Starr. His long, detailed, occasionally ponderous, but completely fascinating book touches on technology, literacy, capitalism, and other factors to ultimately explore what led to the news media that we understand today. The book was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Rocket’s Scott Williams

This week, Warren avoids talking about COVID and instead asks Scott Williams, CEO of Rocket, about the company’s recent rebranding. Taylor Printing Group was founded in 2005 in New Brunswick, Canada, with locations in Fredericton, N.B., as well as Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2019, Taylor acquired Bounty Printing, and Williams recently rebranded Taylor Printing Group and Bounty Printing as Rocket, with a splashy mailer that caught Warren’s eye—as did the decision to not use the word “printing” in the new company name. Watch Video

Exclusive: Key Highcon Executives Share Updates and Vision of the Future

In this video interview, Shlomo Nimrodi, CEO, and Simon Lewis, VP Marketing, of Highcon, along with their newest addition, Alon Bar-Shany as Chairman, discuss the current state of Highcon following its very successful IPO, the target customer base, some of the changes driven by the pandemic, and their vision of the future in a dynamic, interactive discussion. Following this interview, Highcon and EFI announced a global partnership benefiting their common core of customers with ERP integration; Highcon also has a similar partnership with HP Indigo—and a common core of customers—where integration of print and finishing has offered many benefits. Watch Video

Frank Provides a Backdrop for Book Sales

Frank comments on reports that 2020 was a great year for book publishing. Book sales were up, and some of them may even have been read. More often than not, Frank muses, they were bought to use as backdrops for Zoom calls. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Press Emporium’s Vernon Attles

This week, Warren talks to Vernon Attles, President and CEO of Press Emporium, a single source solutions company for luxury hospitality and retail printing. The company offers offset, digital, litho, flexo—all the old traditional printing and finishing as well as as Scodix, Highcon, and the latest enhancements. “The word that stands out is ‘luxury.’” Watch Video

Security Printing: A Tricky Business

Jim Fleet, CEO of Ashton Potter, talks about how security printing differs from other types of printing in this interview by Senior Editor Cary Sherburne. Using flexo, offset, and intaglio, plus serialization and track-and-trace technologies, Ashton Potter delivers a unique service. Watch Video

Frank Catalogs Catalogs

IKEA announced that they will no longer print their catalog, so Frank takes a nostalgic look back at the history of mail order catalogs, from 1872 and the first Montgomery Ward catalog, to Sears, to JC Penney, to IKEA. While there are still printed catalogs, most marketing is online these days. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Willow Print Group’s Jeff Ekstein

This week, Warren talks with Jeff Ekstein, President & CEO of Willow Print Group and past President of PIA. Based in the Greater Toronto area, Willow is a 68-year-old, third-generation family business, best described as a general commercial printer—but is always diversifying and looking at the latest and greatest. “You don’t last for 68 years by staying the same. You have to always reinvent yourself.” Watch Video

Frank Gets Lost in the Good Book

Here we get up close and personal with the Gutenberg Bible. Frank becomes part of the book and takes us on a walking tour of a typical page from the 1455 masterpiece. He comments on the type, layout, and illustrative material. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Ace Designs’ Sheri Robertson

This week, Warren talks with Sheri Robertson, VP of Awesome! for Ace Designs, a grand-format print shop serving predominantly retail and hospitality markets. The company has been using the pandemic period to reexamine and reset themselves and decide "what they want to be when they grow up.” Watch Video