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Adapting to Today's Virtual World: An Interview with EFI's Frank Mallozzi

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended many things, not the least of which are trade shows and other in-person events. EFI's Chief Revenue Officer Frank Mallozzi talks about the company's decision to pull out of drupa 2021, its creation of a virtual event, EFI Engage, to replace EFI Connect 2021, and shares an update on the EFI BOLT including talking about its recognition with an InterTech Award. (Note: This video was recorded before drupa announced its cancellation of the 2021 event.) Watch Video

OnPoint Manufacturing and Gerber Join Forces to Launch Eloise.Fashion

Entrepreneur and innovator Kirby Best has been working with Gerber to make on-demand fashion design and manufacturing tools more accessible to designers and brands, especially smaller organizations that have found the cost of these tools to be a barrier. The result is Eloise.Fashion, where designers can leverage tools and technology to create designs, prepare them for manufacturing, and connect with manufacturing facilities such as OnPoint Manufacturing. Kirby explains it all in this video. Watch Video

Frank Reads the Fine Print

Frank discovered these tiny editions of the Boston Herald that were printed in the mid-1940s. These were special editions that were reduced in size photographically for shipment overseas to members of the armed services during WWII to give them a slice of home—primarily for the headlines as the text ended up about four points. These editions were sponsored by the Jordan Marsh department store and printed using offset lithography at a time when letterpress was the dominant printing technology. Watch Video

Target Report Interview—Conversation with Jim Barker, Former Owner of Richardson Communications Group

Rod Bristol talks with Jim Barker, the former owner of Richardson Communications Group, who merged his company with Kingston Printing. Jim talks about selling his business right in the middle of the worst part of the COVID-19 crisis. Watch Video

Xeikon Moves into Corrugated

Daniel Valema, Strategic Director, Digital Solutions, Xeikon, talks to David Zwang about Xeikon’s move into forms of packaging beyond labels, namely corrugated. Watch Video

Canon’s Crit Driessen on the Labelstream 4000 Installation at Germany’s Oschatz Visuelle Medien

Crit Driessen, VP Digital Packaging Print, Canon, talks with David Zwang about the installation of the first LabelStream 4000 series digital label press at Oschatz Visuelle Medien, a full-service visual communications agency based in Niedernhausen, near Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Richard Kouwenhoven of Hemlock Printers

This week, Warren talks with Richard Kouwenhoven, President & COO of Hemlock Printers, a 52-year-old company based In British Columbia. Since more than 80% of Hemlock’s work is offset, March and April saw a dramatic drop in volume, although it has been creeping back up. Thanks to help from the Canadian government, Hemlock did not have to lay off any employees. Watch Video

Xeikon’s Stefan Clopterop on fleXflow

David Zwang talks with Stefan Clopterop, Segment Manager, Labels and Packaging, Xeikon, about the Xeikon fleXflow digital pouch production solution. Watch Video

How ISAIC Is Moving the Textiles Industry Forward

Jennifer Guarino, CEO and Chair of the Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center (ISAIC), based in Detroit, explains the multitude of programs the organization has in place to attract and train new industry talent, manufacture sewn goods such as masks and gowns, T-shirts, sweatshirts, and more, and to implement the newest technologies. Watch Video

Franks Cabinet of Wonders

Frank showcases some items in an eclectic display case in the library at the Museum of Printing. Not fitting in anywhere else in the museum, these items range from an Indigo commemorative stamp issued in Israel; to the font for the first phototypesetter to set Chinese; to the pins that Boston Globe Newsboys wore; to a set of rescue doorknobs from the Printing Crafts Building in New York City. Watch Video

Ed Zumbiel and Packaging’s Digital Transformation

David Zwang and Ed Zumbiel, President of Zumbiel Digital, discuss the opportunities and challenges to be found in the digital transformation of packaging. Watch Video

Printing Industries Releases 2020 Wage and Benefit Report

Printing Industries released its annual Wage & Benefits Report and it contains a wealth of great information for print service providers, with input from more than 500 companies across North America. In this video, Teresa Campbell, President of PIA Mid America, and Steve Bonoff, President of Printing Industries of the Midwest, explain some of the trends uncovered. More information will be provided in a webinar on December 15, 2020. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Print Panther’s Christine Yardley

This week, Warren talks with Christine Yardley from Print Panther, a boutique printer in Toronto. Print Panther was the first printer in Canada to install the MGI JETvarnish and got into embellishments early on, especially for packaging. Print Panther has been able to stay open throughout the pandemic, and the crisis gave the company the opportunity to reevaluate their capabilities and decide what they really need and what they don’t need. Watch Video

John Lacagnina on the Past, Present, and Future of Digital Print

John Lacagnina is a digital printing pioneer whose company Entire, founded in the 1980s, was the first to connect high-speed production digital printers to networks for document printing where before they had been connected only to mainframes. He has a rich heritage of innovation between now and then, and most recently started a 3D printing company. Here what he has to say about the past, present, and future of digital print. Watch Video

Ricoh Ups Its DTG Game with the Ri-2000 Printer

Christian Compera, Deputy General Manager, Industrial Print Business Group, Ricoh, shares his thoughts on the digital printing opportunity in textiles, why Ricoh chose to enter the direct-to-garment (DTG) space, the family of printers it now offers, and where Ricoh may go in the future with regard to digital textile printing. Watch Video

Frank’s Rise and Fall of the Paper-Based Office

Frank talks about office communication and shows some of the vintage machines that helped offices run on paper. There was the Mimeograph, Gestetner, and Ditto machines. He then shows a clip from a speech he gave at the XPLOR event in 1993 that predicted today’s work-at-home world, the decline of the office per se, and perhaps the decline of the need for paper. Watch Video

Fabscrap Founder & CEO Jessica Schreiber Talks Sustainability

And she's doing a lot more than just talking. Schreiber participated on a Smithers Digital Textile Printing Conference panel, sharing her thoughts on recycled fabrics, textile waste and sustainability. In this video, she explains how Fabscrap is working in a number of creative ways to minimize the amount of fabric waste that goes to landfills. Watch Video

Matt Reddington Introduces Veritiv Vine (Part 2)

In part 2 of a two-part video interview, David Zwang talks to Matt Reddington, Director of Global Design Services for Veritiv, about Veritiv Vine, the company’s new packaging and brand design offering. Vine is intended to bridge the gap between design and packaging production, combining design creativity with supply chain expertise. Watch Video

Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Shawmut’s Stacy Peluso-Slaney

This week, Warren talks to Stacy Peluso-Slaney, Vice President of Shawmut Communications Group, a third-generation commercial printer in the Boston area serves a mix of businesses from medical device manufacturers, to higher ed, to finance and retail. Coming off one of their best years ever, when the pandemic hit in March, Shawmut lost a fair amount of business but made up a lot of it with signage. Watch Video

Chris Manley of Graphco Shares a Positive Industry Outlook

In this interview with Senior Editor Cary Sherburne, Chris Manley, President of Graphco, shares his business experiences during the pandemic, including equipment sales driven by growth in book printing and direct mail, as well as the company's unique Ready to Rebound program. Watch Video