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The Importance of Implementing a Smart Factory Strategy

EFI's Senior Product Director for Scheduling, PrintFlow & TGO Udi Arieli, explains how FedEx Office has leveraged technology to build a Smart Factory, the benefits they have achieved, and why it is important for other companies to follow suit. Watch Video

SPGPrints' Jos Notermans Explains the Benefits of the Company's Archer Technology

Jos Notermans has been with SPGPrints almost since the beginning of the company's digital journey, joining the company in 1989. Most recently, he has taken over the role of managing the company's digital textile printing inks portfolio, including reactive, sublimation, and acid inks. He also explains benefits of the company's Archer technology and where the name came from. Watch Video

Frank Holds All the Cards

Frank tours the National Playing Card Museum in Turnhout, Belgium, located on the site of an 18th-century printing plant that produced the original playing cards for Europe and other parts of the world, such as China. The museum’s collection includes commercial and private brand cards, as well as antique presses from the plant’s history as it moved from letterpress, to lithography, and eventually film. The production process required special finishing equipment (to add rounded corners to the cards) and the company even produced its own packaging. Watch Video

New White Papers Focus On Important Issues for In-Plants

Howie Fenton talks about a trio of white papers he recently completed for the In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA). Specifically, his white paper on the topic of the “customer experience” found that web-to-print is still one of the most important issues for in-plants, as in-plant customers want that “Amazon experience.” Other white papers looked at predictive analytics and integrated services. Watch Video

Conceptive Colors Produces Pure Dye Colorants for Digital Textile Printing

Parashar Kacha, Business Head for India-based Conceptive Colors, a manufacturer of reactive and acid dye colorants for both conventional and digital textile printing, explains how the company has ensured highly purified dye colorants while guaranteeing the necessary properties of these dye colorants following two years of intensive research and development. Watch Video

Kevin Currier Explains Durst Professional Services and its Lift ERP Solution

Kevin Currier, Product Manager for Software in North America for Durst, talks about the Durst Professional Services strategy, announced in 2018. He also explains the value of Durst Lift ERP, focused on large-format operations and the specific requirements these businesses have. He notes that Lift ERP is device-agnostic and can apply to the textiles and commercial print markets as well. Watch Video

CloudLab's Steven Antoni Explains the Company's Ecommerce Offering

CloudLab, an ecommerce provider, has an online store offering that integrates with other components in the workflow, including production and business applications, for an automated environment. Steven Antoni, President of CloudLab Americas, explains how. Watch Video

The Scariest Phrase Frank Has Ever Heard

Frank bemoans the loss of ebook access by Microsoft users who were told that “The books will stop working.” Watch Video

Mouvent, A Bobst Company, Launches New Textile Printer at ITMA

Reto Simmen, Chief Business Officer at Mouvent, a Bobst company, talks about full commercial availability of its digital textile printers (including a new model introduced at ITMA, printing at 400 square meters per hour) with reactive or acid dye inks. He also explains the unique compact, lightweight printhead cluster technology these printers use. Watch Video

ei3: Leveraging the Internet to Monitor, Manage, and Analyze Package Printing and Converting Machines

Spencer Cramer, CEO of ei3 Corporation, talks about how the company, founded in 1999, leverages the Internet to monitor, manage, and analyze machines. ei3 has partnered with Bobst to serve the package printing and converting industry and now has more than 5,000 machines connected in 100 countries around the world. The next step is develop predictive algorithms to identify potential machine issues before they occur. Watch Video

Adobe's Mike Scrutton Offers Valuable Color Management Advice for Digital Textile Printers

Mike Scrutton, Director of Print Technology and Strategy for Adobe, talks about how Adobe Textile Designer enables brands to bring their defined color libraries into the world of digital textile printing. This helps ensure color consistency in a hybrid analog/digital production environment. Watch Video

Leveraging Digital Textile and Digital Corrugated Printing for an Exceptional Consumer Unboxing Experience

Liz Logue, Director of New Business Development for EFI, talks about how ecommerce is changing the way brands and consumers think about the buying experience. She gives examples of how combining the capabilities of digital textile printing with digital direct-to-corrugated experience can offer an exciting unboxing experience for the consumer—for example, for high fashion or product-of-the-month subscriptions. Watch Video

Frank Is Singin' in the Purple Rain

Frank discusses a batch of miscellaneous items: the time we spend on mobile devices vs. TV, the new Pantone color in memory of rock star Prince, and the sale of the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain. As you would expect, he has opinions on all these items—and would even like his own Pantone color. Watch Video

FSI’s Rich Lowe on the Latest Trends Affecting Print Franchises

Rich Lowe of Franchise Services talks to Kelley Holmes at this week’s Franchise Services Convention about current trends in the marketplace affecting print franchises and their customers. Specifically, franchises have had to learn how to really be a marketing services provider, how to work with data, and have had to understand the sign business. Watch Video

Durst Discusses the Advantages of Digital Textile Printing

Durst Textile Segment Manager Martin Winkler explains how digital textile printing is being adopted both by traditional analog businesses and new online businesses. He also stresses the importance of an end-to-end workflow to address the shorter runs and faster cycle times occurring in textiles and apparel today. Durst also focuses on making these technologies more sustainable. Watch Video

Jack Noonan of MGI Discusses the Value of Embellishment in the Packaging Supply Chain

Jack Noonan, Marketing Manager at MGI Digital Technology, talks about embellishment of print as the next phase in the evolution of digital print for packaging. Digital special effects can add value to packaging, raise brand awareness, and foster customer engagement. Find out how. Watch Video

Is Textile Printing a Business Opportunity for Printers? CMYUK Thinks So!

Robin East, Group Director for CMYUK, a UK-based graphic arts distributor, suggests that print service providers should be exploring digital textile printing as a new business avenue that offers higher growth rates than commercial print. He points out that digital print providers have many transferable skills that could serve them well in the textiles market, especially home decor. Watch Video

Abbott-Action Adds Workflow Components to Better Meet Time-to-Market Needs

Chuck Slingerland, Vice President of Sales and Digital Operations at Abbott-Action, discusses how the company has addressed the need to streamline the file-to-production workflow. Partners include Conductor Systems, an MIS provider, and Esko Graphics for its Automation Engine and Kongsberg cutting solutions, gaining 5 to 10 times more productivity. Watch Video

All the News That's Fit to Digitize

Many newspapers are seeing more digital subscribers than print subscribers. Frank bemoans the fact that printed publications are archived in digital form and the printed versions may be discarded. Watch Video

Pantone Adds Tools for Textile Designers

X-Rite/Pantone's Iain Pike talks about some of the changes the company has made to its offerings to simplify color selection and management for textile designers and others in the textile and apparel supply chain. New features include easier to use swatches, the i1Pro 3, and a partnership with Adobe at color.adobe.com for palette creation. Watch Video