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Profiles in Print DCG ONE
Profiles in Print
Colorchrome (Atlanta, Georgia)

 

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Profiles in Print DCG ONE
Profiles in Print
DCG ONE (Seattle, Washington)

 

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Profiles in Print Premier Press
Profiles in Print
Premier Press (Portland, Oregon)

 

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Frank's Season in Hell

Frank is sitting at a gigantic Hell color scanner from the 1960s. It primarily scanned color slides and chromes. As photography went digital, flatbed scanners became smaller and smaller and were eventually integrated into digital printers. Watch Video

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Filip Buyse Explains the Value Proposition of Seeking Professional Help in M&A

After working outside the industry for some time, Filip Buyse is back as Managing Director of Venture 10, an M&A company focused on the printing and packaging industries. In this interview, he talks about how his company helps both buyers and sellers reach agreement that enables them to close the deal. He also talks about what companies should be doing to prepare to sell. Watch Video

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Flongging Frank

Frank discusses one of the enabling technologies of the printing industry: stereotyping. It gave us faster reprints of books and allowed presses to print at high speeds from rolls of paper. Stereotype molds were called flongs. The modern print enabler is PDF. Watch Video

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Unveiling the Future of Print Embellishments with Jeff Peterson

Join us in this exhilarating episode of the Digital Embellishment Show as Kevin Abergel, our passionate host, sits down with Jeff Peterson, the Executive Director of the Foil and Specialty Effects Association (FSEA). Dive deep into the world of print embellishments as Jeff shares invaluable insights about the FSEA's mission, the burgeoning trends in digital and traditional embellishments, and the significant impact these processes have on the printing industry. Watch Video

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GoodToGo Introduces AI-Driven Order Pilot to Speed Order Entry for Print Jobs

Michael Reiher, president of Good2Go Software, founded Good2Go in 2019 with a vision to fill a significant gap in the printing software market: workflow solutions for smaller companies. GoodToGo has now added AI-Supported Order Pilot to its SaaS application, automating order entry and preflight tasks among others, making Customer Service Reps and prepress departments more efficient, especially for orders submitted by email, and minimizing the risk of orders getting lost in a deluge of incoming emails. Watch Video

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Frank Moonlights as a Mime(ograph)

Frank has his mind on the Mimeograph. This stencil duplicator was once the primary reproduction device for schools, churches, and other organizations. It was replaced by the copier, the duplicator offset press, and now the printer/scanner. Most of office communication is now electronic. Watch Video

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Kyocera Focusing on the In-Plant Market

Kyocera is focusing their inkjet solutions on the in-plant printing department market, one of their key toner customer bases. In this video, sponsored by Kyocera, David Zwang talks with Dustin Graupman, Senior Director, Ink Jet Division, and Greg Lindsey, Business Development Manager, Inkjet Division, about the progress they are making. Watch Video

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Inflecton LLC and Rick Bellamy: Helping Companies Future-Proof Their Businesses

Rick Bellamy, formerly of RPI in Seattle, has established a new consulting business. Inflecton LLC is focused on helping companies in the printing and packaging industries manage three key challenges: how to drive their businesses toward increased sustainability and prepare for compliance with the many regulatory changes that will affect their businesses, how best to weave artificial intelligence into their operations, and how to better engage the workforce. Watch Video

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Frank's Circular Thinking

Frank talks about ad circulars, also known as free standing inserts (FSIs), once inserted in Sunday newspaper editions but now mailed vis USPS. Increasingly, we go online to find items on sale by supermarkets and other retail stores. Watch Video

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Are All Printers Online Printers?

David Zwang talks with Bernd Zipper, Founder of Zipcon, about bringing print service providers together to connect and brainstorm on how to develop new solutions, solve problems, and increase volumes and margins. Watch Video

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Funeral Link: An Opportunity for Print Service Providers

The topic of funerals doesn't usually bring thoughts of print production opportunities, but the new Funeral Link software can actually help funeral homes as well as print service providers! Watch Video

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Atomyx: New Cloud-Based Print Production Platform

Most print orders arrive from the cloud, or could even be created in the cloud. They could even go back to the cloud for a proof. Wouldn't it make sense to handle the production there and reduce the up and down data transferring? David Zwang talks with Four Pees CEO Tom Peire about Atomyx, a new cloud-based platform that could both streamline the print business and production processes. Watch Video

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University of Toronto's DREAM Lab Offers Promising Solution for Microplastic Shedding

In this interview with Professor Kevin Golovin, he explains the origin and results to date of landmark research on a coating that prevents more than 90% of microplastic shedding in the laundering process and its future potential as an oil repellant. Watch Video

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Frank Makes Some Key Points

Frank talks about taking notes via computer rather than handwriting. He describes a book project called “Shift Happens” on the history of the keyboard. Lastly, he identifies several studies that say that taking notes by hand results in better retention of information. Watch Video

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Race to Indy: Rosemarie Breske Garvey Previews Dscoop Edge

Rosemarie Breske Garvey, President of Blooming Color, talks to WhatTheyThink's Eric Vessels about the "Race to Indy" as we prepare for the Dscoop Edge event in Indianapolis. Rosemarie gives us a quick glance into Blooming Color and talks about her many years attending Dscoop and what we can expect this year as she takes on the role as Conference Chair. Watch Video

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Race to Indy: Matt Doran Previews Dscoop Edge

Matt Doran, CEO of The Anstadt Company, talks to WhatTheyThink's Eric Vessels about the "Race to Indy" as we prepare for the Dscoop Edge event in Indianapolis. Matt gives us a look into his role at Anstadt and what they do and also talks about Dscoop Edge and the Business Executive Track. Watch Video

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Thought Leadership: Colorchrome’s John Rhodes on Display Graphics with swissQprint

In this video, sponsored by swissQprint, Colorchrome president and co-founder John Rhodes talks about printing display graphics with the company’s swissQprint Nyala and the newly acquired Kudu wide-format printers. Watch Video

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The Revelation of Frank

Frank describes Bible translations for populations with no written language. Through such translations, missionaries helped to save many societies and cultures from extinction. Eskimo, Burmese, Hawaiian, Cherokee, and Navajo are a few. It was printing that made all this possible. Watch Video

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Race to Indy: Jeff Sider Previews Dscoop Edge

Jeff Sider, Senior Development Manager at Cober Solutions, talks to WhatTheyThink's Eric Vessels about the "Race to Indy" as we prepare for the Dscoop Edge event in Indianapolis. Jeff gives us a quick glance into his role at Cober Solutions and what they do and also talks about the IT Track at Dscoop. Watch Video

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Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Color Classic’s Jeffrey and Adam Hernandez

This week, Warren speaks with Jeffrey and Adam Hernandez from Classic Color about how and why they produced a one-of-a-kind AI-generated printed promo piece. “Actual intelligence is required for artificial intelligence.” Watch Video

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