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Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with David Sasson
This week, Warren talks with David Sasson of Hubschercorp—formerly Hubscher Ribbon—a 75-year-old, third-generation family-owned business. The company started out producing labels for the garment industry, evolved into ribbon, and further evolved into packaging. They are now a one-stop shop for retailers. Watch Video
Product Strategy: FASTSIGNS’ Mark Jameson on the Co-Brand and Conversion Programs
Mark Jameson, Chief Development Officer for FASTSIGNS, talks about how print businesses want to expand into signage, and how FASTSIGNS’ Co-Brand and Conversion programs can help optimize the move into signage and grow that part of the business. Watch Video
Product Strategy: PageDNA’s Steve Enstad on Printing Software Trends
PageDNA’s Steve Enstad talks about PageDNA’s print software solutions and implementation process, and how they address the challenges that printers and print customers have when using print software. Watch Video
Product Strategy: Ultimate’s Eve Petroni on End-to-End Workflow Automation
Ultimate TechnoGraphics’ Eve Petroni talks about the increased need for print production workflow automation and how Ultimate’s imposition and bindery software provides end-to-end automation. Watch Video
Product Strategy: Ricoh’s Arron Robinson on Software Integration
Ricoh’s Arron Robinson talks about how Ricoh’s integrated and "holistic" approach to print software allows different components to communicate with each other regardless of whether they are cloud-based or on-premises. Watch Video
Product Strategy: GMG’s Marc Levine on Remote Workflow Tools
Marc Levine of GMG talks about how the automation and remote workflow features in GMG’s software solutions can help companies overcome the workforce challenges the industry is experiencing. Watch Video
Product Strategy: Infigo’s Douglas Gibson on Expanding W2P Job Types
Douglas Gibson of Infigo Software talks about how, as part of Infigo’s efforts to help customers speed jobs through their factories, the software is expanding the types of jobs that can be accepted via Web-to-print: wide format, labels, packaging, and more. Watch Video
Product Strategy: Tharstern’s Lee Ward on Divergence
Lee Ward of Tharstern talks about how customers are starting to diverge into different sectors—wide format, packaging, etc.—and how Tharstern’s MIS can cater to all those new sectors. Watch Video
Stefan Hunkeler Talks About the Upcoming Hunkeler Innovationdays 2023
Stefan Hunkeler spoke with David Zwang about the Hunkeler Innovationdays 2023 event happening early next year in Lucerne, Switzerland. Hunkeler Innovationdays is the place to see “next level automation” from over 100 exhibitors covering digital printing, software, finishing and related processes. Watch Video
Product Strategy: Amir Shalev on Landa’s Nanography Printing Technology
Amir Shalev, Market Development Director for Landa, talks about how the capabilities of Landa’s Nanography printing technology can help print businesses address some of the challenges facing the industry, such as labor and paper shortages. Watch Video
A Kid's View on Print
In the latest installment of our new Marketing Digital Embellishment Capabilities video series, Taktiful's Kevin Abergel talks with Aaron, Taktiful's 7 year old VP and Chief Toy Officer, as he unboxes a print sample kit from swissQprint. Watch Video
Shutterfly’s Dwayne Black on the HP Indigo 100K
David Zwang talks with Dwayne Black, COO of Shutterfly. Founded in 1999, Shutterfly started out producing 4x6-inch prints, then expanded into cards, photo books, and gifts, and now can produce whatever the customer wants to personalize. The company has installed more than 30 HP Indigo 100K Digital Presses. Watch Video
Product Strategy: Kim Hajec on HP’s End-to-End Production Automation
HP’s Kim Hajec talks about the increasing emphasis on both hardware and software automation as well as a growing trend for commercial printers to get into labels and packaging—trends that HP hardware and software solutions are helping printers navigate. Watch Video
Product Strategy: Canon’s Ed Jansen and Tonya Powers on the Importance of Media Flexibility and Automation
Canon Solutions Americas’ Ed Jansen and Tonya Powers identify the top challenges facing the industry—specifically paper and labor shortages—and how the media flexibility and automation capabilities of Canon’s inkjet equipment are helping printers cope with these issues. Watch Video
Product Strategy: Ricoh’s Mike Herold on Production Inkjet Quality, Speed, Flexibility, and Automation
Ricoh’s Mike Herold talks about how Ricoh is addressing the need for improved image quality, faster speeds, media flexibility, and automation by improving the capabilities of its continuous-feed VC70000 and VC70000e production inkjet presses as well as the new Ricoh Pro Z75 sheetfed platform. Watch Video
Product Strategy: Chris Hogge on Harris & Bruno's Coating Solutions for Continuous Feed Inkjet
Chris Hogge from Harris & Bruno International talks about inline coating and finishing trends in continuous feed inkjet and how Harris & Bruno is developing inline coating solutions that integrate directly inline with the production inkjet device to reduce touchpoints. Watch Video
Frank Is All Charged Up
Printed batteries are an important part of printed electronics. Until now, the density of the inks required screen printing. Now, a breakthrough allows three inkjet inks to print a battery. This will provide new opportunities for security printing, direct mail, and packaging that literally sings and dances. Watch Video
GroupeSTAHL North America’s Carleen Grey on Digital Transfer Materials for Textile Printing
Carleen Grey, CEO of GroupeSTAHL North America, demonstrates direct-to-garment printing with the company’s heat presses, using transfer material digitally printed on an HP Indigo. The 90-year-old company has been transitioning to digitally printed transfer materials for the markets it sells its heat presses into. Watch Video
One Touch Point Addresses Industry Challenges with HP Indigo
David Zwang talks with Chris Greene, COO of One Touch Point, a print marketing company offering direct mail printing, marketing materials, and grand-format, as well as digital marketing services. Their printing equipment runs the gamut from offset duplicators to the latest digital printing technologies. One Touch Point has worked extensively with HP Indigo, which has helped them address their business challenges. Watch Video
Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Rob Proffit of NAPCO USA
This week, Warren talks to Rob Proffit of NAPCO USA. NAPCO USA was founded in 1977 and started out manufacturing boxes and packaging products. In 2017 NAPCO acquired Vulcan Information Packaging. The company has two manufacturing facilities: NAPCO North Carolina and NAPCO Alabama. Watch Video
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