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Digital Textile Production Goes Mainstream with Kornit Digital at ITMA 2023

Debbie McKeegan, CEO at Texintel and WhatTheyThink contributor, talks to Danny Gazit, Chief Product Officer at Kornit Digital, about the company’s direct-to-garmut and direct-to-fabric digital textile print technologies. At ITMA 2023 Kornit unveiled new platforms to enable more sustainable textile printing and supply-chain management. Watch Video

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First Look at the Kyocera FOREARTH Digital Textile Printer

Debbie McKeegan, CEO at Texintel and WhatTheyThink contributor, talks to Sho Taniguchi, Kyocera’s Deputy General Manager, Digital Printing Business Development about the Kyocera FOREARTH Digital Textile Printer launched at ITMA 2023. Watch Video

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Mimaki Focuses on sustainability and circularity at ITMA 2023

Debbie McKeegan, CEO at Texintel and WhatTheyThink contributor, talks to Arjen Evertse, General Manager Sales EMEA at Mimaki, about Mimaki’s approach to bringing sustainability and circularity to textile printing. Mimaki used ITMA 2023 to showcase new digital textile printers and new concepts for de-inking polyester textiles. Watch Video

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Kevin Cushing Takes His Franchise Expertise to a New Level

Kevin Cushing has a rich heritage in the franchise business, both as a franchisee and a franchisor executive in both the restaurant and printing businesses. During his tenure at Alliance Franchise Brands, he engaged the organization with Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), a unique franchise organization, and now, with Breakthroughs LLC, he is bringing his operational expertise to clients in a variety of industries, including print, as an EOS franchisee. In this interview, Kevin explains EOS, how it works and why it is important to the printing and other industries who are looking to be successful in a dynamic future. Watch Video

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Trigon Digipack’s Anil Namugade on Innovative Packaging Solutions

In this video sponsored by HP, David Zwang talks to Anil Namugade, Founder and Director of Trigon Digipack, about how Trigon is leveraging successful and proven platforms to build new innovative solutions for its packaging customers. Watch Video

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Frank Rules

Frank takes the measure of the printing industry by talking about rulers. At one time, every print worker had a “pica pole” with them to confirm type measure and specs. Aprons had special slots for the many versions of rulers. Watch Video

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Dave Rosendahl and Bill Gillespie on Selling Direct Mail

Dave Rosendahl, President of MindFire, and Bill Gillespie talk at Dscoop about how MindFire is helping its partners learn to sell digitally printed direct mail. Watch Video

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B&R Moll’s Kevin Moll on Changes in the Finishing Equipment Market

David Zwang talks with Kevin Moll, VP of Sales of B&R Moll, a manufacturer of postpress equipment. B&R Moll has been seeing strong growth in such diverse applications as folding cartons and greeting cards. Watch Video

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Product Strategy: Kornit Apollo Direct-to-Garment Platform

Danny Gazit, Chief Product Officer at Kornit Digital, talks about the Kornit Apollo platform unveiled at ITMA 2023 in Milan. Apollo can decorate up to 400 garments per hour and features automation for loading and unloading. Watch Video

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Rootree Integrates Creative Services and Digital Flexible Packaging Production

In this video sponsored by HP, David Zwang talks to Phil St-Cyr, President of Rootree. Rootree is a flexible packaging company that offers creative services to help customers design messaging and branding as well as produce it on its fleet of HP Indigo 20000s. Watch Video

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Shawn Irvine on Italic Press’s New Embellishment Offering

Joanne Gore talks to Shawn Irvine, owner of Italic Press, a Toronto-based commercial printer specializing in retail, events, and agency work. The company just introduced Impress, a new type of print embellishment technique. Watch Video

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Phoenix Innovate's Long and Interesting Journey with Production Inkjet

Phoenix Innovate and Chris Dubach have had a long and interesting journey with production inkjet. Today, it plays an important and growing role in their production platform, with lots of plans for the future! David Zwang talks with Chris Dubach about his inkjet journey. Watch Video

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Canon's Production Inkjet Cut-Sheet Journey

David Zwang talks with Saskia Willems, Product Manager for Cut Sheet at Canon Production Printing. Canon has been producing continuous-feed production inkjet products since 2008. While they had been producing cut-sheet EP presses for a while, their cut-sheet product development journey started in 2010. Watch Video

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Unified AR’s Steven Belshaw on Interactive Print

Joanne Gore talks to Steven Belshaw, CEO of Unified AR, an Australian-based augmented reality platform that is focused on direct mail and print. He traveled for 26 hours to attend Dscoop to explore interactive print technologies and opportunities in the US market. Watch Video

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Product Strategy: FUJIFILM Ink Solutions Group at ITMA 2023

Rachel Li, Segment Marketing Manager at FUJIFILM Ink Solutions Group, talks about the advantages of RxD aqueous pigment dispersions from FUJIFILM. RxD aqueous pigment dispersions have a higher pigment concentration to provide higher color strength for fashion, direct-to-garment, home décor, and other textile applications. Watch Video

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PressUP’s Vincenzo Cirimele on Digital Web-to-Print

In this video sponsored by HP, David Zwang talks to Vincenzo Cirimele, CEO of PressUP, a web-to-print company based in Rome. The company operates offset equipment, as well as five HP Indigo digital presses. The company is looking to expand its portfolio into packaging. Watch Video

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Agfa Offset Solutions Reinvents Itself as ECO3

David Zwang talks with Jonathan Ashton, North America President, of ECO3. ECO3 is not a new player in the market, but it now has a laser focus on offset plates, service, and software. Watch Video

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What’s Up Chat with EFI CEO Frank Pennisi

Frank Pennisi, CEO of EFI, talks with WhatTheyThink’s Eric Vessels about landing his dream job when he became CEO this past January. Frank is a seasoned industrial technology leader. Prior to joining EFI Frank was on the leadership team for EFI customer Orora Packaging Solutions. In this broad ranging informal discussion, we learn about Frank’s background, leadership style, and his vision for the future of EFI. Watch Video

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DSCOOP Distributed Print Exchange—Coming Soon!

David Zwang talks with Peter van Teeseling, Executive Director of DSCOOP, and Rick Bellamy, Executive Chairman of DSCOOP, about the forthcoming DSCOOP Distributed Print Exchange. Bringing PSPs together to share and facilitate work across regions and countries is increasingly becoming important. DSCOOP building this kind of program offers lots of opportunities for their participating members. Watch Video

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Pulp Friction

Frank reviews a book called “Dead Tree Media,” which prompts a tale of how the invention of newsprint grew the newspaper industry. It also led to conflict between the Canadian papermakers and the newspaper publishers. Watch Video