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Frank Reads Like the Dickens

For your holiday reading pleasure, Frank reviews “The Man Who Invented Christmas,” a book about Charles Dickens and the creation of “A Christmas Carol” by Les Standiford. Watch Video

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Printful Adds Coloreel On-Demand Embroidery for Increased Design Flexibility

Printful, who has 10 factories worldwide producing on-demand garments, is beta testing Coloreel on-demand embroidery. In this interview, Elina Kruze from Printful explains why the company was excited about the ability to offer customers more design flexibility in embroidery. Coloreel CEO Torbjörn Bäck shares his thoughts on how Coloreel on-demand embroidery changes the market and delivers a more sustainable solution. Watch Video

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HP Industrial Is Prepped and Ready for Market Shifts

HP Industrial has been continuing to grow and the new General Manager, Fernando Alperowitch, shares some of his observations with David Zwang. Watch Video

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Kongsberg’s Stuart Fox and Matt Thackray on Wide-Format Cutting Systems

Stuart Fox and Matt Thackray of Kongsberg talk about the history of the 57-year-old company and showcase some of the precision cutting tables in its own portfolio, as well as that of the recently-acquired Multicam. Watch Video

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Venn Holdings/John Dollin Printing Ramps Up Its Digital Platform with HP Indigo

Anthony Thirlby, owner of London’s Venn Holdings, talks about Venn’s acquisition of John Dollin Printing, the second company in the UK to purchase an HP Indigo 100K. In the 12 months following the purchase of the HP Indigo platform, the company went from 0 to 45 million digital impressions. Watch Video

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Flora Graphics Grows Its Display Graphics Business with an EFI Pro 30h

Konica Minolta’s Mike Wildbore talks with Flora Graphics principal Indy Flora. Flora Graphics is an Ontario-based sign and display graphics printer. Starting out in cut sheet and label printing, the company expanded into wide format and recently purchased an EFI Pro 30h to expand its capabilities. Watch Video

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EFI Pro 30h Wide-Format Flatbed Helps SpeedPro Chicago Loop Expand

Rebecca Considine, co-principal of SpeedPro Chicago Loop, talks about how the sign and display graphics provider has expanded by investing in technology—in particular, the EFI Pro 30h wide-format flatbed printer, of which they were the first US installation Watch Video

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Warren Werbitt Goes Printer to Printer with Kexino

This week, Gee Ranasinha, CEO of Kexino, returns to Printer to Printer to talk with Warren about risk. Business owners take chances to achieve success, but then become risk-averse and as a result miss opportunities for further gain. Watch Video

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Bobst oneLabel Inkjet/Hybrid Press Finds Wide Acceptance in N.A. Market

David Zwang talks to Matt Bennett, Bobst's General Mgr. Label and Mid Web Business NA, about how Bobst has found the sweet spot between digital and flexo for label production, and how the market acceptance has been encouraging. Watch Video

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eProductivity Software Addresses Customer Challenges

Charlotte Tueckmantel, GM Global Enterprise Print & eCommerce for eProductivity Software (ePS), talks with David Bentley, ePS’s GM Global Midmarket Print, about how ePS is addressing current market trends and customer challenges. Watch Video

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EFI Addresses Changes and Challenges in the Sign and Display Market

EFI’s Ken Hanulec identifies the top trends affecting sign and display businesses, namely the need for hyperefficiency and lowering costs, as well as enabling new applications using new technologies like clear ink, white ink, and other things they haven’t been able to do before. Watch Video

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BookBaby Is the Democratization of Publishing

With the rise of the digital generation and social media, BookBaby has created the perfect role in the publishing and promoting of independent content creators. David Zwang talks with President James Foley as the company celebrates its 10th anniversary. Watch Video

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Lois Ritarossi and Joanne Gore on the Changing Role of Print

Lois Ritarossi and Joanne Gore talk about the changing nature of print, and the increased need for printed materials to be repurposed into different channels and media. Watch Video

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Orbus Exhibit & Display Group Scales Up with EFI

Orbus Exhibit & Display Group’s Jaime Herand talks about the company’s work for the trade show and events vertical markets and how their investment in EFI and EFI Reggiani equipment has allowed them to scale up their print facilities and expand into fabric printing. Watch Video

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The Digital Embellishment Show: Selling Digital Embellishments with Joe DeBoy of NAPCO USA

Joe DeBoy, the newly minted VP of Sales at NAPCO USA, talks with Taktiful's Kevin Abergel about selling digital printed output in the rigid packaging market and provides some good tips on how to pitch the value on insourcing packaging back into the USA. Watch Video

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Frank Is the Bearer of Bad News

Newspapers continue to move from atoms to bits. Frank uncovers more news about newspapers reducing or cutting their print editions in favor of digital editions. Within the next two decades, the printed newspaper will be a vestigial product. Watch Video

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eProductivity Software Caps Off a Busy 2022

eProductivity Software’s Charlotte Tueckmantel and Nick Benkovich recap ePS’ busy year, starting 2022 by splitting from EFI into a standalone company and working over the course of the year to build a foundation to continue bringing new products to its customers. Watch Video

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Ricoh’s Duncan Ellis on System Integration

Ricoh’s Duncan Ellis talks about the state of Ricoh’s integration of the disparate parts of the business from production software, to business services, to hardware, and how this integration offers customers a one-stop shop. Watch Video

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Colordyne’s Judd Quimby on Inkjet Retrofitting

Judd Quimby of Colordyne talks about the company’s focus on retrofitting their LED UV inkjet engines onto existing analog equipment, such as flexo and offset presses. This allows the company’s customers to print both analog and digital inline. Watch Video

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Monadnock’s Julie Brannen on Sustainability

Julie Brannen from Monadnock Paper Mill talks about Monadnock’s long history of sustainability, as well as some of the company’s latest initiatives and new products. Watch Video