Interviews with Industry Executives, Commentary & Analysis from WhatTheyThink Contributors and other video features.
David Zwang talks talks with Matt Doran of The Anstadt Company. Founded in 1878, the company is a fifth-generation family-owned commercial print business that has expanded and diversified. It has been shedding its offset equipment in favor of HP Indigo Digital Presses. Watch Video
GEW’s Gary Doman discusses trends in sheetfed offset and how UV curing can address these trends. Watch Video
Fujifilm’s Chris Cohara talks about how employee turnover has been a big challenge for firms producing display graphics and how the automation and ease-of-use features on Fujifilm’s wide-format equipment have helped mitigate this challenge. Watch Video
Zünd America’s Bill Richards talks about the challenges of keeping employees, and how the automation features on Zünd’s wide-format cutting equipment can help streamline workflows through data integration, metadata manipulation, and robotics. Watch Video
Pat McGrew talks to David and Bryant Crawford from N.C. HVAC company Pleasant Air, one of the winners of AlphaGraphics’ “Make It Happen” contest. As a result of its efforts in giving back to the community, the long-time AlphaGraphics clients were awarded an AlphaGraphics business brand makeover. Watch Video
The Print & Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF) is recently announced the inauguration of an award honoring the unending service of John Berthelsen to the Education of Students interested in the Graphic Arts. The award, in his name, will be given out each year to a deserving individual or organization that exemplifies the ideals and practices of John over his many years of dedicated service to the industry and affiliated organizations. John was the first recipient. We had the opportunity to interview him and gain an understanding of the many contributions he has made over 50 years in the industry. Watch Video
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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