Interviews with Industry Executives, Commentary & Analysis from WhatTheyThink Contributors and other video features.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Canon USA’s Bob Barbera recaps Canon’s recent PRINTING United announcements, such as the new imagePRESS V family and new PRISMA software, which won two Pinnacle Awards. Canon’s new PRISMA offerings are now cloud-based, allowing more printers to migrate their workflows to the cloud and add additional levels of automation. Watch Video
Rick Salinas, President of Duplo USA, leads a tour of Duplo’s booth at PRINTING United featuring finishing solutions for the B2 packaging market. He is joined by Technical Product Manager Anthony Blanco, talking about the DuSense DDC-8000 B2 Raised Spot UV Coater and DSM-1000 B2 Platen Die Cutter; Product Manager Kevin Chen discussing the DC-746 B2 Slitter/Cutter/Creaser and DFL-700 Foil/Laminator; and Product Manager David Nguyen, showing the DF-K2000 Thick Paper Creaser/Folder. Watch Video
David Zwang talks to Corefact’s Christopher Burnley. Corefact was founded in 2005 as a company selling analytics software to the real estate industry. They added direct mail printing capabilities to help build the software business and then began growing the print business, specializing in variable-data printing and some transactional. The company now has locations in California and Kentucky. Watch Video
In this second part of Frank's interview with digital font pioneer Joe Treacy of https://treacyfaces.com, Frank and Joe talk about the current state of typefaces. With more than one million fonts and 20 programs for making digital fonts, there is no end in sight. Watch Video
Lintec’s Jim Halloran talks about the company’s materials for glass decoration—which include scratch-resistant optically clear polyester films with permanent or removable adhesive. The company has substrates that are compatible with all major printing technologies. Watch Video
Epson’s Tim Check talks about the new Pinnacle Award-winning SureColor F6470H dye-sublimation printer, the company’s first six-color 44-inch dye-sub. It offers options for fluorescent inks, orange and violet to expand the color gamut, and light cyan and light magenta for photographers and fine artists. Watch Video
David Zwang talks to Sammy Shehadeh, President of Print-Hub, a printing company founded three-and-a-half-years ago out of hospitality and real estate businesses that needed printing, had difficulty finding a printer, so decided to start a print business to serve their own needs. They soon started printing for other customers and has since acquired another print business to expand their capabilities. Watch Video
Bob Flinn of Standard Finishing Systems talks about the binding and finishing equipment the company was demonstrating at PRINTING United, featuring units from Hunkeler and Horizon—and including a robotic arm feeding a Horizon perfect binder. Watch Video
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