Archive for 2008

The International Gallery of Excellence

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Over the weekend I stopped by the judging event for the 34th International Gallery of Excellence awards. The Gallery is print quality contest open to all printing and graphic communication companies around the world. Kevin Keane, President & CEO of IAPHC sat down for a short interview to talk about the ...

Jet Pilot

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Earlier this month, WhatTheyThink released the second in our “Primer” series of reports—Inkjet Printing Primer: A WhatTheyThink Overview of Inkjet Printing in the Commercial Printing Industry, of which I am proud to have been the author. The purpose of our Primer reports is to get interested parties up to speed ...

How can print adapt to the digital age?

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

In a recent article DMNews asked How can print adapt to the digital age? The site asked two marketing executives: Pamela Girardin, President, Q2 Marketing and Jeremy Knauff, CEO of Wildfire Marketing Group to offer their strategies and predictions. Head over to DMNews to read their opinions. And let us know what ...

WSJ on the State of Heidelberger

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

The Wall Street Journal has article in their European edition on the state of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The article sums up what most of us in the industry already know, but does provide some insight into the strategy the company is using to offset the effects of the global economic ...

Why “Rebranding” Print Hasn’t Worked—and Will Never Work

Monday, October 6th, 2008

First, individual printers are not of sufficient size to stimulate the demand for print. We’ll look at the issue of “demand” in greater detail in chapter 5, but suffice it to say here, those dynamics are based on societal and other changes that are out of their range of control. At ...

In Boston, The Green Media Show Marks the Connection Between Sustainability and Success

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Taking care of business while taking care of the environment: that’s one way to define “sustainability,” the word that seems to be on everybody’s lips these days as a slogan for a wide-ranging mix of earth-friendly social goals and business strategies. Although there’s plenty of disagreement about exactly what sustainability ...

WorkflowOne Corporate Spotlight

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

American Executive has an article on rebirth of WorkflowOne after it restructured and reorganized leadership after a shareholder buyout in 2004 by current president and CEO Greg Mosher. Mosher attributes the company's success to its Dual Network Advantage, a service and manufacturing network: “It is extremely important because today’s customer is looking ...

Let WhatTheyThink know what’s in your Graph Expo “wish list”

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Here's the text of a thread we've started in The Lounge at PrintPlanet. We'd love to get your input there or in responses to this post. Graph Expo 2008 is coming. What if you could give the exhibitors a “wish list” of the new products and solutions that you would most ...

Gray Balance as a Pressroom Metric

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Gordon Pritchard, Kodak's Value In Print Initiative Marketing Manager has a blog post up on Grow Your Biz in which he outlines 11 items to consider when using gray balance as a press control: Achieving gray balance in presswork is the major mantra in today's print production world. It is the ...

Hacking [at] Esquire’s E-Ink Cover

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

I'm sure by know you have either seen or at least heard of Esquire's electronic paper-based cover. Even I picked up a copy, and I have never bought Esquire in my life. (And probably never will again.) I admit, though, if you leave the issue lying around, the blinking drives ...