The Year Ahead: Q&A With Eric Hawkinson, Canon Solutions America
Was 2015 a good year for print? How do you measure success? For Canon Solutions America, 2015 was about launching new technology and connecting more with our customers. 2015 marked a year in which we released three new products that both we and our customers are excited about. We released the Océ VarioPrint i300 – […]
110% Can’t Miss Totally True Predictions For 2016
Thank you for joining me for my pseudo-triumphant return to The Printerverse Blog Party. I know I tried to underpromise and overdeliver on the frequency of my contributions last year, but alas, I only underdelivered. But this is a new year, and a new me. And please forgive me that I am more than a little […]
#UKvUSA: Do Your Suppliers Suck?
Welcome to my monthly blogging duel with TEAM UK’s Matthew Parker. If you have been following along you can skip right to the post… and if you are just joining us, here is some background… Matthew and I haven’t always seen eye to eye when it comes to Print Buying. He comes from the UK procurement […]
The Year Ahead: Q&A With David Murphy, HP PageWide Web Press
Was 2015 a good year for print? How do you measure success? 2015 was the year of HP’s Giant Digital Leap Ahead. We introduced new products and watched as our customers surpassed 130 billion pages printed using HP PageWide Web Presses. By any definition of success, that is a great achievement for our customers and […]
Survey Says Print Buyers Care More About Printers Than Price
A few weeks ago I sent out a short survey to my fellow print producers to get a quick temperature take on the things they care about, in order of importance. Matthew Parker and I will present the full results and what they mean to printers at HP’s 2016 Jetcomm Conference and again during Dscoop San Antonio, for […]
Three Ways To Effectively Maximize Your Twitter Reach
Depending upon what you do, and whom you are trying to engage with, Twitter can be a very powerful social media tool. I think of it as the funnel for all of my other communication channels. For Twitter to be effective, you have to have people following you who can see and share your information, […]
[VIDEO] Meet the Movers and Shakers From the Inaugural thINK Conference in NYC
The first thINK Conference – appropriately called thINK First, was held in NYC Sept 8-10, 2015 in the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC. thINK is a “collaborative, independent community of peers, solutions partners and print industry experts that represent the fast-growing $3.5B inkjet market.” Oh, and they are Canon Solutions America customers as well. There is […]
[VIDEO] Post-Press Success: Winning With Finishing
This Graph Expo panel focuses on the wonderful world of finishing, and the ROI it can bring. Panelists: http://mollbrothers.com • http://hp.com/go/indigo.com • http://thefoilexperts.com • http://scodix.com – Hosted by Deborah Corn **Fastbind USA apologizes for missing this panel, but since they were busy signing contracts with new customers, they hope you understand! See how PUR/EVA and […]
[VIDEO] Print Smart: Evaluating Tools for Saving Time and Money
This Graph Expo panel focuses on tips, best practices for printers to assess their workflows and processes in order to find the right solutions for their business. Panelists from: http://arifiq.com • http://www.avantisystems.com • http://www.chili-publish.com • http://pitneybowes.com • http://www.solimarsystems.com • http://xerox.com/production – Hosted by Deborah Corn
[VIDEO] Digital Schmigital: Marketing Print to Millennials
This Graph Expo panel focuses on “The New Print Customers” – what they know, what they don’t, and how to keep them excited about print in an electronic world. Panelists from: http://dreamingincmyk.com • http://hp.com/go/indigo • http://www.chili-publish.com • http://hp.com/go/pagewidewebpress – Hosted by Deborah Corn
[VIDEO] Behind the Social Curtain: Introducing the Wizards of WOW
This Graph Expo panel discusses what it takes to develop and maintain a successful social media presence for your business, and how to measure results. We had some issues with sound, so I trimmed this video to where it was fixed. Panelists: http://www.avantisystems.com • Marifer Rodriguez http://pitneybowes.com • Bill Michael http://xerox.com/production – Vanecia Carr http://domtar.com – Hosted by […]
[VIDEO] An ROI River Runs Through It: Mapping Your Multi-Channel Marketing Streams
This Graph Expo panel focuses on helping printers market themselves through print + additional channels by sharing experience and results. Panelists from: http://arifiq.com • http://www.avantisystems.com • http://piworld.com • http://profitableprintreelationships.com • http://xerox.com/production – Hosted by Deborah Corn