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Online eNewsletter here's your February 21, 2020 eNews

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Packing in Profits from Packaging – Barriers Are Falling
Past entry barriers have kept many printers from embracing packaging for new revenue opportunities. However, Memjet's three beautifully engineered single-pass inkjet platforms are removing the entry barriers related to the cost and reliability of inkjet presses capable of meeting brand owner requirements. Speed and color reliability…

Consolidation Affect Trend Result

Print Industry Consolidation: The Affect, Trend, and Result
How will the growing acquisition/consolidation trend affect the long-term health of the $79.3bn print industry and its tens of thousands of stakeholders – employees, employers, shareholders, suppliers, financial partners? Let’s look at the good, the bad, the ugly and then the opportunity. Change can result in havoc or opportunity based upon the attitude of the principals involved.

(L to R): Miguel Bonilla, Pressroom Manager, Richard Featherston, Prepress Supervisor, and Gustave Semon, General Manager

Printer Shaves Off Time and Costs with Process Free Plates
“Making the switch to SONORA Plates was simple, especially with the great support we received from Kodak. The impact on our printing process once we started using the plates and our new CTPs was felt immediately. With no need for a plate processor anymore, we eliminated the time and cost of managing that process,” said Richard Featherston, Trumbull’s head of pre-press.

Wages and Kerning

Kerning, Tracking, and Leading Can Help Make Your Documents More Readable
Using kerning, tracking, and leading together can allow designers to make documents easily readable. Wider spacing and extra white space can be used to emphasize small blocks of important text. A quick read on the features of each.

Sid Chadwick

Developing the Business - Sid Chadwick
Print Organizations Neglect What Smart Customers Know
Do our customers know more about the importance of print to effectively communicate an important message than many of our industry’s members? Do our Associations need to educate their members on opportunities to demonstrate “The Value of Print”?

Featured News

Corporate Communications Group: Named Best Workplace in the Americas 2020 Competition
Corporate Communications Group has been awarded the Best Workplace designation in the 2020 Best Workplace in the Americas awards competition. The BWA awards are awarded to companies that create the best environments for their employees.

HP Adopts Limited Duration Shareholder Rights Plan
“HP’s board is focused on creating long-term value for HP shareholders. We believe it is essential that HP shareholders have sufficient time and full information when considering any tender offer that Xerox may commence,” said Chip Bergh, Chair of HP’s...

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Names in the News

Satoru Takashima

Toyo Ink Group has appointed Satoru Takashima, the existing Senior Managing Director, to serve as the new President and in the new position of COO.

Joanne Collins Smee

Xerox Holdings Corp. announced the appointment of Joanne Collins Smee as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial, SMB, and Channels Officer.

Sammy Kinlaw

Lexmark announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Sammy Kinlaw, VP of worldwide channel OEM and Sales, to its exclusive list of the 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs for 2020.

Laura Blackmer

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Laura Blackmer, Senior Vice President, Dealer Sales to its 2020 list of Channel Chiefs.

Mary McHugh

Xerox Holdings Corp. announced the appointment of Mary McHugh as Executive VP and Chief Delivery and Supply Chain Officer.

In Memorandum

Tim Kelly

Tim Kelly, Rochester Software Associates (RSA), former Senior Vice President, passed away peacefully on February 15th. Tim was a dedicated husband, loving father, and a tremendous friend who always had time for others. Tim retired from RSA late in 2019.

Richard Alan Fink

Richard Alan Fink passed away on February 13th. Richard began his working career with the Calex Corporation. After surviving an industrial electrocution, he became a self-taught offset printing press operator. He successfully established the Print Fast Printing Company in Boardman, Ohio, for 18 years.

Chef

Good News Outside of Print: Ninety-Year-Old ‘Chef of the Poor’ Cooks for Rome’s Homeless
Dino Impagliazzo dices onions like a master chef and makes a mean vegetable soup, but most of his loyal “customers” can’t afford to buy even a breadstick.

Industry News

o Printing Industry Veteran Rajiv Yajnik Buys Minuteman Press Franchise

o drupa 2020 Article Series: Essentials of Print No. 7

o Commercial Printing Company Substantially Increases Its Productivity

o Ricoh Passes Rigorous Security Validation Testing for Multifunction Printers

o Racami Among Industry Leaders to Sponsor & Speak at INg Forum

o Square 9 Receives Platinum Rating in BLI Solutions Report for 2020

o Xerox PrimeLink B9100 Series Multifunction Printer

o CGS Recognized for Excellence Among Managed Service Providers

o Premier Graphics Adds 2 HP PageWide Web Presses