Customers enjoy learning new and more effective processes and procedures for their products – if given the options. Ultimately – it is their decision. Making your job easier can be a huge gamble – are you willing to risk it? Read how a 25-year wide-format consultant and 25-year sign veteran work together to educate the customer and win work for th...

A game-changer that will allow Memjet OEM customers to dominate their print markets. The DuraLink digital printing platform expands Memjet’s industry-leading speed, simplicity, and affordability to a broader range of commercial, packaging, and industrial printing markets. DuraLink features a long-life printhead, durable pigment inks, over 2.5 meter...

Dr. FontZ has been getting questions on TrueType Signature Fonts. Read what Dr. FontZ has to say about TrueType Signature Fonts being used for signatures within your company’s document designer and if they can be matched with a Xerox or AFP font in the correct size for your environment. Have a question for the Doctor? Submit your question to us.

NPN Drukkers, one of the Netherland’s top printers, switched to the new KODAK SONORA X process-free offset plates. The result has been significant savings in operational costs, energy and water consumption. The company has also eliminated imaging chemistry and the release of volatile organic solvents into the environment with the SONORA X process-f...

A simple place to start is your Customer List! If you print for advertising and marketing companies, packaging manufacturers, colleges, airports… they may need billboards, elevator wraps, wall covering, floor graphics, window decals, school stadiums, building wraps etc. Wide Format Printing is a complex field of printing and also very rewarding. R...

Developing breakthrough print technology is a daunting task. But, doing that while a company is dealing with the multi-year organizational upheaval seems almost impossible. Xerox accomplished the impossible! The new 100% Xerox designed from the ground up, high-quality, high-speed, cut-sheet inkjet press – The Baltoro HF Inkjet Press - will bring ma...

Marc Johnson, formerly of HP and Kodak, has been appointed Memjet’s Global Director of Product Marketing. Marc will manage the development and implementation of marketing strategies for Memjet and its OEM partners, and will oversee product development, competitive analysis and strategic planning.

Plant Managers are too often being asked to operate as “Important Care-Takers”….”get their customers’ jobs produced correctly, and on-time.” That’s not the whole picture we should be supporting from them…or that they should be supervising…and developing….including their own development.

PE firms like Siris, who bought EFI, seem to be recognizing the unrealized value in the print, packaging, and label industry. As more senior print professionals join PE firms investments should accelerate. Recent PE examples: Platinum Equity buys Pitney Bowes DMT; ICV buys SG360; Arion Partners financed ePac; Apollo buys Pitney Bowes Services; Icah...

As the industry continues to undergo a major transformation, no printer can afford to ignore opportunities to optimize processes and improve efficiency. Ever shorter runs are the norm today, bigger orders are divided into several smaller jobs with differentiated content and time schedules, while web-to-print portals mostly generate a large number o...