by Andy Solages | #PMCpodcasts, Podcast, Printerverse
In 2009, Mary Beth Smith started Girls Who Print as a group on LinkedIn. Over the years, Girls Who Print has evolved into a much-needed organization inclusive of women from every part of the print industry. Bindery printers, machine operators, marketers, managers,...
by Andy Solages | #PMCpodcasts, Education, Featured, Podcast, Print Media, Printerverse
As the fourth generation of his family in print, James Cryer uncovered a unique historical record of the printing industry when he discovered his grandfather’s handwritten journal among his father’s papers. Despite having never met his grandfather, the older man’s...
by Andy Solages | #PMCpodcasts, Buyers, Education, Operations, Print Sales, Print Services, Printers, Printerverse
As an in-house corporate print buyer, “Dee” has managed print spend budgets ranging from $15 million to $80 million for large ad agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Over the last decade, she has become increasingly concerned for the print industry and the talented...
by Andy Solages | #PMCpodcasts, Podcast
While in high school, Dante Hamilton started his first print business after he learned calligraphy and how to work a varityper machine. Today, with a long track record as an entrepreneur, Dante has never forgotten how his mother and his fashionable, beret-wearing,...
by Andy Solages | Digital Media, Marketing, Printerverse
According to recent reports, Apple’s investors are urging the iPhone maker to help reduce smartphone addiction among children. While I don’t doubt smartphone addiction may be a thing at the moment, my own usage habits lead me to think this issue will be short-lived....
by Andy Solages | Operations, Print Services, Printerverse, Tips
Historians will surely count 2017 as part of the “Dumpster Fire” era, but putting aside the future’s inevitable judgement, how was your year in terms of business? I hope you found some marshmallows to roast over the flames. My marshmallows — let’s call them “wins” now...
by Andy Solages | Print Media, Print Services, Publishing, Trends
If I appear in a photo, I look for myself first. Wait. Let me amend that. If I am aware I appear in a photo, I look for myself first. My uncredited guest appearances in the photographs of my wider digital “photo-footprint” are likely to stay beyond my vanity-driven...
by Andy Solages | #Print17, Education, Events, Printerverse, Training, Trends
As previously announced, I rode a CMYK rainbow of fun and friendship to Print 17. It went fast, but I’m still savoring the afterglow of the camaraderie, information sharing, and alien-approved ridiculousness. I got exactly what I wanted out of the event: met the...
by Andy Solages | Marketing, Millennials, Paper, Tools, Trends
A few weeks ago, I came across a post on LinkedIn describing an exercise with a blank sheet of paper geared toward revealing possibilities and helping a person step outside the limitations of schedules, journals, and records of a “previous self.” The author, Lynn Hidy...
by Andy Solages | #Print17, Events, Marketing
I’m announcing it here first: I, Andy of the Tribe of Solages, first of my name, will be attending PRINT 17. Described as “the largest gathering of the printing, publishing, in-plant, graphic communications, and mailing/fulfillment communities in the Americas”, PRINT...
by Andy Solages | Creative, Design, Education, Interview, Print Media
“This is the best industry in the world.” Those were the words of Natalie Alcide, a young graphic communications student and valedictorian of her class at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech). If you’re an elder in your professional tribe, you’re doing...
by Andy Solages | Printers, Printerverse
“There is a Printerverse” was my very first Print Media Centr column. Look at me then: full of wonder at how the knowledge, technologies, interests, events, and organizations shared among ink-sniffers formed a culture and a “Printerverse.” Can you believe we were ever...
