printForum the conference scores big in the Windy City!

by guest blogger Dean Petrulakis of Rider Dickerson Thank you to all those who attended our first annual conference, printForum the conference! The attendance rate and response from the attendees was awesome! The conference included 11 carefully- crafted education sessions led by some of the most knowledgeable leaders in the industry, an amazing keynote speaker, […]

7 Website Improvements That Will Increase Sales Now

If your website still looks like an online brochure, then you are missing out on the most effective lead generation tool that you have. These seven website design tips will make it easy for your website visitors to become your ideal customers: 1.  Place an identifying tagline at the top. Tell your customer where they’ve landed. […]

Xplor Highlights Networking Events for April 2011 Conference

From E-Document News: Xplor International announced a series of networking events scheduled for their 2011 Conference and Vendor Forum, held April 5-7, 2011 at the TradeWinds Island Grand Hotel and Conference Center, a AAA four-diamond, 584-room resort destination. Starting on Tuesday and ending on Thursday, the 2011 Xplor Conference and Vendor Forum has intermixed “lighter […]

Phantasm CS Designer | Studio | Publisher V2 released

For immediate release Issued 17 March 2011 Phantasm CS Designer | Studio | Publisher version 2 released New 7 day trial version allows Adobe Illustrator™ users to fully sample new color and pre-press tools Astute Graphics (www.astutegraphics.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 2 for each Phantasm CS level; Designer, Studio and […]

Get Your Transaction Color Printing on Track at Xplor11!

Xplor 2011 DELIVER Track Spotlight! The Jump to Transaction Color Printing “This track provides the knowledge and foundation for the future of the printed document.  How it is created, distributed and delivered is critical to any company and vital to the document industry!”  says Track Chair Rob Williams. The Jump to Transaction Color is presented […]

Greener Package Awards – Enter Now

Entries are now being accepted for the 2011 Greener Package Awards, the industry’s only independent annual competition honoring the most innovative and environmentally significant approaches to packaging sustainability. Since the second edition of the competition last year, Greener Package and its Advisory Board of Experts have revamped the award’s entry requirements to more fully reflect […]

3D printing in bone now possible

The insanely creative team over at Open3DP have amazed us yet again. Now they have been able to 3D print in bone. For a project with Juliana Meira do Valle and Michael Storey the team developed a way to create a bone mixture that can be 3D printed. The mixture consists of Powdered Bone Meal, Powdered […]

5 Ways to Increase Prices and not Lose Customers

Judith Aquino (Business Insider) At some point, every company wrestles with the question of how to increase prices without losing many of their customers. For small businesses, this issue can raise many problems, especially if their original strategy was to offer products or services free of charge or at incredibly low rates. Unfortunately, it is […]

Get EDA Certified at Xplor 2011!

Hi, I am William Broddy m-edp and this year along with Bill McCalpin m-edp we are running a 5-day Xplor-certified School on Transactional Document Production April 4-8th at the Xplor International Conference & Vendor Forum in Tampa, FL. Our organization, acadami, is a registered provider of Xplor Continuing Education courses. Students who score above 85% on the three School exams can […]

Print stages a comeback

Electronics giant Sony turns to print marketing collateral to drive a “wow” factor. During the holiday season, it worked with its direct marketing agency, The Agency Inside Harte-Hanks, to create full-color inserts reminiscent of mini catalogs, which ran in newspapers across the country. The marketing pieces gave recipients information on where to buy the hottest […]

Relevancy Explored: Precision Marketing Versus Transpromo

By Featured Guest Writer: Jonathan McGrew Relevancy is the driver of marketing plans for 2011, or at least we should all agree that it should be for reasons covered in Relevancy Rules Marketing Predictions in 2011. In fact, if you were following the 2011 PODi AppForum on Twitter you may have noticed that the there […]

Hunkeler Innovationdays 2011 – The Convergence is Coming

Once every two years, followers of the high-volume printing and paper processing industry meet in Lucerne for the Hunkeler Innovationdays. Its importance as a show has risen in recent years by the rapid technological advancements in digital inkjet printing, and like other good shows,  the Hunkeler Innovationdays provide glimpses into the future of what we […]