Canon Unleashes Print and Voyager at drupa 2016

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I caught up with Eric Hawkinson, Senior Director of Marketing at Canon Solutions America, Production Print Solutions, and tossed him a few questions about drupa to share with you. Without a doubt, one of the most buzz-worthy subjects throughout the Messe was Voyager, a prototype inkjet press Canon had in their booth. I’m not fully versed in […]

#UKvUSA: Do Print Buyers Care About Social Media

Welcome to #UKvUSA – 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 […]

Create Your #meandmydesignjet Moment Before July 31!

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Greetings Citizens of the Printerverse… Ready to have a little fun? Help HP celebrate 25 years of DesignJet by downloading one or both of the images below to create your own #meandmydesignjet moment. Send it out through Twitter, make sure you include the #meandmydesignjet hashtag and on July 31st I will search the stream and pick out the tweet with […]

#drupa2016: The Hype, The Hope, And The Social Media Revolution

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To paraphrase Jan Brady… “All I hear is drupa is so big, drupa is so great… drupa, drupa, drupa.” Well Jan, and anyone else who isn’t sure whether or not to believe the hype, get out a tall glass and get ready to guzzle down some drupa Kool-Aid, I’m pouring. To get you up to […]

It’s drupa! Were you there?

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Hi! I’m Chloe! I’m just back from that fun fair called drupa – where companies that sell to printers pitch their wares and print buyers and print equipment buyers of all types come to kick the tires, ask questions, and compare technologies. Since that is what the show is for, that’s what I did! I’ve […]

#UKvUSA: What Investments Matter to Print Buyers?

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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 […]

10 More Signs You Are a Print Junkie: #drupa2016 Edition

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My first trip to the Messe to experience drupa has been quite an adventure. I came here with HP PageWide Press to help with some pre-show set-up, and will stay through June 10th reporting to you about the HP partners who have contributed to the amazing inkjet print we are producing on the show floor, and about everything […]

Add Color To Your Life with Next-Generation Inkjet

Guest post by Clive Stringer Regional Vice President for Enterprise Solutions, Pitney Bowes Colour and its impact have been the subject of study for hundreds of years. Colour can generate an emotional, powerful and uncontrolled response. And it’s fascinating: did you know, for example, that grasshoppers have white blood, that crocodiles are colour blind or […]

5 Simple Ways to Manage drupa Information Overload

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It’s 14 days before drupa, the largest print fair in the world, opens their doors to welcome all citizens of the Printerverse near, far, and remotely. The information that will flow out from Dusseldorf could easily become the focus of your day unless you start planning your attack, strategically. Based on my experience watching from […]

TRENDING: Today’s Startup Print Customers Are DEMOCOLLABORATING!

We’ve talked about how to woo start up companies and cultivate a love of print. Now that you’ve won a startup customer, there’s more work to be done. First and foremost, you need to understand and manage the “democollaboration” style of today’s young and new companies. Yes, I invented the term, and I’m going to use […]

Print is a Lifestyle Choice Part III

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Print in the World of Marketing, Yesterday and Today Here we have reached the last, yet probably most relevant, segment of Print as a Lifestyle Choice. Last month we talked about how print revolutionized the world. It’s true that Gutenberg changed the course of human civilization with his invention of the printing press. How print […]

1/1 Interview with Sabine Geldermann – Director, drupa

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Thanks to my new best friend Anne Meerboth-Maltz from Messe Düsseldorf North America, I was able to score an interview with Sabine Geldermann Director drupa & Global head Printing Technology, Messe Düsseldorf GmbH. Needless to say with drupa only 2 months away, I am extremely grateful that both of these amazing women took the time to share some cool […]