The Year Ahead: Q&A With Amit Shvartz, Scodix

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Was 2015 a good year for print? How do you measure success? Printing and print is a challenging business. In Scodix, we focused our efforts on delivering new products and solutions to our customers who were primed and ready for change – and for growth. During 2015, we introduced the new Scodix Foil™, an inline […]

The Year Ahead: Q&A With Eric Hawkinson, Canon Solutions America

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Was 2015 a good year for print? How do you measure success? For Canon Solutions America, 2015 was about launching new technology and connecting more with our customers. 2015 marked a year in which we released three new products that both we and our customers are excited about. We released the Océ VarioPrint i300 – […]

The Year Ahead: Q&A With Eshchar Ben-Shitrit, Highcon

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Was 2015 a good year for digital finishing? How do you measure success? For Highcon 2015 was a year of great success and growth. We are seeing a shift in the industry and believe it is the first appearance of a broader momentum towards digital finishing. As we continue to advance our technology and expand […]

Print Customer Convenience And Communication Crucial In 2016

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All the industry predictions and sound strategy advice offered this time of year won’t make a bit of difference if you have no customers or prospects to work with. Since I am on the receiving end of your sales calls, emails and the occasional package of printed materials, I am going to dedicate this post […]

2016 Is Going To Be Terrible! Or, Is It?

Hi! I’m Chloe! This year is starting off with a bang – big projects, cool customers, even neater technologies… but I am afraid this is going to be a terrible year! Why? Because this is a drupa year, and in a drupa year it seems like everyone is paralyzed with fear that if they make […]

2016: The Year of Automated Relevance

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I’ll never forget the first time I sat down with a Fortune 500 company to discuss the idea of implementing hyper-personalized direct mail marketing to the millions of people in their loyalty rewards program. They were the largest advocate for direct mail communications I had ever seen in my brief four years in printing sales, […]

5 Creative Ways Print Can Grow Your Business

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People have been discussing how to save print, when the real question should be: How can print help our business? Yes, it is hard to track the ROI and value of print marketing… if you are only thinking about what the value is for yourself and the bottom line. While ROI and revenue are important, […]

2016 Print Advice From Awesome Writers

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Can you believe that we are already half way through the first month of the new year? I am sure you have thought about it already. How will your print be different this year than the year before? How should something that has been around longer than your grandparents be changed for the better? More, […]

Looking Across The Digital And Print Chasm In 2016

There is no doubt that today we live in an omnichannel world. From our mobile phones loaded up with apps, photos and text messages to the physical print we still receive, the average person is being stimulated by information every second of the day. Hey! Put the phone DOWN…Unless you are reading this on your […]

110% Can’t Miss Totally True Predictions For 2016

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Thank you for joining me for my pseudo-triumphant return to The Printerverse Blog Party. I know I tried to underpromise and overdeliver on the frequency of my contributions last year, but alas, I only underdelivered. But this is a new year, and a new me. And please forgive me that I am more than a little […]

#UKvUSA: Do Your Suppliers Suck?

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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 […]

The Year Ahead: Q&A With David Murphy, HP PageWide Web Press

Was 2015 a good year for print? How do you measure success? 2015 was the year of HP’s Giant Digital Leap Ahead. We introduced new products and watched as our customers surpassed 130 billion pages printed using HP PageWide Web Presses. By any definition of success, that is a great achievement for our customers and […]