This international print industry event showcases innovations and further developments in high-speed digital print and...
Equality, Technology, and HERstory
Happy Women’s Print HERstory Month to one and all! Of course, this print-centered initiative occurs alongside Women’s...
Remote Control: Cybersecurity and Working From Home
We’re all getting used to the ways in which COVID has changed our working lives. Dealing with restless children,...
The Future of Work, the Future of Print
How do you define the ‘print industry?’ To borrow a lyric from The Sound of Music, how do you catch a cloud and pin it...
Print, Technology and the Circular Economy
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, some lauded a positive of the widespread virus – a win for sustainability, a...
HP Stitch and Reinventing Dye-Sublimation With Santi Morera and Joan Perez Pericot
Earlier this year, HP made its first foray into the dye-sub textile market, introducing the Stitch family of printers....
Building a Better Print Business with Dawn Olson, Konica Minolta
At the InPrint USA show in Louisville, Kentucky, Deborah spoke to Dawn Olson, Director of Production Print/Industrial...
Do You Have Any Magic Under Your Workflow?
Workflow is part of the business infrastructure, part of the supply chain, and a key element to production. It’s art...
Training the Next Generation of Workflow Wizards
Across the years of doing workflow reviews and assessments one question comes up frequently: Where is the next...
The Workflow Wizardry of Web2Print!
While explaining why so many of you are workflow magicians, last month we looked at preflighting and the magic it...
You Are a Print Workflow Magician! Here is How I Know!
In my last post, I said that not all document composition engines or word processing products or even creative layout...
The Magic of Digital Front Ends in Your Workflow!
Last summer in this blog the topic of the magic inside your Digital Front End took position front and center. The idea...
The Magic of Workflow Management in Your Workflow
Sometimes workflow gets a bad rap. After all, it takes time to create a strategy for linking all of the pieces...
The Magic of Order Entry and Onboarding in Your Workflow!
Continuing our adventure through the wilds of workflow, the next stop is that messy process of codifying the order and...
The Magic of Composition in Your Workflow!
The promise for this next series was to go back to basics, so this edition is all about the magical role of the...
Becoming a Smart Workflow Wizard!
Sometimes it is good to go back to the basics, so let’s start with defining workflow in 2018. It’s a tall order...
Casting Workflow Spells for a Magical and Profitable 2018
The last of the decorations are neatly in their boxes and the new calendars have been organized to get the new year...
Practical Workflow Magic to End 2017 and 5 Ways for More Success in 2018
What a year of workflow wizardry! We started the year advising everyone to take a close look at their production shop...
Alexa is a Workflow Wizard and Wisdom From IPEX
A while back I wrote a blog on how it wasn’t yet possible to walk up to an Echo Dot or Alexa tower and ask where your...
Wizards of Workflow at SGIA Expo 2017
We are experiencing change in the print world! Forces are gathering to enable workflow automation in every segment,...
Workflow Wisdom From Print 17
There are only a few tradeshows that attracts not only printers and print buyers, but an entire range of hardware and...
How Many Printers Does It Take to Print a Light Bulb?
Q: How many Printers does it take to print a light bulb? A: You don’t know, you don't print light bulbs... right?...
Understanding The Magic Inside Your Digital Front End
If you own a digital print device, somewhere in your life is a Digital Front End. The Digital Front End (DFE) is the...
Shaking Up The Status Quo: Are Your Services Standing Out?
In the world of artificial sweeteners, I am team Pink. I have always been team Pink. I know Pink. I know what taste I...
The Day the Workflow Stood Still
The print hardware often gets the blame when there is a shop slowdown. Misfeeds, wrong stock loaded, paper transport...
Alexa! Where’s My Print Job?
When you think about workflow (and I know you do!), how much do you think about automation? The two should go...
The Way for Smaller Printers to Make Workflow, Work
A question came up over in the Print Production Professionals Group on LinkedIn that came down to this: there is a lot...
Casting A Spell on Workflow Automation
Over the past couple of months I’ve been to more than a few conferences and vendor events where workflow and workflow...
Waving a Workflow Wand for Magical Onboarding Success
Most print providers (commercial, in-plant, corporate) won’t need a wand or cape to discover that some parts of their...
Appify Your Workflow!
We’re off to a fast start in the Wizarding World of Workflow 2017. The stars are telling us that this could be the...