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 […]

No, No, No, No! Black Typewriter Font – Just No!

Hi! I’m Chloe! I just got back from a trip and did my usual scan of the mail, and someone sent me, in 2016, a DM piece that is done in a typewriter font laser printed onto a preprinted shell. And then I opened a credit card statement for a new card I opened and […]

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 – […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

2016 CMYK Manifesto: Pushing The Print Media Agenda

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The Following Topics are Over and Done With in 2016! YOU, Yes, Still You! This was included in the 2015 CMYK Manifesto, but it’s obvious many didn’t take this advice to heart, so I’ll try again. If your marketing is based on telling people what you want them to know, and that “conversation” consists of […]

Four Galactic Concepts Star Wars Can Teach Us About Print Media

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This past Friday was December 18th. Do you know what that means? If your answer is “no” then what’s wrong with you?! I mean keep reading, there might still be hope for you. Seriously, it was the premier of the new Star Wars movie—The Force Awakens– and as you probably already guessed, I absolutely did […]

Were You Naughty or Nice? 2015 in Review

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Hi! I’m Chloe! It’s hard to believe, but this is our second Holiday Season together! Merry Christmas! Happy Hannukah! Felicitations for whatever you celebrate! 2015 has been a roller coaster of a year. Let’s look at what hit and what missed for me! The big hit for the year is the growth of more solutions […]

2015’s Shining Stars in Print

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Ahh, another year is coming to a close. I love this time of year. Not only do I truly cherish the additional time with family, but I also love looking back on the year that practically just flashed before my eyes. This year was strange, to say the least. I’ve done everything from selling print, […]

3 Things You Should Know About Marketing To Us Millennials

Millennial. A term first coined by Neil Howe and William Strauss in 1991 in their book “Generations” to describe the generation born between 1980 and 2000; however, the most common birth range for the generation also known as Generation Y is 1982-2000. Despite how much I loathe the term (I mean, does anyone really enjoy […]

Can We Talk? Are You Too Timid?

Hi! I’m Chloe! I live in a world of print and I’m starting to get annoyed. Maybe you are too? Too much of what is coming across my desk is b-o-r-i-n-g! It’s the same look, same feel, same format, same color schemes – over and over again! When did brands become so timid? There are […]