Most customer organizations want fewer suppliers. They want suppliers who provide resources and solutions with talent, creativity, and proactive thoughtfulness. This pandemic is loaded with opportunities if you’re asking, “Who’s crying in pain and wants solutions to previously unsolved needs and pain?”

many wide-format printing companies?  Great design and engineering can be considered intellectual property. Take a deeper look into your organization’s strengths, knowledge, skills, and talents; you might uncover some magnificent and even breathtaking new capabilities that could traject a much-needed course correction.

In this interview with KODAK's Senior Vice President John O'Grady, he discusses the advantages of KODAK Sonora Process Free Plates, including the environmental benefits and pressroom savings that can be realized with process free plates. Mr. O'Grady also previews the improvements to come in the next-generation SONORA XTRA plates.

High-value print products are generally sold by a salesperson who develops a close business relationship with clients. Prospects used to experience new products at trade shows or a company's customer experience center. The new business environment now curtails those options. So, how do we recreate the most effective sales environment for today?

The OutputLinks Group’s C-Level Assistance provides access to respected, well-known professionals who have founded, managed, expanded, bought, and sold leading print and CCM companies. Because, who better to assist with management, technology, M&A, and business pivoting than those who successfully owned, managed, enhanced, and sold many of the prin...

Many of us will be glad to see the end of 2020, with its pandemic and economic hardships. But are you ready for 2021? Do you know which forms or overlays you will have to change for the new year? Will this year’s changes require other files besides your forms and overlays? Click for a guide on the items to consider when updating assets such as over...

Soft Signage is described as using soft materials for graphic displays and more (printed on textile or fabric-based substrates). Traditionally, products are printed on plastic, vinyl, or paper.  However, there has been a rapid shift over the last years towards Soft Signage due to its transportability, durability, and price. Is it time to enter that...

What would you be willing to do…for significant, additional new business if you didn’t know who that business would ultimately come from, or when? (Would you wait until you need that business?) Is our great industry or our organization setting our standards and goals too low?

Would optimizing, upgrading, or replacing your legacy print, workflow, or CCM software improve efficiency and profitability? Could access to top-level print technologists make upgrades happen sooner? See how our Software Assistance. can help accelerate software upgrades.

Some of us are old enough  to recognize how “dumbed-down” our great industry has become. Blame it on software, a younger generation that expects to be “spoon-fed” or have someone else on the team pay the early-on price for success from Innovation. Last week I reviewed the effectiveness of a Sample Library with our Plant Managers Peer Group...