Plant Managers are too often being asked to operate as “Important Care-Takers”….”get their customers’ jobs produced correctly, and on-time.” That’s not the whole picture we should be supporting from them…or that they should be supervising…and developing….including their own development.

PE firms like Siris, who bought EFI, seem to be recognizing the unrealized value in the print, packaging, and label industry. As more senior print professionals join PE firms investments should accelerate. Recent PE examples: Platinum Equity buys Pitney Bowes DMT; ICV buys SG360; Arion Partners financed ePac; Apollo buys Pitney Bowes Services; Icah...

As the industry continues to undergo a major transformation, no printer can afford to ignore opportunities to optimize processes and improve efficiency. Ever shorter runs are the norm today, bigger orders are divided into several smaller jobs with differentiated content and time schedules, while web-to-print portals mostly generate a large number o...

Packaging…..a market that’s waiting for many companies to step-up and into…..However….the theme here is that you want to look at your undeveloped and underutilized capabilities……..….and then your (potential) customers’ interests….. and potential needs…..from your customers’ standpoint….to see and understand…. what direction to go…. next….that rewar...

INTERACT 2019’s 300+ attendees gained new insights into Ricoh’s future plans and latest technology platforms. One of the event’s technology highlights was the new RICOH VC 70000 with early owners sharing their operational experiences and new revenue opportunities. A new ‘Operational Excellence’ education track focused on lean manufacturing, media,...

  What if you could ... achieve wider color gamut, offer a broader range of substrates for inkjet printing, and have state-of-the art ink development which is environmentally friendly using water-based inks ... all delivered at a reasonable cost? You can, with aqueous nano-particulate inks and dispersions from Kodak. A pioneer in inkjet technology,...

Six Kodak customers claimed 13 awards, at the In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA) conference, recognizing their exceptional print achievement across multiple categories. These In-Plant printers, representing the healthcare, education and government sectors deployed a range of Kodak technologies as part of this year’s award-winning proj...

Over 150 Printers, industry partners and media from around the world convened in New Orleans at the 2019 GUA Conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the print industry’s leading prepress automation software, KODAK PRINERGY Workflow.

Achieving Profitable Growth with Continuous Investment in Manufacturing Excellence When Kodak launched the SONORA X Process Free Plate in 2018, it marked a breakthrough for this technology. It enabled the market fit for process free to expand to up to 80% of printers, making SONORA X genuinely mainstream.

If we don’t know what’s most important to our Buyer/Customer for 2019, is that a good place to start changing our focus from us to our customer? How important to your Customer’s future business success did your recent Customer Survey say you are?