Keeping printers, suppliers, and analysts operating during Covid-19 times requires exactly the creativity our industry is known for. What innovative ideas are you and your firm considering to keep revenue flowing and staff employed? Share your thoughts with fellow print stakeholders on this LinkedIn forum >>>

Xerox’s attempt to buy HP and now HP’s possible buy of Xerox has been a twisty, curvy story to analyze and report. One day the financial analysts say combining the companies would be a disaster, and later, they are describing the value that to be realized from a combined company. Shareholders will gain but how about the rest of the industry stakeho...

How will the growing acquisition/consolidation trend affect the long-term health of the $79.3bn print industry and its tens of thousands of stakeholders – employees, employers, shareholders, suppliers, financial partners? Let’s look at the good, the bad, the ugly and then the opportunity. Change can result in havoc or opportunity based upon the att...

While many clients are requesting price reductions to help manage their cost of doing business, print suppliers are being hit with price increases for ink, paper, personnel, utilities, equipment, and cybersecurity to name a few. Their print clients have options: they can reduce quantities, switch providers, or move from print to social media. All o...

After a holiday lull, the Xerox HP tug-of-print continues. Xerox’s hostile take-over activities escalated when Xerox bought HP stock and exercised its shareholder right to nominate 11 replacements for HP’s current Board. There is more to come, but for now, let’s dive deeper into this week’s Board replacement episode.

This year’s US political advertising from presidential, federal, and state election campaigns across all media is projected as much as $10,000,000,000. Printers, both large and small, should be planning how to best tap into that treasure trove. The big impediments are competing with social media and developing the sophisticated campaign materials t...

Deborah Corn interviews Andy & Julie Plata on educating the future print workforce. The Platas share the University of Houston Digital Media Program’s transformation of graphic arts education for the digital age. Digital-native millennials learn to initiate, produce, and manage a broad mix of media disciplines - including print and packaging – with...

Xerox strongly encouraged HP’s shareholders to urge HP’s Board of Directors to pursue mutual due diligence in considering the buyout offer. We provide you Xerox’s 33-page PowerPoint detailing the $2,000,000,000 in anticipated post-merger savings. Also, five shareholders own over 20% of both…

University of Houston’s Digital Media students develop transmedia skills across eleven digital media disciplines. XMPie’s software donation empowers students to integrate print with video and social media. The result is sophisticated, data-driven, personalized, multi-channel business communications. 

November 26 Update: This began as an HP/Xerox Dance, became an aggressive tango, and now almost fisticuffs. In its November 25 letter to Xerox, HP stated that “…we are not dependent on a Xerox combination” and “We will not let aggressive tactics or hostile gestures distract us…” Where will it all end? Read the full text of Xerox’s Nov. 26 letter.