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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
TanaSeybert’s Joseph Hoffman and Gil Celli (second and third from left) with some of their student interns from GCA.
Preparing graduating students for jobs is the mission of career and technical education (CTE) programs at the High School of Graphic Communication Arts (GCA), the New York City public school system’s center ...
Posted in Education, Printing Industry News | 6 Comments »
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Those of us not old enough to have seen what the industry was like in the years immediately after World War II can get a fascinating glimpse in Printing, a vocational short subject released in 1947 for the “Your Life Work” series and preserved for posterity at YouTube.
Full of scenes ...
Posted in Education, History | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Part Mr. Science, part Jeremiah, and part super policy wonk, Don Carli has spent the last 10 years spreading the message of sustainability throughout the printing industry in a one-man avalanche of wake-up facts and shake-up statistics. He brought his green-bannered crusade to New York University last night with a ...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility, Education, Environment and Sustainability, Events, Lean Manufacturing, Printing Industry News | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Taking care of business while taking care of the environment: that’s one way to define “sustainability,” the word that seems to be on everybody’s lips these days as a slogan for a wide-ranging mix of earth-friendly social goals and business strategies. Although there’s plenty of disagreement about exactly what sustainability ...
Posted in B-to-B Media, Conferences, Corporate Responsibility, Environment and Sustainability, Print, Trade Shows | Comments Off
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Here's the text of a thread we've started in The Lounge at PrintPlanet. We'd love to get your input there or in responses to this post.
Graph Expo 2008 is coming. What if you could give the exhibitors a “wish list” of the new products and solutions that you would most ...
Posted in Conferences, Innovation, PrintPlanet, Printing Industry, Technology, Trade Shows | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
“...drupa is just an elaborate evasion for vendors who are utterly unable to explain their products satisfactorily or provide useful and relevant demos at home. Drupa also encourages hurried and half-baked decisions by users who are unable to gather their own information from other sources.”
Yikes!
I don’t consider myself an apologist ...
Posted in Events, Printing Industry News, Trade Shows, drupa 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
I don’t know if editors are more prone to pack-rat behavior than other people, but pack-rattitude has to be the reason that this editor still has in his possession an expo CD-ROM from the Seybold Seminars San Francisco Conference in 1996.
It turned up by accident the other day in a ...
Posted in Conferences, Events, History, Printing Industry, Publishing, Trade Shows | 9 Comments »