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PrintUV 2009 Shines a Light in Las Vegas

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Monday, March 8 — It may be the just the trade-event formula that many in the industry have been clamoring for. A small but hand-picked audience. A low-cost exhibiting opportunity for the sponsors. A niche-specific program on a hot technological topic. Networking moments galore. And, a great location to make ...

Southbound Again

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Sure, The Beatles could fly non-stop from Miami Beach to the U.S.S.R., but to get to Albany I have to transfer in Atlanta. Harrumph! At any rate, next week is the 34th annual Graphics of the Americas show, which I had previewed for WhatTheyThink last week. The print buyer’s boot ...

In Boston, The Green Media Show Marks the Connection Between Sustainability and Success

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 ...

Let WhatTheyThink know what’s in your Graph Expo “wish list”

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 ...

1996 Is Calling, and So Is Seybold San Francisco

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 ...

Print Buyers Straight-Shoot Print Providers at WOA’s “Offset and Beyond 2008”

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Printers sometimes are advised that it’s not necessary—and may even be counterproductive—to post equipment lists at their Web sites. Print buyers really aren’t impressed, this curious argument goes, by a roll call of iron that doesn’t tell them anything about the creative “solutions” that the printer is prepared to provide. Anyone ...

O Say, Can UV? At Print UV 2008 in Las Vegas, You Can Learn How

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

UV (ultraviolet) printing has been available in the offset market since the 1960s, and these days, the process is demonstrating its merits for digital output as well. UV’s upsurge in popularity in recent years has produced a corresponding increase in trade media coverage, educational material from UV technology providers, and ...