In Memoriam: Katherine O'Brien
With great sorrow, we share the passing of our friend and former colleague, Katherine O’Brien. Katherine served for 18 years as American Printer’s editor-in-chief, North America’s oldest publication, founded in 1883. Her reputation as the print industry’s “investigative reporter” resulted from insightful questions and to-the-point follow-up queries.

Granpak Gains More Production with Less Material
Granpak’s HiFlow installation analyzes processes before and after production. When a job quote becomes a job, a HiFlow Workflow Diagram is created for planning and scheduling all job parameters for optimized production scheduling. Downtime, errors, material loss, and personnel performance are improved.

Sustainability in Action with Kodak Process Free Plates
Kodak has been actively driving technology to enable commercial and packaging printers to produce in a greener way and leave a smaller carbon footprint. The fact that sustainability issues and efficient resource usage are given even greater emphasis when developing new technologies is unquestionably good news. 

BluePrint AG Installs First Landa S10P Press 
Utilizing the Landa S10P’s 7-colors and ultra-wide color gamut, BluePrint AG will be able to service even the most complex customer requests for ultra-realistic photographic images with high levels of personalization. The S10P will allow the company to increase productivity and reduce time to market.

Finding the Perfect Fonts
Finding the perfect fonts for a client project can be challenging.
1. However, the tools Jim McCauley highlights in his article 5 of the Finest Type Pairing Tools can help.
    
2. If your fonts need to be formatted for production printers, COPI’s font team provides that expertise.

Developing the Business - Do You Know Your Customers
“Commercial printing company owners, as a general rule, seem to know the cost of almost everything in production, but  not necessarily the values of what it takes to develop new business.“ What does your Sales Literature say about your most impressive, latest capabilities and Customers’ Benefits?

Danger – Do Not Enter You Might Learn Something!
Many companies have an imaginary Do Not Enter Sign on the door to their Wide-Format production areas. Why is that? How can we learn from one another if the door is closed? Owners and Managers: Being triumphant is when the entire organization works as a TEAM and not as separate departments. 

Fujifilm's New Blueprint for Wide Format
"We made a strategic decision to rethink our Acuity wide-format offering, focusing on new ways to deliver improved value, versatility, and ease-of-use and, in particular, on defining a new benchmark for print ROI. We set out to do what we had first done back in 1999: to create a new blueprint for wide format."

Konica's AccurioJet KM-1e Press Wins BLI Award
Konica Minolta has received the BLI 2021-2022 PaceSetter award. “This recognition from Keypoint Intelligence affirms our leadership position in the North American marketplace with our LED UV inkjet technology and finishing solutions, and we are proud to receive this honor,” said Bill Troxil, SvP, Konica.

Mikki Webb
Mikki Webb has been promoted to Senior Vice President of North American Sales and Customer Experience.  

Andrew Schofield
Andrew Schofield has joined PrintLink as Senior Recruitment Consultant and Business Development Manager in Canada.

Ken Brown
Ken Brown has joined FUJIFILM North America Corporation as a Global Category Specialist, Labels and Packaging.

94-Year-old Gets Medal of Honor 70 Years After Heroism
Seventy years ago, on a frozen hilltop deep in what is now North Korea, a young First Lieutenant acted with bravery that earned him the Distinguished Service Cross, the military’s second-highest honor. Ralph Puckett, Jr. was hosted at the White House, where he received the Medal of Honor. Ralph’s first response was to ask, “Why all the fuss? Can’t they just mail it to me?”