Training and Education

RESTON, VA—10/08/08—Which industry trends are here to stay? How can graphic communications companies leverage the industry's hot technologies for the greatest business advantage? These are just some of the questions that will be addressed at this year's EXECUTIVE OUTLOOK® Conference, to be held in Chicago's McCormick Place on Saturday, October 25, 2008, the day before the opening of GRAPH EXPO®. GRAPH EXPO is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of graphic communications equipment, products and related services in the Western Hemisphere. GRAPH EXPO will take place October 26 - 29, 2008.

IN A little over a year, I returned overseas to Wuhan University (my wife, Elena, also joined me) to teach Professional Business English for the printing and packaging industry. What a change has occurred in China in that short time!

THIS SUMMER has involved much more travel than I would have liked, but has resulted in some interesting bits and bytes that I thought I’d share with you. After recovering from Drupa, I was off again to Las Vegas for EFI Connect. Frankly, Las Vegas is not one of my favorite destinations, but I suppose if you must go, the Wynn is the place to stay. It is a lovely venue and a great place to hold meetings.  

PITTSBURGH—September 29, 2008—Michael Riordan, Professor and Co-Director Open Publishing Lab (OPL) Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, New York, has been named the sixth recipient of the Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF) Educator of the Year Award. This award recognizes excellence in educational instruction for graphic communication and printing. The award will be presented at the R & E Council of NAPL Critical Trends Breakfast to be held Monday, October 27, 2008 during GRAPH EXPO '08.

KENNESAW, GA—September 29, 2008—Heidelberg today announced the lineup of its Print Media Academy (PMA) educational seminars open to all 2008 Graph Expo attendees. Industry authorities such as NAPL's Andrew Paparozzi and PrintBuyersOnline.com's Suzanne Morgan will join Heidelberg packaging, prepress and sheetfed experts to offer a total of 15 free seminars covering the latest industry trends and business issues. Heidelberg's PMA provides industry training and seminars year-round in key locations across the globe. At Graph Expo, the PMA will temporarily come to Chicago's McCormick Place to serve as a hub of industry thought leadership during the tradeshow, to be held Oct. 26-29.

PITTSBURGH—September 24, 2008—Printing Industries of America and the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF) has re-assigned its Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming territories to PIA Inc. of Arizona (PIAZ) following the disaffiliation earlier this summer of Printing and Imaging Association of the Mountain States (PIAMS).

RESTON, VA—09/23/08—To help attendees make the most of their show experience, GRAPH EXPO® again is offering the free Attendee Assistant online tool for use before and during the show.  Available at http://mygraphexpo.com, the Attendee Assistant provides show goers the ability to plan out, well in advance of the show, their GRAPH EXPO schedule-including booth visits, educational seminar sessions and private meetings-as well as an efficient way to locate industry colleagues with whom to network.

DANBURY, CT—Pitney Bowes held an open house on Tuesday and Wednesday at its Document Messaging Technology Center here that drew more than 300 customers. The fifth annual event was followed by a one-day presentation for about 15 trade journalists. Patrick Brand, president of Document Messaging Technologies at Pitney Bowes, noted that the turnout was about double the historic attendance for an open house. Customers came from across the country for hands-on demonstrations of the next generation of ultra-high-speed mail finishing systems, including the new Mailstream 26. Among the featured speakers was Barbara Pellow, who gave a keynote address on some of the findings

HUDSON, NH—September 8, 2008—Presstek, Inc., the leading manufacturer and marketer of digital offset business solutions, today announced that Dr. Joe Webb, will be speaking on the topic, “Rethinking Your Business to Get Ahead of Industry Trends” at Presstek’s booth 2811 at Graph Expo, the industry’s largest North American trade show. Ten minute presentation sessions by Dr. Webb are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on October 26th through 28th at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL. Dr. Webb will also be available 30 minutes before and after the presentation for questions and discussion. Dr. Joe Webb is one of the graphic arts industry’s best-known consultants,

SEWICKLEY, PA—Arthur Middleton Hughes will present the keynote presentation—Using Database Marketing to Boost Customer Retention and Sales—at the PIA/GATF Converge Conference: Variable Data, Web Services and Cross-Media, to be held September 20-23 in Phoenix. Hughes, author of “The Complete Database Marketer,” has been designing and maintaining marketing databases for Fortune 500 companies and others for…