Monthly Archives: June 2012

Shocker! NYS Legislature Actually Prints Things!

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Toshiba may have dropped its plans for a national no-print day, but some New York State lawmakers remain on the warpath against paper.

A recent editorial at SILive.com, the online home of the Staten Island Advance, summarizes and applauds these initiatives, endorsing their call to replace printed bills and other hard-copy legislative materials with electronic delivery. At the federal level, the proposed Stop the OverPrinting (STOP) Act of 2011 would require the Public Printer to make bills and resolutions available for the use of offices of members of congress only in an electronic format accessible through the Internet. (This bill was passed by the House of Representatives and is awaiting action by the Senate.)

“Despite the availability and widespread use of this modern technology,” declares the editorial, “the rules insist that all bills being processed in the state Senate and state Assembly must be printed on paper and delivered to their offices, where they often sit for days, unread. (Truth be told, many legislators don’t even read many of these bill thoroughly.)”

But what, we ask, makes it right to blame the printed matter for the lawmakers’ failure to read it? What evidence is there that turning a printed document into an e-mail message or a PDF raises its likelihood of being perused while it’s still timely? Let him who is without backdated clutter in his e-mailbox cast the first stone at print, in legislative chambers or elsewhere.

Something else in the editorial struck us as a bit naïve, especially coming from the online portal of a newspaper: the writer’s tone of apparent incredulity in reporting that “the Legislature actually has its own printing shop within the Capitol building to print and disseminate all this paperwork.”

“Actually”? The writer might want to take a look at compilations by In-plant Graphics of the nation’s largest in-plant printing operations. State-operated printing plants (although not New York’s) are among the leaders in staffing and sales volume.

“Whole forests are destroyed to comply with this quaint and, in this day and age, entirely unnecessary tradition,” the editorial goes on to say in language that Toshiba surely would have found quotable.

There’s probably no realm of government, business, or private life where consuming somewhat less print wouldn’t be a good idea. But attempts to enact outright bans on print are nowhere close to being realistic—even if the online version of a printed newspaper, apparently forgetting the siege its primary medium is under, believes otherwise.

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DG3 Digital Marketing Introduces Mobile Engagement Package

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The Digital Marketing Group of Diversified Global Graphics Group (DG3) (Jersey City, NJ) has introduced QReach, a mobile engagement package that it says will enable companies to experience the benefits of mobile engagement with QR technology easily and cost-effectively.

The QReach offering is designed to mobilize print communications with QR codes and hosted content at an attractive price. DG3 Digital Marketing is targeting the package at companies that have an interest in, but limited experience with, QR code technology.

The QReach bundle includes branded QR code creation; mobile content deployment; testing across all mobile devices; one full year of content hosting; and data-rich web reporting to track campaign performance. With DG3 as a single-source provider, a company can power its printed materials with mobile engagement under one roof. Key benefits of the bundle are said to include:

• scan rates increased by up to 30% with branded QR codes

• privacy and security ensured in the DG3 private cloud

• improved engagement using mobile optimized content

• same workflow as submitting a print document

• low-cost option that makes materials interactive

Complete details are available at DG3’s digital marketing website. DG3 also offers customized QR and mobile engagement solutions to fit any company’s communications objectives.

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Steve Forbes Accepts 26th Prism Award from NYU-SCPS at Record-Setting Event

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Steve Forbes (right), chairman and editor-in-chief, Forbes Media LLC, accepts the Prism Award from Mike Federle, COO, Forbes Media LLC.

The graphic communications industry continues to struggle with declining sales, squeezed profit margins, restricted access to capital, and business pressures of every imaginable kind. But, none of that has dampened the enthusiasm of those who support the Prism Awards, a high-profile achievement recognition program that rings with optimism every year under the auspices of New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS).

On June 21, the event marked its 26th anniversary with a record turnout and another record for revenue generated on behalf of the M.A. program in Graphic Communications Management and Technology at SCPS. A large part of the draw was the presence of this year’s Prism Award recipient: Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief, Forbes Media LLC. The ceremony, which took place at Gotham Hall near Herald Square, also featured the presentation of an Alumni Achievement Award to Michael J. Mulligan and a Student Achievement Award to Eunic M. Ortiz.

The Prism Award has been given annually since 1986 in recognition of distinguished leadership in the graphic communications media industry. The Prism Award luncheon is the industry’s longest-running and most successful educational fundraising event, having collected millions of dollars for graphics studies since its inception.

This year’s ceremony was emceed by M.A. program advisory board co-chairs Martin J. Maloney (Broadford & Maloney) and Kathy B. Presto (Williams Lea North America). Prism Award committee chairs were Francis A. McMahon (Océ North America) and Laura C. Reid (Hearst Magazines).

All proceeds from the $750-per-seat event fund scholarships for students enrolled in the M.A. program in Graphic Communications Management and Technology, which has been in existence since 1981. Every year since then, many high-ranking industry executives have served on the M.A. program’s advisory board as curriculum consultants and as providers of internships and career guidance. The program, managed by academic director Bonnie Blake and assistant director Ansley Dunn, also enlists industry professionals as adjunct lecturers.

Enrolled in the cross-disciplinary program are working professionals as well as full-time students, including a significant number of international participants. Topics of study include executive leadership, entrepreneurial thinking, finance, global marketing, managing the media mix, and graphic communication technologies.

Michael J. Mulligan (left), recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award, with Martin J. Maloney, co-chair of the advisory board for the NYU-SCPS M.A. program in Graphic Communications Management and Technology.

Mulligan, the Alumni Achievement Award recipient, credited the program with helping him to reimagine the mission of Advanced Business Group Inc. (ABG), a New York City digital printing company he founded in 1992. Billing itself as the city’s leading digital print provider for business, ABG offers a full range of quick-turnaround production solutions and marketing support services. Mulligan said that attaining an M.A. in the program led him to rethink his role as the CEO of the company that he started and continues to transform.

Accepting the Student Achievement Award, Ortiz described herself as “the epitome of the digital consumer.” Professionally, she is a senior account executive at Fleishman-Hillard, where she develops online, digital, video, and social media campaigns for clients in corporate, government, and technology- related industries. She also has served as a Web, digital, and social media manager for the New York City Council.

Maloney congratulates Eunic M. Ortiz on her receipt of the Student Achievement Award.

Ortiz said that what she wanted in graduate studies “was a program where I could not only learn another level of leadership and management skills, but a program that would be up to date on the work I was involved in daily. I needed a program that could keep up with me.”

“The experience I’ve had while in the Graphic Communications Management and Technology program has exceeded my every expectation,” she declared.

Among the media properties managed by Steve Forbes are the namesake bi-weekly magazine, with a circulation of more than 900,000; the RealClear group of Web sites, including RealClearPolitics.com, which together with Forbes.com are said to reach 33 million readers every month; and 21 local-language licensee editions of Forbes publications for readers around the world.

The Prism Award recipient also has written or co-authored four books and was, in 1996 and 2000, a campaigner for the Republican presidential nomination.

Forbes told the Prism Award audience that while there are few “playbooks” to guide people in their career and life choices, a good education can help everyone to cope with the inevitable uncertainties ahead.

“The true source of wealth in an economy is people’s minds,” Forbes said, adding that the ingenuity of educated people is what gives value to oil, microchips, and other commodities prized by business and society.

He advised the students in the audience to accept the fact that at some point, “a crisis will hit you” during the pursuit of entrepreneurial ambitions. When it hits, he told them, the question to ask is, “What is the purpose of communications? What are you trying to achieve?” With the help of a big-picture focus, Forbes said, “you’ll have a little more serenity—just a little more—in terms of going forward.”

Still an advocate of the political and social changes he called for during his quests for the Republican presidential nomination, Forbes briefly addressed the subject of health care and its future after the Supreme Court’s pending decision on the national health care plan put forth by the Obama administration. According to Forbes, the controversy surrounding the health care debate misses the point.

“Why is the demand for health care seen as a crisis, and not as an enormous opportunity for entrepreneurs?” he asked. “How in the world do we get the patients in charge again, like the consumer is in charge of everything else?” Permitting the purchase of health insurance coverage across state lines would be one way of spurring entrepreneurial competition and “turning scarcity into abundance” in the health care marketplace, Forbes said.

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GCSF Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary with Scholarship Grants to 27 Students

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First-time and multiple recipients of GCSF scholarships on stage with GCSF trustees in the Joseph Urban Theatre, Hearst Tower, New York City.

“We saw that there needed to be a future workforce for the graphic communications industry, and we saw that we needed to do something about it.”

With that simple but far-reaching plan in mind, Bill Dirzulaitis and the other founding members of the Graphic Communications Scholarship, Award and Career Advancement Foundation (GCSF) set out to finance their vision of a self-sustaining scholarship fund for the industry’s next generation of creative talent. On June 20, GSCF marked the tenth anniversary of the realization of that goal by presenting $40,000 in grants to 27 students commencing or continuing college-level studies in graphic communications.

The presentation ceremony at the Hearst Tower in Manhattan also featured the bestowal of a GCSF Service Award to Dirzulaitis as well as the recognition of Matthew McDowell (Pantone Inc.) as this year’s recipient of GCSF’s Champion of Education Award.

The student scholarship winners either attend or are entering colleges and universities with degree programs in graphic communications. Their areas of study include advertising, design, interactive media, printing, publishing, journalism, digital asset management, and photography.

Conceived by a small group of metro area industry members who wanted to coordinate fundraising for graphics education, GCSF is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit group that channels 100% of the money it raises to scholarships. To date, the group has awarded $313,000 in 94 grants endowed by a long list of graphics industry donors. Most of the 2012 recipients are in their second, third, fourth, or fifth years of qualifying for the stipends.

GCSF has no professional staff and relies entirely on the voluntary efforts of its officers and trustees. Its scholarship selection committee picks recipients by examining their SAT scores, grade-point averages, portfolios, letters of recommendation, and application essays.

GCSF also provides advisement, mentoring, internships and work-study opportunities for students enrolled in graphic studies degree programs at Pratt Institute, New York University, Rhode Island School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, and Carnegie Mellon University, among other institutions. (See video.)

As Pantone’s national sales manager, McDowell has spearheaded that company’s steadfast support for GCSF since its earliest days. In his acceptance remarks, he told the student recipients that in order to stand out among the 720,000 graphic designers now at work in North America, they would have to work hard at building their portfolios, their reputations, and their brands.

“Become lifelong learners,” he said, “and be sure to be proud of your work.” McDowell also urged the recipients to “network, network, network” at the many industry meetings and events where participation by students is welcome.

David Luke (left), president of GCSF, congratulates Matthew McDowell (Pantone Inc.) on his receipt of the foundation’s Champion of Education Award.

“Bill made it happen,” said Mark Darlow, a GCSF founder and trustee, of Dirzulaitis’s leadership in getting the foundation off the ground. Accepting his service award, Dirzulaitis—a president of the New York metro area’s principal trade association for 15 years—said that one of the drivers was the realization that while the industry was changing rapidly, its traditional workforce was aging at the same pace.

Meeting in borrowed space and keeping handwritten records on tablets (the paper kind), the founders raised and distributed $5,000 worth of grants in the first year. They also consolidated a number of existing scholarship funds that were not being actively managed. Since then, said Dirzulaitis, who served as the foundation’s first treasurer, GCSF has raised more than a half a million dollars to underwrite industry education.

Bill Dirzulaitis (left), founding treasurer of GCSF, accepts a Service Award from GCSF trustee Mark Darlow.

GCSF’s present slate of officers includes David Luke (president), Steve Kennedy (vice president), Ellen F. Hurwitch (second vice president), Jerry Mandelbaum (treasurer), Nick Patrissi (secretary), and Richard Krasner (immediate past president). The foundation (www.gcscholarships.org) may be followed on Twitter as @GCSF1.

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Much Changed, On Demand Conference & Expo Returns to NYC

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Those who remember the On Demand shows in their heyday as digital print equipment expos would have had some difficulty recognizing the event bearing that title at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center last week. Although the name remains, not much else of On Demand’s original look, feel, and purpose is still there. The event has moved in a different direction, and hard-copy output doesn’t appear to have made the move with it.

Questex Media Group, the producer of On Demand, says that the conference now is dedicated to ‘the technologies that monetize, optimize, and control content.” Co-located with On Demand at Javits was another Questex property, info360, a seminar program for IT professionals. Questex says that together, On Demand and info360 constitute “the largest enterprise IT event in North America.” Each conference was supported by exhibits, with info360 accounting for about twice as many of the 120-plus booths as On Demand.

On Demand’s profile has changed in other ways as well. It no longer shares venues with the AIIM conference, its previous expo companion, which now has a separate event of its own. Its days as a traveling show, likewise, seem to be behind it. On Demand also has been produced in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., but a spokesperson for Questex said that New York City, with its heavy concentration of IT professionals, probably will be its permanent home from now on. But this does not necessarily mean another engagement at Javits. When On Demand returns next year, said the spokesperson, its conference setting probably will be a hotel.

Last week (June 13-14), the program was organized around four tracks: content creation, content delivery, marketing technology, and social and mobile business. On the expo floor, in a sliver of the space that On Demand once occupied at Javits, the stands and the pipe-and-drapes variously belonged to four “technology pavilions”: mailing and fulfillment, cross media, digital workflow, and what Questex calls “SoMoLo.” This denotes, according to Questex, social, mobile, and local platforms for content creation and distribution. (A special program focused on this niche, dubbed SoMoLo@NY, was co-located with the info360 conference.)

Given the sharp shift in emphasis, it wasn’t surprising that the show floor bore little resemblance to the equipment-heavy displays of earlier editions of On Demand. HP and Kodak had booths, but anyone looking for Indigo or NexPress presses in them searched in vain—both companies used their space to promote scanners and document management solutions, not digital production printing. Makers of conventional printing equipment were not represented at all, having long ago failed to gain traction in the market segment for which On Demand was first conceived.

Nevertheless, there were a few familiar elements from earlier, more production-centric On Demand shows, and even a few pieces of production equipment. These were courtesy of Atlantic, a provider of imaging, printing, and office support services, which had a Konica Minolta bizhub C8000 press, a Ricoh Pro C651EX press, and a wide-format inkjet printer in operation on the floor. Spiel Associates, Graphic Whizard, Duplo USA, and Spiral Binding James Burn USA, all stalwart exhibitors at metro area trade shows, added their presence and their offerings of production equipment.

Two printing trade associations also did what they could to preserve some of the flavor of the original On Demand. Printing Industries Alliance (PIA), representing graphics businesses in New York, northern New Jersey, and northwestern Pennsylvania, was on hand to promote its upcoming Franklin Event and other activities for firms in the region. Printing & Graphics Association MidAtlantic (PGAMA) used the opportunity to talk about its Addy Award-winning PrintGrowsTrees campaign.

The On Demand conference program, which consisted of about 30 sessions, stuck mostly to content creation and distribution in digital form. A few of the presentations addressed hard-copy production: for example, “Hybrid Workflows: Making Digital and Offset Work Together.” A session titled, “From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Merging Cross Media Marketing and Print,” also acknowledged print’s place in the media mix.

Featuring 70 sessions organized into eight tracks, the info360 program covered a range of IT-oriented subjects including information sharing, social media, workgroup collaboration, and online content strategy. The companion program, SoMoLo@NY, focused on leveraging its trio of media for outreach to consumers.

We wish Questex and its partners success in their efforts to reposition On Demand for a new audience in a redrawn media landscape. But, its change in character also is a bit disheartening for those who can recall the days when the metro area’s print and graphic communications industry was capable of supporting production-focused trade shows of its own.

Graph Tech, Graph Expo East, Graphic Communications Day, and other local events have come and gone as venues where the big iron and the big grey boxes could hold sway. But now that On Demand has evolved beyond providing that opportunity, it’s hard to see how a show dedicated to production technology could ever be put on in the region again. The expense and the logistical difficulty probably have stopped the presses permanently as exhibition assets for the tristate area.

For another perspective on what has happened to On Demand, see this commentary.

 

 

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At drupa, DWS Printing Opts for High-Performance Speedmaster XL 106 Press from Heidelberg

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At drupa 2012, executives of DWS Printing Associates and Heidelberg (HUS, HDM) announced the purchase of a high-performance Speedmaster XL 106 press by DWS. From left: Clarence Penge, v.p., sheetfed product management, HUS; Tom Cummings, account manager, HUS; Marcel Kiessling, management board, HDM; Tom Staib, president, DWS; John Gulino, director of quality assurance, DWS; Stephan Plenz, management board, HDM; and John Rocker, senior v.p., sales, HUS.

DWS Printing Associates, Deer Park, NY, made the most of its recent trip to drupa 2012 by purchasing a new Peak Performance Speedmaster XL 106-8+L sheetfed offset press from Heidelberg. The manufacturer says that when it is installed, the eight-unit, coater-equipped press will be the first of its type in the U.S. with the combination of inline sheeting, hybrid UV capability, and advanced color control technology that DWS has specified.

A Heidelberg press release quotes Tom Staib, president of DWS, as stating, “We needed to expand our current production capabilities and efficiency and wanted state-the-art technology that would enable us to handle an wider variety of printing substrates and give us a competitive edge. We did not want to catch up with our competitors. We want to be a technology leader.”

DWS designs and prints many different kinds of labels for branded food, beverage, and household products. It also has a niche in specialty labels for the craft beer market. The company, which traces its origins to a New York printing house started in 1865, is in its third generation of ownership by the Staib family.

Heidelberg, which launched the Speedmaster XL 106 at drupa, calls the press the new flagship of its XL Peak Performance segment. The 41″ press, which can perfect at 18,000 sheets per hour, is said by Heidelberg to be 30% more productive than the previous leader in the XL press series.

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Sandy Alexander To Become Beta Test Site for HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press

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Sandy Alexander, a leading direct mail and commercial print provider, has announced today that it will become a beta site for the HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press. The system will be operational this fall at Sandy Alexander’s carbon- neutral digital printing facility in Clifton, NJ—powered, the company says, with 100% wind energy.

“When HP approached us to be one of the select beta sites in the U.S. it was an easy decision,” said Mike Graff. CEO and president of Sandy Alexander. “The HP Indigo 10000 allows us to transform our offerings, created by the unique combination of format size and image quality. It doubles our digital printing output, providing the capacity to support new programs awarded by Fortune 500 clients in the automotive, pharmaceutical, financial and travel industries.”

The HP Indigo 10000 is the first B2-format (29.5″ x 20.9″) sheetfed press in the HP Indigo line. The B2 sheet size, said Graff, “offers our clients both increased creativity and efficiency, providing them with a competitive advantage in the marketplace while also increasing their marketing ROI.”

According to the company, the beta testing  is part of a strategy to expand Sandy Alexander’s solution set for one-to-one marketers. The plan calls for the HP Indigo 10000 to be complemented by an HP Indigo W7200 digital web press and another HP Indigo 10000. The company will apply what it calls its industry-leading cross-platform color management solutions to these systems.

Concurrently, the company will also expand its service offerings in content management, enabling its clients to more easily implement and manage personalized communications with highly targeted messaging.

“We know that as a proven leader, Sandy Alexander will put the high print quality, productivity, and versatility of our new generation, 29” Indigo 10000 digital press to the test in its demanding, high-end production environment,” said Jan Riecher, vice president and general manager, Graphics Solutions Business – Americas, HP.

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Dwight E. Vicks, III to Receive John Peter Zenger Medal at Franklin Event

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Dwight W. Vicks, III, President of Vicks Lithograph & Printing (Yorkville, NY) has been named by the Printing Industries Alliance’s Franklin Committee as recipient of the John Peter Zenger Medal at its 60th Franklin Event celebration on September 19, 2012 at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers (5:30-10:00 pm).

The Zenger Medal, by an open-industry nomination process, is awarded to an individual employed in the graphic communications industry within New York, northern New Jersey and northwestern Pennsylvania who has exemplified outside of his or her professional role exemplary character in the form of selfless courage, charity, activism or service.

Mr. Vicks was nominated for his work in supporting thyroid cancer research including the establishment of the International Thyroid Oncology Group (ITOG). which Dwight serves as Treasurer and Secretary. His wife, Jean, was diagnosed with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in 1999, when very little was known about this rare form of cancer and afflicted individuals were faced with few options.

His personal investigation of the disease uncovered little information about it, and the doctors and medical facilities that were trying to develop treatment protocols were scarce and geographically dispersed. Dwight then decided to cut back on his industry and community involvement and devote all his time, energy and resources to thyroid cancer.  In 2005, he resigned his position as Treasurer of Printing Industries of America, even though there was an excellent probability that he would have been elevated at some point to its Chairmanship.

Through contact with the physicians and institutions, he was able to bring this small medical community together in regular informal meetings to discuss treatment options and clinical trials. In 2007, Dwight was the driving force behind the establishment of ITOG, a non-profit organization comprised of endocrinologists, oncologists, thyroid surgeons and radiation specialists from North America, Europe and Australia. As of this date, the ITOG membership consists of over 50 of the world’s leading physicians and research scientists who focus on the treatment of thyroid cancer that has metastasized outside the thyroid gland.

In 2011, Dwight was named by Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, one of the top cancer facilities in America, as a member of “The One Hundred” for his unflagging optimism.  He has quietly and singlehandedly raised over $500,000 in the race for an MTC cure and subsequently started a broader fundraising effort called “Team Jean” which is already halfway to its goal of raising an additional $500,000 in 2012 and anticipates a similar target in 2013.

For more information on how to contribute to “Team Jean” or to register for the Franklin Event, contact either PIA President Tim Freeman (tfreeman@PIAlliance.org, (716-691-3211) or Vice President Vicki Keenan (vkeenan@PIAlliance.org, (908-233-4124).

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Announcing Metro Graphics Reporter

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Why Metro Graphics Reporter?

The simplest answer: the desire to fill a void. For too long, the print and graphic communications industry in the tristate area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut has been without a news medium exclusively its own—a resource focused on what’s happening to the industry in this region, and on who’s making it happen.

Without this kind of dedicated coverage, it’s easy to lose the local feel—the special essence of the places where metro area graphics professionals develop the creative, plan the campaigns, feed the media channels, and get the jobs done. This blog will be your guide to the news from the streets, suites, and the production sites of what is still one of the most vibrant, progressive and, well, interesting graphic communications markets anywhere in the country.

Everything that contributes to sustaining that interest will be welcomed editorially at Metro Graphics Reporter. We’re independent, inquisitive, and eager to tell the tristate story as it has always deserved to be told.

The most important editorial resource for Metro Graphics Reporter is you. Keep us posted. We promise to return the favor.

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Pace U. Publishing Program Hosts Educational Event for Biggest Publishing Media Business in China

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Delegates from the Phoenix Publishing & Media Group at the opening session of an educational exchange program hosted by Pace University in New York City. Seated center: Patrick Henry. Seated second from right: Prof. Andrea Baron, Pace, program coordinator. Seated right: Prof. Xiao Chuan Lian, Pace, translator.

On May 29, the MS in Publishing Program at Pace University convened a three-week seminar on printing technology for 16 representatives of the Phoenix Publishing & Media Group (PPMG) of Nanjing, the largest business of its kind in China. Through June 15, at the program’s academic center in midtown Manhattan, the senior managers will attend a series of educational sessions led by U.S. print and publishing executives. They also will visit print production sites and other places of interest in the NY-NJ metro area.

The visit is being coordinated by Andrea Baron, an adjunct professor in the publishing program, who describes the purpose and the agenda here. Pace has been cooperating with PPMG since 2006 in a variety of educational initiatives, all of them aimed at fostering better cooperation between the U.S. and Chinese print and publishing sectors.

With invaluable help in translation from Professor Xiao Chuan Lian, a senior staff associate of the publishing program, I led the opening session with a report on the present state of the U.S. printing industry. We covered industry demographics, game-changing technological trends, and revenue opportunities for printers both inside and outside the press department.

The visitors are a formidable audience. They all hold high-level positions in production and publishing in various divisions of PPMG, a group that employs 12,000 people, owns more than 1,700 bookstores, and claims annual sales in excess of 12 billion RMB (about $1.9 billion). They were attentive, inquisitive, and particularly eager to learn about developments in digital print manufacturing.

A number of them had been to drupa where, it was clear, they’d been mightily impressed (if not also a little baffled) by the new line of nanographic printing presses from Landa Corp. Web-to-print was another high-priority topic, with a few of the visitors mentioning the tentative first steps they were taking toward e-commerce. Concern was expressed about the re-shoring of book production from China to digitally equipped plants in the U.S. Apparently, some volume loss of that kind is being experienced by PPMG.

By the end of the seminar, the visitors will have heard from representatives of Quad Graphics, Idealliance, Baker & Taylor, Hearst, Time Inc., Group FMG, Brown Printing, Red Tie Ltd., MediaNeutral LLC, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), Publishers Press, Toppan Printing, XMpie, HP, Fry Communications, SAPPI, Random House, Periodicals & Book Association of America (PBAA), and Brown Printing. The site visit itinerary includes Hearst, Time Inc., Book Expo America, SCI Strategic Content Imaging, and Bloomberg Financial.

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