Partner Sessions

Baker and Harrington, who have extensive backgrounds in both the digital print and converting industries, will explain how to finish and convert your printed materials to maximize profits while minimizing downtime. They will also cover techniques for enhancing the digital web, adding value to your printed product with your current capabilities and an insight into options available to expand for more value added processes. AB Graphic has been at the forefront of digital converting and will reveal various applications that can create the perfect finish and will explore and share insight to an efficient productive environment in a digital facility.

AB Graphic will have an Omega Digicon Series 2 and the newly released Digicon-Lite onsite so attendees can see the potential of applications they can apply to digitally printed web and compare real-life scenarios on the floor. The AB Graphic team will be also be around for one-on-one discussions about digital converting and how to enhance your capabilities in the digital converting world.

Join GPA and our Partners as we demonstrate how specialty substrates and digital printing can differentiate your brand, image or product in a noisy marketplace. Our cutting-edge substrates and new application campaigns will deliver greater relevance to your marketing message.

Learn why MindFireInc is an essential element for your success in 2010! Manos will demystify cross-media marketing and review their recently published study of 670 successful campaigns: The Response Rates of Personalized Cross Media Marketing Campaigns. Learn about MarketFire’s advanced cross-media marketing functionality for all of your customers. Hear how their Business Development Tools are designed to help you drive new revenue opportunities in 2010, and about the FastLaunch Program, the foundation for growth and success of all MindFireInc customers. This session is guaranteed to arm you with tools to grow your business in 2010 with increased profits and prints!

Discover NewPage products for various applications, such as direct mail, photo book, labels, and more.

Learn about the importance of data in driving growth in direct mail ROI. Utilizing easy-to-use technology and the highest quality data to automate and improve efficiencies, printers can expand their customer relationships by helping customers find new customers more easily and profitably using direct mail.

Learn why it is important to know where your paper and paper fiber is sourced. Understand how your paper purchases can affect your brand in the marketplace positively or negatively. Participate in discussions about FSC-certified, recycled paper and ENGO influence.

Delta Industrial designs and manufactures custom web converting equipment. One of their base machines, the Spectrum, was designed to operate as a machine for finishing labels. The basic functions of the Spectrum machine are to apply an overcoat or varnish to the web, die-cut the labels using flexible die technology, strip and rewind the matrix, and slit the labels into lanes and rewind. Delta Industrial has many options that can be included on the equipment that range from a sheeter with a shingling conveyor to a laser die-cutting module. A benefit of the Delta machine is the flexibility to be rearranged into a machine that can convert many other types of parts besides labels with little to no cost added. They can make adapters to fit your large inventory of rotary tooling into one of their rotary modules and do a registered die-cut to the web with them.

Look at how you make the most of your digital press and how you keep the best balance between digital and conventional printing, including business automation to cope with increased number of short run jobs; how to move jobs between conventional and digital presses; and how to get maximum production on your digital press.

Great transpromo documents require the rapid collaboration of the best marketing, legal and design resources in an environment where they can create a document application unhindered by IT department schedules and processes. This session clearly defines the task divisions that print providers and their customers or internal clients need to bring highly effective documents to market. Draeger shares successful case studies and demonstrates how the process works in theory and in reality. Streamlined, collaborative high-volume document production is happening today in a progressive segment of the industry, with businesses empowered to take marketing messages from concept to live print production as few as four hours. This session discusses the framework, competencies and technological solutions needed to successfully leverage data-driven communications in a transpromo world.

Today it is critical to identify new revenue sources. Don’t miss your chance to hear first hand, see examples and learn how your peers have successfully introduced or expanded mailing services to grow sales and increase profitability, while expanding current customer relationships as well as acquiring new customers. If your operation manages these following tasks: customer’s file receipt, pre-press, print production and bindery and boxed or pallet for shipment…then taking advantage of mailing services is within your reach.

Discover new uses of flexible magnetic products in the marketplace today along with how to process the magnetic material on the HP Indigo press and the downstream processes that are needed to achieve a finished product.

Learn about the newest capabilities in coupons, mail creation, postcard production, photobook blocks, greeting cards and print-specific products.

CGS Publishing Technologies International discusses the key to unifying color management across digital press technology, including the limitations of many digital printers in respect to effectively transitioning their print production from a conventional world to the digital one. Discover how CGS color management tools can be used to achieve this goal. Hear the success stories of how our customers have rolled out enterprise color management with centralized color verification tools. Learn about the benefits this lends to supply chain consistency, whether in an individual print operation or across multiple locations with no geographic boundaries.

The print industry is moving ahead at a rapid pace. Printers are increasingly being asked to provide a wider range of services to their customers. Web-to-print can help printers deliver those services, but can you really make money with it? In this interactive session, learn the specific benefits you can realize by implementing a Web-to-print solution; critical points to consider when deciding what type of Web-to-print solution is right for your business – SaaS, build your own, or licensing a solution; the business goals do you need to define before purchasing a Web-to- print solutions; what new business opportunities can a web-to-print solution bring to your business; and how Web-to-print can help streamline and automate your processes. Also hear how one printer was able to dramatically grow both their product offerings and the business using a Web-to-print solution.