It was indeed a pleasure meeting and chatting with many of you recently at Graph Expo in Chicago. From the comments I heard, the 2011 version of the printing industry’s annual showcase for the Americas was quite busy and very successful.
Speaking of events, there are still tickets available for our Printing Survivor 2011 one-day event, October 13 in Toronto. I don’t need to tell you that it’s a different and challenging landscape out there as printers are moving into new areas such as social media, marketing, digital, wide-format and more. To help you navigate it, we’ve enlisted some of the industry’s most successful entrepreneurs as keynote speakers. They include:
• John Foley Jr., CEO of interlinkONE and Grow Socially (and author of Business Transformation: A New Path to Profit for the Printing Industry)
• Jay Mandarino, president and founder of C. J. Graphics Inc., whose company has won more awards than any other printer in North America
• Arjun Basu, content director of Spafax, one of the world’s leading providers of custom marketing solutions
• Peter Muir, president of Bizucate, a widely recognized company that helps printers with graphic communications workflows, process design, implementation and management.
A special thanks to sponsors Konica Minolta, Sina Printing, SNZ Trading, Green Dot Litho and Harrison Mailing Limited. Check out our features on John and Peter in advance of their Toronto appearances on pages 42 and 54. And call 1-877-513-3999 for more information on Survivor 2011. Tickets are $100 each and are still available on a first-come-first-served basis.
You also shouldn’t miss the Graphics Canada Show November 10 – 12 at the Toronto International Centre. Please see our preview on page 17 and visit www.graphicscanada.com for more information. One of the new events at this year’s show will be the 2011 Postal Forum presented by the National Association of Major Mail Users. This two-day event covers a variety of topics including Canada Post’s Partner Program, how to improve accuracy, creative ways to incent mail, the role of mail in multimedia campaigns, and more.
Congratulations to Montreal’s Pazazz Printing for its recent award (in the books category) in Xerox’s Best-of-the-Best Program and to The Printing House for the 2011 launch of its ongoing Charitable Greeting Card Campaign, with 100 percent of proceeds going to five charities to help hungry children across Canada. Congratulations also to Isabelle Marcoux who was recently named chair of Transcontinental, to the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership who last month celebrated its third anniversary, and to St. Joseph Communications who recently signed an agreement with Canadian Geographic Magazine to oversee production and marketing. We wish them all continued success.
Until next month, as always – stay positive and stay focused.