Articles By Elizabeth Gooding

Elizabeth is the Editor and Co-founder of Inkjet Insight. She has a rare ability to see print related issues from many perspectives. She has managed creative teams on complex design projects, selected outsourcers for major brands and helped print organizations to retool operations, focus their market positioning and educate sales teams to accelerate growth. She works with a team of top analysts to translate experiences into tools, data and content to help print organizations evaluate the potential of inkjet, optimize their operations and grow pages profitably. She is a founding member of the Inkjet Summit advisory board, the co-author of an award-winning book on designing for inkjet and a curious consultant constantly seeking innovative ways to drive new pages onto inkjet presses.

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August 10, 2023

It’s an industrial revolution!

Learn about Innovation in Industrial Inkjet on September 12 at 1 p.m. ET with Mark Bale and Elizabeth Gooding
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August 8, 2023

The “X Factor” and Everything Apps

Tuesday, August 8, 2023 I admit that when I heard that Elon Musk was changing the name of Twitter to X my first thought was that he had truly lost his mind. I dug
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August 8, 2023

Eric Chung on the Canon ProStream 3000

A look at the productivity and efficiency enhancements in the ProStream 3000.
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July 27, 2023

The new trend for transaction printers is sheet-fed inkjet

Sheetfed inkjet presses like the Kyocera TASKalfa 15000c can help transaction printers do more.
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July 12, 2023

June 2023 Inkjet Installation Roundup

The report for this month includes 18 presses at 18 companies and the word of the month is LABELS! One third of the reported installations were roll-fed label presses and some companies made notable additions to existing inkjet fleet.
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June 22, 2023

Debunking definitive crossover claims

There is no magic crossover point between inkjet and offset. Here’s why.
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June 15, 2023

An entry-level press offering more than you expect

The Kyocera TASKalfa Pro 15000c delivers a range of features defying expectations for an entry level inkjet press.
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June 14, 2023

May 2023 Inkjet Installation Roundup

In May we tracked 14 installations at 12 companies. For many, this was not their first inkjet investment but we did see several “first installations of particular presses.
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June 8, 2023

Nahan’s Decade of Inkjet-Driven Evolution

Minnesota-based Nahan shares their 10 year journey from traditional catalog and direct mail printer to digital inkjet marketing powerhouse.
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May 17, 2023

April 2023 Inkjet Installation Roundup

We have 19, quite varied, press installs at 19 companies to talk about for April. Companies investing in inkjet include 9 in the United States, 7 in the European Union and 1 each in Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
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April 11, 2023

March 2023 Inkjet Installation Roundup

We are reporting on 15 installations across 14 companies. A number of these companies have been very active in their inkjet acquisitions in the past year.
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April 6, 2023

What You Don’t Know About Print Volumes and Inkjet

If you want to make good decisions about inkjet, you need to take a long hard look at your entire book of business. This post discusses the common issues that arise when decisions are made without proper analysis of all of a company’s print volume – whether they think it can transition to inkjet or not.
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March 30, 2023

Let Your Customers Surprise You

Hate surprises? Same. There’s a time and a place for surprises and you can usually find them by interviewing your customers. Dan Adams discusses probing answers from customers. 
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March 14, 2023

Don’t let good business go bad

This episode of the “things to do better” series looks at the joys of customer onboarding and maintenance and why it’s so hard to get development estimates.
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March 2, 2023

February 2023 Inkjet Installation Roundup

Our February report covering the tail end of 2022 into 2023, includes 12 presses in the US and 10 in Europe (plus 3 oldies from 2020 and 2021). We are finally seeing web-fed installations on par with sheet-fed after 7 months of reporting a tilt toward sheet-fed.
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March 1, 2023

B2B Interviewing Fundamentals

What are we trying to learn when we conduct B2B interviews? But beware omission and commission, which may derail what you are working to discover.
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February 22, 2023

Jim Continenza on Kodak’s Inkjet Investments

Jim Continenza, Executive Chairman & CEO of Kodak speaks to Elizabeth Gooding about the company’s approach to investing in their future, and the future of their printing customers, distributors, and integration partners.
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February 3, 2023

January 2023 Inkjet Installation Roundup

In January(ish) we are reporting on 15 press installations at 14 companies, down slightly from December. The pendulum has swung back to the US with 9 in the US, 4 in EU and 2 in UK as compared to December where we reported on 17 press installations with 12 of them in Europe and only 3 in US.
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January 25, 2023

Eliminate most commercial risk

Are you gambling with R&D dollars? You can eliminate technical risk in the development stage. But how can you reduce commercial risk in the front-end? Stop guessing and start researching with ecosystem interviews. Dan Adams explains how you should conduct these interviews to receive unfiltered, unbiased customer insight.
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January 17, 2023

Helping you evaluate inkjet in 2023

A lot has changed since Inkjet Insight was launched back in 2017, but our mission hasn’t. Our goal is still to help companies evaluate, optimize and grow their businesses using inkjet. Let’s take a look at the evaluate part of that mission and highlight some of the supporting content that you may have missed.

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