September 23, 2024
Integrator perspective on Konica Minolta printheads
Philip Easton of Industrial Inkjet Ltd. talks about working on integration projects with Konica Minolta printheads.
Pat is a well-known evangelist for inkjet productivity. At McGrew Group, she uses her decades technical and marketing experience to lead the industry toward optimized business processes and production workflows. She has helped companies to define their five-year plans, audited workflow processes, and developed sales team interventions and education programs. Pat is the Co-Author of 8 industry books, editor of A Guide to the Electronic Document Body of Knowledge, and a regular contributor to Inkjet Insight and WhatTheyThink.com.
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September 10, 2024
Global Graphics Integration Story
Pat McGrew talks to Justin Bailey about Global Graphics and the Hybrid Software Group and how their portfolio of solutions helps inkjet OEMs and bespoke inkjet developers.
September 4, 2024
Inkjet Integration with Kodak Continuous Inkjet Printheads
Kodak has been integrating component printheads into many types of presses and marking systems for 30 years. Pat McGrew talks to Rainer Kuessel about Prosper Plus and inkjet printbars.
August 21, 2024
An Integrator’s Wish List – Part Three
The last items on an integrator’s wish list can be summarized in three words: collaboration, 0penness, and communication.
August 13, 2024
An Integrator’s Wish List – Part Two
On the integration journey, the next step is finding an integrator to work with. You can jump on to your favorite search engine and look for companies that could help, but before you do that, talk to peers and colleagues in your part of the industry.
August 6, 2024
An Integrator’s Wish List (Part One)
You tell the chef what you want to eat – not how to cook it. The same is true with integrators.
August 1, 2024
Integrators at drupa: Ricoh Industrial Solutions
Ricoh’s drupa booth highlights the future of inkjet in solar, dentistry, ceramics and more.
May 23, 2024
Leveraging Production Inkjet for Cross-Segment Growth
Your best-fit inkjet solution can help you expand your business. Part 1 of expanding horizons.
April 30, 2024
Harnessing the Power of Synergy: HP High Speed Inkjet and Indigo Liquid Toner Technologies
By using both inkjet and toner technologies, print providers can optimize their operational efficiency and expand their market reach.
March 19, 2024
Workflow— Training to Learn
If you want new technology and workflow to be successful, you must invest in the training necessary to enable change, growth and a continuous learning cycle. The authors founded Print University to make that process a little easier.
March 12, 2024
More Considerations for Your Ink Economics Journey – Part 2
The value proposition of “magic inks” as applied to your current ink usage profile may vary. When is it better to use multiple fluids as needed?
March 5, 2024
Considerations for Your Ink Economics Journey – Part 1
Learn the role of this essential element in your inkjet cost equations.
January 10, 2024
Automation: The Strategic Plan
Automation is not a single out-of-the-box widget or panacea to remedy the many challenges in your print organization.
December 12, 2023
Automate This, Then That
Automation is a universally understood benefit for any print shop. Yet, automation paralysis sets in quickly when trying to sort out what and where to automate across many products and the associated thousands of individual processes. The key to success is to approach it from a different perspective.
November 30, 2023
Workflow Mining: Finding Overt & Covert Processes
Some workflow processes are obvious. Others are like a shadow government hiding below the surface adding risk and inefficiency.
November 16, 2023
Walk the Line 2 – Workflow is a Verb
There is a lot behind the question “Do you know your print shop.” Every owner and production manager knows how the place functions, don’t they?
October 24, 2023
Because Workflow is Mine, I Walk the Line!
We all have superpowers. Print shops that adopt automation often discover that they have joined the superhero pantheon as they reduce time spent or repetitive activities, discover inefficiencies, and lubricate the friction that can grow in busy shops. Walk the line – the pre-production, production, and post-production lines – with us!
September 27, 2023
Zero Trust Environments for Inkjet Printing
Whether you print data-driven content, labels, packaging or static commercial work, you still have an obligation to protect your customers and your company. Meet the brief by building a Zero Trust Environment.
August 22, 2023
Practical Advice for Prepress Automation in L&P
Every label and packaging press has unique characteristics that influence your prepress toolkit. Read this before you build your shopping list for LabelExpo.
August 3, 2023
It’s Time for Web-to-Pack Enabled by Inkjet!
Web-to-pack requires an expanded definition of the key processes that ensure the ability to run at capacity, especially when integrating inkjet into the process.
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