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GraphExpo Show Daily September 14 2015

Profitable Opportunities AAwait Attendees t GRAPH EXPO 15, attendees should visit with GPA (Booth 3822) to experience the hottest new substrates, pick up samples, chat with GPA’s industry experts, and learn how to make their businesses more effective, productive, and competitive. Visitors can also get a free t-shirt, created with GPA’s Ultra Digital Heat Transfer paper, pressed live in the booth while supplies last as part of GPA’s 75th anniversary celebration. GPA is featuring its growing line of papers, synthetics, and pressure sensitive papers for HP Indigo 10000 presses, and is showcasing new ways to use traditional and non-traditional substrates for profitable applications on HP Indigo, toner digital, offset, and wide format presses. Show goers are encouraged to visit GPA’s booth and visit with Craig Surrett, GPA’s new Toner Fusion Market Director. Surrett will be a resource of product expertise and strategic insights for GPA’s customers in the toner digital marketplace, and will further strengthen GPA’s customer and partner relationships. Additionally, he will work to add new and innovative substrates to advance the capabilities for those who have toner digital press equipment. The addition of Surrett to the GPA team represents their reinforced commitment to serving the toner digital marketplace with additional resources. Since formally entering the toner digital market in 2013 and informally servicing it for years before, GPA continues to expand their range of substrates and support to bring new opportunities for growth and innovation to their customers. Attendees in the wide format marketplace should visit GPA to learn about their expanding offering of Concept Media Solutions for wide format presses. GPA’s comprehensive selection of wide format media GPA’s expanded wide format offerings include AlumniGraphics media. opens up creative and profitable applications for customers, ranging from wall and window graphics, rugged media for exterior ground use, vehicle signage, and everything in between. GPA’s growing line of Concept Media Solutions is available in a wide variety of face materials, adhesives, and liners to accommodate the largest variety of applications and printing processes. All of these items are stocked nationally for immediate service. During the show, GPA is also showcasing its new Multi-Purpose Product Catalog, which features a collection of specialty labels and substrates specifically for desktop inkjet and laser printers. Visitors can come learn about GPA’s extensive selection of layouts, colors, face materials, and adhesives options for pressure sensitive paper labels for a wide range of applications. GPA’s new Multi-Purpose Product Catalog makes it easy to find the right substrate for today’s common desktop printers. This product lineup continues the tradition of quality and availability that GPA’s customers have relied on for decades, and also includes innovative specialty products added in response to emerging market opportunities. From new faces, giveaways, and new products, exciting and profitable opportunities await attendees of GRAPH EXPO 15 with GPA! Idealliance Hosts Annual Free G7 Summit Join Idealliance for its annual G7 Summit today, Monday, September 14, in Room S102bc in McCormick South Hall, from 1:00 to 4:30 pm. G7 is Idealliance’s industry leading set of specifications for achieving gray balance, and is the driving force for achieving visual similarity across all print processes for more than 1,000 G7 Master Qualified print providers worldwide. The G7 Summit will provide the industry’s most experienced premedia and print production experts with the latest developments in the G7 methodology and offer insight and analyses on the latest best practices and standards in print production. The G7 method outlines an easyto follow recipe for implementing ISO printing standards and additional metrics. The result is a simple but powerful way to match from proof to press. Idealliance certifies the industry’s most knowledgeable experts to qualify leading providers of print, creative, and prepress services in the G7 methodology. At the G7 Summit, leading experts will share the latest in standards and practices of the following technology briefings: • Expanded Gamut: Status of New Characterization Dataset • The New ISO/PAS 15339 and Reference Print Conditions • New Best Practices in Evaluation and Measurement • Spot Colors: What’s New With SCHMOO • PQX: Communication Breakthroughs in Print Supply • Substrates & Optical Brightening Agents: New Study Results In addition to technology briefings, each attendee will participate in expert-led Q&A sessions on specific topics. “The annual G7 Summit at GRAPH EXPO is always a highlight of the year, where nearly 200 print production and technology professionals come to learn and share about the latest standards and practices in print production,” says Steven Bonoff, Executive Vice President of Idealliance. “With new enhancements in our G7 Master program and the recent passing of the Idealliance-driven ISO/PAS 15339, I expect this event will be bigger than ever.” Attendance is free of charge but advance registration is required. Schedule and registration can be found here: www.idealliance.org/events/g7-summit-graph-expo. Tap… Tap… Tap… the SNEW Mobile Show App o much to see! So much to do at this year’s show! Where do you begin? Start by creating your customized show plan with the online My Show Planner tool (graph15. mapyourshow.com/6_0/login/login.cfm). With My Show Planner, access the information you need right from the show’s website to create your personalized schedule of: • booth visits • education sessions • meetings, and • all of the networking events you want to be sure not to miss. Next, you can always print out your personalized schedule and bring it with you to the show—and now you can also download the new GRAPH EXPO 15 and CPP EXPO mobile app! The mobile app is your instant onsite resource for navigating your way through the show providing these key features: • Search exhibitors, products, and show floor features • Research conferences • View an interactive map of the show floor, plus • Receive up-to-date show news. Download the app today from iTunes and the Google Play store. Bonus: your online planner will automatically sync with the NEW Official GRAPH EXPO 15 and CPP EXPO Mobile Show App. (For iOS and Android) Published by SouthComm Business Media, LLC. 1233 Janesville Avenue, P.O. Box 803 Fort Atkinson, WI 53538 | www.southcomm.com EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/PUBLISHER Kelley Holmes EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Denise M. Gustavson CONTRIBUTING EDITORS John Giles Toni McQuilken Richard Romano Jeffrey Steele Heidi Tolliver-Walker Mark Vruno Joann Whitcher ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Kimberly Jorgensen Paul Zimmerman PRODUCTION MANAGER Connie Wolf PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Steve Swick ART DIRECTORS Meredith Pennewell Yuly Osorio PREPRESS MANAGER CHRIS FERRELL CEO ED TEARMAN CFO BLAIR JOHNSON COO GERRY WHITTY VP, Marketing ERIC KAMMERZELT VP, Technology CURT PORDES VP, Production Operations GLORIA COSBY Excecutive Vice President Jeremy Winters The GRAPH EXPO 15 Show Daily Press office is located in room S501d. Copyright 2015: SouthComm Business Media, LLC. Produced by the editors of Printing News, Wide-Format & Signage, Inkjet’s Age, and PrintingNews.com. GRAPH EXPO 15 is produced by Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC®), and sponsored by the Industry’s three leading trade associations: the Association for Leaders in Print, Mail, Fulfillment, and Marketing Services (Epicomm); NPES The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies; and the Printing Industries of America. Visit www.gasc.org for further information. 6 September 14, 2015 | GRAPH EXPO Official Show Daily | PrintingNews.com


GraphExpo Show Daily September 14 2015
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