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65-2: New Media vs. Old Media at a Trade Show

October 30, 2007

As a member of the new media I would like to thank the SGIA show management for their recognition of the shift that is occurring in the way people gather news and information. While JimRaffel.com is not listed among the 22 most popular blogs in the world we do a pretty good job reaching those [...]

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65-1: SGIA Live Wednesday Observations

October 25, 2007

First, some general observations about the show.  While screen printing is still a very large part of the SGIA show, you do have to look a bit harder in between all the digital printing booths from the likes of Canon, Epson, HP and more to find screen printing products.  I am a new comer to [...]

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#65: Color in the Specialty Graphic Market & SGIA Live

October 19, 2007

I will be attending the SGIA (Specialty Graphic Imaging Association) conference and expo in Orlando next week. As I reviewed the conference sessions and expo web-site it became clear this would be a great opportunity to get back to writing for JimRaffel.com. Since GraphExpo I have been busy with show follow-up and have not had [...]

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#57: On Virtual Proofing Thoughts after IPA

June 20, 2007

While at the IPA Technical Conference earlier this month, I had the opportunity to run through the evaluation of the five virtual proofing systems on display. The combination of the evaluation experience and the release of our ProofPass.com [Virtual] product have solidified my thoughts on virtual proofing at this moment in time. Virtual proofing will [...]

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Golden Nugget #50: Understanding Training Resources

March 15, 2007

As I mentioned last week #47 generated a comment from Dale, which contained three good questions, the first of which I answered in #49. You may also recall that I promised to blog from the floor of the PMA show. I did so, and the PMA blog entry can be found at JimRaffel.com.Now, onto Dale’s [...]

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Thoughts on PMA Show

March 10, 2007

As I mentioned in my last post, my primary reason for attending PMA was to conduct meetings with key ColorMetrix business partners.  I did, however, have a few hours to roam the show floor yesterday afternoon and came away with a few observations. While I am still impressed with the caliber of this show, it [...]

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#42: GraphExpo Reflections

October 25, 2006

First, Adam Dewitz over at Printmode.net took some good pictures at the show and posted them in a shared area at flickr. If you look closely you will find pictures of our booth area towards the end of the collection. In general, the show went like I anticipated in the #41 post. A few things [...]

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#33: Thoughts on GRACoL 7 and Standards in General

May 4, 2006

Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday of this week I was in Louisville at the FFTA Annual Forum & INFO*FLEX exhibition.  It was my first time attending this event and I was impressed.  We even got to spend Tuesday evening at the Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom theme park in Louisville.  I must say it was fun not [...]

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#30: Print Oasis ‘06 Wrap-up

April 9, 2006

First, I will be delaying my thoughts on GRACoL 7 for a week or two so that I can address more timely topics like a wrap-up of my thoughts and observations at Print Oasis last week in Las Vegas. Let me begin by saying that the conference was very well attended; 500+ corporate print buyers, [...]

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