Develop World Class Capabilities Pwith the Help of Pitney Bowes itney Bowes Inc. (Booth 1239) is showing a host of technology solut ions at GRAPH EXPO 15 for small and medium businesses, direct mailers, and enterprises. Pitney Bowes is committed to helping its clients develop capabilities in the areas of shipping and mailing solutions, customer information AcceleJet Printing and Finishing System management, location intelligence, customer engagement, and global ecommerce. The Pitney Bowes AcceleJet Printing and Finishing System, just unveiled this month, provides a simple, cost-effective path to high-quality color inkjet that is perfectly sized for mid-volume transactional print and mail operations. The system offers a smart combination one-up roll-fed, high quality duplex color inkjet print engine with integrated finishing. The AcceleJet System offers a lower entry point for production inkjet printing and is designed to keep cost of ownership expenses low. It features Dual Print Modes and built-in flexible finishing options needed to process more types of jobs on a single platform. The Dual Print Modes let you fine-tune production to help you tackle even the demanding color quality or SLA’s. Standard inline finishing a breadth of standard features including dynamic cross perforation, linear perforation, automated job separation, servo-controlled precision cutting, and more. With all the advantages of 100% variable data color print, it delivers benefits of a Pitney Bowes White Paper Factory Solution on a smaller scale. GE and Pitney Bowes are partnering to develop customized asset performance management (APM) applications for Pitney Bowes and its Enterprise Business Solutions customers. All of the services will be built on and powered by Predix, GE’s software platform for the Industrial Internet. This enables Pitney Bowes to analyze data generated from its own production mailing and shipping machines and those of its clients to provide client and productivity services, and job scheduling capabilities that improve business outcomes. Pitney Bowes’ Relay multichannel communications suite is an integrated solution offering designed for small and medium businesses to enhance their transactional communications, while providing for client data privacy and meeting regulatory requirements and complexity. The company will also demonstrate the capabilities of personalized interactive video (PIV), designed to improve customer engagement across a variety of industries. PIVs leverage customer data to provide consumers the ability to “self-serve” in a highly personalized and interactive way, in turn lowering customer service costs and call center volumes, while also increasing customer satisfaction, among many other benefits. PIVs help customers better understand complex documents in real-time, and receive data-driven cross-sell and upsell offerings that are unique to each individual viewer. Attendees can also see the Epic Inserting System, unveiled earlier this year, a new highspeed multi-format solution that cost effectively processes complex transactional mail applications with demonstrated integrity and high yield to simplify capacity planning, increase operational productivity, lower total cost of ownership, and improve return on investment. GAA’s Annual Meeting Focuses on M&As If you’re a member of the Graphic Arts Alliance (GAA), join them 7:30 to 10:00 am for the GAA’s Annual Meeting, Monday, September 14, in room S103d at McCormick Place South. This year’s meeting will include a panel discussion on the topic of mergers and acquisitions featuring Paul Reilly from New Direction Partners. The Graphic Arts Alliance was launched in 2002 to help mid-sized printing and packaging companies take advantage of an average of $5,000 to $12,000 or more annually in vendor cash rebates and discounts that would typically only be available to larger companies. GAA is a member-owned and -controlled alliance of printers and packaging companies whose mission is to serve its members’ best interests. This means complete transparency in its operations. The Board of Managers (which operates like a Board of Directors) consists of seven member representatives who are either elected by GAA members or maintain their position based on their purchasing volume through the group. The Board makes recommendations on contract areas and final decisions on vendor selection. A set of bylaws was developed to keep decision making consistent and also allow members to determine the operating structure of the group. The Board meets twice a year for a formal meeting. There is a general membership meeting once each year at GRAPH EXPO 15. If you’re using vendors like Sappi (Booth 3002A), Kodak (Booth 823), Superior (Booth 3831), and many others, and have annual revenues between $7 million and $65 million, membership in the Graphic Arts Alliance may be a good fit for your company. FASTSIGNS Helps Independent Print Owners Effectively Drive New Revenue Streams As demands within the print industry have continued to evolve, traditional print shop businesses have had to balance everyday operations while keeping a pulse on advancements and making adjustments to their business models to stay relevant. FASTSIGNS International, Inc. (Booth 4245) recognized how challenging this can be for independent businesses and launched its co-brand franchise program at GRAPH EXPO 2012— allowing owners to benefit from all the resources of a franchise, yet maintain their independency. Today, many independent print operators have found success partnering with FASTSIGNS. Already this year, the company has signed 16 franchise agreements for new centers, including 10 co-brand agreements with independent business owners. FASTSIGNS executives are returning to GRAPH EXPO 15 to participate in discussions surrounding printing business developments and to speak with independent operators about opportunities to diversify their revenue streams through the company’s co-brand program. In addition to exhibiting, FASTSIGNS executives will host an exclusive lunch session on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 11:30 am. Guests who pre-register for the program will have an opportunity to meet with FASTSIGNS CEO Catherine Monson and EVP of Franchise Support and Development Mark Jameson. “With demand for signage and visual graphics services continuing to increase, our co-brand franchise program is a viable route for printing businesses to attract new customers and drive new revenue streams with healthy profit margins,” says Jameson. “We created this program to help independent owners effectively offer these services and become a valuable, one-source resource for their customers.” Independent business owners can join FASTSIGNS through its co-brand program for as little as $10,000 down in addition to reduced royalties. Co-brand Franchise Partner Dick Helmey, who owns FASTSIGNS of Houston, TX - University - East End, says, “While we had been in the wide format business for some time, we felt there was a greater opportunity that we were missing out on. We evaluated expanding the product line internally, but felt we would need help to be effective in both production and marketing. The cobrand program allowed us to separate the businesses for royalty purposes meanwhile provide access to the resources and tools we needed to really build this space. This made it a natural decision to add the powerful branding of FASTSIGNS to drive incremental gross profit.” FASTSIGNS is continuously recognized for its franchisee satisfaction and was named one of the inaugural inductees into the Franchise Business Review Hall of Fame for 10 consecutive years of outstanding franchisee support. The company’s franchisee support was also recently recognized by the Franchise Research Institute, which certified FASTSIGNS as a World-Class Franchise for the fourth year in a row. For franchise information or to register for the lunch program with FASTSIGNS at GRAPH EXPO 15, contact Mark Jameson at mark.jameson@fastsigns.com or (214) 346-5679. Availability is limited. Tap… Tap… Tap… the NEW Mobile Show App Navigate your way through GRAPH EXPO S15 and CPP EXPO with the mobile 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) 26 September 13, 2015 | GRAPH EXPO Official Show Daily | PrintingNews.com
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