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Ashley Roberts Visit Author's Page

Ashley Roberts is the Managing Editor of the Printing & Packaging Group.

Dan Marx Visit Author's Page

Dan Marx, Content Director for Wide-Format Impressions, holds extensive knowledge of the graphic communications industry, resulting from his more than three decades working closely with business owners, equipment and materials developers, and thought leaders.

Toni McQuilkenVisit Author's Page

Toni McQuilken is the senior editor for the printing and packaging group.

Cory FrancerVisit Author's Page

Cory Francer is an analyst at NAPCO Research. He formerly served as editor-in-chief of Packaging Impressions.

Eileen FritschVisit Author's Page

Eileen Fritsch is a Cincinnati-based freelance journalist who has covered the evolution of wide-format digital printing for more than 20 years. Contact her at eileen@eileenfritsch.com.

Ken HanulecVisit Author's Page

Ken Hanulec serves as co-general manager of display graphics operations and VP of marketing for EFI's inkjet business unit.

Dan JohansenVisit Author's Page

Dan Johansen is the Marketing Manager of Wide Format Solutions in the Commercial & Industrial Printing Business Group at Ricoh USA.

Steve YarbroughVisit Author's Page

Raghu DasVisit Author's Page

Joann WhitcherVisit Author's Page

Andrew D. PaparozziVisit Author's Page

Andrew D. Paparozzi joined PRINTING United Alliance as Chief Economist in 2018. He analyzes and reports on economic, technological, social and demographic trends that will define the printing industry’s future. His most important responsibility, however, is being an observer of the industry by listening to the issues and concerns of company owners, executives and managers.Previously, he worked 31 years at the National Association for Printing Leadership. He has also taught mathematics, statistics and economics at various colleges.Andrew holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics f rom Boston College and a Master’s degree in economics — with concentrations in econometrics and public finance — from Columbia University.

Denise M. GustavsonVisit Author's Page

Denise Gustavson is the Editorial Director and Special Projects Editor for the Printing & Packaging Group, which includes Printing Impressions, packagePRINTING, In-plant Graphics and Wide-Format Impressions magazines, among other brands. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Wide-Format Impressions.

Jennifer WilberschiedVisit Author's PageJennifer Wilberschied is the senior editor for the Printing, Packaging and Publishing Group.

Mark HahnVisit Author's Page

Mark Hahn is a managing director and founder of Graphic Arts Advisors, a boutique strategic financial advisory and consulting firm focused exclusively on the printing, packaging, mailing, marketing services, brand management, and related graphic communications industries. With more than 35 years of graphic communications experience in the areas of finance, operations, sales, M&A, and general management, Hahn has served as chief financial officer, chief operating officer and other senior positions with several commercial printing companies, as well as founding and eventually selling his own printing company.The firm assists company owners and management, as well as their lenders, investors and shareholders in the following areas: mergers and acquisitions, sale of business, strategic and financial advisory, capital structure and funding, financial analysis, interim and turnaround C-level management, business valuations and serving as consulting experts. Hahn is the author of The Target Report and is regularly published and quoted in printing industry trade and management journals. Mark Hahn can be reached at (973) 588-7399 or mark@graphicartsadvisors.com

Heather FletcherVisit Author's PageHeather Fletcher is senior content editor with Target Marketing.

Elaine ScrimaVisit Author's Page

Elaine Scrima has been with GSP Companies for over 20 years serving in various roles. She currently serves as the VP of Operations, overseeing three production facilities across the U.S. She has served on the SGIA Women in Print Alliance advisory group since 2016. She was the recipient of the 2016 Women in Print Award from Big Picture magazine and was a finalist for the 2016 Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Business Women of the Year.

Paul BobnakVisit Author's Page

Mark BunneyVisit Author's Page

Mark Bunney is director of GTM strategy at Ingenico Group, a French-based company whose business is to provide the technology involved in secure electronic transactions.

Laurie WellerVisit Author's Page

Cassie GreenVisit Author's PageCassie Green is a Senior Content Editor at NAPCO Media, focusing on the apparel community as well as curating content across other brands. She can be reached at cgreen@napco.com.

Nathan SafranVisit Author's Page

Nathan Safran is Vice President, Research for NAPCO Media. Nathan is a former Forrester Research Analyst with deep experience designing custom research solutions that solve client business problems. Nathan works with the subject matter experts across NAPCO’s brands to design research solutions that leverage NAPCO’s engage audiences and provides deep insight. Nathan is a frequent speaker at industry events and his research has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Fortune Magazine.

David WilajVisit Author's Page

David Wilaj reports on economic and industry trends which aim to help printers navigate an ever-changing business environment

He joins the Printing United Alliance research team after beginning his career at Printing Industries of America where he analyzed, reported and spoke on key trends in commercial print and aided in the revitalization of the historic Performance Ratios program.

Peter SchaeferVisit Author's Page

Peter Schaefer, partner at New Direction Partners, is an experienced dealmaker with more than 25 years of investment banking and valuation experience, 20 of which has been focused exclusively on the printing and packaging industries. He has closed more than one hundred transactions in virtually every segment of the printing and packaging industries. In addition, he has performed hundreds of valuations for ESOPs, estate and gift tax planning and strategic planning purposes. Contact him at (610) 230-0635, ext. 701.

Mark MichelsonVisit Author's Page

Mark Michelson is the Editor-in-Chief of Printing Impressions. Serving in this role since 1985, Michelson is an award-winning journalist and member of several industry honor societies. Reader feedback is always encouraged. Email mmichelson@napco.com

Toni McQuilkenVisit Author's Page

Toni McQuilken is the senior editor for the printing and packaging group.

Gabby HouckVisit Author's Page

Brendan MenapaceVisit Author's Page

Brendan Menapace is the content director for Promo+Promo Marketing.

Bill FarquharsonVisit Author's Page

Bill Farquharson is a respected industry expert and highly sought after speaker known for his energetic and entertaining presentations. Bill engages his audiences with wit and wisdom earned as a 40-year print sales veteran while teaching new ideas for solving classic sales challenges. Email him at bill@salesvault.pro or call (781) 934-7036. Bill’s two books, The 25 Best Print Sales Tips Ever and Who’s Making Money at Digital/Inkjet Printing…and How? as well as information on his new subscription-based website, The Sales Vault, are available at salesvault.pro.

Allee BruceVisit Author's PageAllee Bruce is the content editor for NAPCO Media.

Roger GimbelVisit Author's Page

In 2001, Roger Gimbel founded Gimbel & Associates, an international consulting firm providing business and market development services, skills training, and expert public speaking in the graphic communications and digital solutions industry. The mission of Gimbel & Associates is to help clients identify new business opportunities and implement leading-edge solutions using expertise in organizational development, technology selection, implementation, and work processes.

Roger oversees a team of Consultants with expertise in sales training, workflow analysis, MicroModeling, multichannel marketing, marketing plans, transactional printing, trans-promotional applications and creative strategies for mergers and acquisitions, business development workshops and seminars.

Mike BoyleVisit Author's Page

Mike Boyle is the Global Head of Large Format Go-To-Market at HP.

Kristine ShreveVisit Author's Page

Kristine Shreve is the founder and CEO of Kristine Shreve Consulting. She is also the Director of Marketing and Outreach for Applique Getaway and Lynnie Pinnie. An advocate for women, Kristine is the creator and host of Women + Business, a weekly show that discusses being a woman and being in business and how those two states of being intersect. In 2019, Kristine founded the Women in Garment Decoration group on Facebook, which is now over 1,200 members strong. Kristine also has a long history of writing for industry publications and giving seminars and speaking on panels at industry trade shows. She can be found at www.kristineshreve.com.

Kalie VanDewaterVisit Author's Page

Kalie VanDewater is associate content and online editor at NAPCO Media.

May 13, 2024WFI Guide to Wide-format Training and Education

Presented here is a listing of the educational opportunities to help everyone from owners, to press operators, to prepress specialists, to finishing teams, to sales departments — and everyone in between — stay on top of today’s innovations.

April 26, 2024The Changing Vendor Landscape

As the wide-format segment evolves, and particularly as the printing devices wide-format producers use have become more robust, the needs of wide-format PSPs have changed. They want different things from their vendor relationships.

April 22, 2024Wide-Format Printers Embrace Substrate Sustainability

Sustainability has become an essential piece of the printing industry — the wide-format sector included. Here, wide-format printers share their experiences with green media and its prospects for the future.

April 2, 2024A Closer Look at Modern Metallic Effects

Metallic effects in printed pieces are more accessible than ever before, opening up the creative floodgates.

March 11, 2024Flexing Up: Exploring Burst Capacity Strategies

Burst capacity is simple in concept: having that extra push, enough print and/or labor capacity on hand to be able to temporarily scale up to take big or immediate jobs (or both) and meet expected deadlines.

March 5, 2024Economic Challenges with Strategic Agility

With a forward-thinking approach, the sector gears up for 2024, ready to harness modest growth opportunities while fortifying against the lingering aftereffects of policy shifts and market flux.

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