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Click Article You Wish To Read GENERAL NEWS SECTION 3 .....Personally Speaking - by O. Mike Fichera, Publisher 8 .....Advertisers Index 9 .....Product Focus: Opportunities For Dealers In Direct Mail: ........ Equipment, Software, Supplies WIDE FORMAT / SIGN SUPPLY SECTION 15 ...Major Article: Another Look At 3D Printing: Another Business Opportunity ........ For Dealers - by Tim Greene 19 ...Dealer News 28 ...News 4 Dealers The Dealer Channel Improvement Center 41 ...Don’t Listen So You Can Talk, Listen So You Can Learn ........ by John Tschohl 43 ...Does Your Dealership Enforce Company Branding And Protocol? ........ - by Bob Licari 45 ...PRINT 17 Photo Write-Up

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Opportunities For Dealers In Direct Mail: Equipment, Software, Supplies

Printed Advertising Has A Positive Effect On Buyers While electronic delivery (internet) of direct marketing is happening there has been a resurgence of printed mail, especially personalized materials. In spite of postage cost, companies that use directmail have found that printed materials have a positive effect on buyers. Even though the number of pieces sent through the mail has diminished, Direct Mail is still an effective and important selling method. In one study it is reported that the response rate to printed and mailed pieces is 5% while digital delivery of advertising through email, social media, twitter and online ads, yields a 1% return. If you doubt that....check the mail you’re receiving at home and at the office. According to Mailing Systems Technology magazine the reason, especially amongst the Millennials ranging from ages 20-36, is

digital fatigue. Even the Millennials who were born into the digital age are living with digital overload. We are bombarded with emails every day, and have become accustomed to ignoring them completely or quickly scanning to choose ones that seem to matter. This includes us “old timers” (over the age of 30) where we are picking through the ton of emails mixing correspondence with advertising and other stuff we get daily. Even companies that were ecommerce born, like Amazon, are now mailing printed catalogs as an additional selling vehicle along with a wide range of advertising pieces selling insurance, banking services, merchandise, homes, apartments, etc. One key change in this mail is the level of personalization Continued On Next Page

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containing not only your name interspersed in the message but product information and graphics just for you. Also, the means of reducing mailing costs are being used as a further incentive to use the post office for distribution. Periodicals, catalogs and direct mail pieces are sorted in accordance to postal routes along with often co-mingling pieces as a means of reducing postage costs. All of this is done through software infused equipment complete with verification programs that makes sure all the personalized items in an envelope match. A Hint at what is Available At the show in Chicago, Print 17, Dealer Communicator (DC) saw some mailing related products and trends that should be of interest to graphic arts dealers. One thing noticeable were show booths demonstrating highly sophisticated digital printers that

not only allow the printing of envelopes but allows variable imaging and addressing. One new envelope press is the iJetColorPro from Printware, LLC (www.ijetcolor.com/). One unique capability of this Memjet inkjet printer is it can handle filled envelopes and prints full bleed imaging at speeds up to 7,500 per hour. The iJetColorPro system incorporates color management tools with a touch screen monitor to manage operations. It can handle envelopes up to 12x17 inches with a maximum full color image width of 8.7 inches. Another new digital envelope press is from W+D North America Inc. (www.w-d.de/ en/home/). While not promoted as a variable image press the W+D HALM iJet is billed as the world’s fastest true industrialgrade, 5-color ink-jet envelope overprint press. 4 color CMYK plus one spot color Memjet production class inkjet technology prints up to 32,000 #10 envelopes per hour at 1600 x 1375

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dpi and produces very high quality print output on standard white wove paper stocks. It utilizes the Xitrons print service based on the Harlequin RIP with color matching software for the matching of Pantone colors. In the inserting world Pitney Bowes (www.pitneybowes.com/ us) introduced their new Epic 3.0 and short run Pulse inserting systems. The Epic 3.0 is a high

speed system capable of inserting multiple pieces including booklets along with touch screen setups used to reduce changeover times. The Pulse Inserter is designed for very fast changeover accommodating runs under 10,000. Other inserters and mailing systems are from Bell and Howell

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and Buhrs, who make custom systems for volume mailers. One company not at the show but very prominent in offering inserters and other related mailing equipment through dealers is Inscerco Mfg. Inc., providing quality design and engineering to the mailing industry for over 32 years. Their Crestwood, IL factory manufactures two product lines: MailCrafers envelope inserters for the direct mail industry and Ultra System letter openers and extractors for the remittance industry. On the software side BCC, Quandient and Tec Mailing Solutions offered programs that handle mail sorting, duplication detection and other related activities including verification capabilities. At Print 17, Meadows Publishing announced a partnership with Enfocus to provide fully

automated variable data workflows. For dealers who are not aware, DesignMerge Pro is a suite of plug-in modules that allow users to quickly and easily create variable data output from any Adobe InDesign document. Meadows is now a Certified Solution Partner for Enfocus Switch, a solution designed to automate repetitive tasks and reduce the number of touch points associated with receiving, sorting and processing files. Errors are eliminated and throughput increased thanks to the seamless integration with DesignMerge Pro. More at www.meadowsps.com/ automation. Terminology Defined As Dealer Communicator (DC) looked at the elements needed for mailing departments we got caught up in unfamiliar terminology. Then we came across a glossary of postal terms from Mailing Systems. Like other products offered by graphic arts dealers knowledge is important. So check

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out this site http://mailingsyste mstechnology.com/article-4101Postal-Terms-Glossary.html. You may want to pass this on to your customers as well. What Some Industry Dealers Sell The mailing end of the printing business also offers many opportunities in selling used equipment. DC took a look as a couple of dealers specializing in Direct Mail systems and equipment to get an idea on what is being sold. It gave us some good ideas that we want to pass along. So check out Consolidated Services (www.mailingequipment.us/); Capital Mailing Equipment (www.capitalmailingequipment .com/); Mailing Supplies.Com (www.mailingsupplies.com/ mailers.htm) to get an idea of the full range of products dealers will need to service the Direct Mail market. It will also give you an idea on the types of pre-owned equipment available.

Check Out The Opportunities In the past direct mail was considered to be a specialized business where the addressing, inserting and distribution of volumes of mail were handled by a few specialists. But, today, sophisticated mailing systems allow all the steps it takes to create personalized mailing pieces to be done by most printers or corporate marketing departments (In-Plants). This opens up dealer opportunities to sell envelope printers, inserters, labelling machines, tabbers and even postage meters together with related mailing software and verification systems to a wide range of potential printer, corporate inhouse and retail businesses with marketing departments. DC

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WIDE FORMAT

& SIGN SUPPLIES Another Look at 3D Printing another business opportunity for dealers By Tim Greene, IDC Director of Wide Format Printing Consulting Services

One of the most interesting developments has been the evolution of what we call the “eco-system” – the software, hardware, and materials that are in use in the most current 3D printers, BEWARE. There are bare-bones 3D printers that would take a mechanical engineering degree to operate. But now there are lots of options for truly simple to operate 3D printers. I have a $300 New Matter 3D Printer that is so easy to use my five year old can operate it. There’s a web interface for controlling & troubleshooting the printer, guides on loading filament and doing maintenance, and more. New Matter has a lot of filament colors to choose from

but I could go to a 3rd-party and pick from a huge variety of filament products that suit a ton of different applications. 3D printers had to get easier to use, and use efficiently, for them to go mainstream, and that is happening. Advantages Of Color Color is an area that is just starting to pick up speed. The advantage of color 3D printing is that it can save a lot of time in making accurate color prototypes. Most 3D printers use one color, some more expensive options use more than one color, and even more expensive options are able to print multiple colors. Full-color

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WIDE FORMAT SECTION 3D printing is where the market is headed and the recent launch of full-color 3D printers from XYZPrinting and Mimaki are examples of 3D printers that use inkjet technology to produce the millions of colors that inkjet is capable of. XYZPrinting’s machine, the da Vinci, is available now and the Mimaki printer is expected to be available by the end of this year. Production Printers The other area that is very important to the future of 3D printing is the development of productionoriented solutions. In the past, 3D printer manufacturers created models which took hours instead of days. They are still fairly slow. One of the biggest developments in the 3D printing market over the past year has been the creation of production solutions. Essentially, these solutions gang up 3-, 4-, 5- or more 3D printers and provide automation that makes these

printers into small manufacturing cells. One of the advantages of this is that a company may be able to build on the 3D printers they have already invested in to create this kind of solution. A number of 3D printer manufacturers like 3D Systems, Stratasys, Formlabs, Carbon, and Ultimaker have developed solutions for the creation of these production systems. A lot is happening in 3D printing. For equipment dealers it seems that no matter what type of customers you serve, there are technology innovations that make 3D printing a compelling business for you to look into. DC

Tim Greene, Director of Wide Format Printing Consulting Services, International Data Corp. (IDC), will field your questions, comments or arguments by email: tgreene@idc.com

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Largest Independent Ricoh Copier Dealer Since opening our doors in 1969, we have prided ourselves on providing our customers with superior office imaging solutions. This commitment led us to become the first independent Minnesota Ricoh copier dealer in 1981,

thereby forming a lasting partnership with one of the best equipment manufacturers. Nearly 36 years later, Metro Sales is pleased to announce that we have been recognized as the largest independent Ricoh copier dealer in the United States. Out of the over 400 dealers in the Ricoh Family Group, Metro Sales had the high-

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DEALER NEWS Continued est sales revenue and as a result, earned Ricoh’s coveted 2016 National Award of Excellence.

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DEALER NEWS President MOS. Slider continued, “This is an exciting time for MOS. It’s not often you can be part of a company with such long heritage and have a chance to celebrate 60 years in business.”

center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Duets products are manufactured exclusively in the U.S. at Gemini’s state-of-the-art, Class-10,000 cleanroom extrusion and lamination facility.

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Floridabased Tubelite has announced a distribution partnership with Minnesota-based Gemini, manufactures of dimensional letters, logos and plaques, in which Tubelite will stock inventory and distribute Duets by Gemini ADA and engraving stock products. Tubelite will ship Duets by Gemini products from its Florida headquarters and its distribution

Specialist large format printer solutions supplier Perfect Colours has announced that it has been named as the UK distributor of Inca Digital, a wide format printer manufacturer, and their new Inca SpyderX dual flatbed/ roll-to-roll printer. Inca says the SpyderX builds on the heritage of the company’s Spyder 320 range, and the high-parformance Onset platform. The six-color-pluswhite SpyderX inkjet printer uses Inca ink, features 3.2 meter-wide flatbed and roll-fed capability allowing it to handle rigid and flexible substrates.

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DEALER NEWS Continued MOEbiz One Of Nine Businesses Receiving The Thomas H. Scott Award Of Excellence The selections came from 44 nominations for the prestigious awards, which honor companies making significant contributions to the Ouachita Parish, LA economy through capital improvements, expansion, job creation, and community

involvement during 2016 and 2017. This year’s nominees collectively employ 4,967 people in Ouachita Parish and made capital investments of more than $105 million. MOEbiz is one of the seven finalists in the medium business (between 11-50 employees) category. The Thomas H. Scott Awards of Excellence Reception Continued On Next Page

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Abel Soriano Wins the 2017 Charles Domokos Award This year, in honor of Charles Domokos, Modern Impressions founded the

Charles Domokos service technician of the year award. Charles was a big part of Modern Impressions family for over 30 years. He retired in June 2017 and passed away of a heart attack in October, 2017. Charles was a true blessing to all of us and we are very honored to continue his legacy with this award to be given to one of our

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technicians each year. This year the Award went to Abel Soriano, who also celebrated 15 years with Modern Impressions. For those of you who know Abel he is an outstanding servant to God, customers, fellow employees and his community. Charles was Abel’s mentor, coworker and friend. He was quite honored to be the first to receive the Charles Domokos Award.

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DEALER NEWS 3M Race to the Kentucky Derby Sweepstakes. Congratulations to Architectural Designs and Signs (Corona, CA) And Esco Manufacturing (Watertown, SD) on being the lucky winners of the 2017 Kentucky Derby Sweepstakes! N. Glantz has teamed with 3M to provide their winners with the ultimate Kentucky Derby experience! Two lucky winners

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JJ Bender Announces New Hire JJ Bender has announced the appointment of Josh Stasko to the position of Deputy Purchaser of Production Digital Equipment. Jeffrey Bender, founder of JJ Bender, said, “Our business of buying production digital equipment and ink jets has grown dramatically over the last year. Adding Josh to our team will help JJ Bender continue to grow at this exciting pace.”

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Ultraflex Welcomes New Sales Managers Ultraflex Systems, Inc. welcomes Diane Meyer as Western Territory Sales Manager. She joins the Ultraflex sales team with years of experience in sales and service. Her diverse background with sales and service to the digital imaging market proves to promote Ultraflex’s partnerships with its customers. Matt Cook joins the Ultraflex sales team as the new Midwest Territory Sales Manager. His industry experience as a graphic sales specialist allowed him to build a territory form the ground up.

Avery Dennison Appoints Ritzdorf Avery Dennison appoints Gernot Ritzdorf, VP Sales, Label and Packaging Materials (LPM), North America. In this role, he leads the business’ field sales, technical sales, customer service, and technical support teams for LPM. Ritzdorf brings 12 years of experience in the company, with various roles including leading both regional and global sales organizations.

Jain Americas Promotes Jon Silver To National Sales Manager

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Silver from Midwest Regional Sales Manager to National Sales Manager. Since 2006 Mr. Silver has been responsible for managing sales and customer relationships for Jain Americas throughout the Midwestern U.S. and Eastern Canada, which he’ll continue. As National Sales Manager, however, Mr.

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Silver now has additional responsibilities that include overseeing a sales staff, and sales representatives, across the entire U.S., Canada, and Latin America. He will also coordinate marketing initiatives; oversee distributor training; represent Jain Americas at industry events, including IAPD, SGIA, shop! GlobalShop, and others; and manage OEM specifications and quality control.

Edge Business Systems Named Partner Of The Year EDGE Business Systems, a Xerox Authorized Dealer, was named the 2016 Xerox Document Technology Partner of the Year. This recognition is given to the Document Technology Partner whose body of work in revenue, growth, partnership, investment and operations came together to demonstrate significant

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achievement during 2016. This is the second consecutive year that EDGE has received the Xerox Document Technology Partner of the Year.

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Meadows Publishing announces their new partnership with Enfocus as a Certified Solution Partner for their DesignMerge VDP software. The first offering under this partnership is a

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DesignMerge integration with Enfocus Switch, which allows for the creation and deployment of fully automated VDP workflows. “We developed the DesignMerge Pro configurator to address the needs of our variable data clients that are already processing large amounts of VDP, and are looking for more automated and customizable solutions.”, said John Kriho, president of Meadows Publishing Solutions. “After reviewing a number of workflow products, we decided that Enfocus Switch was the perfect fit for integration with our DesignMerge suite of software.”

Dealers Will Need To Acquire Sales Talent With Experience Fabrizio Soto, the General Manager of OKI Data’s Wide Format Division says this,

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Brian Corcoran, Controller/ Operations Director, The PostStar poses these three questions whose answers can help guide you through the labyrinth of change. Question #1: What has been your greatest challenge and how did you overcome it? This question will help define your strengths and abilities. Question #2: Where do you see the future The smart move is for dealers of print production? This question to enter into the wide format will help define your intuitive territory slowly and with a full understanding of the requirements instincts. And finally, question #3: What printing technologies necessary to sell and support are you most excited about? This these devices. Dealers who question will help you define your expand into wide format reap passion. Knowing the answers the benefits of an advantageous to these questions can help guide ROI on the service side with you through to your future goals. less needed resources, low maintenance and a low capitol expense with parts inventory. 34 • October 2017 • Dealer Communicator

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Hearing Ends, Now A Different Path For Appleton Coated’s Future

A hearing ended Monday after nearly seven hours of discussion, to decide the future of Appleton Coated and its more than 600 workers. It looks like the future could be a little bit brighter for those workers. The plant is in Combined Locks, WI and makes products for high-end commercial printing, and text books. It was auctioned off last week. Appleton Coated employees left Outagamie County Court Monday feeling hopeful and vindicated. “We now have the time for people to

finish their due diligence and for companies to make proper decisions,” said the United Steelworkers Local President Tony Swanningson. The top bidder in last week’s auction for the mill was Industrial Assets, a California-based liquidation company. It agreed to buy Appleton Coated for $21 million.

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Customer Service is ALL about listening. According to Bernard Ferrari, author of “Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All”, good listening is the key to developing fresh insights and ideas that fuel success. Organizations should choose front line employees for their social poise and their ability to communicate and they train them in what they can and can’t say to help the customer. If they fail to choose customer service employees for their natural abilities to listen and empathize they are missing an opportunity for customer relationship building. “You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen—not just money, but respect.”— Harvey Mackay

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In my book, Feelings, I asked, “Do you listen to your customers, and honestly try to help them?” For example, when I go into a crowded restaurant and give my name to the host/hostess, I don’t want them to simply take down my name. I want to know a realistic estimate of how long it will be before I’m seated. Good listeners…

• Are genuinely curious about what’s going on for you. • Are patient and don’t interrupt • Give their full attention • Let you know they follow what you are saying by nodding in agreement • Don’t judge or criticize • Don’t relate everything you say to their own personal experience Things are good at Apple: If you walk into an Apple store you will be greeted by a sales staff member and asked, “What would you like to do today?” They go right to the heart of any technology user’s question.

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Does your Dealership enforce company branding and protocol? by Bob Licari, BrainSell Services Does your Dealership enforce company branding and protocol? If not, you are going to run into problems somewhere down the line, more likely sooner than later! Your Dealership, no matter what your industry or product, needs to have ground rules and policy established and enforced from the very start. Once these corporate procedures are established and implemented, the benefits they will generate for your company will go on if they are employed as company policy, so don’t play down the time and effort it will take to do things right from the start. Set up your company “brand” exactly as you want yourself presented to the public and maintain it. Consistency is

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Bob Licari Article Continued Develop your own procedures in what you do. Give a little extra to be remembered; your customers will appreciate the noteworthy efforts. Develop a style and the way your dealership does things that will make you stand out. Whether it is a routine service call or a product demonstration, be better than what is acceptable and be remembered. Growing your business requires a strong foundation and even stronger policy and procedures. Sticking to what you know is right will, over the long haul, prevail. Success always requires effort.

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